Celtic Songlines

Celtic Songlines celebrates the music, stories, and traditions of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and other Celtic lands. Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. 

 

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Celtic Songlines for late November Days and Nights

This week's session of Celtic Songlines features a new release from Cillian Vallely & David Doocey with tunes from The Yew & the Orchard. Also featured are The Wilderness Yet, Emma Langford, Brad Reid, Van Morrison, Emily Smith, The Chieftains, Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter, Golden Bough, Liz Carroll with John Doyle.

Celtic Songlines Session

This week's session on Celtic Songlines features fiddler Gerry O'Connor, Cherish the Ladies, Ian MacInnes, from Scotland The Shee, Ashley Davis, Anúna with Michael McGlynn, Martin Hayes with The Common Ground Ensemble, from the UK the band Salt House, The Furrow Collective, Runa and the trio Molloy, Brady & Peoples. 

Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. 

Celtic Songlines

It's an overcast and chilly day, perfect for an hour of Celtic music. This week  is the Battlefield Band with Alison Kinnaird, Culann's Hounds, Boxing Banjo, Patrick Street, Clannad, the nycleharpa with Denmark's Myrkur, the Silly Sisters (Maddy Prior & June Tabor), the band Traffic, Shelley Phillips & Robin Petrie, John Doyle with the Selkie. 

Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. 

A Session of Celtic Tunes and Song

This week's Celtic Songlines features local artist Marla Fibish, Bonnie Rideout with Maggie Sansome and Al Petteway, a bit of Cape Breton with Buddy MacDonald, the Enchatntress Gypsy, Shamanic Songs, Kevin Burke presents Music from an Irish Cottage, Speirs & Boden, John Doyle, Turlough and John Renbourn. 

Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. 

Mist Amongst the Storms

"Mists Among the Storms" is the title of a featured tune and a theme for this week's Celtic Songlines, featuring a selection from  Michael McGoldrick with Richard Lacy, Barrie Gladden and David Bird, the Poppy Seeds, Niamh Dunne, Coscán, Stick in the Wheel, Leveret, Rúna, Planxty and The Furrow Collective

Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. 

Highland Pipes and Celtic Song

This week's Celtic Songlines includes tunes and songs invoking the sound of the great Highland pipes. We hear from Dougie and Jamie MacLean, the Tannahill Weavers, the Battlefield Band, Lúnasa, Alasdair Fraser with Tony McManus, Iain MacInnes, Boys of the Lough, Banshee in the Kitchen, some fine poetry from Scottish bard Hugh MacDiarmid and Margaret Stewart with Allan McDonald. 

Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. 

Bear's Sonic Journals: Foxhunt, The Chieftains in San Francisco

This week on Celtic Songlines we remember the Chieftain's Paddy Maloney. Featured are selections from the Owlsley Stanley Foundation's Bear's Sonic Journals, The Foxhunt, The Chieftains Live in San Francisco. The program also includes a wonderful interview with Paddy Maloney shortly before he passed. 

Also featured this week are Van Morrison, the late great Irish piper Willie Clancy, The House Devils, Dervish, briliiant folk artist Anne Briggs, Kevin Burke & John Brennan and Liam Clancy. 

Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. 

Celtic Songlines

This week on Celtic Songlines, a Fire in the Kitchen with the Chieftains and Canada's Natalie MacMaster and Dave MacIsaac, more jigs to dance to with Tommy Martin & Patsy O' Brien, a few tunes from the bands Téada and Kefuffle, pagan folk from Faun, always a treat to include songs from Dougie MacLean and Kate Rusby. We wrap it up with fine music from Clannad and Cúig. 

Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. 

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