Celtic Songlines

This week on Celtic Songlines KDRT 95.7FM we continue to explore the timeless sounds of traditional and contemporary music, with a bit of poetry, from  artists  found around the Celtic lands. Breton's Kornog and from the Emerald Isle are Solas, Altan, the Fureys, Niamh Cusak, Clannad Irish Band, John Doyle. A bit of SoCal Celt with the WICKED TINKERS and from Scotland, Old Blind Dogs.

On this week's Celtic Songline we return to the more traditional sounds of Celtic music. We open the program with a pair of rousing tunes from fiddler Liz Carroll with guitarist John Doyle. The program goes on to feature Cape Breton's  Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac, Ireland's Donal O'Connar & John McSherry, the Scottish Gaelic music of artist Julie Fowlis,  Port Isaac Fisherman's Friends, English balladeer Shirley Collins, Van Morrison, Alasdair Fraser & Tony McManus and more Alasdair Fraser with Natalie Hass and Cillian Vallely. 

We're nearly halfway between the Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, near the end of harvest and beginning of the darker half of the year. This is the time of year ancient Celts believed that the barriers between the physical world and the spirit world are thinnest, allowing more interaction between the two worlds.

Selection of this week's artists and songlist reflect the magical and haunting sounds of this period of time. Please join Celtic Songlines as we feature Enya, the Norwegian band Vali, from Bulgaria the band Irfan, Scotland's An Dochas, Andrei Krylov & Lana Ross, Aythis, Gabrielle Roth & the Mirrors and from Britian: The Story, Damh the Bard and Fay Hield.