Station Archive

This week Celtic Songlines will be a bit of this and that with Planxty, a hammer dulcimer or two with tunes and songs from Mary-Grace Autumn Lee and English ballads with the Albion Country Band, The Battlefield Band, accordianist Johnny Connolly, striking interpretation of trad forms from Open the Door for Three, Boys of the Lough, fiddler Bruce MacGregor and Natalia Padilla with Blayne Chastain and Peter Romero. 

Goalkeepers are a little bit crazy. If you’re not insane, why would you just stand there and let people run into you and shoot balls at your face, all because you want to keep an inflatable ball out of a net. I play the position of goalie in soccer and while I don’t think goalies are totally insane, they definitely face a crazy amount of pressure. Meet Wallis Lapsley, goalkeeper for the Seattle Sounders, who tells us about his typical day on the training ground, what he likes about being a goalie, and how to make the jump from youth soccer to becoming a professional goalkeeper. Then travel to Seattle, where we view the city from the Space Needle, go kayaking, cross the world’s longest floating bridge, and find out why it rains cats and dogs (not from the sky).