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1. Transatlantic Sessions Video Showcase A  folk music collaboration between top musical artists from North America, Ireland and the UK. For the latest series (three), a beautiful old farm steading converted into a small concert/studio space at Strathgarry House near Killiecrankie in th...
2. Music Station Inverness Shop Sales and Service The Music Station, our Inverness based music shop, has been serving the Highlands of Scotland for almost 30 years. We pride ourselves on our excellent service, and customer care. The Music Station has a wide variety of musical services and sales a...
3. Celtic Music: The Thistle & Shamrock The Thistle and Shamrock, one of National Public Radio's most popular shows, showcases traditional music from all of the Celtic lands: Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Brittany in France, Galicia in Spain, Canada, the United States, and any...
4. Celtic Music: Golden Bough Paul Espinoza and Margie Butler, founding members of Golden Bough, started performing together in 1976 and formed Golden Bough in the San Francisco area in 1980. After some changes in lineup, Golden Bough is currently a trio with Butler (harp, bodhra...
5. I've been a Pratie Head for many's the long year... (Celtic Music) I'd been living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, singing Balkan music with the acappella women's ensemble Laduvane,and singing American folksongs in a band called "Rank Strangers." In 1981 I married and my husband moved us to Chapel Hill, NC. This lens i...
6. Celtic Music: Lenses ☺ This lens points to other lenses I've made highlighting Celtic music performers as well as radio shows, both broadcast and Internet, that play the traditional music of the Celtic lands. Celtic music covers a lot of territory and many performers. Each...
7. Celtic And Other Folk Influences For many years I enjoyed singing and playing in folk clubs near home and further afield. I had a couple of gigs, but nothing major. This was before Celtic music bounced into the charts as a fashion statement and I often would sing unaccompanied Scot...
8. Celtic Christmas Music Holiday and seasonal songs and tunes performed on traditional instruments associated with Celtic music will take you far from the supermarkets and commercial radio and put new life in your seasonal celebrations. Performers from both sides of the Atla...
9. Celtic Music: Boys of the Lough It's a good thing there's the term "Celtic music" to encompass music from Ireland, Scotland and other lands the Celts settled, otherwise it would be hard to classify The Boys of the Lough. Current members hail from County Kerry in the Republic of Ire...
10. The Laily Worm and other evil stepmother stories This peculiar ballad was collected by Francis James Child and was published in his compendium called The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in 1802. He wrote: There is only one version of this ballad, which was recorded in the north of...
11. Texas Scottish Festival & Highland Games Let the wee bit of Scot out in you at the 24th annual Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games. Watch the caber toss, catch the Scottish fiddlers, scarf down some haggis. This three-day festival is a Scottish delight. Dates for 2010 are June 4-6.
12. Celtic Music: The Poozies & Sileas Patsy Seddon and Mary MacMaster, who had been performing for several years as the Scottish harp duo Sileas, worked with English singer/songwriter Sally Barker in 1990 on Barker's solo album. The three decided an all-women folk group would be a good i...
13. Aly Bain Video Showcase Aly Bain MBE (born 15 May 1946 in Lerwick, Shetland) is a Shetland fiddler who learned his instrument from the old-time master Tom Anderson. Now considered one of the finest fiddlers in the Scottish tradition, he became nationally prominent as a foun...
14. Celtic Music: Dougie MacLean Dougie MacLean is a fiddle and guitar player and composer of songs and instrumental music from Perthshire, Scotland. His song "Caledonia" is regarded as the unofficial national anthem of Scotland, while his melody "The Gael" was used in the movie The...
15. Celtic Music: What Is It? The original Celts were a diverse group of early Iron Age tribes in Central Europe. By the late Iron Age, they had spread both east and west, ranging from central modern-day Turkey to Scotland, Ireland, Britanny and Spain. By the early part of the f...
16. Irish wedding music There are two really great styles of Irish music for weddings: the tunes originally written for harp by Turlough Carolan, and similar slow, sweet, grand, introspective melodies make for the best prelude and ceremony music... ... and the rip-roaring j...
17. Celtic Music: Silly Wizard Silly Wizard, at times a four- five- or six-piece group, performed a wide range of traditional music and some of their own compositions for seventeen years. They recorded nine albums and toured extensively in the UK, Europe, and the United States.
18. Celtic Music: Julie Fowlis Julie Fowlis (she pronounces the first syllable of her last name to rhyme with "bow" as in fiddle bow) is a singer and musician from North Uist (pronounced "ewe-ist"), one of the islands of the Hebrides west of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. She sings...
19. Wedding music: Colonial America | early America | Revolutionary War Both my bands, Mappamundi and the Pratie Heads, have been playing early American music at weddings for many years. The music of Colonial America originally came over from England, Scotland, and later, Ireland; new dance tunes and ballads and love so...
20. Celtic Music: Relativity Relativity was a quartet formed in the mid 1980s consisting of two Scottish brothers and an Irish brother and sister. Each had flourishing solo careers at the time they got together to record two very popular albums, Relativity (1985) and Gathering P...