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CFP16 Show Notes:
Back to Talkin’. OK, so a little experiment last time with very little in the way of introduction and me talking about the music. Well I don;t know how well that went over so we’re back to the usual format this week. One question, though: did it make you head on over to read our ShowNotes at CelticFolkPod.com?
Sharon Knight - King Willie.
As a duet Sharon accompanies herself on mandola, acoustic guitar, and bodhran. She is joined by long-time collaborator Winter on acoustic guitar, whose tasteful and original arrangements lend an air of sophisitication that transcends the traditional folk interpretations associated with Celtic music.
As a trio they are joined by Gari Hegedus on violin, mandocello, and whistles. For a bigger sound, a full band including drums & bass is on call.
Alive with soulful longing, passionate hope, and vivid imagery, the music of Sharon Knight is a journey into the otherworldly mists of a timeless land, filled with brave heroes, epic love, and mythical quests. For more than 10 years, the San Francisco Celtic songstress has been performing and recording her unique musical vision as both a solo artist and fronting the world-rock fusion band Pandemonaeon. Her voice is strong and soulful, with a hint of vulnerability, and her striking poetry is set to lush instrumentation reminiscent of Loreena McKennitt’s work. Sharon has also been favorably compared with Fairport Convention, Stevie Nicks, and Tori Amos.
Sharon has recently released her fifth recording, titled Song of the Sea, a collection of original and traditional Celtic songs which sweeps the listener along on an enthralling musical journey. Including performances by Irish vocalist Shay Black, and Gari Hegedus of Stellamara, Song of the Sea evokes the indomitable spirit of the Celts and reminds us that we can all see the world through the eyes of enchantment.
Discography
Song of the Sea (2005, Trance Jam Records)
Siren Songs (2004, Trance Jam Records)
Temple of Dreams - Live! (2003, Trance Jam Records
Pandemonaeon (2001, Trance Jam Records)
Incantation (1996, Trance Jam Records)
Shawn Lidster is a singer/songwriter from Brigus, Newfoundland,Canada, who has been writing and performing a wide range of original material for more than 20 years.
In 2003 Shawn did a remix of his song, Sealer Song for the Homebrew 4 CD and in 2004 his song Newfoundland Summer’s Day (recorded in Great Big Sea’s studio) was released on Homebrew 5 CD both songs get extensive play on traditional radio station’s here in Newfoundland.
Shawn’s new project called Legends on the Baccalieu Trail has been years in the making. He has done extensive research into the history of Cupids,Brigus,Bull Cove,Harbour Grace and Carbonear. The time line of songs that Shawn has written shows how he has developed as a songwriter. The songs get right to the heart and soul of the characters he is reflecting on and brings the listener back to the era in which he is singing about.
The Sealers Song and Newfoundland Summer’s Day now only available together on this CD will surely draw attention to all the new songs Shawn has crafted for this CD.
Discography
1995 Lidster’s Hill “Swally Dis”
1998 The Ratso Man won song competition in Sydney Australia’s Rock Station Triple M. Prize chosen by Sammy Hagar
2004 The Sealer’s Song re-recorded and released on Homebrew 4
2005 Newfoundland Summer’s Day re-recorded and released on Homebrew 5
2006 Legends on the Baccalieu Trail first solo release- On the Baccalieu Trail, Cupers Cove, John Hawe and Carbonear Island all receiving airplay on 560 CHVO,Homebrew 97.5 Fm,Jigs and Reels 94.7 Fm and Radio Newfoundland.
Stonecircle is a vibrant five-piece, Celtic fusion band. The goal of the band has always been to create a musical experience that is both ethereal and beautifully uplifting. Stonecircle music is a language of haunting melodies and driving tunes.
Stonecircle has been performing acoustic Celtic fusion music in the United States since 1993. In addition to performing its own arrangements of traditional tunes from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Brittany, Stonecircle also writes original instrumental and vocal tunes in the Celtic style and performs them with passionate energy and clarity of sound.
Born in 1979, third in a very musicial family, as a child, Vincent’s favourite hobby was to listen to Beatles albums (especially the White Album).
At 7 years of age, his parents enroled him at the school of music of Angers, where he learned musical theory and classical guitar. In his teenage years he moved on to bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Metallica and Soundgarden, and at the same time, and it was during this period he started playing electric guitar and creating his first compositions.
These last years, I’ve discovered coolest music like Ben Harper, Fat Boy Slim, and recently Loreena McKennit.
Don’t forget to vote for your favorite track from this week’s podcast by emailing us, telling us who you want to hear again and we’ll tally the votes and crown the winner the ShowStopper Track. So drop us a line and tell us who you liked the best of the four great tracks this week.
Please help us support these fine artists by taking a look at their websites, buying their music or at least let them know how much you enjoyed listening to their music on the Celtic Folk Podcast.
Check out our parent website at www.upbeatcafe.com where you’ll find a schedule of great live music, as well as our Online Music Shop were you can buy those old-fashioned CD’s, as well as digital downloads.
STOP PRESS We are currently uploading all the digital tracks and “Sip-A-Clips” to the server. We will be opening this new shop just as soon as we can. You’ll be able to find it here when it goes live. Stay tuned for more updates on our progress.
Like to listen to great new, independent music of all genres from all around the world? Subscribe to our other weekly podcast Upbeat Radio. We feature excellent music for all tastes.
A note for Artists:
Would you like to have your music included on a future Celtic Folk Podcast? Just email us or submit a song to us through Sonicbids.
Please, please, please give us some feedback and let us know how we’re doing. All podcasters live for feedback, both good and bad - it let’s us know what you, our listener and subscriber, want to hear. Email us at info@celticfolkpod.com
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Welcome the Celtic Folk Podcast! We continue to showcase the best Celtic, Folk and Traditional music from around the world each week.
Click on the player above to listen to a streaming version. However, we would prefer for you to subscribe!
Click on the iTunes logo to subscribe to the Celtic Folk Podcast using iTunes.
Either way you won’t miss a single Celtic Folk Podcast!
In order to download the episode MP3 directly to your computer, rather than streaming it, or if you do not have podcatcher software that will download it for you automatically, click on the Feedburner link above. When the new page opens, right click on the episode’s “Play Now” and then select “Save Target As…”
CFP15 Show Notes:
Less Talk. Not a whole lot of chat this time - just great new music.
Important Announcement:
Stay tuned for more details regarding our first
Ever wanted to visit Scotland and see the real sights, visit a real, traditional pub session with great artists playing wonderful Celtic and traditional music, visit the seldom-seen sights of a country steeped in over 6000 years of history?
Come join me on our first ever Celtic Folk Scotland Tour in late summer 2007.
This will be a limited opportunity for Celtic Folk Podcast listeners on a first-come, first-served basis, so email me if you are interested and keep it right here for more information coming very soon (we’ll produce a quick podcast to announce posting of the details, so your podcatcher will let you know when we’ve done so).
But enough of that - on to the music!
Trouz Bras- Jump. Catapulting traditional Breton dance tunes into the 21st century, Trouz Bras combines swirling bagpipes and soaring fiddle with a rocking rhythm section. The band is led by bagpiper and vocalist Ray Price, a native Welshman who has expanded his Celtic roots to become a global ambassador of Breton music and dance.
Brittany is a magical place of barren landscapes, megaliths, Celtic myths and legends and unique music and dance. Ray, who considers Brittany his second home, describes a tremendous recent renaissance of interest in the Fest Noz or Night Festival. A Fest Noz can have thousands of dancers at large, international festivals, or just a handful of local dancers in a far-flung village,” he says. “The music is driving, insistent and mesmerizing. The spiral and circle dances are performed by everyone from the very young to the very old.” The musicians of Trouz Bras seek to introduce these ancient traditions to a modern American audience.
Joining Ray in creating Trouz Bras’ “big sound” are some adventurous lads who aren’t afraid to let their diverse roots drive the band’s powerful sound. With impressive pedigrees in Irish, rock, blues, jazz, zydeco and medieval music, they pump new energy and vitality into the ancient Breton repertoire.
“Our origins are in the trance-like spiral dances of Brittany,” says fiddler and bouzouki player Barry Hall, who also sings and plays the vielle (a Medieval-style fiddle). “Much of today’s Breton dance repertoire remains unchanged from medieval times. Because Brittany has been so culturally isolated, the ancient musical modes have survived for many centuries. These fascinating tunes provide us with a point of departure for our own unique musical vision.”
Not content with merely recreating the past, Trouz Bras’ repertoire extends from starkly primitive traditional tunes to modern tunes composed by the band’s members that derive from the ancient dance beats. Drummer Mance Grady, who provides the band’s percussive foundation, says, “The dance steps dictate everything we play. Each type of dance has its own internal rhythm, and our tunes must synch perfectly to that pulse.” Adds bassist Brian Rost, a 30-year dance roots veteran, “When our music locks up with the dancers, it quickly becomes a symbiotic relationship. Their energy channels back to us and further invigorates our playing.”
Since its formation in 2005, Trouz Bras has played at many diverse venues, from the floors of intimate dance halls to the stages of major Celtic festivals. Audiences have enthusiastically embraced Trouz Bras’ unique style of traditional Celtic music that honors the past while giving it a swift kick into the present.
Ellis Island- Kevin’s Fancy. Ellis Island performs 2 – 3 times a month at bars and pubs in the Omaha and Kansas City area. Between the two of them they play over a dozen instruments on stage and have a vast selection of material from traditional tunes and Gaelic singing, to popular ballads and songs from Irish history. They have developed a strong following of loyal and enthusiastic fans whom are encoraged to join in and be a part of the act.
Mick and Dave have played at several festivals including the Omaha Irish Festival, Weston Irish Festival, Sioux Falls Irish Festival and the prestigious Kansas City Irish Festival.
Idaho Boy - Life in the North. Fiction is the art of lying to tell the truth. If your lies are true enough, your stories or songs take on a life of their own once they are unleashed upon the world.
I have been playing music (and telling lies) in Seattle-area bands since 1977. I first started out as a bassist and backup singer in a heavy metal rock band, and I’ve since performed at festivals, in schools and auditoriums, and in a cross section of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly bars and taverns all across Washington.
After purchasing a Martin guitar in 1999, I discovered, much to my surprise, that a magical muse inhabited the instrument. Ever since then I have been able to make up songs out of thin air. I’ve written over thirty songs in the years since I bought that guitar, but they have all grown up and gone off into the world to make their own way.
I have always been attracted to the desert country of the American West, one of the harshest but most beautiful places on earth, and I am descended from the early pioneers who came to inhabit that raw, wild land. So lately all my songs have that cowboy twang. Kick off your boots, put up your feet and listen, as this Idaho Boy paints new pictures of the Old West.
Barleyjuice- Whiskey To The Sea. The first thing you notice about Barleyjuice, after their kilts, is their uncanny ability to pen songs that sound like they came straight from classic Pogues, Christy Moore, or Ewan MacColl albums. The second thing that hits you is their wit and prowess in performing them. This is why they’re making waves in the celtic community and beyond.
Chuck Fishbein & Sarah Stager, videographers for U2’s recent tour, caught the band at Rocky Sullivan’s, NYC last year and followed them from venue to venue to create the “rockumentary” you see on this website.
Barleyjuice’s eponymous first recording was steeped in traditional bagpipe & celtic singing songs. By their second album, Another Round, Swanson & Brewer had written more than half of the material. Encouraged with numerous comparisons to Shane MacGowan & the Pogues, Tom Waits, Ronnie Drew, Monty Python, even the Rolling Stones, they staved on with their own original tunes as well as trad favorites. Their tongue-in-cheek element delights audiences thoroughly, in addition to, as Brewer notes, making it difficult for them to sing properly. The six members pilot a barrage of instruments - guitar, fiddle, accordion, bagpipes, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica, banjo, tinwhistle, piano, bass and drums. Sometimes they even dance.
In the past year, Barleyjuice released a third album, Six Yanks, and stretched their avid fanbase across America and into Europe with the help of such fan sites as MySpace, and a seamless show. Celticradio.net listeners voted “What’s Up Yours?” Song of the Year for 2005.
Don’t forget to vote for your favorite track from this week’s podcast by emailing us, telling us who you want to hear again and we’ll tally the votes and crown the winner the ShowStopper Track. So drop us a line and tell us who you liked the best of the four great tracks this week.
Check out our parent website at www.upbeatcafe.com where you’ll find a schedule of great live music, as well as our Online Music Shop were you can buy those old-fashioned CD’s, as well as digital downloads.
STOP PRESS We are currently uploading all the digital tracks and “Sip-A-Clips” to the server. We will be opening this new shop just as soon as we can. You’ll be able to find it here when it goes live. Stay tuned for more updates on our progress.
Like to listen to great new, independent music of all genres from all around the world? Subscribe to our other weekly podcast Upbeat Radio. We feature excellent music for all tastes.
A note for Artists:
Would you like to have your music included on a future Celtic Folk Podcast? Just email us or submit a song to us through Sonicbids.
Please, please, please give us some feedback and let us know how we’re doing. All podcasters live for feedback, both good and bad - it let’s us know what you, our listener and subscriber, want to hear. Email us at info@celticfolkpod.com
Please help us support these fine artists by taking a look at their websites, buying their music or at least let them know how much you enjoyed listening to their music on the Celtic Folk Podcast.
Click on the SplashCast Console below for additional programming
Welcome the Celtic Folk Podcast! We continue to showcase the best Celtic, Folk and Traditional music from around the world each week.
Click on the player above to listen to a streaming version. However, we would prefer for you to subscribe!
Click on the iTunes logo to subscribe to the Celtic Folk Podcast using iTunes.
Either way you won’t miss a single Celtic Folk Podcast!
In order to download the episode MP3 directly to your computer, rather than streaming it, or if you do not have podcatcher software that will download it for you automatically, click on the Feedburner link above. When the new page opens, right click on the episode’s “Play Now” and then select “Save Target As…”
CFP14 Show Notes:
Laura McGhee Interview. The second in our series of interviews with musicians and artists from the world of Celtic and Traditional music, brought to you by the Upbeat Cafe & Music Venue.
(Please visit our Artist Interview Series Sponsor by clicking on the logo)
Our Artist Interview Series was an idea that came out of a little brain-storming about the Podcast. We thought it would be a good idea to get together, very informally, with some of the artists we feature right here on the Podcast and chat with them about their music, their background and whatever else might be on their mind. We deliberately decided to be very low key when it came to the interviews to give you, the listener, a sense of being there – part of the conversation.
Some of the folks we have chatted to so far, and will be featured in upcoming Celtic Folk Podcasts include:
Scots trad songstress, Christine Kydd
Scottish smallpipes maker, Ian Kinnear
and Celtic-rock and Canadiana band, The Glengarry Bhoys
Last week we introduced you to the music of Laura McGhee. Laura has been touring almost exclusively in the UK, but has recently announced that she will be travelling to North America in early 2007 for two events during the Folk Alliance in Memphis, Tennesee in February and Canada Music Week in Toronto in March.
She has been working very hard making many appearances, playing with bands as a guest artist, but she also tells us what her first gig was and some of the big names that have enjoyed her music and encouraged her to keep playing and writing in her own unique style.
Not only does her music reflect a mix of Celtic and Rock, but she is a composer of rare quality bringing the story of Scotland’s history to music in the Arbroath Suite, a journey through the heritage of traditional music from the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath, through to the Clearances when tens of thousands of Scots left their homeland for a new life in the States
I sat down with Laura in her home town of Monifeith, Scotland.
No voting this week for a ShowStopper Track, obviously - that will be back again next week. The ShowStopper Track is your favorite track of the week. You can vote for that track from last week’s show by emailing us, telling us who you want to hear again and we’ll tally the votes and crown the winner the ShowStopper Track.
Brendan Carey Block- Borderline.
As always, you heard a little bit of our regular theme tune at the start of the podcast. The tune is Bm Reel by Brendan Cary Block. We leave you this week, however, with another tune from Brendan.
We’ll be back next week with our regular show, packed with great Celtic, Folk and Traditional music.
Check out our parent website at www.upbeatcafe.com where you’ll find a schedule of great live music, as well as our Online Music Shop were you can buy those old-fashioned CD’s, as well as digital downloads.
STOP PRESS: Looks like we will be going live with our Online Music Store VERY SOON! You’ll be able to find it here when it does go live. Stay tuned for more updates on our progress.
Like to listen to great new, independent music of all genres from all around the world? Subscribe to our other weekly podcast Upbeat Radio. We feature excellent music for all tastes.
A note for Artists:
Would you like to have your music included on a future Celtic Folk Podcast? Just email us or submit a song to us through Sonicbids.
Please, please, please give us some feedback and let us know how we’re doing. All podcasters live for feedback, both good and bad - it let’s us know what you, our listener and subscriber, want to hear. Email us at info@celticfolkpod.com
Please help us support these fine artists by taking a look at their websites, buying their music or at least let them know how much you enjoyed listening to their music on the Celtic Folk Podcast.
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