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Radio Show – Episode 28 – Life Full On – May 7, 2017

The beginning of May is the flowering time of year, when life is full on in every way. In this show we’ll immerse ourselves in the human experience of life, loss, and love.

12:01: Solas – The Wind That Shakes the Barley
12:03: The Poozies – Ma Plaid / Freya Dances
12:13: Goitse – Boodlin’
12:17: Lunasa – Lady Ellen
12:20: Christine Primrose – Coinnichidh mi gleann an fhraoich (When The Evening Mist Comes Swirling Near)
12:23: Dougie MacLean – Home
12:29: Sharlene Wallace – Air
12:32: Quadriga Consort – Miss Noble (Turlough O’Carolan)
12:37: Julie Fowlis – Lon-dubh (Blackbird)
12:43: Lady Maisery – Order and Chaos
12:46: Songs of Separation – Echo Mocks the Corncrake
12:52: Beoga – Eochaid
12:57: Ed Sheeran – Galway Girl

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Radio Show – Episode 25 – Spring! – March 19, 2017

In this show we celebrate the arrival of spring with a ramble into the Celtic music countryside. We’ll also enjoy a whole lot of harp, as many harpers appear or are featured throughout this program.

12:01: Moya Brennan – Black Night
12:04: The Colour of Memory – The Old Man and the Sea
12:06: Ceolbeg – Cantabrian Jig
12:08: Ceolbeg – Johnny Cope
12:14: Alasdair Fraser and Tony McManus – The Sweetness of Mary/Devil in the Kitchen/Willie Davie/The Sound of Mull/The High Road to Linton
12:17: Knodel and Valencia – Waltz of the Little Girls
12:22: Athena Tergis – Johnny McGreevy’s/Owney Davey’s/O’Callaghan’s/Margaree Reel
12:26: Green Fields of America – Across the Western Ocean
12:33: Gráinne Hambly – Crib of Perches/Garrett Barry’s
12:35: Siobhán Armstrong – Seabhac na hEirne
12:38: Katrien Delavier – Dinnie Delaney (jig) / the star of Munster (reel)
12:45: Adam Agee and Jon Sousa – Fead An Iolar
12:49: The Casey Sisters – Slip Silver/The Surround
12:52: Spookytree (Deb Knodel & Jane Valencia) – Lochaber No More
12:53: Fairport Convention – Who Knows Where the Time Goes

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Radio Show – Episode 24 – Living and Dying – March 5, 2017

As part of the Vashon Conversation with the Living about Dying project, this Sunday’s Forest Halls Celtic show is devoted to music and folklore around this theme. We’ll slip past the Veil and enter the Otherworld to experience grief, longing, and beauty on our musical journey. Joining us is special guest and master storyteller, Allison Cox, sharing a tale. Come enjoy her warmth, good humor, and marvelous way with words!

12:02: Karen Matheson (of Capercaillie) – Dark Alan (from Rob Roy)
12:06: Alasdair Fraser & Paul Machlis – Niel Gow’s Lament of the Death of his Second Wife
12:10: Andy M Stewart – The Land O The Leal
12:16: Allison Cox – Interview and Storytelling
12:42: Kim Robertson – Separation of Soul and Body
12:44: Kim Robertson – The Clergy’s Lamentation/Separation Of Soul And Body
12:51: Tina Malia – Shores of Avalon
12:57: Spookytree (Deb Knodel & Jane Valencia) – Lochaber No More

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