This week, Katie Marie and Joe start exploring tunes outside the boundaries of the usual jig and reel rhythms common in traditional Celtic music. Reels are a driving 4/4 rhythm, mimicked by saying “Watermelon”, and you can match the rhythm of the standard double jig, in 6/8 time, as “apricot honeydew.” We aren’t playing any of those tunes this week–we’ll be exploring the rest of the fruit basket of Celtic music.
The artists this week: Kozo Toyota & Keisuke Kubo; The Monks of the Screw; Emma O’Leary; Marie & Martin Reilly; James Noonan, Michael Shorrock, Chris McGrath & Ted Davis; The Fire; Brid O’Gorman with Eoin O’Neill; Niamh Ní Charra; Gay Mckeon; John Doyle-Liz Carroll; Zonk; The Friel Sisters; Patrick Molard; and Imar.
Our FairPlé score this week: 50
Playlist:
| # | Track | Artist | Release |
| 1 | Glen Where The Deer Is-The Ivy Leaf-The Dublin Lasses | Nuala Kennedy | Behave the Bravest |
| 2 | Slip Jigs: Heart Shaped Wood-Soggy’s | Kozo Toyota & Keisuke Kubo | Internal Circulation |
| 3 | Up In The Morning Early, Mick Lynch’s [Slides] | The Monks of the Screw | Brathar na nÓl |
| 4 | The Knocknagree Polka-The Lonesome Polka-Paddy Jones Polka | Emma O’Leary | Mo Cheantar Féin |
| 5 | Mick Carr’s Barndances-Sean Hayes’ | Marie & Martin Reilly | Marie & Martin Reilly |
| 6 | Barndances: Thadelos Barndances #1 & #2 | james noonan, michael shorrock, chris mc grath & ted davis | The Maple Leaf |
| 7 | 6/8 Pipe Marches | The Fire | Radiance |
| 8 | I have a House of My Own with a Chimney Built on the Top of it-Gort na Mona-Breathnach’s (slip jigs) | Brid O’Gorman with Eoin O’Neill | Bluebells are Blooming |
| 9 | Glen Where The Deer Is-The Ivy Leaf-The Dublin Lasses | Nuala Kennedy | Behave the Bravest |
| 10 | The Belles of South Boston-The Rights of Man-The Moonlit Clog (Hornpipes-Schottische) | Niamh Ní Charra | Súgach Sámh-Happy Out |
| 11 | Hornpipes The Plains Of Boyle-The Independent | Gay Mckeon | Irish Piping Tradition |
| 12 | Kieran’s Polka-The Bike To Ballyhahill | John Doyle-Liz Carroll | In Play |
| 13 | Ferry Polkas (Polkas) | Zonk | An Daou Du |
| 14 | Marches- Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine-Battle of Aughrim (feat. Gearoid Ó Maonaigh) | The Friel Sisters | The Friel Sisters |
| 15 | Aires de Pontevedra (Bretaña) | Patrick Molard | Naciones Celtas II, Camino de las estrellas |
| 16 | The Ashbury Slides | Imar | Afterlight |