Past Shows

The Celtic holiday Lughnasadh is celebrated on August 1st as a time to commemorate the harvest and to start looking down the year to the coming of Autumn. Katie Marie and Joe put together a show full of music revolving … Read More

Katie Marie and Joe take a trip across the Irish Sea and the Channel to visit the Celtic regions of Europe: Brittany and Northern Spain. Featuring different instruments and rhythms, the sounds of Brittany, Galicia, and Asturias may sound “foreign” … Read More

It’s the Three Instruments of the Apocalypse: Accordions, Banjos, and Bagpipes. Although the butt of jokes and subject of cartoons, in the hands of skilled players, these instruments showcase traditional Celtic music in the best possible light. The artists we … Read More

This week, Katie Marie and Joe beat the heat by spinning up cool, Celtic tracks without any overall theme, although uilleann pipers do seem to be the favored instrument for this show. Artists this week: Alison Perkins & Nicolas Brown; … Read More

It’s Independence Day here in the States, and Katie Marie and Joe celebrate not with fireworks, but with Celtic music played by American artists. So, wherever you go–whether it’s into the backyard or the backcountry–take this along as the perfect, … Read More

Our Raggle-Taggle shows take the last ten shows, collect all the tracks from the playlists that didn’t make the cut due to time, and we give them a much-deserved second chance at airplay. It’s not because they were lesser quality, … Read More

[This episode is a rebroadcast from 6/15/21] It’s hard to believe, but we’re halfway through this year already, so Katie and Joe have come up with a whole basket of tunes that celebrate summer and the summer solstice. This is … Read More

This week, Katie Marie and Joe put together a mix of music featuring women artists, or bands where women command the sound of the group. We were also lucky enough to sit down with Nuala Kennedy to discuss her latest … Read More

This week, Katie Marie and Joe went on a music-buying spree, and picked up some brand-new releases–or releases that are simply new to our library. Our Free For All shows feature music that isn’t linked by any sort of theme, … Read More

[ Re-air – Original air date 05/23/20 ] Memorial Day in the US marks the unofficial start to summer, complete with barbecues and family picnics. But it’s a holiday that marks the solemn commemoration of those who died in battles. … Read More