Past Shows

St. Valentine’s Day is the holiday to celebrate the most ephemeral, complex, confusing, and wonderful of human emotions: love. Katie and Joe pick out music where love saves the day, faithful sweethearts stay true, and the endings are happy. Traditional … Read More

It’s time for a Free-For-All show where Katie and Joe play songs and tunes not connected by any theme. Featuring artists from Cape Breton, Ireland, Orkney Islands, Virginia, and California, we play music linked by the simple fact that we … Read More

The first days of February are a time of transition, known by St. Brigid’s Day, Candelmas, Imbolc, First Milk of the Ewes, or in the U.S., Groundhog Day. It’s the time when people look ahead to spring, and in more … Read More

January 25th marks the birthday of one of the greatest songwriters and poets in western literature: Robert Burns. Celebrated on Burns’ Night wherever folks of Scottish heritage gather, the evening is marked with feasting on haggis and single malt whisky … Read More

Nollaig Na mBan, “Women’s Christmas”, marks the end of the holiday season in Ireland. It’s a time when women get to go out and celebrate while men stay at home, do all the chores, and clean up after the holidays. … Read More

It’s a Hogmanay Free For All where Katie and Joe play some new and old tracks to bring in the New Year. This week, we also lost the great Johnny Connolly, so we play a couple of tracks from this … Read More

Katie and Joe play music that pays homage to the shortest day of winter. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Kwanzaa, or the Solstice, it’s a time for celebration and reflection. Humans from the dawn of time recognized the importance … Read More

Katie and Joe present an all-Scottish show, featuring Scottish songs and tunes for the entire episode. St. Andrew’s Day fell on November 30th, so we’re a week late. Grab a big helping of haggis and a shortbread biscuit and settle … Read More

Our Raggle-Taggle shows are collections of tracks that Katie and Joe did not get to play over the last ten shows. Whether due to time or due to continuity, these tracks were left on the studio room floor, but carefully … Read More

The Free For All shows are where Katie and Joe don’t feature a theme; instead they play tracks that caught their attention over the past week. The music can be modern or old, or even fresh out of the studio. … Read More