Broadcasting from the High Desert of Nevada
Even though summer is still in full swing here in the high desert, the afternoon winds are picking up, and the nights are becoming downright chilly. It’s the Autumnal Equinox, and Katie and Joe put together a set of music … Read More
Autumnal Equinox is coming up, so this week, we’re featuring a dozen tunes and songs about day and night–six each. Here in the high desert, we’re coming into the season of wild temperature swings where we wear short sleeved shirts … Read More
Katie and Joe bring in this week’s selections based simply on what caught their attention in the world of Celtic music. At the recording time of this episode, Hurricane Dorian is still churning up the eastern seaboard of the US … Read More
In this hour, we focus on labor, the labor movement, and the men and women working the backbreaking jobs that keep the world turning. We only have one instrumental piece this time, which means a bunch of songs about work. … Read More
Over the past few weeks, Katie and Joe had collected a bunch of shiny, new recordings. We dig deep and sample tracks from all these, and find treasures on all of them. There’s no theme this week, so we just … Read More
This week, Katie challenges Joe to come up with a show that features Celtic performers that happen to be women. Since there are so may incredibly talented women out there, it wasn’t a difficult challenge. However, this often doesn’t play … Read More
For most of this month, the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is in full swing in Scotland. Since 1949, this event celebrates Scottish military and civilian life with piping contests, music concerts, dancing, and general carrying-on. Here on High Country Celtic … Read More
We put together a show with the tunes and songs that didn’t make it into any of the prior twelve shows. It’s not because we didn’t like them; we just had too many excellent tunes and songs and we ran … Read More
It’s a beautiful time of year, so ready the scythes, sickles, and flails, because it’s Lughnasa, the Celtic holiday on August 1st celebrating the official start to the harvest. An understandably important festival throughout the Celtic world, Lughnasa is called … Read More
Katie selected a bunch of great tracks for a free-for-all show, where we play tunes and songs without a unifying theme. This week, we play Cillian Vallely & Kevin Crawford, Adam Hendey, Usher’s Island, Sharon Shannon, The Chieftains, Fódhla, Aoibheann … Read More