Coming to You from Bisbee, Arizona

Bisbee is a small city situated one-mile-high, in the Mule Mountains in southeastern Arizona USA, just 10 miles from México. This is the "Sky Islands" region of North America, one of only a dozen mountainous regions on Earth where neo-arctic, or neo-Antarctic, climates meet and blend with neo-tropical influences. Known for an especially unique diversity of plants and animals, in the case of Bisbee this wild diversity includes its human inhabitants. For more information about these unique landmasses please refer yourself to this excellent organization: http://www.skyislandalliance.org/
In the early years of the 20th Century, thousands of fortune hunters from all over the globe lured by precious metals encased deep within these mountains, for a time made Bisbee the most populous city in the United States between St. Louis and San Francisco. Present-day Bisbee is a community of 7,000 people. After copper mining operations were shut down in 1975, turn-of-the-century shacks and mansions sat vacant, being sold for a song.

Since then, artists, writers and bikers, playwrights and plasterers, dancers, bird-loving scientists and many other free spirits, slowly integrated with mine workers families, cattle ranchers, and other "colorful" characters of Cochise County, creating a demography that is truly diverse, mostly civil, and seldom dull.

KBRP: Bisbee's Radio for the People

By 1997, some of these folks decided that the time had come to bring public, community-based radio to the changing ears of Bisbee. Educating themselves on the logistics and legalities of launching a radio station, the radio-minded vanguard decided that the most cost effective and least governmentally intrusive way to bring radio to Bisbee was as a low-power community station.

The Bisbee Radio Project Incorporated is entirely all-volunteer owned and operated. Automated radio programming on KBRP began the 21st of November 2004, with LIVE programming hitting the airwaves one month later at 96.1 FM.

Over five years later, KBRP radio Participant Members strive to enrich audiences with interests ranging from children's programming to live radio theatre. Thanks to its technological visionaries the station is Live-Streaming to Estonia, Chicago, and even North Wales as well. In all likelihood KBRP is streaming to the very machine you're reading these words upon. Go to: http://www.kbrpradio.com/

Naturally, border issues and hot local news are also a highlight of KBRP programming. The station is proud to have been gifted with national and global news from Pacifica Radio International. Musical programming brought to the air by local volunteer DJ's partially includes: acoustic folk, blues and jazz, Swing & Big Band, purely experimental always sublime, old-timey country, hard rock and roll, far-reaching world music, and of course, an eclectic Celtic mix of humble renown.

Getting Into Eclecti-Celt

This website brings you access to music--tunes and songs, and sometimes poetry and prose readings, and politics on occasion, from the nations where the Celtic languages and cultures are yet influenced, informed and invigorated. As the responsible party for "Eclecti-Celt" it is only fair that I offer a simple definition of what in my mind artistically constitutes "Celtic".

So much more than synthesized meditation music: new age music to accompany a massage or root canal. Wonderful Celtic tunes as performed by many artists linked here in "Eclecti-Celt", traditional and traditionally-inspired, they are determined masters of the strings and the driving drones of bagged and bellows pipes. Like dear neighbors coaxing crossroad dances from a close-knit community, with a breathing concertina, dancing till dawn to the backbeat of the goat-skinned bodhrán, an ancient musical instrument and harvest tool.

Introduced and freshly incorporated with affection and expertise, you'll find musicians practising precise ornamentation of the Mediterranean-born bouzouki, and the plucky tenor banjo, African-bred via Appalachia, and fingers flying furiously over the fretboards of beer battered guitars.

The sympathetic pulse of triple harp in the hands of these Celts brings tears to our eyes and causes the throat to tighten, sharing through the tune the universality of human sadness and longing. And don't forget the pitch of whistles wooden and tin. And like honey to the ears out of a dolmen's overhang, the lilting of an Irish wooden flute.
The voices heard on "Eclecti-Celt" are always heartfelt, and sometimes unaccompanied. In the Irish: "sean nós" style, the old style. Traditionaly, these songs could be spinning or harvest songs, love songs and lullabies, or battle songs and laments. Many are long, extremely stylized and melodically amazingly complex. Perhaps no other styles of singing has an emotional, piercing effect as does Celtic singing.

And of course, these days the tunes and songs are often Electrified and Amplified...to the most entertaining effect. Actually, a fair percentage of the tunes and songs getting aired on "Eclecti-Celt" represent the new blood, the younger artists who push the boundaries of what has defined the genre up to about the 1980's. These folks grew up rocking. And I mean hard rocking. They may be singing in the language of their Celtic ancestors, but they have the amps turned up and the songs embody the grist of their 21st Century awareness.
PLEASE, don't forget to tune-in LIVE to "Eclecti-Celt" on Bisbee's community radio station KBRP 96.1 FM, or live-stream on the website http://www.kbrpradio.com/ most Monday's from 8 pm to 10 pm, Arizona Mountain Standard Time. If you can't get enough, the Monday show is re-broadcast the following Sunday between 1 pm and 3 pm.

Which usually means--without regards to silly Daylight Savings Time changes--add seven or eight hours in Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, the Isle of Man and in Brittany. Now you can stream the program at the ridiculous hour of 3 am to 5 am, Tuesday mornings. TAKE HEART though, you can stream the re-broadcast Sunday nights from 9PM to 11PM your time. Of course, in Boston and Buffalo and New York City, check it out either day and either times--it's not THAT late. Anyplace else please feel free to do the math! Except of course, for daughter Dawn in The Gambia--go for 9 - 11 Sundays--and daughter Aurora in Zambia--an hour later on Sundays! THANK YOU!

The Celtic Sense of Place: Languages and Landscapes

Award-winning Irish broadcaster, film-maker and author, Frank Delaney, states in his 1986 book and documentary, "The Celts",

"Using geographical, archaeological and perhaps even anthropological evidence, an argument may be sustained that the Celts are to be found all over Europe: some may even be traced in vivid migrations such as the Irish in North America, or the curious, intensively Welsh colony in Patagonia."
Empirical opinions are made as to whether languages, such as Gaelic Manx and Cornish, while not strictly extinct, are far from common usage and therefore beyond recovery. Equally pessimistic are some such as British author, Marcus Tanner, who believes that the strength of the survival of Celtic languages and culture is largely misplaced. In the conclusion of his 2004 book, "The Last of the Celts" he writes:

"The much-trumpeted Celtic revival lives off the accumulated cultural savings of the past. It presupposes the language's continuing existence somewhere, either in a gaeltacht, up some mountain, or in some other remote place."

Although hundreds of thousands still commonly speak and live the inheritance of Welsh and Breton, and fewer thousands, Irish, Scottish and Galician, many experts consider it safe to predict the demise of these ancient European lifeways, as does Tanner:

"What happens when Irish, or Welsh or Breton or Scottish Gaelic can no longer retreat deeper...Europe needs living Celtic languages. Their disappearance has obviously impoverished the people who spoke them, as the barren cultural wasteland of South Wales...shows only too clearly."
Mr. Tanner and others of the dominant view may be technically correct, given the ruthless or complacent homogenization of unique languages and lifeways around the globilization. But when laments Tanner, "The existence of the language is the motor that has powered the music, poetry and art." Wait a minute here! He and his ilk and myself have somehow not shared the same settings. I wonder how could anyone have missed the obvious raucous revival on so many levels?
What absolutely still thrives in the Celtic nations and diaspora is the music, the poetry and the artistry. Memory-old and freshly-penned tunes and songs. Songs which are sung with ancient spirit from fiery young voices, clear as holy wells and Celtic as kilts! Sydney and Vancouver and San Francisco and London and in every major city and most small communities in 'Celtic country' have notices and newspapers and even BLOGS, featuring people dedicated to the survival of language and therefore culture. And of course, politics thrives as well.

Featured Artists, Poets & Performers

The poets and performers that are featured in "Eclecti-Celt" have earned the tonic of their Celtic inheritance. In their tunes and songs they share this legacy with the world. Please explore the sites and sounds of the gifted folks whose music and spoken word are shared with you here. Listen to samples of their work. They have been selected with great care and reckless abandon, calculated to entice you to peruse their websites.


From Ireland...Kíla -- Check out this AMAZING band of most gifted and wild musicians
Most importantly, if you love the music, support the musicians! If you love the poets, provide for their provision! Please go to their websites, discover who these people are, bringing us so much fun and reflection. Explore the "Festivals and Frolic" page on this website. Find out where they are performing LIVE, buy tickets and go see them--and be prepared to wiggle and stomp your feet and clap your hands. Meet them during the Intermission--they would love to meet yourselves. (Tell them "Hello!" from Eclecti-Celt...and that I wish I could have been there!) And buy their CD’s or Downloads. Help support their melodies and lilting lyrics. Thank you!

Special -- Just for Eclecti-Celt

Special -- Just for Eclecti-Celt
Gwilym Morus is a Welsh singer, songwriter, guitarist, certainly bardic in the honored tradition of his predecessors. His work as a vocalist with the group Drymbago is well regarded in Europe. He spins a rhythmic groove, his voice husky, clear and clean. "Traffig," was his first solo release in 2004 and displays equal helpings of abandon and control. Great young Welsh musicians accompany and back-up Morus' compositions. From "Traffig"...Gwilym Morus's first release

"Dan y Nen" was his second solo album, released in August 2006. This work more prominently featured other Welsh musicians including, Alun Tan Lan. Rasal.net states, "This is a purely acoustic album, where Gwilym has tried to keep the songs striped down and simple. He launched the album at the National Eisteddfod in the Grand Theatre, Swansea." "Tra Bo Dau"...from his second release. Even greater depth, more soul, than before.

"O Fethlehem i Fangor" a first Alternative Information ep, released December 2006, represents Morus' creative collaboration with fellow Welshman, Luke Evans, and two talented musicians from Palestine, Tarriq Rantissi and Mohamed Najem. Much of the work was recorded live at the Galeri Theatre, Caernarfon. With "Byd Dan Ddedfryd," Gwilym and friends cut loose..LIVE.

In an email in December of 2007, Gwilym told me that a Welsh-English language release available as a limited download was ready to go. "Word On The Border" was a "mini album" with great depth, even moodiness. Unfortunately, the release is no longer available and was not officially published. He assures us on his website that new mixed Welsh-English language releases are on their way. Title track to an unreleased Gwilym Morus "mini-album"...Word on the Border.

Gwilym Morus is a native of Wrecsam, North East Wales, and is currently pursing a doctoral degree in the Welsh Department at Bangor University. He has just launched his own independent recording label, Eilio, and has recently completed training as a mountain guide in the breathtaking Snowdonia region of north Wales, where he resides. Needless to say, Morus leads a busy, exciting life. He is a cornerstone of a new generation of Welsh singer-songwriters. And the wait after "Word on the Border" was worth it. He states the album "The Dressing Gown Goddess" was recorded in Bangor University’s Powis Hall. Released in 2008, the album brings together an eclectic feast of native roots and the funkieness of his band, Drymbago. This music carries on in your head long after the last cut has ended. And in 2009, there's more Gwilym has brought out..."Llwyn Eosiaid". Clearly, Gwilym Morus is soulful and a prolific, hard-working musician. From this Welsh songwriter, the bluesy..."Awen Boeth"...from "The Dressing Gown Goddess"

17 January 2011

Eclecti-Celt for Martin Luther King Jr. Day


Greetings. Very difficult times in southern Arizona, and the country and the world of nations, really. This show of Eclecti-Celt, on the celebration of the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., features songs and tunes inspired by the Celtic struggles for freedom of identity. Which are, after all, the struggles of us all. "No man is an Island - entire unto themselves."|

Tune or Song | Time | Artist | Release
Welcome and such | 2:00
Song of the African | 4:13 | Alan Stivell & Per Denez | Zoom 70-95 Disc 1
Aisling Gheal | 6:57 | Iarla Ó Lionaird | Music of Dreams
Pride (In The Name Of Love) | 4:27 | U2 | Rattle And Hum
Northumberland Air | 3:11 | Kathryn Tickell by Vee Adamson | Northumberland Collection
Pull Down Lands | 3:01 | June Tabor | Airs and Graces
Wrth Feddwl Am Fy Nghymru | 4:16 | Dafydd Iwan | Y Cynnar 27:25
Review | 4:00
OLD MAN RIVER | 4:56 | Bisbee Episcopal Chuch MLKJr. Day
Skirting | 8:18 | Ruth Wall | The Uncommon Harp
Why | 4:30 | Martyn Bennett | Grit
Stule | 6:09 | King Chiaullee | Reel:Ode 54:22
Review | 3:00
Catch the Wind | 5:02 | Donovan | Donovan - Greatest Hits 62:00
Review | 3:00 5:00
Air: Ny Kirree Fo Sniaghtey (The Sheep Under the Snow) | 3:22 | Randal Bays | Masters of the Irish Guitar
Seoladh Na Ngamhna Fe'n Bhfasach [Driving the Calves to Pasture] | 4:17 | Nórín Ní Riain | Celtic Soul
Apples in Winter, Frost is all Over (Jigs) | 3:03 | Seanchas | Danú
Feniant e gromand | 4:20 | Lo Cor De La Plana | Tant Deman
Calibrian Pastorale | 2:46 | HERITAGE | Tell Tae Me
Micho Russell's/Bill Harte's/The Green Gates | 4:04 | Téada | Live From the Katharine Cornell Theater 26:00
Review | 4:00
Errurrú | 4:17 | Milladoiro | O Niño do Sol
Immigrant Song | 2:25 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin III
Madryn | 3:46 | Gwilym Morus | Llwyn Eosiaid
Dark Lowers the Night / A Month of Sundays | 4:02 | Mike Katz | A Month of Sundays
War Child | 3:50 | The Cranberries | To the Faithful Departed
John Doty | 4:39 | BISBEE MLK Jr. Day 52:19
Review | 2:00 Slán agabh!
Lonesome Highway | 5:21 | Rory Gallagher | Crest Of A Wave- The Best Of Roy Gallagher
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09 January 2011

The Briar and the Rose


This program of music from the Celtic countries features two covers of a Tom Waits song, "The Briar and the Rose". And how, why, who? Tom Waits? Oh yes! Besides the fact that Niamh Parsons' cover is absolutely hauntingly rendered and got stuck in my head for the week, Waits is as Celtic a poet troublemaker as ever lifted pen to paper. All the rest of the tunes and songs this week's Eclecti-Celt just seem to fit, to support each other and shine.

This show then, has all the makings of a briar and a rose, I think.

Tune or Song | Time | Artist | Release
Welcome and such | 2:00
Traffig | 3:07 | Gwilym Morus | Double Play
The Lark In The Morning | 4:31 | Steeleye Span | The Lark In The Morning
Lake Of Shadows | 4:49 | Moving Hearts | Platinum
Downtown | 2:29 | Moving Hearts | Platinum 16:16
Review | 3:00
Myles | 4:30 | Kíla | Soisin
An Tiománaí | 3:52 | Kíla | Lemonade & Buns
Little Lion Man | 4:07 | Mumford & Sons | Sigh No More 31:05
Review | 5:00
The Briar And The Rose | 3:26 | Niamh Parsons by Tom Waits | Loosen UP
The Manali Beetle | 6:02 | Peatbog Faeries | Heart Of Scotland
Ar Graouenn Muskades | 2:09 | Erik Marchand And Thierry Robin | An Heñchoù Treuz
Oxford City | 4:04 | Julie Murphy
The Glen Cottage - John Brosnans - Peata An Mhaoir (polkas) | 3:51 | Danú | Seanchas 55:37
Review | 5:00 :37
The Yew Tree | 4:04 | The Battlefield Band | Anthem for the Common Man lullingfolks!
La Harpe et l'Enfant (The Young Boy and the Harp) | 5:54 | Alan Stivell by Donatien Laurent | Beyond Words
LAVENDERS | 4:19 | ELIZA CARTHY | DREAMS OF BREATHING UNDERWATER
Courtown Harbour - The Lisnagun | 2:35 | Neill Lyons | Skins and Sins
Brother Fusion | 2:46 | Neill Lyons | Skins and Sins
King of the Faeries Set | 4:26 | Lucia Comnes | Across the Wide Ocean 23:21
Review | 5:00
Set Dance and Jig: Rub the Bag/The Old Grey Goose | 3:34 | Séamie O'Dowd | Masters of the Irish guitar
Hang Your Head | 5:45 | Rónán Ó Snodaigh w/ the 'Water off a duck's back' band - Liam Ó Maonlaí - keys and vocals, Steve Cooney - guitar, Martin Brunsden - double bass, Conor Murray - Drums. Recorded by and additional vocals ; Myles O Reilly (Juno Falls) | Water off a Ducks Back
The Tempest | 4:26 | Sarah McQuaid | When Two Lovers Meet
Just Around The Window | 4:57 | Jacky Molard, Patrick Molard & Jaques Pellen | Triptyque 46:23
Review | 5:00
Sweet Rosemary | 2:26 | Sandy Denny | Sandy Denny 53:09
Review | 2:00 Slán agabh!
The Briar And The Rose | 3:50 | Tom Waits | The Black Rider 58:59
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03 January 2011


And Happy New Year! I just thought you'd like to know that this program marks my fifth anniversary of bringing Eclecti-Celt to the radio and ethernet waves. THANKS to the Bisbee Radio Project, Inc. and everybody connected with KBRP LP 96.1 FM in Bisbee, Arizona!

I had a hiatus of about a year in there, when Eclecti-Celt was laying low, biding it's time, re-creating and rejuvinating its own self. But the program is strong and the support for doing the work which brings these artists to more folks all over the place, is why the show is going strong. And for myself, just a labor of love, really.

What else would I be doing on a Monday night, anyway? DON'T ASK! We're not going there, ok?

So, here then is the playlist for what I'm just gonna call the Eclecti-Celt anniversary show...as always..please ENJOY!

Tune or Song | Time | Artist | Release
Welcome and such | 2:00
Hazy Shade of Winter | 2:01 | Whalebone | Hazy Shade of Winter Holiday Gift
Mesmerising Nessy | 5:03 | Savourna Stevenson & Davy Spillane | Calman The Dove
The White Swan | 6:23 | Savourna Stevenson & Davy Spillane | Calman The Dove
Sith As A’ Ghaillionn (Peace From The Storm) | 3:46 | Savourna Stevenson & Davy Spillane | Calman The Dove
This is a Rebel Song | 3:50 | Sinéad Ó Connor | She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty Review | 5:00
Visions of You | 4:21 | Sinéad Ó Connor & Jah Wobble; John Reynolds; Justin Adams | Collaborations
Straeon y cymdogion | 2:53 | Mim Twm Llai | Goreuon
Estampie Yr Ehedydd (The Lark’s Estampie) | 4:06 | Anne Marie Summers And Helen Wilding | Blodeugerdd: Song Of The Flowers, An Anthology Of Welsh Music And Song
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp | 4:16 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin III
Caru Yn Y Coed (Courting In The Woods) / Cerdd Y Gog Lwydlas | 6:10 | Cass Meurig & Nial Cain | Blodeugerdd: Song Of The Flowers, An Anthology Of Welsh Music And Song
Review | 5:00
Cân O Glod I Mwynyn Penrhiwrmenyn | 10:14 | Julie Murphy & Dylan Fowler | Ffawd
Review | 4:00 7:43
The Newport Lass/The Rambling Pitchfork (Jigs) | 2:54 | MATT MOLLOY, PAUL BRADY, AND TOMMY PEOPLES | MOLLOY, BRADY, PEOPLES
Inrtoduction | 2:36 | David Shaw | Piskey Threshing: Tales of West Cornwall
Nellie Wearne of Boskenna | 7:19 | David Shaw | Piskey Threshing: Tales of West Cornwall
Lowlands Away | 2:41 | Ewan McColl | Sailors' Songs & Sea Shanties
Capt. Black & Ackie Carne | 7:56 | David Shaw | Piskey Threshing: Tales of West Cornwall
Dark Eyed Sailor | 5:56 | Steeleye Span | The Best Of & The Rest Of Steeleye Span
Review | 5:00
Jean Carignan | 4:51 | Deaf Shepherd | Heart Of Scotland
Strong Women Rule Us All With Their Tears | 4:13 | Sheena Wellington | The Music & Song Of Greentrax (Disc 1)
If & When | 4:59 | Bongshang | Folk 'N Hell
Review | 2:00 Slán agabh!
Mind The Gap | 3:50 | Kíla | Mind The Gap
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27 December 2010

Twas Five LIVE Days Before New Year's Eve


This program will air LIVE five days before New Year's Evening. So, thinking about how the little town of Bisbee revels in the celebration of holidays--I concocted an Eclecti-Celt which features LIVE performances only. This was not a difficult task given the predilection for outgoingness and all-around rowdiness when playing music in public by Celtic musicians.

We are forecasted to receive snow and cold for the 31st...but I can assure you that this will not significantly dampen the Spirits of Bisbee, Arizona. We really get into 'dress-up' around here! A happy new year to all.


Tune or Song | Time | Artist | Release
Welcome and such | 2:00
Biddy From Sligo/Connaught Man’s Rambles | 2:05 | Goats Don’t Shave | The Rusty Razor
# 6 | 5:41 | Jacques Pellen | Jacques Pellen
Sgarlad | 5:55 | Gwylim Morus | O Fethlehem i Fangor - Un-Released
The Road To Bled (Live) | 9:07 | Shooglenifty | Murmichan
I Don't Know [Live] | 5:12 | Lisa Hannigan | Sea Sew - Live at Fingerprints
Review | 4:00
Genesis Hall | 4:10 | Fairport Convention | The Classic Collection
Peata Beag | 4:28 | Dervish | Live in Palma
A Boat Like Gideon Brown | 3:20 | Great Big Sea | Courage and Patience and Grit: In Concert
Sí Do Mhamó Í | 6:26 | Hothouse Flowers | Ceol '07 - Seachtain na Gaeilge
Aotrou Ar Vilaudrein | 7:05 | Erik Marchand & Kreiz Breizh Akademi | Izhpenn 12
Review | 4:00 2:09
The Likes Of You Again | 4:08 | Flogging Molly | Whiskey On A Sunday
My Lagan Love | 5:12 | Sinéad Ó Connor | She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide...
Kilkelly | 5:11 | Pat and Becky Egan | Music at Matt Molloy's
DOGS AMONG THE BUSHES | 6:11 | TREAD | LIVE FROM MATT MOLLOY'S
Ton-Bale Pourled/Hanter-dro | 2:39 | Alan Stivell | Live In Dublin
Round The House And Mind The Dresser | 2:53 | The Chieftains | The Chieftains LIVE!
MEDLEY: SOLOS: Caitlin Triall/For The Sakes Of Old Decency/Carolan's Farewell To Music/Banish Misfortune | 13:50 | The Chieftains | The Chieftains LIVE!
Review | 4:00
So Step Off | 5:16 | Mouth Music | Mo-Di
Veronica | 3:34 | Christy Moore & Declan Sinnott | Live in Dublin 2006
Review agus Slán! | 2:00
Dionne Reel/Mouth Of The Tobique | 3:54 | Burke; Cunningham; Lemaitre | Celtic Fiddle Festival
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13 December 2010

Eclecti-Celt pays Homage to Scotland, and the Birth of Martino


I will admit it, the artists of Alba--Scotland--have been given shorter shrift on Eclecti-Celt of late. Nothing Freudian going on I promise. Tonight I will make up for that gap in representation. The whole damn first half of the program will feature just a micro-sliver of the talent from Celtic Scotland.

The second half features a great story from Frank Ó Connor, read most brilliantly by Charlton Griffin--perfect for all the boys listening and for the holiday shopping season. No Kidding! And then more great tunes and song from all over the Celtic map.

The whole show is dedicated to Tasha Stuart, April Alvarez-Corona, and Elizabeth Fabry--and most of all, new human being born today...Martino.

Tune or Song | Time | Artist | Release
Welcome and such | 2:00
Leaves | 4:25 | Khartoum Heroes by Kenny Anderson | Khartoum Heroes
Hò Rinn O (Unrequited Love Song) | 4:24 | Martyn & Margaret Bennett | Glen Lyon
Hiùraibh Ò, Ghràidh an Tig Thu? (Will You Return, My Love?) | 3:17 | Martyn & Margaret Bennett | Glen Lyon
DH, Èirich Mi Moch Maduinn Chàitinn... (Walking Song) | 4:17 | Martyn & Margaret Bennett | Glen Lyon
The Patient Nurses | 5:50 | Shooglenifty | Troots 23:33
Review | 4:00
Megajig Set | 6:19 | Stevie Lawrence | Standing Alone
One Night As I Lay On My Bed | 3:17 | Steeleye Span | The Lark In Morning - The Early Years
Braw Sailin' | 4:03 | OLD BLIND DOGS | Four on the Floor
Jacobite Bebop/3 Sheeps 2 The Wind | 7:13 | Martyn Bennett | Martyn Bennett
Hurdy Gurdy Man | 3:17 | Donovan | Donovan's Greatest hits 51:02
Review | 4:00
Weary We've Been/Dancing Feet | 3:56 | Peatbog Faeries by Christophe P.M.; G.S. Maclellan; Traditional | Mellowosity 58:58
Review | 4:00 2:58
My Oedipus Complex | 25:00 | Frank Ó Connor | Classic Irish Short Stories 27:58
Review | 4:00
Drowned Lovers [Live] | 5:06 | Kate Rusby | Ten
Dean St. - An Ghlaisin - Ril Aoife | 4:25 | Fiontan O Meachair | Irish Traditional Mandoline
Ramdam | 4:04 | Soig Siberil | Gewnojenn
Y Bachan Main | 5:01 | Julie Murphy & Dylan Fowler | Ffawd
3.5 Floppy | 4:16 | King Chiaullee | Nish!
Review & Slán | 2:00
St. Swithin | 2:10 | Khartoum Heroes by Andy Robinson & Kenny Anderson | Khartoum Heroes 58:20
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03 December 2010

Eclecti-Celt Playlist for the 6th of December 2010



Great new tunes and songs from Rónán Ó Snodaigh, a solo voyage. Rónán is the percussive heart of the band, Kíla. Unbelievable guitar virtuosity from Brittany's Jacques Pellen. Voices that capture you and make you understand: Márta Sebestyén, RACHEL UNTHANK, Marketa Irglova & Dolores Ó Riordan, among others. AND a long winter story from an Seanachi esteemed, Edmund Lenihan. I humbly hope, as good an Eclecti-Celt as you're like to hear.

Tune or Song Time Artist Release
Star of the sea | 3:58 | Eoin Dillon, Des Cahalan, Frank Tate, Steve Larson | THE GOLDEN MEAN
Water off a Ducks Back | 5:23 | Rónán Ó Snodaigh | Water off a Ducks Back
Baroki | 9:11 | Kíla | Luna Park
A Terrible Beauty | 6:09 | Rónán Ó Snodaigh | Water off a Ducks Back
Mr tambourine man | 2:53 | Jacques pellen | Ephemera 28:54
Review | 5:00
Grá dom Leonadh | 4:06 | The Swell Season w/ Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova | Ceol '09
Moldavian Triptych | 6:21 | Donal Lunny & Márta Sebestyén; Traditional | Coofin
Kas A-barh Ar Varoned | 7:43 | Erik Marchand, Kreiz Breizh Akademi | Izhpenn 12
Wele'n Treisio Ni | 2:30 | Gwilym Morus | Dan Y Nen
The Wanderlust | 3:37 | Flogging Molly | Whiskey On A Sunday 57:31
Review | 5:00
The Story of Hudden, Dudden & Donal Ó Leary | 15:28 | Eddie Lenihan | Storyteller 2 | With background music from Peadar Ó Riada, Martin Hayes, Caoimh’n Ó Raghallaigh from "3 Triúr Sa Draighean" | Jear—id - 2:11 / C—r an Earraigh - 2:35 / Bob and Bernie - 2:06 / John The Rookery - 1:28 / N'fheadar - 3:46 / Slide Dubh / Slide Caoimh’n - 2:36 / R’l TG4 - 2:26
Jane's Dance | 4:58 | Shooglenifty | Troots
BLUE BLEEZING BLIND DRUNK | 5:13 | RACHEL UNTHANK & THE WINTERSET | THE BAIRNS
Stitch In Time | 3:28 | Christy Moore | Live In Dublin 2006 30:58
Review | 5:00
Mannanan | 2:00 | Emma Christian | Beneath the Twilight
Waltzing Back | 3:38 | The Cranberries | Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? 41:36
Review | 4:00
Ollollé | 7:05 | Jacques Pellen | Lament for the Children
Round_to_go_Round | 5:09 | Rónán Ó Snodaigh w/ featuring the 'Water off a duck's back' band - Liam Ó Maonlaí - keys and vocals, Steve Cooney - guitar, Martin Brunsden - double bass, Conor Murray - Drums. Recorded by and additional vocals ; Myles O Reilly (Juno Falls) | Water off a Ducks Back 57:50
Review & Slán | :20
And Fox ate Nandy's red shoe | 3:21 | Eoin Dillon, Des Cahalan, Frank Tate, Steve Larson | THE GOLDEN MEAN
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29 November 2010

LIVE Music from John Cordes & Myself


OK! Quick like a bunny! Just one hour before this Eclecti-Celt program goes on I'm putting the playlist up here for you!

John Cordes, Fiddler extraordinaire, is LIVE tonight. So, I gotta git down to the studios of KBRP to git it all ready for tonight's session. I hope the music is awesome! I know John will be. Me? It'll be a bit much like doing a radio show and chewing gum at the same time. But good FUN anyway.

Tune or Song | Time | Artist | Release
Welcome and such | 1:00
House Carpenter | 5:01 | Wagtail | One Clear Moment
Aunt Sally Shuffle | 1:25 | Fairport Convention | The Classic Collection
Pais Dinogad (Dinogad's Smock) | 1:35 | Ffynnon by Lynne Denman | Celtic Music From Wales
Arwain i'r mor | 3:35 | Mim Twm Llai | Goreuon
Beeswing | 4:27 | Christy Moore & Declan Sinnott | Burning Times 16:23
Review | 4:00
The Ash-Plant, The Black-Haired Lass, Jenny Picking Cockles | 3:10 | Tony Mac Mahon & Noel Hill | In Knocknagree
Mary McMahon of Ballinahinch: Miss Lyon's | 4:24 | Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill | Live in Seattle
Dans Loudieg | 4:34 | Kornog | Premiére: Music from Brittany
Muiñeira de Chao - Curuxeiras (muiñeiras) | 3:01 | Alma De Buxo
Baile Mhúirne | 3:02 | Iarla Ó Lionáird | Music at Matt Molloy's
Dublin In Vigo | 7:06 | The Chieftains | Santiago 45:00
Review | 3:00
Intro Live Set of Music with John Cordes and Mahoney | 5:00 |
Báidín Fheilimí | 3:55 | Traditional
Ash, Oaken Farewell | 2:50 | Traditional
The Battle of New Orleans | 4:00 | Traditional
"The Banshee's Knickers" | 4:00 | Traditional
Sí Do Mhamó Í | 4:00 | Traditional 13:00
Review | 5:00
THE DANCING FEET SET | 17:42 | PEATBOG FAERIES | LIVE
Dh'Olainn Deoch A Laimh Mo Run (I Would Take a Drink from My Love's Hands) | 2:36 | Mary Jane Lamond | Bho Thir Nan Craobh 38:18
Review | 3:00
Invernía | 4:28 | Milladoiro | Castellum Honesti (Celtic Music from Spain)
La Harpe, L'Eau, Le Vent (Harp, Water, Wind) | 6:04 | Alan Stivell | Beyond Words
Review agus Slán | 3:00
FINALLY | 4:32 | TREAD | LIVE FROM MATT MOLLOY'S
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22 November 2010

E-Celt Playlist for the 22nd of November, 2010


Here it is, time for another rendition of Eclecti-Celt. And as almost always, usually, mostly, on many occasions...sometimes...TRY to accomplish just before the broadcast goes out on the radiowaves and on-line streams, here is the playlist for this program. I'm gonna be beating the ol' bodhrán tonight that's for certain! Fortunately, you the listeners will NOT be able to hear that unwelcomed accompaniment to this beautiful music! So...Enjoy!

Tune or Song | Time | Artist | Release
Welcome and such | 2:00
The Sally Gardens | 6:35 | Four Men & A Dog | Long Roads
Ar Poder Gomer 1 | 5:26 | Erik Marchand & Kreiz Breizh Akademi | Izhpenn 12
Ar Poder Gomer 2 | 5:05 | Erik Marchand & Kreiz Breizh Akademi | Izhpenn 12
Marig Ar Pontolan | 2:55 | Mike Katz | A Month of Sundays
The Walking Nightmare/The Shopgirl/Croix Russe | 4:32 | Old Blind Dogs | Five 25:53
Review | 5:00
Rhosyn rhwng fy nannedd | 3:32 | Mim Twm Llai | Goreuon
Kaniad y Gwynn Bibydd | 2:25 | | The Rough Guide to the Music of Wales
Lisa Lan, Ffoles Llantrisant (Beautiful Lisa, Girl From Llantrisant) | 5:32 | Julie Murphy, Sille Ilves, And Martin Leamon | Blodeugerdd: Song Of The Flowers, An Anthology Of Welsh Music And Song
Tŷ a gardd / Y derwydd | 2:59 | Ceri Matthews | Pibdawns
Gwenwyn | 4:13 | Al Lewis & Band w/ Meic Stevens | Sawl Ffordd Allan 48:14
Review | 5:00
Wildcat - Bonnie Nellie Reel | 4:16 | Whalebone | Three Fires
Sigh No More | 3:27 | Mumford & Sons | Sigh No More 60:57
Review | 3:00 3:57
Mojave | 10:35 | AfroCelt Sound System | Anatomic
Oró Mhíle Grá (A Thousand Times My Love) | 4:28 | Susan McKeown | Sweet Liberty
The Babbling Brook | 2:51 | Matt Molloy | Shadows on Stone
Klemmgan Ar Varc'hegein | 2:28 | Anne Auffret & Yann-Fanch Kemener | Chants Profanes Et Sacrés De Bretagne
11 | 5:43 | Jacques Pellen | 28:42
Review | 5:00
LAVENDERS | 4:19 | ELIZA CARTHY | DREAMS OF BREATHING UNDERWATER
Niel Gow's Lament For His Second Wife | 1:57 | Bob Hobkirk | The Rough Guide To Scottish Music, 2nd Ed.
Red Moon | 3:44 | Whalebone | Three Fires
The Gallant Hussar | 4:40 | SOLAS | FOR LOVE AND LAUGHTER 47:02
Review | 3:00
Something Beautiful | 5:28 | Sinéad Ó Connor | Theology: Dublin Sessions 55:30
Review agus Slán | 1:00
Rupi's Dance | 3:00 | Ian Anderson | The Best Of Acoustic Jethro Tull
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14 November 2010

Just another Eclecti-Celt?


Just another Eclecti-Celt? I was taken aback by the comment of a fellow DJ at KBRP who hosts a music show of broad musical taste: lots of Rock, R & B, Blues, Alternative, wide variety and timespans. Well, he was expressing back-handed admiration for my show, because of it's being such a narrow genre. "I mean, how do you make it sound different? How do you find enough music to play?" I thought he was right clueless, but I smiled and thanked him for enjoying the show. Which IS after all, the point!

So, here's just another Eclecti-Celt. I hope you enjoy the diversity, that is obvious in Celtic music, if you just dig a little.

Tune or Song | Time | Artist | Release
Welcome and such | 2:00
Hardiman The Fiddler / Humors Of Whiskey | 2:21 | Dermot Byrne | Dermot Byrne
The Leaving Of Liverpool | 3:12 | The Pogues | Red Roses For Me
Cleicken The Deil | 5:28 | Shooglenifty | Murmichan
Blow, Big Wind | 2:53 | Laurie Lewis | O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection
Ar Mezvier | 6:51 | Erik Marchand, Kreiz Breizh Akademi | Izhpenn 12
Kitty | 4:55 | The Pogues | Red Roses For Me 26:20
Review | 6:00
Dans Tro Poher | 4:46 | Soig Siberil | Gewnojenn
One Way Donkey Ride | 3:38 | Sandy Denny | No More Sad Refrains
NPG | 4:34 | Natalie MacMaster | Yours Truly
The Cave | 3:38 | Mumford & Sons | Sigh No More
The Crash Of Angel Wings | 4:02 | The Waterboys | The Book of Lightning
Ships in Full Sail | 3:38 | Barry Kerr | The Three Sisters 55:16
Review | 6:00 1:16
Franshou ha Fanch | 7:25 | Erik Marchand, Kreiz Breizh Akademi | Izhpenn 12
The Well Below the Valley | 5:25 | Planxty | The Well Below the Valley
My Father Was | 5:21 | Julie Murphy | Lilac Tree
Collen Lawn Cawell Llawn / Cân Wil Y Tloty | 3:09 | Julie Murphy & Dylan Fowler | Ffawd
Daw'r Dydd | 2:57 | Drymbago | Dyddiau Da 24:53
Review | 6:00
Corpse Foot Jigs | 3:23 | Albannach | Eye Of The Storm
He Mo Leannan (Hey my Love) | 2:34 | Mary Jane Lamond | Bho Thir Nan Craobh
Asleep At the Wagon Wheel | 6:13 | King Chiaullee | Reel:Ode
Roll Away Your Stone | 4:24 | Mumford & Sons | Sigh No More
Banrion mo Chroi | 3:41 | Lisa Hannigan | Ceol '06 50:28
Review agus Slán | 4:00
Reagan's/The Shepherd's Daughter/Rolling in the Hay/Colonel | 4:56 | Bohola | Bohola
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24 October 2010

The 2010 Samhain Eclecti-Celt Show


High dry winds, swirling yellow and brown leaves, crisp and cool at night, white moon so bright it hurts your eyes to look at the full lunar disc of Samhain. This Eclecti-Celt brings the music and song of this season, the crack between the worlds, right to your chilly autumn bones. It all howls for itself! Enjoy!

Tune or Song | Time | Artist | Release
+ Welcome & Such | 1:00
Ephémèra | 5:57 | Jacques Pellen | Ephéméra
Tali | 5:43 | | Jacques Pellen | Ephéméra
Mi parlètz pas de trabalhar | 4:08 | Lo Cor De La Plana | Tant deman
Fossegrimhallingen - The Waterfall Wizard's Halling Tune | 2:59 | Arne Solvberg | The Devil's Tune
Danny Boy "The Derry Air" | 2:00 | Davy Spillane & Sinead Ó Connor | The Sea Of Dreams
Danny Boy | 2:48 | Christy Moore | Lament with many thanks to Carolyn and the Daughters of the Damned
Boy Racer | 3:38 | Eoin Dillon , Des Cahalan, Frank Tate & Steve Larson | The Golden Mean 26:53
+ Review 5:00
MacCrimmon's Lament | 6:42 | Heather Heywood | Heart Of Scotland
Zombie | 5:06 | The Cranberries | No Need to Argue
Ril Liz, An t-Seabhag | 3:15 | Distant Oaks | Gach La agus Oidhche
Fyvie Castle (Song of Samhain) | 3:40 | Aine Minogue | Between Worlds
O Death | 3:19 | Ralph Stanley | O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Wind Swept Hill of Tulla | 4:11 | Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill | Welcome Here Again 57:26
+ Review 5:00 2:26
O Castro da Moura | 13:38 | Carlos Núñez | Os Amores Libres
Brothen I'r Buarth [Brothen to the Farmyard] | 2:11 | Ffynnon | Celtic Music From Wales
Y Folantein | 3:08 | Julie Murphy & Dylan Fowler | Ffawd
Northern Lights | 3:51 | Gaelic Storm | Cabbage
Weila Waila | 2:27 | Young Dubliners | With All Due Respect 27:01
+ Review 4:00
Marrowbones | 4:28 | Steeleye Span | The Best Of & The Rest Of Steeleye Span
The Tammienorrie: The Tammienorie/Leo Elsey's Reel/Les Reel des Voyageurs | 5:18 | Shooglenifty | Venus in Tweeds
The Dreaming Of The Bones | 6:15 | | Davy Spillane & Sinead Ó Connor | The Sea Of Dreams
Lonesome Valley | 4:07 | The Fairfield Four | O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Kiss | 2:49 | Alasdair Fraser | The Last Of The Mohicans 53:18
+ Review agus Slán Agabh 2:00
Ale House | 3:59 | Martyn Bennett | Grit
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I have worked many years as a wilderness ranger and fire lookout on several lovely US Forest Service fire towers in the western states, and so knew how to speak into a radio microphone, but I had never produced a radio program prior to the first broadcast of "Celtic Sessions" on the 1st of January 2005. What I brought to the broadcasting booth was lifelong appreciation of my ancestor's legacy. The program was, and is, most warmly received. Amazing! Live interviews have been given by artists the caliber of Paddy Moloney, Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, Rónán Ó Snodaigh, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and Gwilym Morus. AND, if you are a musician, are in a band, know a special band, or poet, author, or rabble-rouser of the Celtic kind, please get in touch with myself and we can discuss getting these tunes or songs or oratory on-the-air. If you like, you can telephone as well as correspond in writing. My cell number is (520)366-1176, Arizona Mountain Standard Time.