Jan 21, 2016

It's time, once again, to celebrate the Top 20 Best Celtic songs of 2015. We had a lot of great music last year as I found out when I compiled all of  your votes. That's right. YOU get to vote for the best Celtic music of the year. Today, you're gonna hear the Best Celtic music from Emerald Rose, The Flying Toads, Clandestine, Appalachian Celtic Consort, The Gothard Sisters, Count 4dB, Full Gael, Heather Alexander, Breabach, Kailyarders, Jesse Ferguson, The Rogues, The Blarney Rebel Band, Runa, Patsy O'Brien, Whiskey Sunday, The Elders, Wild Colonial Bhoys, Bourbon & Shamrocks, Carolina Ceili. 

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Notes:

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* I am now looking for bands for the St. Patrick's Day Internet Music Festival. If you are a Celtic musician, have videos you've made, or are willing to make, of live performances, and a willingness to promote the event, then go to the website for details to join.

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* The 2016 polls are now open for you to vote for your favorite bands in the Celtic Top 20. Much like this show, I ask you to vote for your favorite bands in each episode so that we can create a best of episode at the end of the year. I revised those polls to make it even easier to vote. All you need is the band name and the episode number to cast a vote for your favorites. Go vote at celticmusicpodcast.com/vote.

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This Week in Celtic Music

0:31
"Autumn In Asheville" by Emerald Rose
from That Night in the Garden

5:20
"Palm Sunday" by The Flying Toads
from

10:20
"Ballad of Accounting" by Clandestine
from Red

14:45
"Cul Aodh/Kesh Jig" by Appalachian Celtic Consort
from Drop O' the Pure

16:40
"Grace O'Malley" by The Gothard Sisters
from Mountain Rose

20:26
Celtic Music News

21:40
"The Fisherman's Song" by Count 4dB
from Rylander: There Can Be Only One

25:22
"Ships Are Sailing/Wind Shakes the Barley/Star of the Munster" by Full Gael
from Traditional Music with Celtic Roots

29:03
"Gypsy Bardic Tinker People" by Heather Alexander
from A Gypsy's Home - Songs of the Roving Life

34:20
"Monday Night at Ricardo's" by Breabach
from Urlar

39:12
"Stornoway" by Kailyarders
from King of the Jolly

42:16
Celtic Music Feedback

45:43
"The Rocky Road to Dublin" by Jesse Ferguson
from The Parting Glass

48:58
"Cullen Anderson" by The Rogues
from Live in Canada, Eh?

53:43
"Darker Than the Mine" by The Blarney Rebel Band
from Pile High The Pennywall

57:35
"Land of Sunshine Set" by Runa
from Current Affairs

1:03:11
"Good Times Coming" by Patsy O'Brien
from Irish Guitar

1:07:53
"She Took the Train" by Whiskey Sunday
from Holy Water

1:11:25
"Road to Ruins" by The Elders
from Story Road

1:17:01
"Farewell to Erin" by Wild Colonial Bhoys
from On Our Own

1:22:08
"Zooie" by Bourbon & Shamrocks
from Craic

1:25:16
"Cunla" by Carolina Ceili
from 50 Shades of Green

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