Marc Gunn
13 March 2025
Happy St Patrick's Day! We got carried with our 3 hour special. Instead you get 50 Celtic songs and tunes for you to enjoy for St Patrick's Day on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #701. Subscribe now! GET CELTIC MUSIC NEWS IN YOUR INBOX The Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Enjoy seven weekly news items for Celtic music and culture online. Subscribe now and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 FOR 2025 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create this year's Best Celtic music of 2025 episode. You have just three weeks to vote this year. Vote Now! You can follow our playlist on YouTube to listen to those top voted tracks as they are added every 2 - 3 weeks. THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:15 - The Friel Sisters "My Love is in America/The Yellow Tinker/Old Cuffe Street (Reels)" from Northern Sky 3:35 - WELCOME THE IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC PODCAST * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. I am Marc Gunn. I'm a Celtic musician and host of Folk Songs & Stories. This podcast is for fans of Celtic music. We are here to build a diverse Celtic community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, please email artists to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Musicians depend on your generosity to release new music. So please find a way to support them. Buy a CD, Album Pin, Shirt, Digital Download, or join their community on Patreon. You can find a link to all of the artists in the shownotes, along with show times, when you visit our website at celticmusicpodcast.com. Email follow@bestcelticmusic to learn how to subscribe to the podcast and you will get a free music - only episode. If you are a Celtic musician and want your music featured on the show, please submit your band to be played on the podcast. You don't have to send in music or an EPK, and You will get a free eBook called Celtic Musicians Guide to Digital Music. It's 100% free. Just email follow@bestcelticmusic 5:32 - Nathan Gourley, Joey Abarta, and Owen Marshall "A Tailor I Am / The Shoemaker's Fancy / Donncha Ó Loinsigh's" from Copley Street 2 9:36 - Fialla "Dúlamán" from A Rare Thing 13:41 - W. Ed Harris "Arran Boat Song" from Family, Friends, Choices, & Memories 17:50 - Goitse "Green Fields of Canada" from Rosc 22:39 - Clay Babies "Dick Gossips / Dinky's Reel / Miss McLoud's" from Speechless Vol. 1: Sloppy Session in the Sticks 27:11 - The Irish Rovers "Drunken Sailor" from Drunken Sailor 30:04 - WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR ST PATRICK'S DAY THIS YEAR? Ellen MacIsaac: Probably gigging. Lots of work for musicians at that time. Patrick Rieger: That's a Monday. I'll listen to some music at home. My favorite pub will be a madhouse so I will be avoiding the place. Jordan Reeder: Guinness and the Irish and Celtic music podcast for sure! 😇 Jason Norris: I'd say party, but it's a Monday and responsibilities dictate that I have to work the following day 😂 Franko Hashiguchi: Gigs previous weekend and that weekend. Staying home on SPD itself this year. SAFE! From all the wannabes. John Sturgeon: Pipe band performances FitzBlarney: Saturday the 15th will be my annual St. Patrick's Celebration at my home, and Sunday, th 16th will be FitzBlarney's live music show at Gentile's Brewing Company in Beverly, Massachusetts! Music, food, fun, family, (and dogs!) for everyone. Pure Craic! Daniel Morrison: Like all traditional Irish have. Go to work in New York area. Sean Wennihan: Listening to Irish music & flying my Irish flag & playing my Bagpipes. Stout Pounders: 5 shows over 4 days! And also Marc Gunn bday! 😜🤘☘️ Marc Gunn: A show and my birthday Doris Woodruff: a pint of guinness! Alison Sanchez: Driving all over Michigan to get to my gigs with Belfast Gin and listening to your podcast in the car! Slainte! 🍻 ☘️ Amy CB: Stay home it's amateur night. 😉 Tim Turner: The Celtic festival at Saint Augustine, Florida. Mark Pickard: Making and enjoying an Irish Stew at home with my dear Irish 'better half' (oh, and some music from Poitín in the background)! Poitín - Celtic World Music 33:10 - Blackwillow Starling "Wild Maiden" from Blackwillow Starling 36:52 - Hanneke Cassel and Dave Wiesler "McGregor's Leap" from Many Happy Returns 41:42 - La famille LeBlanc "Marguerite et Chabord" from New/Nouveau - Perdrais - je mon temps...(Would I be losing my time...) 45:24 - Mànran "Lahinch" from Ùrar 50:50 - The Inland Seas "Rant and Roar" from Crown of Clover 55:07 - The Secret Commonwealth "Stowaway/Four Roses" from Licensed Beggars 1:02:34 - On The Lash "John Riley" from Fireside 1:06:02 - River Driver "Toss the Feathers" from Flanagan's Shenanigans! Live at The Celt 1:09:16 - Dan Possumato "Willy Taylor (feat. Mick Mulcrone)" from An Teachín Gorm 1:13:20 - THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! Lads, lasses, and leprechauns of good taste—have I told you lately that you're absolutely legendary? You are the heartbeat of this podcast, the reason I spend my days swimming in Celtic tunes instead of, I dunno, training for a competitive Guinness - drinking contest (which I'd obviously win). And it's all thanks to you. Your support isn't just appreciated—it's the very thing that keeps this show from running on sheer luck and leftover whiskey fumes. You fund our genius sound engineer (who makes me sound like I actually know what I'm doing), the wizardly graphic designer, the tirelessly dedicated Celtic Music Magazine editor, and the promotional magic that spreads this music farther than a wandering Irish storyteller. Your generosity buys the music you love and gives me the time to carefully craft each episode—rather than just chucking in a tin whistle solo and hoping for the best. And as a patron, you're not just supporting the show—you're practically knighted by the Celtic music gods themselves. You get exclusive, ad - free, music - only episodes before anyone else (because you're fancy like that). You help shape the Celtic Top 20 with your votes. You unlock free music downloads, sheet music, and your very own private feed to listen your way—whether through Patreon or your favorite podcast app. All this for just $3 a month. That's right—less than the cost of one fancy coffee (or roughly 0.003% the cost of a pint in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day). And yet, that tiny sum keeps the music alive, keeps the community thriving, and keeps you at the very heart of it all. So join us today! Let's keep this music going forever—or at least until we all get distracted by a parade and a questionable amount of irish whiskey. 🍻🎶 Sign up now, and may the luck of the Irish (and the best Celtic tunes) always be with you! ☘️ A special thanks to our Celtic Legends: Rick Boyce, Bruce, Daniel Ide, Brian McReynolds, Marti Meyers, Alan Schindler, Karen Harris, Margreta Silverstone, Emma Bartholomew, Dan mcDade, Gerald F Boyle, Miranda Nelson, Nancie Barnett, Kevin Long, Gary R Hook, Lynda MacNeil, John Sharkey White, II, Kelly Garrod, Mike Schock, Annie Lorkowski, Shawn Cali HERE IS YOUR THREE STEP PLAN TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST Go to our Patreon page. Decide how much you want to pledge every month, $3, $12, $25. Keep listening to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast to celebrate Celtic culture through music. You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast on Patreon at SongHenge.com 1:16:55 - Austral "Throwdown Hoedown" from Thylacine 1:19:32 - Misty Posey "Auld Lang Syne" from Celtic Voice of the Ancients 1:24:06 - Runa "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" from Live 1:27:02 - Drumspyder "Paddy on the Erie / The Toormore" from Oak and Ash 1:31:04 - Larkin & Moran Brothers "The Rabble Rouser" from Éistigí 1:33:59 - David Mitchell "Away With The Seelies set" from Contours 1:38:51 - WANT MORE ST PATRICK'S DAY MUSIC? As you know, we have over 700 episodes of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. That means, there are a LOT of shows where you enjoy St Patrick's Day music all year long. But right now, the best place to start are either our 20+ St Patrick's Day episodes we've released or the 20 Best of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast episodes that we have released over the years. In fact, check our latest Best of episodes Celtic Top 20 of 2024 #691. Or if you want to get to know some of the artists, there a growing number of interviews on the podcast including from Kinnfolk Interview #699 Irish Sessions With Kinnfolk #609 Ockham's Razor fo Pride Month with Celtic Music #463 Jesse Ferguson #696 Shannon Heaton #692 The Friel Sisters #684 Cherish the Ladies #683 The Muckers' Whiskey Tango #677 RUNA #649 Eimear Arkins #633 Ashley Davis Band #630 Altan #580 Lunasa #579 1:40:37 - Sligo Rags "The Foggy Dew" from The Night Before the Morning After 1:45:31 - Jim McKenna, Uilleann Piper "Lament for the Children of the Kilkenny Workhouse" 1:49:51 - Mac and Cheese "Ragged Edge" from Big Fun 1:54:17 - Bealtaine "Grey Dawn Breaking" from The Founders' Room Vol 2 1:57:36 - Conamara Chaos "Foxrock Set" from Anord 2:03:08 - Ockham's Razor "Our Lady of Galway Bay" from Garnet 2:07:20 - Robert Zielinski "Andy McGann's/Humours of Scarriff" from The Day Dawn 2:10:45 - I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? I'd love to see a picture of what you're doing while listening. Is there a new Celtic CD or Celtic band that you heard of or saw? Send a picture. Email me at follow@bestcelticmusic. Garrett Crowe emailed: "I am Irish so I celebrate Celtic culture through music by listening to it to make me feel good, whether I a working out at the gym or singing kareoke with my family. I also enjoy listening to it while working on my role - playing games." Dale Janney emailed:
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