Indie Celtic Musicians #273

This one is for the indie Celtic musicians who share their music with the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. Big thanks to Poitin, The Selkie Girls, Ed Miller, TJ Hull and Jeff Ksiazek, Abby Green, Two O'Clock Courage, Derek Byrne and Paddygrass, Reel Treble, Rambling Sailors, Shillelagh!, The Bog Hoppers, Highland Reign, Skeleton McKee, Emish, Pipedance and all of the awesome bands on our podcast.

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This Week in Celtic Music

0:12 "F Reels: Poor but Happy At 53 / The Road to Errogie / Sporting Paddy" by Poitin from Wish

5:15 "Toss the Feathers" by The Selkie Girls from Long Time Traveling

8:27 "The Song of the Hammers" by Ed Miller from Lolander

11:29 "The Drunken Gauger (jig)" by TJ Hull and Jeff Ksiazek from Eist

14:44 "Molly Ban" by Abby Green from Fig for a Kiss

18:51 CELTIC PODCAST NEWS

20:02 "My Love Is In America" by Two O'Clock Courage from Postcards from Home

24:01 "Captured Dream" by Derek Byrne and Paddygrass from Half and Half

26:01 "Martin Wynne's #2/DunmoreLasses/The Coalminer" by Reel Treble

30:01 "Davey Jones" by Rambling Sailors from Ports of Call

33:21 "Si Beg Si Mor (reprise) / Banish Misfortune" by Shillelagh! from A Turn of Fortune

37:48 CELTIC FEEDBACK

40:18 "Die Hard" by The Bog Hoppers from Top Shelf

43:02 "Gallant Murray" by Highland Reign from Brother

46:56 "Ireland" by Skeleton McKee from Leave the World Laughing

51:25 "Remember These Bones" by Emish from Sinners Make The Best Saints

52:55 "A Lady in Her Father's Garden" by Pipedance from The Pleasures of Hope

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