Election Day Reprieve #282

The U.S. presidential election is nearly over. Thank goodness! I'm tired of the horrible Facebook comments. So I decided to have a little satirical fun with Super Tuesday by sharing Celtic music from We Banjo 3, Emerald Rose, Shauna Mullin, Andy Lamy, BOWI, The Beer Mats, Bonnie Rideout, Ed Miller and Robb Sansonetti, Flashpoint, The Makem & Spain Brothers, Gaelic Storm, Black 47, Celtica Pipes Rock, The Tossers, Slan.

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This Week in Celtic Music

0:40 "Poor Old Liza Jane/Dance Boatman Dance" by We Banjo 3 from Roots of the Banjo Tree

4;21 "Scatter the Mud/Tar Road to Sligo/Paddy Clancy's" by Emerald Rose from Celtic Crescent

7:52 "The Wee Weaver" by Shauna Mullin from Wishing Tree

9:40 "Reels: The Jug of Punch'Mrs. MacDonald of Clanranald (Lamey's)/The Repeal" by Andy Lamy from The New Blackthorn Stick

13:36 "Pound a Week Rise" by BOWI from Dry Land

17:32 CELTIC PODCAST NEWS

18:32 "Peace One Day in Time" by The Beer Mats from Peace One Day in Time

21:40 "The Jaunting Car Hornpipe Set" by Bonnie Rideout from Scottish Inheritance

26:04 "Riches, Women, an' Beer" by Ed Miller and Robb Sansonetti from My Own Brand of Crazy

28:21 "Black Rogue/Maguire's Kick/The Hunter's House" by Flashpoint from Jammed

33:11 "To Welcome Poor Paddy Home" by Makem & Spain from Up the Stairs

36:50 CELTIC FEEDBACk

38:54 "Green Eyes, Red Hair" by Gaelic Storm from Cabbage

42:40 "Bankers and Gangsters" by Black 47 from Bankers and Gangsters

47:11 "The Princess and the Piper" by Celtica Pipes Rock from Legends and Visions

50:46 "Political Scum" by The Tossers from Agony

55:41 "Footprints" by Slan from Footprints

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