Celtic Music News Podcast

Another successful year for the Great American Irish Festival!  Other than an absolute downpour that canceled the Elders show on Saturday night, the weekend was a total success!  A plethora of great bands!

I’ve uploaded Pics and Videos to CMN’s myspace; www.myspace.com/celtic_music_news, just click on the picture page and the video page.

 My videos aren’t the greatest quality, but the hope/intention was to get a “feel” of the  weekend!

written by Becky B

The Great American Irish Festival is coming up July 25 through the 27th.  This is a terrific festival held just west of Utica, NY, in the town of Frankfort.

This will only be its 5th year, and for such a rural area, it’s incredible the amount of people that attend, however one look Continue reading »

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this will be short, and hopefully self explanitory. I fractured my right wrist (I am right handed). Its making typing and doing much of anything rather difficult. I get a smaller cast next week and hopefully will be more useful then.

cheers

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The Prelude, The Prodigals & The Dustmen

The Prelude

This band came all the way from Liverpool to play a festival in Toronto, and fortunately for the people of Buffalo, NY they took a quick trip over the border Continue reading »

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No show this week. I will do it next week. I was not feeling very well yesterday or today (my 2 days off naturally).

Aaron

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Celtic Music News has just added Scythian to it’s library!

Had the pleasure of seeing Scythian live on 5/23/08 and as usual they put on a stellar performance!  This band is out of Washington DC and is being booked at major festivals and drawing huge crowds of people.  They are real crowd pleasers and play a large selection of Celtic, Gypsy & Ukranian tunes. 

In 2008 this band will have played for Presidents, Prime Ministers & the Pope!  On this past St. Patricks day they played for Continue reading »

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Aaron has been receiving all kinds of new music to play on future podcasts!  Here are the latest bands that will be featured on upcoming podcasts. 

Barleyjuice, Celtic Cross, Wild Celts, Pat Chessel & Emish 

I was very fortunate to Continue reading »

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New Single: “Walk On The Moon”

Tune into the first single from Fortune’s Favour, “Walk On The Moon”, onGreatBigSea.com! Great Big Sea’s official site and MySpace have the exclusive preview of their new song until its official release next week. OnGreatBigSea.com, you can find the music player towards the top right of the homepage.    Continue reading »