Celtic Music from Renaissance Festivals #186
Irish & Celtic Music Podcast
Celtic musician, Marc Gunn
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2014
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Renaissance Festivals offer a huge assortment of Irish Celtic music as we'll explore in show #186 with music from Clandestine, Empty Hats, Brobdingnagian Bards, Celtic Stone, Craig of Farrington, Albannach, Rambling Sailors, NeidFyre, Merry Mischief, Nancy Daily-Green, New Minstrel Revue, Abby Green, Leah Jorgensen, Thyme Awaye, Haggis Rampant, Merry Wives of Windsor. www.celticmusicpodcast.com
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This Week in Celtic Music
0:35
"Lucy Cassidy" by Clandestine
from The Ale Is Dear
6:22
"Inesheer Air/Scarce's Tatties/Black Nag" by Empty Hats
from Greatest Hats
10:33
"Lily the Pink" by Brobdingnagian Bards
from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales
13:55
"Drowsing Maggie" by Celtic Stone
from Celtic Stone
16:02
"Song for Ireland" by Craig of Farrington
from Lute Etouffee
20:12
"Drinking Cataloochee Kool Aid" by Albannach
from Bareknucle Pipes & Drums
24:22
Celtic Music News
28:14
"Royal Oak" by Rambling Sailors
from Ports of Call
30:44
"Red Haired Boy/Kitchen Girl" by NeidFyre
From Anatidaephobia
34:26
"Lament Of The Fisherman's Wife" by Merry Mischief
From ScallyWags
39:21
"Britches Full of Stitches John" by Nancy Daily-Green
From Delia's Hearth
42:24
"Thank You For Asking" by New Minstrel Revue
from Far and Away
48:05
Feedback
49:48
"My Johnny Was a Shoemaker" by Abby Green
from Fig For a Kiss
53:28
"Butterfly" by Leah Jorgensen
from Peace - Love - Harp
55:12
"Month of January" by Thyme Awaye
from Thyme Awaye
58:14
"High Road to Gairloch/Brown Haired Maiden" by Haggis Rampant
from Tri
1:01:39
"Lass of Aughrim" by Merry Wives of Windsor
from Happy Endings
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| 0:00.0 | The Irish and Celtic Music Podcast Show Number 185 Celtic Music from Renaissance festivals. |
| 0:05.6 | Today's show is brought to you by the patrons of the podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | The Irish and Celtic music podcast exists due to the generosity of its patrons. It costs over $700 a month |
| 0:15.1 | to produce this show. Your per episode donation helps cover most of these costs and I |
| 0:20.0 | want to thank each and every one of the 54 people who contribute to this show. |
| 0:23.9 | Your kindness means that when 10,000 people download each episode, you experience no delay |
| 0:29.2 | and enjoying great Indie Celtic music. |
| 0:31.7 | Thank you so much for being awesome. If you'd like to become a |
| 0:33.8 | patron of the podcast and keep this show running each and every week go to Celticmusic |
| 0:38.0 | podcast.com. patron. The Oh, Oh, Oh, I'm not. Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, it's a good bit. Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Welcome to the Irish and Celtic music podcast, the best indie Celtic music online. |
| 4:56.0 | My name is Mark Gunn. |
| 4:58.0 | I am your host and a Celtic musician and you just heard clandestine with Lucy Cassidy from the Ale is dear. |
| 5:07.0 | Now this show is dedicated to the Celtic musicians who are performing at Renaissance Festivals. |
| 5:13.7 | Years ago I was at the North Texas Irish Festival and I heard a woman exclaim, |
| 5:18.3 | I can't believe all these people are dressed in Renaissance Festival clothing. |
| 5:21.5 | This isn't the Renaissance Fair. And she was right. The |
| 5:25.1 | Renaissance had little to do with the Celts, but what this narrow-minded woman failed |
| 5:29.8 | to realize is that there are a great number of people of Celtic heritage who love to |
| 5:35.3 | reenact their heritage at Renaissance Festivals. When I first started performing |
| 5:40.0 | at Renaissance Festivals in 1999 I didn't realize how much Celtic music was a part of the festivals. |
| 5:45.8 | You have bagpipe bands, harpers, people singing Irish drinking songs, many of the vendors |
| 5:50.6 | display Celtic knots in artwork and clothing. I've worn a kilt at |
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