It's New Year's Eve. Let's laugh and party on the very last day of 2015 with funny Irish and Celtic songs from Legacy with Jim Flanagan, The Molly Maguires, Jim Brannigan, Trinity River Whalers, The Dregs, Seamus Kennedy, Ed Miller, Merry Wives of Windsor, The Irish Rovers, Brobdingnagian Bards, Marc Gunn, Ceann, Hair of the Dog, Black 47, The Poxy Boggards, The Stubby Shillelaghs, Wild Mountain Thyme, Claymore.

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This Week in Celtic Music

0:28 - "Stick to the Craythur" by Legacy with Jim Flanagan from An Irish Christmas: Songs and Music of West Cork

5:56 - "Moonshiner" by The Molly Maguires from The Molly Maguires EP

8:28 - "Murshin Durkin" by Jim Brannigan from The Hills of Margaree

10:40 - "Mr. Valentine's Dead" by Trinity River Whalers from Party in a Box

13:10 - "Irish Girl" by The Dregs from Angelina's Farewell Concert

18:06 - "The Errant Apprentice" by Seamus Kennedy from On the Rocks

21:23 - "The Jeely Piece Song" by Ed Miller from Live at the Cactus Cafe

24:55 - "Devil and the Knight" by Merry Wives of Windsor from Here's to the Men

28:05 - "Cruisin' Round Yarmouth" by The Irish Rovers from Drunken Sailors

31:00 - "Jedi Drinking Song" by Brobdingnagian Bards from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales

34:56 - "Lusty Young Sith" by Marc Gunn from What Color Is Your Dragon?

37:26 - "Jedi's Dargle" by Marc Gunn from Sci Fi Drinking Songs

39:52 - "Moron with the Bodhran" by Ceann from Making Friends

43:19 - "Three Drunken Maidens" by Hair of the Dog from Liam Left the Lights On Again

45:54 - "Uncle Jim" by Black 47 from Elvis Murphy's Green Suede Shoes

50:02 - "Lager Than Life" by The Poxy Boggards from Lager Than Life

52:42 - "Top O'the Mornin' Wood" by The Stubby Shillelaghs from Whiskey Business

54:37 - "Scotland's Depraved" by Wild Mountain Thyme (featuring members of 3 Pints Gone) from Scotland's Depraved

57:26 - "Auld Lang Syne" by Claymore from Claymore

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