Conference tallis::celt

    In Colorado Springs, on KRCC(Public Radio), on Saturday and Sunday
    between 8pm and 10pm there is a Celtic music show. They play both
    Modern and Traditional music. 
    I was surprised that this music is given so much airtime in a town
    that has little Irish heritage. 
    
    Paul
    

    
    
    	Re. "The Sound of Erin"
    
    	    WNTN 1550 AM
    
    	    Monday thru Friday 3 PM - 6 PM
    	   
    	    Saturday 10:30 AM - Sundown
    
    	    Hosted by John Curran, Bernie McCarthy and 
            "Sporting" Pat Twohig
            
    
    
  	keVin  

    WROL Boston, Sat all day, Sunday in the PM

re: < Note 77.3 by NEXUS::FARRAHER >
    
    Not only does KRCC play hours of "dedicated" celtic music Saturdays
    and Sundays, but there are also other public radio venues for the
    music of Celtia:
    
    KRCC's live folk music show on Sunday Evenings often hosts Celtic
    groups (including our own Blarney Pilgrim).
    
    KUNC and KCFR have dedicated Celtic shows in Denver and Boulder
    (can't say when as I can't pick them up from home).
    
    Prairie Home Companion often has Celtic musicians performing (I've
    heard Boys of the Lough and Magical Strings - to name two bands).
    Mike Flynn's Folk Sampler often plays Celtic music.  Lastly, a new
    show called "Our Front Porch" has had people like Andy Irvine as
    guests.
    
    BobW
    

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   Actually, the 10.30-noon portion is hosted by Comhaltas and features
   (as you might suppose) traditional music; from noon on it's a
   *very* mixed bag.
   
   					=maggie

    
    Does anyone know what has happened to the WGBH Friday night broadcasts
    of "Thistle & Shamrock"?  They seem to have replaced it with a locally
    produced program of Celtic music.  The announcer sounds like Brian
    O'Donovan(?) who used to host the WERS program on Sunday afternoon.
    
    I think Connecticut Public Radio broadcasts T&S on Thursday night
    but that's out of my range.  Does Amherst carry it?
    
    There's supposed to be a program on Monday nights from Brandeis
    hosted by Andy Nage, who does the once-a-month Celtic hour on WGBH's
    Saturday afternoon Folk Heritage program.  I think they're at about
    100 on the FM dial and it's called the black something or other.

    
      One more to add to your list is "THE SOUNDS OF SCOTIA" presented
    by Wullie Bauld every Saturday morning from 10:30 to noon. It is
    out of Worcester on 91.3 fm and is full of stuff your granny loves
    and some magic comedy records. Wullie also organises a 4 hour
    show on New-years-day where he Murdo Morrison, Jim Brock and myself
    do a request show of anyone still alive.
      Wullies' show is excellent for news on whats happening locally
    and well worth a listen. Incidentally some of you seem to have
    a passing interest in Irish music so you might be interested in
    the show which is just on ahead of Wullie on a Saturday morning.
    
    Bill.
    

    (re .9)
    
        Made a mistake on the New Years Day show - it is on from 4.00
    to 7.00pm.
    
    We will be giving the phone no. out during the show - so give us
    a call.
    
    

    re: 77.8
    
    You're right...Friday's WGBH program is hosted by Brian O'Donovan.
    He still has a large listenership from his WERS show, so his ratings
    are pretty high.  You can get Thistle and Shamrock on Saturday night
    - 8 PM on WICN Worcester.
    
    Roxanne

    For those in the New York area, WFUV (90.7) has a show that I have 
    heard and liked, on Sun afternoons 2-4.  I believe that they do a more
    traditional show at some other time, which I will post if I can find
    it out.
					kathy

    STATION	FREQUENCY	PHONE		TIME
    
    WMBR	88.1 FM		494-8810	Thursday, 6 - 8 p.m.
    WERS	88.9 FM		578-8890	Sunday, noon - 3 p.m.      
    WGBH	89.7 FM		492-2777	Friday, 7 - 8 p.m.       
    WCUW	91.3 FM		753-1012	Saturday, 9 a.m. - noon
    						Sunday, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
    WUMB	91.9 FM		929-7929	Saturday, 5 - 9 p.m.
    WBRS	100.1 FM	736-5277	Monday, 8 - 10:30 p.m.
    WDLW	1331 AM		890-1330	Sunday, 1:30 - 6 p.m.
    WNTN	1550 AM		969-3200	Mon.-Fri., 3:30 - sundown
    						Saturday, 10:30 - sundown
    
                                                                   
    

    
    
    	Dinny:
    
    	What happened to WROL on Saturdays and Sundays ??
    
    	Minus John Latchford (Who is from Arlington) 
    
    	I see in the "Irish Echo" that John Latchford is now a D.J. 
    	available for parties, etc. etc.
                                     
    
    
    	keVin

    RE: .14 "WROL?"
    
    Gee, I don't know.  I copied the info off a flyer for a concert
    by Scartabrae (sp?).  Is WORL the one that used to have the "Sounds
    of Erin" program?
    
    

    
    
    
    	no no no
    
    
    	"Sounds of Erin" is different (and much better)   8=)

         
    	Remember the Irish store on the corner of Mass Ave. 
    	and Lake Street (by the theater) .....  in RRRRRRRRlington ??
                          
    	Latchford use to own that store !!!
    
    	Instead of Scartabrae (sp?) I think you ment Scartaglen, which
    	is noted somewhere in the top of this notefile ...
    
    
    
    	keVin
    

	Latchfords been fired..  They tried to do it years ago but
	he owned all the records.. They finally coughed up the $$,
	went home and bought their own.. Now Johnny don't come marching
	in on Saturdays..

	It's AAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhling-tunn Mr. Burns.. :-)

							me_haul

    RE: last couple
    
    I must admit to the potential for misidentifying Scartaglen due
    to the early onset of oldtimers disease, but having been born and
    raised there, I can confirm Foley's pronunciation of AHHHHHlingtunn
    as being correct.
    

    
    
    	I didn't think there was any "g"   ....
    
    
    	as in AHHHHHH-LIN-TUN
                     
    	Isn't that the sound that Bob "The Bobcat" Goldwaithe  makes ..
                                                              
    	Foley ought to know, he's from Brick-a (a.k.a. BILL-ER-RICK-A)
    
    	Me, I'm from the All_American city of Slumerville  :=)
                                                 
    
    
    	keVin

       
       
       	Actually, I'm from Doohh-chestahh... U.Y.
       
       						me_haul

    Does anyone know if "Thistle & Shamrock" is still on WICN, Worcester
    Ma and could someone post the frequency?
    
    Wook (Who_misses_Fionna_Ritchie's(sp)_voice)

    
    
    WREB (930 AM) IN HOLYOKE HAS AN EXCELLENT SHOW, "THE HEALY'S IRISH
    RADIO PROGRAM", ON SATURDAY MORNINGS FROM 9-11 AM.
    
    THIS STATION HAS A VERY LIMITED LISTENING AREA, FROM NORTHAMPTON
    TO ENFIELD.
    
    ED BOYLE

    Here's some listings I picked up from "The Green Pages" a directory
    handed out at the Irish trade fair that was at the World Trade Center.
    
    Celtic Twilight	WUMB	91.9 FM		Saturdays 5-9 p.m.
    
    Irish Hit Parade	WROL	950 AM		Saturdays 10:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.
    						Sundays 6-8 p.m.
    
    Black Jack Davy	WBRS	100 FM		Mondays 8-10 p.m.
    
    Sounds of Ireland	WJCC	1170 AM		Sundays 10-12 a.m.
    
    Sounds of Erin	WNTN	1550 AM		Saturdays 10:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.
    

    This was in the USA today paper, Tuesday, July 27th.
    
    By Susan Kelly
    USA TODAY
    
    Washington - Fiona Ritchie is a little tired after "blathering with
    Ireland's Grammy-winning Chieftains until the wee hours of the morning.
    They'd flown in to perform at a party marking the 10th anniversary of 
    Ritchie's popular Celtic music program, The Thistle & Shamrock, as a
    nationally syndicated radio show.
    	That a group of the Chieftains' stature would perform at the
    National Public Radio conference is a tribute to the 33 year-old
    Ritchie's role in the growing popularity of Celtic music in this
    country.  In fact, The Thistle and Shamrock, showcasing music of the
    British Isles in NPR's most popular music program, is carried on more than
    260 stations.
         Celtic music has come to the foreground in movie soundtracks like
    Patriot Games (Clannad's ethereal Harry's Game), Far and Away (featuring
    the Chieftains and new age hitmaker Enya) and Benny & Joon (the
    Proclaimers' 500 Miles), and among mainstream performers like country's
    Kathy Mattea, drawn by the music of Scottish folk singer Doug McLean.
    	 Like some of the folklore born on Celtic tunes, Ritchie's story
    began simply.  Born in Greenock, Scotland, she came to North Carolina
    in 1980 as an exchange student, unaware of the area's heritage "until I
    opened a phone book and saw all these Scottish Names."  She returned a
    year later for a stay that would last almost a decade, signing on as a 
    volunteer at a new radio station, WFAE-FM in Charlotte, N.C.  Her first
    "on air" experience came a few months later when the station,
    struggling to raise funds, made this offer:  "Why don't you play some
    music from where you're from - wherever you're from?"
    	And so, armed with her tiny record collection from home and an
    assortment of coasters from Scottish pubs to give away, she went on the
    air.  "I was so nervous that I wasn't really paying attention to
    whether the phones were ringing or not," she says.  And they weren't -
    no one called - because a storm had taken the phone lines down.  But
    the next day, enough people called to interest the station in a weekly
    Celtic music show.
    	It drew a stong local audience right away, and in June 1983 the
    audience became national, first through the American Public Radio and
    then NPR.  The name itself - the thistle representing Scotland and the
    shamrock, Ireland - sounds like an intimate pub in which the pipes and
    fiddles of Celtic music fill the air.
    	Ritchie believes the pipes draw people in.  The uilleann (elbow)
    pipes played by such musicians as the Chieftains' Paddy Maloney and the
    USA's Jerry O'Sullivan are so named because they're powered by a
    bellows pumped under the arm.  "There's something very fundamental
    about the reaction to pipe music," Ritchie says.  "It's tapping into
    something quite ancient."
    	The music Ritchie introduces in her soft Scottish burr ranges from
    the traditional flare of the Clancy Brothers and the Chieftains to
    contemporary performers like folk singer Maura O'Connell.  Besides
    popular bands like Scotland's the Tannahill Weavers and Ireland's
    Altan, she also presents music from Wales, Brittany and even Nova
    Scotia, home of the Rankin Family.  "When we offered the show to APR,
    we thought it would go down well in communities where there were
    recognized Scotch-Irish enclaves," Ritchie says.  "What was really
    surprising for me was that it found an audience that went far beyond
    that group."  Recordings and tours once limited to Europe are
    increasingly available here.  Ritchie says, "Peoople hear it and it
    connects them to something of their own family history."
    	In 1990, Ritchie formed her own production company and moved to
    Edinburgh, Scotland, where the show is now taped.  Closer now to the
    Thistle musicians, she says it gives the show a lot more authenticity.
    "There's powerful emotion in the music and I think people will always be
    drawn to it.  It's loaded with great joy and sometimes great sadness.
    They'll always be drawn to those human emotions."
    
    For her 'Thistle and Shamrock Newsletter', send a SASE to the radio
    show at P.O. Box 560646, Charlotte, N.C.  28256

    I used to be able to pick it up on the Main NPR station, but not for
    a while now. None of the local Boston public stations broadcast it, do
    they? It usen't be as adventurous as Brian's Friday night programme.
    

    I just tumbled to another Celtic music program in the Boston area. 
    It's from 6-8 Sunday nights on some staion in Newton, Mass. [WXBC?]
    between 89.7 and 90.9 on the FM dial.
    
    It's called Corned Beef and Curses.
    

    Friday night, Brian O'Donovan on WGBH's Celtic Sojourn announced that the
    program would be switching from 7-9 p.m. Fridays to 12-2 Sundays.  This
    is almost like going back home for Brian, as it was several years ago
    we used to listen to him from noon to 3 Sundays on WERS, the Emerson
    College station.  Unfortunately for listeners, WERS still has their
    Folk Music of Ireland and the British Isles program in that time slot.

    GREAT!  My two favorite programs of Celtic folk music and they're going
    head to head.  Not only will I now have to figure out what to do with
    my life on Friday nights, but I'll have to choose between two stations
    on Sunday afternoons.

    Anybody know where I can get a remote channel changer for a radio?
    

     Dennis,
    	 Tape one, listen to the other, play the tape back on friday
    	nights. If you can wait that long. ;-)
    
    	 While we're on the subject, can anyone point me to the proper
    	dial setting for traditional listening in Ayr Scotland? I really
    	miss The Mist Covered Mountain show on Clare FM, and The Half Door,
    	on Galway Bay FM.
    
    	 Not to mention the live performances nightly in town..... 

    RE: .28  by ISEQ::BCORRIGAN 
    
    	>Tape one, listen to the other, play the tape back on friday
    	>nights. If you can wait that long. ;-)
    
    Not sure how I'd do that, at least not on the same radio.