Program Highlights and Schedules for July-September 2011

11-27

7/7/11

New Releases

Join your host, Bryan Kelso Crow, for a roundup of some of the best Celtic vocal and instrumental music from both sides of the Atlantic.

11-28

7/14/11

Music from Cape Breton

Our returning guest this week is Cape Breton native Shauna MacDonald, who brings us the inside scoop on some of the current favorite singers and musicians among the younger generation in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

11-29

7/21/11

Guitars Out Front

The featured instrument this week is the guitar, in the hands of some of the top Celtic and American lead players and accompanists.

11-30

7/28/11

Old Favorites

We raid the library shelves of the Celtic Connections CD collection for songs and tunes by favorite performers of the past several decades.

11-31

8/4/11

New Releases

Stay tuned for our top-of-the-month roundup of great tracks from new and recent releases.

11-32

8/11/11

Long Tracks

Some of the most exciting music out there is in tracks that are too long to fit into our normal programs, but this week we opt for fewer performers and longer songs and medleys from some top Celtic performers.

11-33

8/18/11

The Bryans

In honor of your host's first name, which was his father's middle name and his grandmother's last name, we feature musicians named Bryan or Brian, or whose last name is O'Brian (in various spellings), as well as songs with characters with that name. Tune in to see who shows up for the party!

11-34

8/25/11

Festival Preview

This week we preview some of the performers who will be at the Celtic festivals in September and October, including Celtic Fest Mississippi, the Northeast Louisiana Celtic Festival, the Southern Illinois Irish Festival, and the Weston Missouri Irish Fest.

11-35

9/1/11

New Releases

New songs, new tunes, new CDs, all top-notch in this week's sampling of traditional and contemporary music from new releases.

11-36

9/8/11

Music From the Sessions

One of the joys of playing Irish music is being able to find an informal music session in a new town, not just in Ireland but in many American cities and other parts of the world as well. Some of the common session tunes are featured this week, along with recordings from pub sessions.

11-37

9/15/11

Celtic Collections

If you're lucky enough to find a "Celtic" CD section in a book or record store near you, you might be overwhelmed by all the CDs with "Celtic" in the title. This week we will sort through some of the overly-sentimentalized or hackneyed or not-ready-for-primetime recordings to bring you some of the best from these Celtic collections.

11-38

9/22/11

Old Favorites

Songs and tunes from not-so-new albums will sound like new when we air them out this week!

11-39

9/29/11

New Releases

We start our October programs with the monthly roundup of new and recent releases, and the good music just keeps on coming in!