We have a happy new year packed full of Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #642. Ed Yother, Mary Beth Carty, Rambling Sailors, Moher, Iain MacHarg, Madman's Window, Seasons, Jesse Ferguson, Daniele Scardovi, Kellys Wayke, Derina Harvey Band, Brad The Piper, Roehind, Screaming Orphans, The Poor Clares GET CELTIC MUSIC NEWS IN YOUR INBOX The Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Enjoy seven weekly news items for Celtic music and culture online. Subscribe now and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 FOR 2024 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2024 episode. You have just three weeks to vote this year. Vote Now! You can follow our playlist on Spotify to listen to those top voted tracks as they are added every 2 - 3 weeks. It also makes it easier for you to add these artists to your own playlists. THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:08 - Ed Yother "Where I Told Her I Loved Her and Sprained Her Ankle / Coffee on the Bricks / The Persistence of Noel Reid" from First Figure 3:34 - WELCOME 6:41 - Mary Beth Carty "Way to Judique" from Crossing the Causeway 9:56 - Rambling Sailors "Merry May Folk" from Tales From the White Horse 14:06 - Moher "Gone Fishing (slow reels)  Gone Fishing  -  Lead The Knave" from Phoenix 19:39 - Iain MacHarg "The Jolly Beggar" from Ceòl Na Beinne    Music of the Mountain 23:53 - FEEDBACK 29:50 - Madman's Window "The Wild Rover" from All Guns Blazing - Live! 33:38 - Seasons "Lament for Limerick" from Tunes in the Morning 38:22 - Jesse Ferguson "The Dying Rebel" from The Bard of Cornwall 43:26 - Daniele Scardovi "AGAINST THE TIDE" from single Watch this featured video 46:27 - Kellys Wayke "Leaving of Liverpool" from Kellys Wayke 49:49 - THANKS 52:38 - Derina Harvey Band "Run to Me" from Waves of Home 56:51 - Brad The Piper "The Storm" from The Forgotten Game 57:58 - Roehind "Abu Chuibhl'" from Buile 1:00:53 - Screaming Orphans "Hard to Say Goodbye" from Paper Daisies 1:04:56 - CLOSING 1:05:36 - The Poor Clares "A Crack in the Doorway Reel Set" from Resurrected Lover å1:07:57 - CREDITS The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather and our Patrons on Patreon. The show was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. Visit our website to follow the show. You’ll find links to all of the artists played in this episode. Todd Wiley is the editor of the Celtic Music Magazine. Subscribe to get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. Plus, you’ll get 7 weekly news items about what’s happening with Celtic music and culture online. Best of all, you will connect with your Celtic heritage. Please tell one friend about this podcast. Word of mouth is the absolute best way to support any creative endeavor. Finally, remember. Reduce, reuse, recycle, and think about how you can make a positive impact on your environment. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/. WELCOME THE IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC PODCAST * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. I am Marc Gunn. This podcast is here to build a diverse Celtic community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, please email artists. Let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Like this show, musicians depend on your generosity to keep making music. So please find a way to support them. Buy a CD, Album Pin, Shirt, Digital Download, or join their communities on Patreon. You can find a link to all of the artists in the shownotes, along with show times, when you visit our website at celticmusicpodcast.com. If you are a Celtic musician or in a Celtic band, then please submit your band to be played on the podcast. You don’t have to send in music or an EPK. Email gift@bestcelticmusic You will get a free eBook called Celtic Musicians Guide to Digital Music and learn how to follow the podcast. It’s 100% free. Just complete the permission form at 4celts.com. Happy New Year! It’s 2024. I have a number of big plans for the year. It starts in a couple weeks with a new Kickstarter. We’re funding new merch for the year. In fact, we’re funding 100 Celtic Pins, 100 Celtic CDs, and 100 Celtic Shirts as part of the Make 100/Kickstarter campaign. Make sure you’re subscribed to our Celtic Music Magazine so you don’t miss the launch of the Kickstarter. Or even better… go to http://marcgunn.com/kickstarter. You will be one of the first to be notified about the launch. I hope you enjoy the Best Celtic Bands and Tunes of 2023. If you did, it’s now time to start work on the Celtic Top 20 of 2024. In every episode, I ask you to vote for all of your favorite songs and tunes in the show. At the end of the year, I compile your votes to create a Best of Episode. This is the first episode you can vote for in 2024. So get those votes in. Remember. You do need to be a Patron of the Podcast to vote. You can sign up for as little as $1 per episode and cap how much you want to spend per month… Yes. Even $1. I’ll tell you more about our Patreon later in the show. Sprained ankle over the holidays. THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! You are amazing. It is because of your generosity that you get to hear so much great Celtic music each and every week. Your kindness pays for our engineer, graphic designer, Celtic Music Magazine editor, promotion of the podcast, and allows me to buy the music I play here. It also pays for my time creating the show each and every week. As a patron, you get music - only episodes before regular listeners, vote in the Celtic Top 20, stand - alone stories, and you get a private feed to listen to the show.  All that for as little as $1 per episode. A special thanks to our new and continued Patrons of the Podcast: Rebecca L, Vinbo HERE IS YOUR THREE STEP PLAN TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST Go to our Patreon page. Decide how much you want to pledge every week, $1, $5, $25. Make sure to cap how much you want to spend per month. Keep listening to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast to celebrate Celtic culture through music. You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast on Patreon at SongHenge.com. TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticmusicpodcast I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? Please email me. I’d love to see a  picture of what you're doing while listening or of a band that you saw recently. Email me at celticpodcast@gmail. Eric G emailed: "Hey Marc! Regarding the proposed whiskey tour, it's one of my bucket list items to go on an Invasion...but teaching makes it difficult. For this proposal, I start back up August 9, 2024. If you end up scheduling earlier let me know, we're definitely into hiking. Actually this is old now but one of the "what are you doing while listening to the Podcast" was running from Wordsworth's Dove Cottage in Grasmere UK up to Easedale Tarn in heavy rain. Even with rain jackets we got wet but it was glorious and the music matched the scene." Rich Hoffman replied to the Celtic Music Magazine's Christmas greetings: "Thanks for all the great music Mark. It is a true gift to us. Happy 2024! " emilio marco colombo also replied: "Many thanks Marc. And a big hug from Italy! And thank you always for the beautiful music you offer us!" Patrick Rieger emailed photos: "Hello Marc, Here are photos from the Celtic Christmas Music show Celtic Pittsburgh hosted at Mullaney's Harp & Fiddle the evening of December 9th. The performers were Cahal Dunne; Mike Clancy and Alan Booth of Abbots Cross; Bill McShane of the University of Pittsburgh Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Program speaking about the Scottish room; Kip Ruefle and Lawrence McCullough of the Kip Ruefle Trio; Jessica Willard on hammered dulcimer, and RichPatrick, with (l to r) Sue Borowski, Rich Lange, and Jim Borowski. The pub was packed that night, and everyone had a great time. A big thanks to the staff of the Harp for handling such a crowd so well." Bill Mandeville commented on Patreon: "Great Christmas podcast! A family member commented that the songs were so fresh and original. Not the supermarket fare you hear to ad nauseam this time of year. Here is wishing you and your lovely family a merry Christmas." He wrote a separate post regarding the Celtic Top 20 episode: "I jotted down a couple songs to vote for; but only to find out the songs were from 2012 podcast and not on the list. That’s when I got this epiphany. Why don’t you reopen the best of (prior year). You can call it  -  Best if 2012: For Real This Time. Gwênlyn Glusman emailed a photo: "Hi Marc, I think I first enjoyed the Irish & Celtic Music podcast in late 2005, but I wasn't much into podcasts then and lost track of it... Then on December 26th, 2022 (exactly one year ago) I did some google images search and a logo caught my eye among the results... and I rediscovered your podcast! Been avidly listening since then, and became a patron in January 2023. I typically listen to the podcast while walking in the neighborhood or while commuting (which I do by bus). It always lifts my mood! Also very much enjoying the Celtic Christmas podcast! Here's a photo from Dervish at the Triple Door in Seattle, November 7th. I heard from you they were touring, and very much enjoyed the show, with friends!" Annelise Laughlin emailed: "Hi Marc, I’m enjoying some quiet time and listening to your Celtic Christmas 2023 episode while brainstorming my New Year’s resolution! Thanks so much for continuing to produce your podcast. I love listening whenever the mood strikes me, and it always brings me joy. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!"