MUSIC OF THE ISLES; a new show each Saturday, streaming 24/7
CELTIC MUSIC & More, broadcasting since 1979, with co-hosts Bill Dudley & Seán Sexton.
The best of traditional folk & contemporary songwriting from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England.
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4/27-5/3. To recognize National Poetry Month, this week we’re celebrating the poetry of W.B. Yeats. This annual program plays Celtic artists setting notable poems to music.
5/4-10. In this week’s show, we insert a set featuring music from the animated movie WolfWalkers.
5/11-17. This week we’re putting sort of a twist on traditional outlaw songs, we’re calling our program THE HIGHWAY-WOMAN SHOW. It’s an outstanding all-female special of highway songs. So, STAND & DELIVER!
5/18-24. Among our sets this week, we include one showcasing the songs and tunes from the duo of David Gibb & Elly Lucas.
5/25-31. In our playlist this week we make room to spotlight a set of music from The Dardanelles, a band out of Newfoundland.
Bill Dudley has spent a lifetime in radio, working at a number of stations in the Tampa Bay Area. He began hosting the Music of the Isles show in early 1980. Bill founded the first Irish traditional band in Florida, the Wind That Shakes the Barley. Since the eighties he has made a living recording acoustic music albums for folks, as well as producing radio documentaries for the Florida Humanities Council, and, more recently, promotional and documentary video at billdudley.com.
Seán Sexton, co-host Music of the Isles, 2000 to present, is a retired English teacher. His great interest lies in folk balladry. Further, he received his MA degree in the Creative
Writing of Poetry while residing in Ireland. He holds both an Irish passport and a US passport.
