MUSIC OF THE ISLES; a new weekly show each Saturday
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CELTIC MUSIC & More, ancient to modern, with co-hosts Bill Dudley & Seán Sexton.
The best of traditional folk & contemporary songwriting from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England… Eclectic Celtic across the spectrum of the evolving genre– new releases & classics, tunes & ballads; history & culture! Broadcasting since 1979 on WMNF Tampa Community Radio.
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What’s Coming Up on MUSIC OF THE ISLES?
CALENDAR — Upcoming on Music of the Isles — Spotlighting:
9/9. All the songs in our show this week have something in common. All are traditional songs whose melodies were borrowed by Bob Dylan. He put his lyrics to these tunes. So, they may seem familiar to you, but trust us they didn’t originate from Dylan. Some are hundreds of years old.
9/16. This week’s show is sort of a Part Two of last week’s show when we played Traditional songs whose melodies had been borrowed by Bob Dylan for use in his own compositions. This week we turn the tables with Celtic artists covering those Dylan compositions.
9/23. Our program this week is our annual Back to Folk Rock School Special—The Education of a British Folk Rocker—the melding of folk & rock on campus, on pirate radio, at festivals & in clubs. This is our Comparative Studies edition: U.S. influences (1965-1972). You’ll hear from The Byrds, and The Band, to Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span– with lots in between.
9/30. For our show this week, we take a sober look at drinking songs. We’ve in the past aired many sets celebrating Whiskey, or in Gaelic “uisce beatha” (the water of life.) We’ve played many a set celebrating beer, ales & wines of the best. But this week we serve songs of a darker side of drink. We call it our anti-Arthur’s Day Show. Arthur’s Day, an annual festival that’s now defunct, was a marketing scheme for the celebration of Arthur Guinness and the consumption of his famous stout. Sadly, often this faux holiday was a day of inebriation with increased drink driving rates leading to tragic results.