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December 31, 2020 90 mins

Your votes are tabulated to bring you the Best Celtic Music Songs and Tunes of 2020. It is all on this week’s Irish & Celtic Music Podcast.

Matt & Shannon Heaton, The Here & Now, Runa, The Gothard Sisters, Kyle Gryphon, ChildsPlay, The Changing Room, We Banjo 3, Lisa Schettner, Kennedy's Kitchen, Bellow Bridge, Syncopaths, Heather Dale, Celtica Pipes Rock, Jiggy, The Gartloney Rats, The Flailing Shilaleighs, The Rogues, Barleyjuice, Ockham's Razor

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THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC

0:07 - "New Married Couple" by Matt & Shannon Heaton from Lovers' Well

3:34 - WELCOME

5:07 - "The Peacock's Head" by The Here & Now from The Winding Stair

8:56 - "Again for Greenland" by Runa from Ten: The Errant Night

13:16 - "Mazama Mornings" by The Gothard Sisters from Midnight Sun

16:55 - "Astral Hunt" by Kyle Gryphon from Isolation

20:13 - "The Noodle Vendor /Sweetest Blooms / Avery's Mazurka" by ChildsPlay from The Bloom of Youth

24:26 - "Gwrello Glaw" by The Changing Room from Picking Up the Pieces

Cornish Pronunciation: gwrello glaow

28:13 - CELTIC FEEDBACK

32:08 - "Dawn Breaks" by We Banjo 3 from Haven

36:36 - "Great Expectations" by Lisa Schettner from Great Expectations

40:15 - "The Umbrella Reel, Two Days To Go, Down The Broom" by Kennedy's Kitchen from The Whiskey of Truth

45:05 - "Kiss in the Morning Early" by Bellow Bridge from Cautionary Tales

49:00 - "Bronwyn Leigh" by Syncopaths from Five Gears

54:54 - "One Of Us" by Heather Dale from Imagineer

58:15 - CELTIC PODCAST NEWS

1:00:55 - "The Last Voyage of the Great Michael" by Celtica Pipes Rock from Oceans of Fire

1:04:07 - "Paddy's Lamentation" by Jiggy from Hypernova

1:06:49 - "The Landlord's Walk" by The Gartloney Rats from Some Drunken Nights (Irish Music Buried Treasures)

1:11:13 - "I Only Drink Upon the Days That End in D-A-Y" by The Flailing Shilaleighs from Yours to Discover

1:14:28 - "Reels Again" by The Rogues from 25...and Live!

1:16:47 - "High on Highland Life" by Barleyjuice from The Old Speakeasy

1:21:15 - CLOSING

1:22:50 - "The Foggy Dew/Seven Nation Army" by Ockham's Razor from Songs from Potter's Field

The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. The show was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to Apple Podcasts or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/.

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