Producer & Host: Grace McKinley
 

 

September 26, 2007 marks the last appearance of
Celtic Heartland on KZUM. It's been a wonderful 5 years of shows...Thank YOU!

Look for Grace McKinley & Celtic Heartland in November 2007
www.celticheartlandpodcast.com

Interview List | Favorite Links | Photos



On-air from KZUM studios
during Celtic Heartland

With fiddler Kevin Fagerberg
at a Lincoln Irish Dancers Ceili

Practicing for a
Wee Brazen Hussies gig

With "Hot Rosin" at
a monthly Contra Dance

A Few Previous Interviews/Special Show List

NOTE: Some past shows are now available in Audio using Flash. You'll need a high speed connection to listen. Click for latest edition of FREE FlashPlayer. It's quicker to right click and save them to your machine, then open them with FlashPlayer. I'll add more as I convert them.

* RED ASTERISK indicates shows that you can listen to via the web, or download and listen to them later.

These are for the listening pleasure of the Celtic Heartland audience. Please do NOT redistribute them without permission from Celtic Heartland and the performing artist.

9-26-2007 - LIVE phone interview with Alasdair Fraser

8-23-07 - LIVE phone interview with The Beggarmen

6-28-07 - LIVE in-studio with Lincoln based musician, composer, Chris Sayre, and his new CD!

5-31-07 - LIVE in-studio with Lincoln based, Spitfire Fiddle Band

4-12-07 - LIVE in-studio with Rose Templeton from the PlainSong Folk Festival

3-29-07 - LIVE in-studio with Four Shillings Short

2-15-07 - LIVE phone interview with Texas singer/songwriter, Denice Franke, while subbing at Acoustic Cafe

1-18-07 - LIVE in-studio with Lincoln musicians, Bill Behmer & Gwen Meister

12-28-06 - LIVE in-studio with Dave Marsh of Ellis Island

12-21-06 - LIVE in-studio with Lincoln based musician, composer, Chris Sayre

11-10-06 - LIVE phone interview with Ian Byrne of The Elders

11-3-06 - LIVE phone interview with Matthew & Shannon Heaton, Boston based musicians

10-26-06 - LIVE phone interview with Mick Bolger of the Colorado based group, Colcannon

10-5-06 - LIVE in-studio with Arizona based, Oceans Apart

9-14-2006 - LIVE in-studio with Ireland's, The Fuchsia Band

5-18-2006 - Live phone interview with Boston musicians, Matthew & Shannon Heaton

5-11-2006 - Live phone interview with Irishman, Paddy O'Brien

2-23-2006 - Live in-studio with Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts

1-26-2006 - Live phone interview with Connie Dover

12-29-05 - Live phone interview with John Good & Steve Colby of Arizona based group, Oceans Apart

11-2005 - Live in-studio with Wild Clover Band

10-2006 - Live in-studio with Four Shillings Short

8-18-05 - Live in-studio with Chris Sayre

6-9-2005 - Live in-studio with Karl Clark Colón of Changeling, the Ohio based duo.

6-2-2005 - Live in-studio with Oceans Apart, in town from Phoenix, AZ.

5-19-2005 - Live in-studio with The Turfmen, the great area group that has kept folks tapping their toes for years!

4-14-2005 - Live phone interview with Ian Byrne from The Elders. Ian will tell us what the group has been up to the past few month, what's up for this summer, and how they got the PBS job! Later in the show we'll have Aaron Svoboda from Wild Clover Band on the phone to tell us about their summer plans.

4-7-2005 - Live phone interview with Laura Risk, fiddler extraordinaire! Laura joins us from Montreal, Canada.

3-31-2005: Live in-studio with Four Shillings Short for the KZUM Pledge Drive! We made over $300 and 2 new members in the Celtic Heartland hour! Thanks so much, Christy & Aodh Og!

2-24-2005: Live phone interview with Ken Kolodner, fiddler and hammer dulcimer virtuoso. Ken was traveling by train from NY to Washington during a snow storm!

2-17-2005: Live-in Studio with Charles Bethea, Artistic Director, Lied Center for Performing Arts. Music played was from a variety of groups who have appeared at the Lied Center over the years, The Chieftains, Bonnie Rideout, Eileen Ivers, etc. 

* 1-27-2005: Flash Interview - 32 minutes Live phone interview with Connie Dover - Link to selected poems by Connie Dover

1-13-2005: Live in Studio with Charlie Horner & John Baylor (first half of show)

* 1-6-2005: FLASH Interview - 32 minutes. Third Anniversary Show! Broadcast of taped live interview with Bonnie Rideout.

* 12-2-2004: FLASH Interview and show Live phone interview (first half of show) with author Erin Hart, whose mysteries are centered in Ireland. (You will hear the entire show)

* 11-25-2004: FLASH of the Regular Broadcast - Thanksgiving Night

* 9-9-2004: FLASH Interview - 20 minutes. Broadcast of compilation of taped live class and phone interview with Colin Dunne.

8-26-2004: Live in studio with Four Shillings Short.

7-22-2004: Live phone interview from Chicago with Another Pint; and live in-studio with Dave Marsh.

* 7-1-2004: FLASH Interview - 1hr. Live phone interview from New York with David Kincaid.

5-27-2004: Live in-studio with Wild Clover Band.

* 5-13-2004: FLASH Interview - 1hr. Live in-studio with Leonor Castillo, native of Cantabria, Spain. Show deals with Celtic influences on music in some of the northern regions of Spain.

4-15-2004: Live in-studio with Four Shillings Short.

3-11-2004: Live phone interview with Steve Twigger, Patrick Murphy & Steve Wehmeyer of Gaelic Storm.

2-26-2004: Live phone interview with Paddy O'Brien from Chulrua.

2-5-2004: Live phone interview from Dublin with Méav

1-29-2004: Salute to Robert Burns.

1-22-2004: Live phone interview with Connie Dover

1-1-2004: Tribute Show for the late Johnny Cunningham.

12-18-2003: Live in-Studio with Lori McAlister (Welsh Heritage Project) and live phone-in from John Good of Arizona based, Afan

11-27-2003: Thanksgiving broadcast (with guest co-host Brody Allen).

11-20-2003: Live in-Studio with Chris Sayre & Terry Keefe, and phone-in from The Elders

11-6-2003: Live phone interview with Gloucester Hornpipe & Clog Society from Boston.

10-23-2003: Live phone interview with Dearga (Matthew & Shannon Heaton) from Boston.

10-2-2003: Live in-Studio with Victoria Parks

5-15-2003: Live In-Studio with Jill Anderson

4-3-2003: Live In-Studio with The Elders

Links

Celtic Festivals
Please e-mail me about your festivals!

Southern Illinois Festival of Irish Music & Dance - April
Feis Shiàtail - Seattle Gaelic Festival - April/May

Alaska Irish Music Festival - May

Gaelic Highland Festival - Colorado - Three days of culture, dance and music. - June
Southern New Hampshire Scottish Games and Celtic Music Festival - June
Potomac Celtic Festival (Leesburg, VA) - June
Montreal Celtic Festival - June
Gaelic Roots (Boston, MA) - June

Adams County Irish Festival (Gettysburg, PA) - July
Irish Week (Augusta, GA) - July
Mirimichi Irish Festival - (Mirimichi, NB, Canada) - July

Dublin Irish Festival (Dublin, OH) - Early August
Cornwall Folk Festival - August
Milwaukee Irish Fest - Mid-August

Kansas City IrishFest - In Kansas City MO in September
Over the Water Hurdy Gurdy Festival - In Washington State in September

Weston, MO Irish Festival in October

Other Links

Cornwall Cam-from Redruth, Cornwall, UK

Morebattle Tofts B & B in Scotland

Welsh Heritage Project in NE

The Celt's Cauldron & Wildwood Music in Nova Scotia
(featuring an on-line school of music, too)

Molly's Irish Imports

Lincoln Irish Dancers

Irish Events & Info in Omaha

Try speaking Celtic on-line!

Battle of Culloden Moor

Isle of Man Info
more Isle of Man Info

Galician Language Pronunciation Guide
Galician Dictionary
History of Galicia, Spain

History & Culture of Galicia
Galician Music Resources

The Pirate Queen, Grace O'Malley

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