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According to Facebook/Instagram, these are the top 10 cities and towns where our listeners and followers reside. Wherever you are, thanks for tuning in and spreading the word about Celtic Connections!
1. Dublin
2. New York
3. Philadelphia
4. Ennis
5. Galway
6. Cork
7. London
8. Frederick, Md.
9. Emmitsburg, Md.
10. Belfast
Happy New Year! We have a whale of a show lined up for our first show of 2023! Celtic Connections every Monday from 5:00 - 7:00 PM (EST) on 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live"). The craic will be mighty!
We'll be on the air today from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. (EST) after we have hunted the wren this St. Stephen's Day. Celtic Connections on 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live"). The craic will be mighty!
For it being on Christmas morning....Happy Christmas to all!
Matt Molloy's Pub, Westport, Co. Mayo : Irish folk singer, Paul Brady with the song, For it Being a Christmas Morning, for a special Christmas edition of Gea...
Do you hear what I hear? It's Christmas tunes today from 5:00 - 7:00 PM (EST) on 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live"). The craic will be merry and bright!
'Tis the season for Christmas music on Celtic Connections the rest of the month on Mondays from 5:00 - 7:00 PM (EST) on 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live"). The craic will be mighty...and jolly!
We’ll be on the air in just a couple minutes- right after Mick!
The show will be starting a bit late today. Hang in there!
Our hearts are with Donegal and all who are mourning.
Paul Brady performs the Homes of Donegal & talks about his fondness for Donegal at the Ballyshannon Folk Festival. Thanks to Paul Brady for his time, please ...
Mount St. Mary's is on Fall Break this week, so Celtic Connections will take a break too. No show tomorrow, but we'll be back on the air Monday, October 17 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM. We hope you will be too!
Congratulations and thanks to the organizers and performers at the CCE Irish Folk Festival at The Irish Inn at Glen Echo on Saturday! It was brilliant! For still more great tunes, listen to Celtic Connections today and every Monday from 5:00 - 7:00 PM on 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live"). The craic will be mighty! Hup!
This Saturday - For our listeners in the DMV (that's what the cool kids call the DC, Md. Va. area).
Get ready for the celebration!
Donal Lunny shared something for the weekend and it has us looking forward to tomorrow's show where Planxty and its individual members will be well represented. Celtic Connections every Monday from 5:00 - 7:00 (EDT) on 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live"). The craic will be mighty! Hup!
We’re just minutes away from going on the air with some brilliant tunes and songs including some from Liz and Yvonne Kane’s new CD in memory of the great Paddy Fahey. Hup!
Congratulations Shane! A win for the good guys for sure!
is your BMW PGA champion. 💯
Happiness is finding new music in our mailbox like Liz and Yvonne Kane's new CD in memory of Paddy Fahey and then sharing it with you. Tune in tomorrow and every Monday from 5:00 - 7:00 PM (EDT) on 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live"). Hup!
Celtic Connections will not be broadcasting today (Labor Day). We’ll be back on the air next Monday from 5:00 - 7:00 with a special 4th Anniversary Show! See you then!
Celtic Connections will not be broadcasting today (Labor Day). We'll be back next Monday with a special 4th Anniversary Show. See you then!
On this day in 1869, 10,000 Irish immigrants had worked toward the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
For our listeners in the DC, Md, Va area - or DMV as it's called.
The Irish Folk Festival will be taking place - weather permitting - at the Irish Inn in Glen Echo (parking lot) on Sep. 24. Always great fun for the whole family. Come on out for a pint, music and dance. A few housekeeping notes: please don't bring your own food to the Irish Inn the day of the festival. There'll be great food for purchase. Also: the parking lot is small. Please park your car at the big main parking lot here: https://glenechopark.org/directions
The craic was mighty last night with Brian Gaffney and Roy Buckley at The Dubliner in DC! We'll have songs from both lads on today's show from 5:00 - 7:00 PM (EDT) on 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on: "Listen Live"). Hup!
Molly just found out it's National Dog Day!
Because of the Opening Ceremonies associated with the first day of classes, today's show will broadcast from 6:00 - 7:00 PM (EDT). We'll be back for our regular two hour show next Monday from 5:00 - 7:00 PM. Tune in to 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live"). The craic will be mighty!
We had a wonderful start to our morning watching and listening to Eoin O'Neill, Tara Howley, and Padraig Howley from the Cliffs of Moher. We have more music from these three legends (plus many more) ready to go on today's show from 5:00 - 7:00 PM (EDT) on 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live"). The craic will be mighty!
Tomorrow's show will pay tribute to Mick Moloney. His music. His influence. His legacy. As you might gather from all the beautiful tributes online, two hours will not nearly be long enough. Celtic Connections every Monday from 5:00 - 7:00 PM (EDT) on 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live").
So many people remembering the incomparable, irreplaceable Dr. Mick Moloney. At every Cherish the Ladies concert, Joanie Madden gives credit and thanks to Mick. What a loss! What a legacy!
As people all over the globe are sharing their memories of the incomparable Mick Moloney, here is a clip of one Mick's magical visits to The Shanachie in Ambler, PA along with Athena Tergis, John Doyle and a guest appearance by Caitlin Finley. Thanks to Jeff Meade for capturing the magic on video. Safe home Mick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIRO-EmodTE&list=RDTIRO-EmodTE&start_radio=1
Mick Moloney, Athena Tergis, Caitlin Finley and John Doyle play a selection of Ed Reavy tunes at The Shanachie Pub in Ambler, PA, on December 4, 2008.
In this wonderful article, Mick Moloney modestly scratches the surface of the influence he had on Irish music not only in the United States but around the world. As many have said, we will not see his likes again. Rest easy Mick. https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/how-a-chance-encounter-launched-a-revival-of-irish-american-music
“Who the hell is Ralph Rinzler?” I asked. “The director of the Smithsonian’s Festival of American Folklife, you idiot!”
RIP Mick Moloney.
DR. MICK MOLONEY (1944-2022)
Irish Music Magazine are shocked and heartbroken to hear the passing of Dr. Mick Moloney.
Born 1944, in Limerick, Ireland, he began playing tenor banjo at 16 years of age. As a teenager he listened to American folksingers and especially enjoyed the music of the Weavers and Burl Ives. There was not a lot of traditional instrumental music being played where he lived and he used to go to neighbouring Ennis, just over the River Shannon in County Clare, to listen to music in the pubs. He tape-recorded the tunes so he could "bring them home" with him to learn them.
Growing up, he learned to sing traditional songs and to play guitar as well as mandolin and tenor banjo. During his formative years in Ireland, he played with the Emmet Folk Group, and later the Johnstons. His participation with those bands shaped his perspective on and honed his skills in Irish music. He spent five years touring and recording with the Johnstons.
Irish America was blessed when Mick arrived in 1973 and where he combined the careers of professional musician, folklorist, musicologist, teacher and arts presenter and advocate. With a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania, he also taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University and Villanova University and was a Global Distinguished Professor at New York University in the Irish Studies Program and the Music Department. In 2008, he won the Golden Dozen Award for teaching excellence at NYU.
Mick will also be remembered as an accomplished singer as well as an instrumentalist and possessed a vast collection of songs and instrumental pieces from the Irish and Irish-American tradition. He is the author of Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Irish-American Experience in Song, published by Crown Publications/Random House in 2002 with an accompanying CD on Shanachie Records.
He recorded and produced over sixty albums of traditional music in the United States with noted traditional musicians such as Liz Carroll, Seamus Egan, Joanie Madden, Billy Mc Comiskey, Jimmy Keane, Robbie O' Connell, Johnny McGreevy, Eileen Ivers, Eugene O' Donnell, Athena Tergis, Joe Shannon, Ed Reavy, Jack and Charlie Coen, Mike Rafferty and many others. He worked with various recording companies in doing reissues of some of the classic 78 rpm recordings of the 1920’s and acted as advisor for scores of festivals all over America and was director for 25 years of the Irish Week at Davis and Elkins WV – the first Irish music summer school in the USA. His talks at Catskills Arts Week were informative and educational and for many one of the highlights of the week each year.
He formed the group The Green Fields of America which has showcased Irish American traditional artists nationwide since 1978. He was also instrumental in forming Cherish the Ladies, the first all-woman group in the US. He has served on National Endowment for the Arts panels and tax forces and hosted three nationally syndicated series of folk music on American Public Television.
He was a performer and interviewee on the Irish Television special Bringing It All Back Home, a participant, consultant and music arranger of the PBS documentary film, Out of Ireland and a music researcher and performer on the 1998 PBS special The Irish in America: Long Journey Home.
In 1999 he was awarded the National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts – the highest official honour a traditional artist can receive in the United States by the then First Lady Hillary Clinton. In 2013 he received The Distinguished Presidential Service Award from the President of Ireland. In 2014 received the Gradam Cheoil Award from TG4 — the highest honour a traditional Irish musician can receive in Ireland. His internationally acclaimed CD’s 'McNally’s Row of Flats' and 'If It Wasn’t For the Irish and the Jews', explore songs of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century popular stage in America and were both granted the prestigious Livies award for best CD of the year.
Mick was a great supporter, friend and positive influence to Irish Music Magazine and most generous with his time over the years as he was with countless individuals and artists during his lifetime.
Our deepest condolences to the family, extended family, cherished friends and all that knew this great man.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
No doubt the celebration is continuing in Kerry. Well, we celebrate every Monday from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m….That’s in 5 minutes! The craic will be mighty!
We're back on the air today from 5:00 - 7:00 PM (EDT)! 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live"). The craic will be mighty!
Celtic Connections will not be on the air for the next two Mondays. We'll return Monday, July 11th from 5:00 - 7:00 PM (EDT) and hope you'll be back too!
RIP Dennis Cahill.
You're about to watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic. For too many of us, Irish music is something that m...
For the day that's in it.
"Twas on the 23rd of June the day before the fair
When Ireland's sons and daughters and friends assembled there...."
Christy Moore - Spancil Hill (live at Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday 14 January 2020)
You fire up the grill! We’ll fire up the tunes! Tune in today from 5:00-7:00 PM (EDT)
It's Memorial Day Weekend here in the States and we have a special show planned for tomorrow as we remember those who "gave the last full measure of devotion." Celtic Connections every Monday from 5:00 - 7:00 PM (EDT) on 89.9 FM and online at www.msmary.edu/wmtb (Scroll down and click on "Listen Live").
There’s so much to love about this video shared by the amazing Eileen Ivers!
Another day another Irishman to cheer for. Go Rory!
It’s Kentucky Derby Day! No mint juleps? No problem! Let’s go Mo! Mo Donegal!
It's Kentucky Derby Day! No mint juleps? No problem! Let's go Mo! Mo Donegal!
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Prof. Ed Egan hosts “Celtic Connections” every Monday from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. on WMTB, 89.9 FM and online at: www.msmary.edu/wmtb. The show explores the music of Ireland and its influence on and connections with other musical genres, including folk, country and bluegrass.
Egan was first introduced to Irish music as a child listening to his parents Clancy Brothers LPs. You might say he was "raised on songs and stories" - to borrow a phrase from Dublin songwriter, Pete St. John. During law school, when he wasn’t immersed in his legal studies, Ed immersed himself in the vibrant Irish music scene in the pubs and concert halls of Washington, D.C. Years later, he opened an award winning Irish pub that showcased some of Irish music’s most accomplished performers and also hosted a weekly traditional seisun.
At Mount St. Mary’s, in addition to directing the Pre-Law Program and teaching in the Political Science Department, Ed has taught a popular course entitled “Poets, Patriots, Playwrights and Players,” which explores the Irish Cultural Revival and the intersection of Irish poets, patriots, playwrights, and players (musicians) of the late 19th and 20th century with Irish nationalism and independence. In 2017, Ed led the Mount’s semester abroad in Dublin. He is delighted to share his love of Irish music on Celtic Connections!
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