Kitchen Party Ceilidh

09/21/2026

You will hear the Irish Descendants on our program next Sunday, the 27th, as we continue to preview the 30th Celtic Colours International Festival.

09/20/2026

I'm very excited. Are you excited?

Tonight, for the fourteenth time, we'll begin our four-part preview of the Celtic Colours International Festival, and as always, we'll kick things off with a program full of historic Cape Breton music. Tonight's installment will include folks like Winston Scotty Fitzgerald, Barry Shears, Doug MacPhee, Sons of Skye and many others, with all tracks being at least twenty-five years old and most much older. Then for the next three weeks, we'll have nothing but music from artists appearing at this year's Celtic Colours, including folks like Liz Doherty, Scottish Fish, Liz Carroll, Tony McManus, Heather MacIsaac, and many, many more. I'll also be chatting with J.P. Cormier, Darren McMullen and Celtic Colours Artistic Director Wendy MacIsaac.

Gonna be a corker, folks!

To listen to tonight's show at 10 PM EDT, tune to WICR FM 88.7 or stream live worldwide at www.wicronline.org

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 602 is up on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc_2026_09_13_podcast and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

See you on the radio tonight!

Our 602nd episode, which aired on September 13, 2026. Kalos – Pretty Good Friday/Ladybug, Tamarack The Elders – Shores of Farewell, The Spirits and the Sea Arise & Go – The Drowning At Bruckless/The

09/06/2026

Tonight is our first new episode since our 600th show on July 26. I hope you enjoyed our Kevin Burke/Bothy Band rerun, but now it's time to get back to work.

September is typically a busy month for us, and this is no exception. Next week, we'll have new music from The Elders and Kalos, and then the week after, we'll start our four-part preview of the Celtic Colours International Festival, beginning on the 20th with our annual program of historic Cape Breton music, followed by three weeks of shows featuring music from artists playing Celtic Colours this year.

That leaves tonight, and we'll have new music from Hayden Stern and Daithi Sproule & Victoria Adiiye, a great reissue from Ivan Drever & Dick Clarke, a Closet Classic from Michael Piper Cooney, a Local Focus from Hogeye Navvy, and much more.

Listen live on WICR FM 88.7 at 10 PM EDT or stream live worldwide at www.wicronline.org

In the meantime, if you haven't heard our 600th episode yet, you can do so at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc_2026_07_26_podcast as well as iTunes, Google, TuneIn, SoundCloud, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

See you on the radio!

Our 600th episode, which aired on July 26, 2026, and which we celebrated by playing listener and artist requests. We Banjo 3 – Happiness, String Theory Adam & Dave Shapiro – Paddy’s Rambles Through t

08/30/2026

As I mentioned, our next new episode will be next Sunday, September 6, and to fill the time between now and then I'll be sending out some choice encore episodes...okay, reruns.

In the course, we've been re-airing episodes 508-10, my three-part focus on Kevin Burke and the Bothy Band, with lots of great music and chat with Kevin. I'm doing this because they were great shows, but also to honor the fact that Kevin will be touring the northeastern US in late October with Dylan Foley and Eamon O'Leary, and we won't have time to re-air these shows then because of pre-existing broadcast commitments. But you can learn more about his upcoming shows at www.kevinburke.com

Tonight will be 510, which aired on May 19, 2024, which is all about the Bothy Band, with some great music and some lively chat.

Listen live on WICR FM 88.7 at 10 PM EDT, or you can stream live worldwide at www.wicronline.org

In the meantime, you can hear podcasts of all 600 prior episodes via iTunes, Google, TuneIn, SoundCloud, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com -- all free of charge.

See you on the radio!

Home page of Kitchen Party Ceilidh, from Indianapolis. The Kitchen Party Ceilidh is a weekly hour-long radio program playing the best Celtic music from wherever it originates, airing every Sunday at 10 PM EST on WICR FM 88.7 in Indianapolis.

08/23/2026

As I mentioned, our next new episode will be September 6, and to fill the time between now and then I'll be sending out some choice encore episodes...okay, reruns.

In the course, we'll be re-airing episodes 508-10, my three-part focus on Kevin Burke and the Bothy Band, with lots of great music and chat with Kevin. I'm doing this because they were great shows, but also to honor the fact that Kevin will be touring the northeastern US in late October with Dylan Foley and Eamon O'Leary, and we won't have time to re-air these shows then because of pre-existing broadcast commitments. But you can learn more about his upcoming shows at www.kevinburke.com

Tonight will be 509, which aired on May 12, 2024, with lively words from Kevin about his long career and excellent music from all phases of that career. Next week will be all about the Bothy Band, and you won't want to miss that one.

Listen live on WICR FM 88.7 at 10 PM EDT, or you can stream live worldwide at www.wicronline.org

In the meantime, you can hear podcasts of all 600 prior episodes via iTunes, Google, TuneIn, SoundCloud, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com -- all free of charge.

See you on the radio!

Home page of Kitchen Party Ceilidh, from Indianapolis. The Kitchen Party Ceilidh is a weekly hour-long radio program playing the best Celtic music from wherever it originates, airing every Sunday at 10 PM EST on WICR FM 88.7 in Indianapolis.

08/09/2026

Well, the masses have spoken.

As I mentioned, our next new episode will be September 6, and to fill the time between now and then I'll be sending out some choice encore episodes...okay, reruns.

Tonight and for the next two weeks, we'll be re-airing episodes 508-10, my three-part focus on Kevin Burke and the Bothy Band, with lots of great music and chat with Kevin. I'm doing this because they were great shows, but also to honor the fact that Kevin will be touring the northeastern US in late October with Dylan Foley and Eamon O'Leary, and we won't have time to re-air these shows then because of pre-existing broadcast commitments. But you can learn more about his upcoming shows at www.kevinburke.com

Tonight will be 508, which aired on May 5, 2024, with lively words from Kevin about his long career and excellent music from all phases of that career.

Listen live on WICR FM 88.7 at 10 PM EDT, or you can stream live worldwide at www.wicronline.org

In the meantime, you can hear podcasts of all 600 prior episodes via iTunes, Google, TuneIn, SoundCloud, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com -- all free of charge.

See you on the radio!

Home page of Kitchen Party Ceilidh, from Indianapolis. The Kitchen Party Ceilidh is a weekly hour-long radio program playing the best Celtic music from wherever it originates, airing every Sunday at 10 PM EST on WICR FM 88.7 in Indianapolis.

08/02/2026

I hope you enjoyed our 600th episode, which featured requests from some of you as well as some artist friends of the show. In case you missed it, it will air again tonight, or you can access the podcast below.

As I mentioned previously, I will be taking the month of August off, with our next new episode, Show 601, to air on September 6. However, I will still be sending show out, just not new ones.

So that leads to the question: what would you like to hear over the next four weeks? Is there a show you enjoyed five years ago you want to hear again? How about some of our two-parters (Lightfoot tribute, Alan Doyle) or three-parters (Stan Rogers tribute, Planxty/Andy Irvine, Newfoundland 2018, Kevin Burke/Bothy Band)? Or some single shows, like our classical Celtic episode, one of our Carolan shows, a guitar/mandolin/squeezebox feature or this year's Halfway to Celtic Colours?

Lemme know.

For now, you can hear tonight's rebroadcast by tuning
in to WICR 88.7 FM at 10 PM EDT this evening, or stream live from anywhere in the world at www.wicronline.org

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 600 is up on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc_2026_07_26_podcast
and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

See you on the radio tonight!

Our 600th episode, which aired on July 26, 2026, and which we celebrated by playing listener and artist requests. We Banjo 3 – Happiness, String Theory Adam & Dave Shapiro – Paddy’s Rambles Through t

07/31/2026

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