Thunder on the Plains

08/03/2025

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Theme song "Lady Susan" by Joseph Carmichael. For more details about his music, visit josephcarmichael.bandcamp.com.

1. Day One - RURA
2. Threes - Mike Vass
3. The 11th Hour - From The Ground
4. 42nd - Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton
5. Seven - Eleven - Moishe's Bagel
6. 82 Fires - The East Pointers
7. The Five of Spades - Gnoss
8. Bedtime Stories/Five Miles from Town - Alfi
9. 1, 2, 3, 4/Joseph Salter's - Jenn & Laura-Beth
10. 7, 8, Nein/I'll Do It Last Friday - FARA
11. Past One O'Clock - Nicolas Brown
12. Two Brothers - Plúirín na mBan
13. Two Sisters - Cathal Ó Curráin
14. Pop Polka #1/Ned Kelly's/Characters - The Consequences
15. With You in Whitby/Room 2.40/Être fleur bleue - Aisling Lyons Music
16. The Power of Three - The Bow Tides
17. Thirteen Days - The Elders
18. The Three's Set - Ross Miller Music
19. High 5's - Tara Breen, Pádraig Rynne, and Jim Murray Music On-line Guitar Tutorial
20. Numbers - Treacherous Orchestra
21. Seven Nation Army - Red Hot Chilli Pipers

07/27/2025

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Theme song "Lady Susan" by Joseph Carmichael. For more details about his music, visit josephcarmichael.bandcamp.com.

1. Santa, See You Tonight - Wild Colonial Bhoys
2. Mari Lwyd - CALAN
3. The Season's Upon Us - Dropkick Murphys
4. Big Brave Bill Saves Christmas - Kate Rusby
5. Santa Kills Me - Scottish Fish
6. Deck the Halls With Lots of Banjos - We Banjo 3
7. The Bushes of Jerusalem - The Jig is Up
8. O Christmas Tree/Road Dust/Are You Joanie Madden?/Watch Your Step - Cherish The Ladies
9. Cold Frosty Morning - Tom Morley
10. Yeoman's Carol/Sound of Sleat - Bonnie Rideout
11.The Jingle Bells Suite - The Fire
12. Dear Nuala/Christmas Eve - bohola
13. Nollaig Bhán (White Christmas) - Lasairfhiona
14. Little Drummer Girl - The Gothard Sisters
15. The Snowy Path - Altan
16. Snowplow Set - The Barra MacNeils
17. Vixen - Cassie and Maggie
18. Ding D**g Merrily On High - Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy
19. Galician Carol - Carlos Núñez
20. Apples In Winter/Frost Is All Over/A Merry Christmas - Eileen Ivers
21. Drowsie Maggie/Rakish Paddy - The Nashville Celts
22. Christmas Day - The Elders
23. Hellbound Sleigh - The Rogues

07/27/2025

It's Corn Sweat Week outside here in the midwest, but inside and on the airwaves we're cooling off with **Celtic Christmas in July**!!

It's an annual tradition here on Thunder on the Plains, where once during the heat of the summer we think of cooler times, and celebrate the end-of-year holiday music selections, by featuring the best of our Celtic Christmas and holiday music! Grab a cold beverage (eggnog, if you're feeling extra festive), put on your favorite Ugly Christmas Sweater (then immediately take it back off, lest you melt), and enjoy the sounds of festivities past!

Watch or listen live at the links below, 5:30-7:30pm CDT. Sunday, July 27, 2025
Watch: http://twitch.tv/susan_the_great

Listen: http://www.radiorethink.com/tuner/index.cfm?stationCode=kzum&launchedFrom=chromeRedirect&ath=

07/26/2025

Who's all going to Kansas City Irish Fest this year???

The Kansas City Irish Fest ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE IS LIVE! Fiddles, pipes, dancers, rockers — they’re all ready to turn your Labor Day weekend into an unforgettable party. 🎻☘️

Now’s your chance to plan your perfect fest experience. Check out the lineup and grab your tickets while prices are as low as they’ll go until the fest!

🎟️: https://www.kcirishfest.com/events

07/20/2025

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Theme song "Lady Susan" by Joseph Carmichael. For more details about his music, visit josephcarmichael.bandcamp.com.

1. A Song for the Sea - Carbon Leaf
2. Sail On - Clare Sands
3. The Mermaid - JigJam
4. Wave the Ocean/Red Prairie Dawn - Frances Cunningham
5. Mermaid Set/Ar Lan y Mor - Afan
6. Mermaids - The Gothard Sisters
7. A Mermaid at Fearn - Lauren MacColl
8. The Grey Selkie of Sule Skerry - Landless
9. Amhrán na Farraige - Roehind
10. Call of the Siren - Jennifer Cutting's Ocean Orchestra
11. Selkie - John Doyle
12. The Mermaid - Lindsay Straw
13. The Mermaid - Julie Murphy
14. Seven Daughters of the Sea/Seacht nIníon na Mara - Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin Music
15. An Mhaighdean Mhara - Noeleen Ní Cholla
16. Òran an Eich-Uisge (Song of the Waterhorse) - Brìghde Chaimbeul
17. The Templehouse Strathspey & Reel/John Mhosey McGinley’s/The Mermaid of Mullaghmore - Altan
18. The Sailor and the Mermaid - The Gothard Sisters
19. Companion Star/The Coral Castle - Flook
20. Each-Uisge - Niteworks

07/13/2025

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Theme song "Lady Susan" by Joseph Carmichael. For more details about his music, visit josephcarmichael.bandcamp.com.

1. Summon Your Courage - Steel City Rovers
2. Croix-Rousse - The Jeremiahs
3. King of the Fairies - Jiggy
4. Lilies of Quebec - Scythian
5. French Medley: Reel à Ti-Bou/Jos Bouchard's - The Next Generation Leahy
6. Willie McBride (Green Fields of France) - The Chancey Brothers
7. Memories of France/The Music Teacher/My Love Is In America - New Leaf
8. The Girl of the House/Pull the Knife And Stick It Again/The Lusheen Jig - Na Dorsa
9. Geese in the Bog/King of the Pipers - Matt Molloy (Matt Molloy's pub) and John Carty with Arty McGlynn
10. Heuliadenn Tonioù Breizh-Izel (A medley in which each member of the band plays a tune of his own choice) - The Chieftains
11. Melancholy French Waltz - Winifred Horan
12. The Beggar King/Child 279 - Lucy Stewart
13. Johnny Is Gone to France/Highlander's Kneebuckle/Lady O'Brien - Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, and Aoife Ní Bhriain
14. Eddy Kellie's Jig No. 2/Memories of France - Éilís Crean
15. The Reel de la Libération / The Reel Du Voyageur / Reel Traditionelle de Quebec - Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham
16. Marche a Queteux Pomerleau/McDowell's/ 4Eme Partie de Quadrille Bouchard/Reel St-Joseph - GreenFire
17. The French Set - Molly's Revenge
18. Hillside Echoes - Searson
19. French Tunes - Boiled In Lead
20. The French - Leahy
21. Sword Dance - Alan Stivell
22. The Knife - Talisk

07/06/2025

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Theme song "Lady Susan" by Joseph Carmichael. For more details about his music, visit josephcarmichael.bandcamp.com.

1. Ghost of Molly Maguire - Wild Colonial Bhoys
2. Each-Uisge - Niteworks
3. Detour - Eriska
4. Home to Donegal - Screaming Orphans
5. The Shoemaker's Daughter Set - Aerialists
6. The Flower of Magherally - Bróna McVittie Music
7. Chuir M'Athair Mise dhan Taigh Charraideach - The Furrow Collective
8. Scatter the Mud/An Buachaillín Bán/The Sweet Note - Michelle Mulcahy
9. Tom McElvogue’s/Tommy Doyle’s/Rosco’s - Tara Breen
10. The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Réalta
11. O'Farrell's Slip Jig - Navá
12. The Jaws of Angus - Haley Richardson Music & Quinn Bachand
13. What You Do with What You've Got - Aoife Scott
14. The Crooked Road to Dublin Set - Runa
15. Back Home In Derry - Ellis Island
16. Ready for the Storm - Déanta
17. Johnny Jump Up/Morrison's Jig - Gaelic Storm
18. This Too - Kinnaris Q
19. Pound a Week Rise - House of Hamill
20. Hurricane - Shreem x Celtic Remixing
21. Echo - Talisk
22. Jump - Red Hot Chilli Pipers
23. Chase the Ace - Mec Lir

06/29/2025

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Theme song "Lady Susan" by Joseph Carmichael. For more details about his music, visit josephcarmichael.bandcamp.com.

1. In the War - Out of the House
2. Jacobites - Rathkeltair
3. Johnny's Gone for a Soldier - Solas
4. The Foggy Dew - The Chieftains
5. World Turned Upside Down with Julia Delaney's and Karsilimas - The Kelly Band
6. We Know Where We Stand - Aoife Scott
7. An Phailistín - Sharon Shannon
8. I Wish the Wars Were All Over - Colleen Raney
9. To War - Cormac Begley
10. Sí Bheag Set - Wild Clover Band
11. The Stirrup Cup/March to the Wars - The Crossing
12. The King's Shilling - Socks in the Frying Pan
13. Felix the Soldier - Usher's Island
14. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye - Ellis Island
15. Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette - Four Shillings Short
16. I Will Go, I Will Go - Alan Reid & Rob Van Sante
17. What's Going on in Jerusalem - Tommy Sands
18. You Fascists Bound to Lose - Andy Irvine
19. No Gods and Precious Few Heroes - Dick Gaughan
20. Some Say the Devil is Dead - Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones
21. Black and Tans - Scythian
22. King George IV / King George V / Old King's Reel / King's Reel / Traditional Reel - Ashley MacIsaac
23. Father John MacLeod's Jig - Searson
24. End of the World - Great Big Sea
25. Famous Last Words / The Black Tap / Billy on the Bodhran - RURA

06/25/2025

Less than two weeks to go until our 25th Anniversary celebration on Sunday June 29! Join us for birthday cake and music from Nebraska folk music legends Greenblatt & Seay, sharing a selection of traditional Welsh tunes.

06/22/2025

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Theme song "Lady Susan" by Joseph Carmichael. For more details about his music, visit josephcarmichael.bandcamp.com.

1. Hot Days - Poitín - Celtic World Music
2. Summer High - Skerryvore
3. Advanced Knowledge/The Elms/Maspeth Summer - Tara Breen, Pádraig Rynne, Connor Crimmins, and Elaine Hogan, Irish Wedding Harpist
4. The 23rd of June - The Cottars
5. The Eighteenth of June - Gráda
6. Sunshine and Showers - Máirtín O’Connor
7. Summer's Coming - Sharon Shannon
8. Samhradh Buí/Buí's Summer - Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin Music
9. Solstice - Carolyn Cruso
10. Summer's Gentle Rain - Karen Thames Ballew
11. Summer of My Dreams - Dolores Keane
12. Thugamar Féin an Samhradh Linn (Summer, Summer) - Rev. Nóirín Ní Riain
13. Summer Dream - Turlach Boylan
19. The Lost Summer - Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman (Irish Harp & Guitar)
20. Swimmin' In the Sea - Gaelic Storm
21. The Buttons & Bows Jig/The Lark in the Blue Summer Sky - Buttons & Bows
22. Summer Dance at Montmagny - Steel City Rovers
23. The Firebird - Ímar
24. Hot 'n' Bothered/Dublin Hallway - The Elders
25. Tornado Alley - Gaelic Storm
26. Frank's Reel/Ring of Fire - The Nashville Celts
27. The Wheel of Fire - Barrule