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Tune in on Thursday's from 5 - 7 pm to Muskegon 100.9FM for West Michigan's first Celtic Radio program! Put it in your calendar or set an alarm on your phone!

Sounds Like Ireland is sponsored by the Michigan Irish Music Festival and hosted by "The Voice of the Michigan Irish Music Festival" Bill Marshall. In addition to terrific tunes, Bill will bring in special guests for each show and talk about all things Irish in West Michigan. We are pretty excited that the airwaves will be extra special on these Thursdays! Can't get to a radio? Download the app and listen from ANYWHERE! http://player.listenlive.co/50151

12/19/2025

Making merry in the studio last night!🎄🎶

12/16/2025

𝕴𝖙’𝖘 𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖚𝖆𝖑 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖒𝖆𝖘 𝕾𝖍𝖔𝖜! 🎄🎶

And here’s what “Yule” hear!
(Well, hopefully! There will be a party in the studio, so we can look forward to a lot of fun conversations too! 💕🎄)

Jackie Oates / John Spiers: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
The Makem & Spain Brothers: I Heard the Bells
Ashley Davis / John Doyle: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Aoife Scott & Andrew Meany: The December Letter
The Screaming Orphans: O Come All Ye Faithful
We Banjo 3: We Three Kings
Gaelic Storm: Winter Wonderland
The Gothard Sisters: The Christmas Eve Reel
The Pogues / Kirsty MacColl: Fairytale of New York
Eileen Ivers: Christmas Time Is Here
Seamus Kennedy: Christmas in the Trenches
Enda Reilly: Christmas Is With Us
The Irish Rovers: Christ Is King
The High Kings: Where I Belong at Christmas
Sinéad O’Connor: Silent Night

Tune in Thursdays from 5-7 PM EST on Muskegon 100.9FM or stream live at https://bit.ly/SoundsLikeIrelandStream

Sponsored by Michigan Irish Music Festival

12/09/2025

Bill is out of the studio this week, so Andrew is pinch-hitting!

Skerryvore - "The Beasts of Bone Lake"
Siobhan Miller - "Tranent"
The Gothard Sisters - "I Saw Three Ships"
Elias Alexander - FIDDLE DISCO!"
Glen Hansard - "Gold" (From the Motion Picture "Once")
One for the Foxes - "Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden"
Ceol - "Some Say the Devil is Dead"
Elephant Sessions - "Wet Field Day"
Whorled - "Seven"
The Barley Saints - "They Call It a Sin"
Goitse - "My Belfast Love"
The Langan Band - "Aquaplane"
The Peelers - "Katie Bar the Door"
John Spillane - "Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night)"
MALINDA - "Dúlaman"
Celtic Women - "Ave Maria"
Rose Betts - "Irish Eyes"
The East Pointers - "Wintergreen"
Gavin James - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
The Trials of Cato - "Gloria"
Villagers and Lisa Hannigan - "Little Drummer Boy"
Cassie and Maggie - "Roses Around the Bend"
The Magpies - "Shuffle Set"
Screaming Orphans - "Christmas Wrapping"
Tallymore - "Caledonia"
MOXIE - "Eyes on Pluto"
Ironwood - "For Ireland"
The Irish Rovers - "Grandma Got Runover By a Reindeer"

📻 Catch the craic every Thursday from 5–7 PM EST on Muskegon 100.9FM or stream live at: bit.ly/SoundsLikeIrelandStream
☘️ Brought to you by our friends at the Michigan Irish Music Festival , helping us keep the Irish spirit alive all year long!

12/04/2025

This week’s playlist:

Lunasa: Mi Na Nollag
Drops of Green: Beeswing
The Jeremiahs: The Reluctant Farmer
The High Kings: Christmas the Way I Remember
Flook: Wrong Foot Forward
Skerryvore: Take My Hand
The Fureys: The Green Fields of France
The Gothard Sisters: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Flogging Molly: Drunken Lullabies
Ally the Piper: North to Palmer
Toby Bresnahan: Back Home in Derry
Seamus Kennedy: Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake
Dolores Keane: The Island
Kennedy's Kitchen: The Umbrella Reels / Two Days to Go / Down the Broom
Flatfoot 56: I’ll Fly Away
Aoife Scott & Andrew Meany: December Letter
Eadaoin: 9 Years
Raglan Road: Billy Taylor
The Irish Rovers: What Child Is This
One for the Foxes: Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden
Liam Clancy & Donovan: Catch the Wind
Alan Doyle: I’ll Be There for Christmas Eve

📻 Catch the craic every Thursday from 5–7 PM EST on Muskegon 100.9FM or stream live at: bit.ly/SoundsLikeIrelandStream
☘️ Brought to you by our friends at the Michigan Irish Music Festival, helping us keep the Irish spirit alive all year long!

11/25/2025

🦃 Happy Thanksgiving from Sounds Like Ireland! 🎶

Bill is taking a well-deserved Thanksgiving break this Thursday. Don’t worry, we’ve got a special rerun of a past show ready for you! Enjoy the best in Irish and Celtic music while you cook, eat, or relax with family and friends.

Tune in every Thursday from 5-7 PM EST on Muskegon 100.9 FM or stream live anywhere: https://bit.ly/SoundsLikeIrelandStream

Thanks to our sponsor, Michigan Irish Music Festival, for helping bring the magic of Irish music to your holiday!

11/19/2025

Someone’s already in the holiday spirit! This week’s Sounds Like Ireland playlist is full of Christmas tunes alongside your favorite Irish music:

Naragonia Quartet: Heppiestop
Solas: Tell God and the Devil
Scythian: Shut the Front Door
Kinfolk: Highland Laddie
Bookends: Wild Atlantic
Kitty Macfarlane: Glass Eel
Sweeney’s Men: Waxies Dargle
King’s Shilling: Swallows and Crows
Jackie Oats: Dream Angus
Whorled: Caravan
Celtic Woman: O Holy Night
Seamus Kelleher: The Streets of London
O’jizo: Fjord / Plucky the Turtle
Enda Reilly: Sing All the Christmas Carols That You Know
The Cheeky Celt: The Land That Whispers
Hamish Hepburn & Jack Huston: The Archina MacLennan / The West Highland Line / Lady Frances
Bastard Bearded Irishman: Drunkin Drinkin’
Runa: God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
Freedom Flames: No Flag and No Priest
Ironwood: Rosa May
The Barra MacNeils: Christmas in Killarney
Sligo Rags: Courtin’ in the Kitchen

🎶 Join Bill Thursdays from 5–7 PM EST
🎶 Listen on the radio at Muskegon 100.9FM
🎶 Or stream live anywhere at Sounds Like Ireland
💚 Sponsored by the Michigan Irish Music Festival

11/13/2025

Here is the playlist for Thursday!

Gnoss: Bennybeg
The High Kings: Cavan Girl
The Henry Girls: James Monroe
Open the Door for Three: Beeswing
Socks in the Frying Pan: The Track for the Crack
The McMulligans: Christmas in the Trenches
Alan Doyle: It’s OK
Zarochi: Kesh Jig
Enda Reilly: The Foggy Dew
Green Lads: Hope
Hooligan Jack: Process Man
Erin Ruth: The Wind That Shakes the Barley
The Prodigals: Jug of Punch
Rum Ragged: Ghost in the Fog
We Banjo 3: Joy to the World
Mec Lir: The Grackle
The Tumbling Paddies: Closing Time
Clare Cunningham: Meabh
Luke Kelly: Song for Ireland
Steel City Rovers: Christmas Eve Reverie
Old Blind Dogs: MacPherson’s Rant / The Winging
Session A9: Lady Montgomery / Mutt’s Favorite

🎶 Join Bill Thursdays from 5–7 PM EST
🎶 Listen on the radio at Muskegon 100.9FM
🎶 Or stream live anywhere at Sounds Like Ireland

💚 Sponsored by the Michigan Irish Music Festival

11/05/2025

Here is the playlist for Thursday! Bill is already in the Christmas spirit, bringing you some festive tunes alongside the best of Irish and Celtic sounds:

Blood Or Whiskey: King of the Ferries / Western Junk
Niall McNamee: Magpie with a Mullet
Lauren McRory: Next to You Next to Me
Clada: Bofin
Paddy Reilly: Fields of Athenry
Dervish : The Galway Shawl
Aoife Scott: December Letter
Seamus Kennedy: Goodwill to Men
Ashley Davis & John Doyle: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Bua: John Henry / Martin Wynne #4
Enter The Haggis: Swallowed by a Whale
Alison Brown & Steve Martin: Evening Star
Scottish Fish: Annies
Cara Dillon: Black Is the Color
Daoirí Farrell: The Creggan White Hair
Hermitage Green: Glow of the Kerosene Lamp
Firinn: MacArthur Road / Major Campbell Graham
Altan: Daily Growing
Wild Colonial Bhoys: Red Haired Lass
The Wee Heavies: Barrett's Privateers
The Screaming Orphans: Shine
Ciderhouse Rebellion: Salmon Tails

🎶 Join Bill Thursdays from 5–7 PM EST
🎶 Listen on the radio at Muskegon 100.9FM
🎶 Or stream live anywhere at Sounds Like Ireland

💚 Sponsored by the Michigan Irish Music Festival

10/29/2025

One of our favorite shows of the year is the Halloween episode! Halloween traditions are full of Celtic roots, legends, and history.
Bill's buddy LaShelle will help haunt the studio while sharing some of the lore and spooky stories.

Expect another great mix of music including:

Leprecons: Finnegans Wake
Karliene: Witch
Stout Pounders: Pumpkins Fancy
String Sisters: Between Wind and Rain
Loreena McKennitt: The Mummers’ Dance
Pogues: Turkish Song of the Damned
S.J. Tucker: Witch’s Rune
Blackmore’s Night: Under the Violet Moon
Clannad: Newgrange
Runa: Stretched Out on Your Grave
Heather Dale: Changeling Child
Flogging Molly: Devil’s Dance Floor
Kristen Laurence: Vampire Empire
Hagalaz Runedance: Raven Night
Battle Beast: Touch in the Night
Skerryvore: The Exorcists
Malinky: The Dreadful End of Marianna Sorcery
The Cranberries: Zombie
LANKUM: Go Dig My Grave
Old Blind Dogs: Bedlam Boys

👉 Thursdays from 5–7 PM EST
👉 On the radio at Muskegon 100.9FM
👉 Or stream live anywhere at https://bit.ly/SoundsLikeIreland

💚 Sponsored by the Michigan Irish Music Festival

10/21/2025

This Week’s Sounds Like Ireland Playlist:

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas: The Wee Man from Uist / The High Drive
Dicey Riley: The Black Velvet Band
Kevin Crawford: Christy Barry's Set
Sina Theil: Red Is the Rose
The Highstool Prophets: How Did We End Up Here
Mànran: See What You Hear
Project Smok: Airborne
Tommy Makem: Red Is the Rose
Bastard Bearded Irishmen: Whisky O'
Donal Murphy: Medley Hornpipe / Reel / Slide / Polka
The Drowsy Lads: Donegal Danny
The Fógues: Sweet Black Rose
Eileen Ivers: Mackerel Sky
Eleanor McEvoy: Sophie
Grumpy O Sheep: Fullmoonskaya
JigJam: Where I Belong
Willos' - irish folk music: Wayfaring Stranger
Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones: Come Out Ye Black and Tans
Seo Linn: Music Makers
Magson: The Barber's News
Phil Coulter: The Town I Loved So Well
Ross Ainslie: Science of Life

👉 Thursdays from 5–7 PM EST
👉 On the radio at 100.9FM
👉 Or, stream live ANYWHERE at https://bit.ly/SoundsLikeIreland
💚 Sponsored by the Michigan Irish Music Festival

10/14/2025

This Week’s Sounds Like Ireland Playlist:

Ar Log: Twll yn y To / Cymro Ble? / Pedwar Posty Gwelly
Brave The Sea: Siren's Song
Gaelic Storm: Johnny Tarr
The Ennis Sisters: Out from St. Leonards
Polar Bolero: The Rain
Ed Miller: Let the Circle Be Wide
Andy Irvine: Plains of Kildare
TRIP: The 50 Reels
Brendan Monaghan: Love Me
The Ploughboys: Nights in Ireland
Shane Hennessy: Grove Road
The Rumpled: I Will Stay
Strings And Things: Wild Atlantic Way
We Banjo 3: Light in the Sky
Claire Hastings: Let Ramensky Go
3 on the Bund: Frenzy
The Paul McKenna Band: The Banks of Newfoundland
Cathal Ó Curráin & Marty Barry: Two Sisters
Molly O'Mahony: Brother Blue
Shamróg: Grace
Talisk: Yellowstone MT
Uncle Bard & The Dirty Bastards: Waiting for Another Day
Fabian Zechmeister: Oh Danny Boy

🎶 Tune in to see if Bill tries to pronounce "Twll yn y To!!!"

👉 Thursdays from 5–7 PM EST
👉 On the radio at Muskegon 100.9FM
👉 Or, stream live ANYWHERE at bit.ly/SoundsLikeIrelandStream

💚 Sponsored by the Michigan Irish Music Festival

10/07/2025

This Week’s Playlist:

Socks in the Frying Pan: Slip Jigs and Reels
Jax the Bard: Traveling Home
Mike Vas: The Sound of Sleat
The Irish Rovers: The Dublin Pub Crawl
Sam Shackleton: Scottish Cowboy
Natalie MacMaster: David’s Jig
The Town Pants: Drinking in the Graveyard
Cathie Ryan: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
John McDermott: Daughter of Mine
La Bottine Souriante: Le Lys Vert
John Doyle: A Pound a Week Rise
The Punters: Take Her in Your Arms
Sarah Calderwood: Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Ron Block: Waiting for Erin
The Killigans: Liquor Store
The Fables: O’Brien
Breabach: The Rolling Hills
Goats Don’t Shave: Arranmore
The Ennis Sisters: Onward
O’Jizo: Journey to Big Country
Merry Hell: We Need Each Other Now
Connla: Moon and Stars
Aldoc: In Halle

🎶 Tune in for the craic every Thursday from 5–7 PM EST on Muskegon 100.9FM, or stream live online at bit.ly/SoundsLikeIrelandStream.

💚 Sponsored by the Michigan Irish Music Festival.

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Muskegon, MI
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Tune in on Thursday's from 5 - 7 pm to Muskegon 100.9FM for West Michigan's first Celtic Radio program! Sounds Like Ireland is sponsored by the Michigan Irish Music Festival and hosted by "The Voice of the Michigan Irish Music Festival" Bill Marshall. In addition to terrific tunes, Bill will bring in special guests for each show and talk about all things Irish in West Michigan. Put it in your calendar or set an alarm on your phone! We are pretty excited that the airwaves will be extra special on these Thursdays! Can't get to a radio? Download the app and listen from ANYWHERE!

📻 Listen on the radio: Muskegon 100.9FM Thursday’s from 5-7 pm EST

📲 Stream the show: http://player.listenlive.co/50151