Going Home - music from the Celtic homelands on 2CBD

10/02/2025

Hope you enjoyed yesterday's programme. Early bird tickets for the Australian Celtic Festival https://www.australiancelticfestival.com/ went on sale recently (and have now sold out!), so we looked ahead to this and other festivals of interest in the coming months, including Cobargo Folk Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, St Albans Folk Festival, and National Celtic Festival Australia Official. As well as our usual Runrig, we played songs and tunes from The Scotsman Music, Kejafi, Limerick MCB and Murphy's Pigs, all of whom will be playing the Australian Celtic Festival (formal performer announcements haven't come out yet), also Skerryvore, Triantán, Eric Bogle, and Hat Fitz & Cara, who will be playing various of those festivals, and then Face The West, Rachel Walker, Èirinn, Doug Lamey, Brendan Monaghan - singer/songwriter, Bruce Guthro, Skipinnish, Dàimh, Durango Blue, and Kim Carnie to round out the programme.

Australian Celtic Festival Music. Dance. Art. Heritage. Culture. Celebration. 1 - 4 May 2025 in Glen Innes, NSW Celebrating the Festival's Year of Brittany,

02/02/2025

Hope you enjoyed this morning's programme. In honour of St Brigid's Day yesterday, we explored the name, the woman, and the saint Brigid, the idea of Kildare, and celebrated Irish women through music from Triantán, Mossie's Tours, Andy M. Stewart, Manus Lunny, Sinéad O'Connor, Mary Black, Emmy Ryan, Duncan Chisholm, Lúnasa, Wolfe Tones, Cathie Ryan, Brendan Grace, Joe Heaney, Pa**ie Dolan, Christy Moore, Kevin McDermott Music old, Moya Brennan - First Lady of Celtic Music, Celtic Woman, Dàimh, Eleanor McEvoy Music, Celtic Rhythms, Mary Coughlan, Foster And Allen, Rachel Walker, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Brendan O'Dowda, Ruby Murray, and of course Runrig.
(picture: Brigid's Well, Kildare, Ireland 📷 Pamela O'Neill)

24/01/2025

Hope you enjoyed last Sunday's programme. As Celtic Connections is in full swing in Glasgow, we featured artists who are performing there: Duncan Chisholm, Beth Malcolm, Breabach, Deirdre Graham (with Niteworks), Kim Carnie, Dervish, Gnoss, Eddi Reader, Old Blind Dogs, Rachel Walker, Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle, Session A9, Peat & Diesel, Iona Fyfe, Sian, Karine Polwart, Paul Anderson Scottish Fiddler, Kathleen MacInnes, Julie Fowlis, Elephant Sessions, Beinn Lee, Phil Cunningham, Trail West, Natalie MacMaster, and Capercaillie. Of course, we also had tracks from Runrig before and after the news each hour.
Tomorrow, the wonderful Geoffrey Black will have a special programme in our timeslot before Pamela returns next week with more news and great Celtic music.

Glasgow’s annual folk, roots and world music festival, Celtic Connections celebrates Celtic music and its connections to cultures across the globe.

12/01/2025

Hope you enjoyed this morning's programme. In honour of the 40th anniversary of the release of Runrig's important album "Heartland" on 6 January 1985, we featured music from the album. We also played versions by Ishbel MacAskill, Dick Gaughan, Triantán and Tannas of songs on that album. We added lots of songs with 'heart' in their titles, from Mary Coughlan, Josef Locke, Wendy Jack Music, Coisir Gàidhlig Astràilianach, Tom Jones, Foster And Allen, Bonnie Tyler, Bee Gees, Capercaillie, Daniel O'Donnell, Gone Molly, Mac-Talla, Eurythmics, Johnny O'Keefe, Feargal Sharkey, Sean MacDonnchadha, Mark Cryle, Jerry Vale, Mary Black & Eleanor McEvoy Music, Mick Hanly Page, Humbug, and Claymore.
If you're interested in the album, I strongly recommend the Siubhal gu Seachd le Pluto program of 6 January 2025 (partly in Gaelic, partly in English), which you can hear on BBC Sounds at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026lq1 for the next few weeks.

05/01/2025

Hope you enjoyed this morning's programme. For our first programme of the new year, we played tracks from The Hogmanay Boys (The Hebridean Baker and The Highland Hutter), Lúnasa, Bruce Guthro, Rachel Walker, Gnoss, Skipinnish, Trail West, Kim Carnie, Dàimh, Niteworks, Julie Fowlis, Doug Lamey, Èirinn, Beinn Lee, Breabach, and of course Runrig. We also featured music from some of the fantastic acts touring in Australia this year: Elephant Sessions (brilliant gig in Brisbane on Friday!), Skerryvore, The High Kings, The Corrs, Emmy Ryan, and Murphy's Pigs.
(Elephant Sessions in concert - 📷 Natalie O'Neill Photography)

04/01/2025

28/12/2024

Just a reminder we won't have our usual program tomorrow morning, 29 December. All going well, the wonderful Geoffrey Black will be in with his quirky and enjoyable mix of Celtic and other music. Pamela will be back next week with Celtic music to celebrate the new year!

24/12/2024

How to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in each of the Celtic languages. This is a great addition you can add to your Christmas cards for your friends and family who have Celtic ancestry or are learning a Celtic language.

22/12/2024

Hope you enjoyed this morning's programme. Looking back on a wonderful year, we played tunes from Doug Lamey, Trail West, Emmy Ryan, Skipinnish, Niteworks, Skerryvore, Rachel Walker, Mànran, Kim Carnie, Dàimh, and of course Runrig.

We featured an interview with Erin Cornell of Èirinn, about their just-released single, Manannán (the interview will be available in the podcasts section of the Radio 2CB website early this week). Thanks to Erin for the lovely chat. Findthe single at https://open.spotify.com/track/2L9wUKJoBLG5oJETzrwD24?si=P5Y3DGGPQHi9myQFAGB94g

If you're following our suggestions for a Christmas playlist, these are the tracks from this morning: The Carice Singers - Cornish Christmas Carol, Brendan Monaghan - singer/songwriter - The Snow Fell Down and 100 Days To Christmas, Rhys Meilyr - Hen Hen Stori, Murphy's Pigs - Christmas in Killarney, Danú - Don Oiche Úd in mBeithil, Runrig - This Time of Year, Skerryvore - Angel of Christmas, Ruth Keggin - Manx Gaelic Singer - Oikan ayns Bethlehem, Bruce Guthro - Bound for Bethlehem, Libera - Wexford Carol, Korydwenn - Claire Bénard - Nos Nedeleg, Rachel Walker - Taladh Chriosda, Arthur Cormack - Leanabh an Aigh, Liminality Celtic Trio - Anna's Prayer, and The Chieftains - Breton Carol. And don't forget to check our posts from the last two weeks as well.

Merry Christmas!

20/12/2024

Pamela will be playing away tomorrow morning, talking to ABC breakfast radio about the solstice around 7.30am or so. Of course we wouldn't recommend you listen to anything but 2CBD, though 😉

19/12/2024

Be listening this Sunday (22 December) for our interview with Erin of Èirinn - about this track, the band, her Celtic connections and plans for the future. And of course to hear the track Manannán!

15/12/2024

Last Gaelic Language Class of the year at The Croft THIS TUESDAY 10am!

15/12/2024

Hope you enjoyed this morning's programme. We played tunes from Runrig, Niteworks, Rachel Walker, Dàimh, The Seekers, The Wurzels, The Dubliners Official, Gerry O'Connor Music, Emmy Ryan, Bruce Guthro, Kim Carnie, Mànran and Paul Anderson Scottish Fiddler.

If you're following along with our suggestion to make a Celtic Christmas playlist, here are this week's tracks: Brendan Monaghan - singer/songwriter - The Snow Fell Down and 100 Days to Christmas; Rhys Meilyr - Hen Hen Stori; Skerryvore - Angel of Christmas; The Chieftains - Wexford Carol, Don Oiche Úd i mBeithil and Bells of Dublin; Skipinnish - December; Pogues - Fairytale of New York; Piping Hot Christmas - O Come All Ye Faithful; Viva la Musica - Celtic Christmas Medley; Tommy Fleming - Christmas 1915; Liminality Celtic Trio - Oiche Nollag; and Enya - Oiche Ciún. Also check the list of tracks in last week's post, if you haven't already!

14/12/2024

10/12/2024

From the Committee and Presenters at 2CBD.

08/12/2024

Hope you enjoyed this morning's programme. We played tunes from Runrig, Dàimh, Kejafi, Lúnasa, Julie Fowlis, Mànran, Bruce Guthro, Kim Carnie, Doug Lamey, Sian, The Chieftains, Capercaillie, and Isy Maclean. Following last weekend's Na Trads, we played tracks from album of the year Eamonn Nugent's The Waiting Room and Scots singer of the year Beth Malcolm, Trail West's original work of the year Ar Cànan 's ar Ceòl, Eagle's Wing from event of the year Skipinnish at Edinburgh Castle, and songs from composer of the year Alec Dalglish of Skerryvore. Managed to mislay the tracks from live act of the year Niteworks, so they'll be on next week!

If you'd like to make yourself a little Celtic Christmas playlist, you could start with some of this morning's tracks, and we'll be adding more over the next couple of weeks. This morning we played 100 Days to Christmas and The Snow Fell Down by Brendan Monaghan - singer/songwriter (thanks for sending us the tracks!), O Holy Night by Liminality Celtic Trio, Fairytale of New York by the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, Òran na Cloiche by Mànran, Oiche Chiún by Enya, The Wexford Carol by Tommy Fleming, Angel of Christmas by Skerryvore and This Darkest Winter by Runrig.

30/11/2024

Just a reminder there will be no programme tomorrow. This evening Pamela is at The Gaelic Club in Sydney for a Kejafi (pictured without instruments for a change!) gig. Back next Sunday!