Kitchen Party Ceilidh

02/23/2025

We're back after a week off, with a big show featuring new music from Fourwinds, James Cullinan and Sean Gavin & Colm Gannon, with recent tracks from Gnoss, Mary Frances Leahy and Kevin Henderson & Neil Pearlman, and another preview of the upcoming March 27 house concert featuring Ken Perlman.

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

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 542 is up on SoundCloud at
https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc_2025_02_09_podcast
and soon on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

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Our 542nd episode, which aired on February 9, 2025. Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle – Dawn & Dusk, single release NEW TO YOU: Niall McCabe – Valentines Day 1981, single release The Drowsy L

02/09/2025

I hear there's a big football match this evening, but come check out our show after. We’ll have new music from Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle, Niall McCabe, Club Debris and Jim Payne & Fergus O’Byrne, and we’ll preview the upcoming February 15 Drowsy Lads show at the Music Room and speak with Drowsy Lads fiddler Phil Franck.

Listen live at 10 PM EST or stream live worldwide at www.wicronline.org

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 541 is up on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc-2025-02-02-podcast and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

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Our 541st episode, which aired on February 2, 2025. Sean Gavin & Colm Gannon – The Ash Plant/The Woman Of The House, The Boys of ‘25 The Freels – West Moon, The Freels Open the Door for Three – The D

02/02/2025

One of the reasons I started this program, and one of my continuing joys from it, is sharing great artists of whom people might not be aware, even folks whose knowledge of Celtic music is extensive. And this goes both ways, I might add...even with my enormous collection of recordings, I still frequently learn of great artists of whom I had no prior awareness, which I then can share with all of you.

Anyway...we lost such an artist yesterday, Cyril MacPhee, the great singer and songwriter from Cape Breton, who passed away after a lengthy struggle with Parkinson's. Here's a video of one of my favorite of Cyril's songs.

Cyril MacPhee - Nova Scotia To Me (1999)

02/02/2025

Join us this evening for lots of great new and recent music from Sean Gavin & Colm Gannon, Rakish, James Cullinan, Open the Door for Three, Lane to the Glen, Bobcat Opossum and much more.

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

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 540 is up on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc-2025-01-26-podcast and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

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Our 540th episode, which aired on January 26, 2025. Fourwinds – Mighty Keith, Allta Fourwinds – The Great Big Roaming Ass, Allta De Dannan – Haley’s Favourite/Kitty Come Over/Mullins Fancy/Opera Reel

02/01/2025

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02/01/2025

Very saddened to learn this morning that Cyril MacPhee has left us, way too early.

Cyril was a great singer and songwriter and an even better dude. He’s not well known outside of Nova Scotia and virtually unknown here in the States, but I’ve managed to track down most of his recorded work and have enjoyed playing it on the show from time to time.

In August 2015, when my wife and I went to Cape Breton to get married, we stopped in one evening at an unassuming fried seafood joint in Baddeck, and as soon as we walked in the door, I was stunned to see that Cyril was the entertainment for the evening. I had to do a double take. I went and introduced myself and told him what a fan I was, and he was very gracious. After he finished the set, he came over and sat with us for a good while, and then he did so again after he finished the next set. There was no reason for him to do that other than he wanted to, and I’m grateful to this day.

That was the only time I ever got to speak with him face-to-face, and I never got around to having him on the show, which I now regret. Although I didn’t know him well, I know other people who did, and he was one of those folks who, when other people would mention him or hear his name, they would smile. There aren’t enough folks like that these days.

Cyril wrote a lot of great songs, but this one is my favorite. I played it during the fourth-ever episode of the Kitchen Party Ceilidh, all the way back on August 2, 2013, and frankly, I’m not sure why it took me that long. It’s a little too appropriate now. I look forward to violating my no-repeats rule and playing it again later this month.

Go easy, Cyril. I don’t have a lot of personal memories of you, but I’m grateful for the ones I do have. Thank you.

Cyril MacPhee - I'm On My Way (1998)

01/26/2025

On tonight's Kitchen Party Ceilidh, we'll load up the new music, with great tracks from Fourwinds, Michael McGoldrick & Tim Edey, Merry Hell, Sean Gavin & Colm Gannon, Marla Fibish & Rebecca Richman, Without Willow and more.

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

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 539, our annual Outer Reaches show, is up on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc-2025-01-19-podcast and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

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Our 539th episode, which aired on January 19, 2025, and featured our annual exploration of the Outer Reaches. Droichead – The Humours of Castlefinn/Sporting Paddy/Cregg’s Pipes, The Banks of Tuira Ra

01/19/2025

Tonight is a special one for us here at KPC World HQ. We reserve the third Sunday in January for what I like to call our Outer Reaches show, in which there's nothing from Ireland, Scotland, Cape Breton or the US in favor of music from...well, everywhere else. Join us as we hear from Crasdant (Wales), Dalla (Cornwall), Brittany (Kornog), Carlos Nunez (Spain), F***g (Finland), Brother (Australia) and much more.

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

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 538 is up on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc-2025-01-12-podcast
and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

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Our 538th episode, which aired on January 12, 2025. Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle – Revival of the Fittest, single release Rachel Davis & Darren McMullen – Dancing On My Own Ground, Home

01/16/2025

Don’t miss this one.

Welcome to 2025 everyone. The recently published Bothy Band photo collection book is now available from my new website. Follow the link below.
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01/12/2025

In case you're wondering about where to find our podcasts, and you don't want to bother with iTunes, etc., here is the link to all 537 of our previous episodes, for free streaming or download.

Podcasts. Kitchen Party Ceilidh, from Indianapolis

01/12/2025

We've got another big show for you this evening at 10 PM EST. We’ll have new music from Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle, Anna Massie and Some One’s Sons, recent tracks from Rachel Davis & Darren McMullen, Gnoss, Kevin Henderson & Neil Pearlman, Buioch and much more.

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

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 537, our New Years show, is up on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc-2025-01-05-podcast and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

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Our 537th episode, which aired on January 5, 2025. Alex Sturbaum with Jesse Partridge – Humours of Kinvara/The New Custom House/The Bunch of Green Rushes, Slash Mary Black – Brand New Star, Babes in

01/05/2025

Join us at 10 PM EST tonight as we present our annual New Years show, featuring folks like De Dannan, Carlos Sweeney McCartin, Aly Bain and much more.

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

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 536, our 2024 wrap-up, is up on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc-2024-12-29-podcast and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

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Our 536th episode, which aired on December 29, 2024, and featured our year-end wrap-up. Pine Tree Flyers – Opera Reel/Golden Wedding Reel, Pine Tree Flyers Alan Doyle – Welcome Home, Welcome Home Lan

01/03/2025

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12/29/2024

Join us tonight as we take a look back at some of our favorite moments from 2024, including a finale that will blow you away. We'll have music from Pine Tree Flyers, Matt & Shannon Heaton, Tim Edey, Rachel Davis and Darren McMullen, Open the Door for Three, and much more.

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

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 535, our holiday episode, is up on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc-2024-12-22-podcast and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com, all free of charge.

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Our 535th episode, which aired on December 22, 2024, and featuring our annual holiday episode of Christmas and winter-themed Celtic music. Reverie Road – Snowy Drifts, Reverie Road Matthew Byrne – Se

12/22/2024

On tonight's show, we'll have our annual holiday blast, full of Christmas and winter-themed Celtic music. We'll have folks like Tim Edey, Matthew Byrne, The McDades, Reverie Road, Dave Gunning and much more!

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

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 534 is up on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc-2024-12-08-podcast and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

Nollaig Shona, and see you on the radio!

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12/08/2024

On tonight's big show, we'll have a sort of mini-theme, music from artists who've never before graced our humble airwaves. We'll have tunes and songs from Anna Mhoireach, CrossRoads, Pennybrook, GiveWay, Graham Wells, and an amazing Closet Classic from Flibbertigibbet.

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

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 533, featuring tracks from Celtic Colours Live Volume 11, is up on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc-2024-12-01-podcast and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.kpc-radio.com

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Our 533rd episode, which aired on December 1, 2024, and featured tracks from Celtic Colours Live Vol. 11. Mary Frances Leahy & Troy MacGiullivray – Tunes with Troy, Celtic Colours Live Vol. 11 Bouler

12/01/2024

We've got an exciting month ahead, with five shows to present. We'll have some of the usual (our holiday show on the 22nd, and our year-end wrap on the 29th), but there will be some surprises as well.

Tonight, we'll take care of some unfinished business, with remainder of the Celtic Colours Live Vol. 11 CD. I usually play these much earlier in the year, but owing to production and access delays, I got my hands on it late. I played one of the eleven tracks last week, and we'll have the other ten this evening. You'll hear Natalie MacMaster, Tim Edey, Mary Frances Leahy, Mairi Britton, Mary Jane Lamond, Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, and much more.

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

In the meantime, the podcast of KPC 532 is up on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-127774073/kpc-2024-11-24-podcast and soon to follow on iTunes, Google, TuneIn, Audacy, Audible, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio and at www.wkpc-radio.com

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Our 532nd episode, which aired on November 24, 2024. Beginish – The Plough & Stars, Beginish Cara Dillon – Green Grows the Laurel, Cara Dillon The Irish Descendants – The Eavesdropper/The Connaughtma