New show up featuring Uilleanns!
Current mood: happy
Category: Music

Finally put up a new show... some of the finest Uilleann pipers in the land...

Enjoy

Currently listening : Uilleann Pipes of Ireland By Bill Garden Release date: 1997-02-18

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HAPPY TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY
Category: Life

Arrrr!

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, Mateys! I had hoped to complete me mission of putting up a podcast all about the sea in honor of this momentous day. Unfortunately I was delayed. There will be a treasure of a new show up early next week. Patience, ye scalliwags!

Enjoy the weekend.

Wendy

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HALF WAY TO ST PATRICK’S DAY EVENTS
Current mood: excited
Category: Parties and Nightlife

Looking to celebrate 1/2 way to St. Patrick's Day? There's lots of events in Northeast Ohio!  If you missed last night's festivities, it's not too late. Here's what's going on tonight:

HALFWAY TO ST. PATRICK'S DAY party at Stampers with The Town Pants, 87th Cleveland Pipe Band and Burke School of Irish Dance! check out

http://stampersgrillpub.com

also

Mossy Mora- Micks Pub, Willoughby
The High Kings- Southern Theater in Columbus
The Killdares- Byrne's Pub in Columbus

Kepe an eye on my website for updates  http://clevelandcelticpodcast.com

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If you were at HOB to see Gaelic Storm Thursday night...
Current mood: drained

If you were at the House of Blues in Cleveland last night (Thursday 9/11,) and you got decent pictures of the pipe band that opened or the Irish Dancers that joined Gaelic Storm onstage towards the end of the night, please email them to me at my yahoo address...


Thanks!

Wendy

p.s. fun show, huh?

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New show for Labor Day
Current mood: accomplished

New show up featuring all new releases from Hunting McLeod, Rathkeltair, Seven Nations, Great Big Sea, General Guinness Band, Coyote Run, Gaelic Storm, Damien Dempsey, Tread, Langers Ball, The Kreelers, Marc Gunn, and the AM String Band.

For full notes visit http://clevelandcelticpodcast.com

Enjoy!

Wendy

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Rathkeltair - 3 dates in Central Ohio this weekend!
Current mood: impatient
Category: Parties and Nightlife

Rathkeltair (featuring Neil Anderson and Nick Watson from the ORIGINAL 7Nations along with Trevor Tanner and other special guests) will be playing 3 shows in central OH this weekend.

Thursday 8/21- Dublin Pub in Dayton
http://dubpub.com

Friday,8/22 at Memorial Theater in Mt. Vernon
http://highlandsofohio.com

Saturday, 8/23 Byrne's Pub in Columbus
http://byrnespub.com

I'll be at the show Friday in Mt. Vernon. (71 to just south of Mansfield, to OH 13-S to High Street.) Who's joining me?

Wendy

Currently listening : Everybody By Rathkeltair Release date: 2006-04-04

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New Show- workshop featuring Ivers, Carroll, & Adzima
Current mood: excited
Category: Podcast

My current show features Liz Carroll, Eileen Ivers, & Charlene Adzima presenting a fiddle workshop
at the Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival July 2008.

You don't have to be a fiddler to enjoy listening to this workshop! A fascinating presentation full of ad lib discussion between three very talented fiddlers about their beginnings in Irish music, how the music has changed, composing, and more! Thank you so much to Josh Michaels for recording the actual workshop, and to Liz, Eileen and Charlene for permitting me to play it.

Also featured are "The Initiation Reel" from Charlene Adzima's CD "The Initiation," and
"Ceisel's Sword / The Monasterydedan Fancy" from Liz Carroll and John Doyle's CD "In Play."

links:
Liz Carroll: http://lizcarroll.com/
Eileen Ivers: http://eileenivers.com/
Charlene Adzima: http://www.myspace.com/fhidileoir

Currently listening : In Play By Liz Carroll & John Doyle Release date: 2005-09-13

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New Show UP- Dublin Irish Fest
Current mood: excited
Category: Podcast

Features a track from Gaelic Storm's new CD as well as Rathkeltair's new CD and 10 other bands playing the festival! Visit ClevelandCelticPodcast.com for full show notes.

Enjoy!

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CICF was great!
Current mood: sleepy
Category: Parties and Nightlife

Had a blast at CICF last weekend. It will take time to process it all. Unfortunately I was without a camera! Mine died... no boo hoos requested, I am well blessed. But it will take a few months before I have a new one, as I want a decent one.

Luckily I have great friends who are also good with a lens. Keep an eye out for Pics by Lee, of course. Mark and Jeff there. And then there was Donna- she sent me her flickr stream already, which as quite a few good ones! I'll post a link to hers once I verify it's ok.

Keep an ear out for an upcoming show featuring bands of the Dublin Irish Festival. The next show AFTER that will be a special surprise recorded this past weekend at CICF- a real treat!

No Rock Stage VIP seating this year- not enough takers- but I'll see you near the stages anyway!

W

Currently listening : What's the Rumpus? By Gaelic Storm Release date: 2008-07-08

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Celtic Rock Club Seats in Dublin this Year?
Current mood: excited
Category: Parties and Nightlife

Well,

The Celtic Rock stage is offering "loge" seats again this year. I wasn't going to do it, but the festival committee called to see if I would...

So I'm just testing the waters for interest. This year the tickets would be for all day Saturday. They have put premier restroom facilities and a private bar right within the Celtic Rock Club area this year so you never need to leave the area. Snack foods (like chips and pretzels) and bottled water are free and unlimited in the area. Everyone gets 4 beverage tokens and tickets to the festival with your Rock Club pass... together an $18 value. There should be a basket of free goodies to give away this year too. (Those who sat in the area last year remember... everything from cooling bandanas to free CDs...)

The bands featured on Saturday are:

Roger Drawdy
Rathkeltair
Bad Haggis
Scythian
Seanchai & The Unity Squad
Neck
Prodigals
Brother




A space for 20 people is $1500 this year, which works out to $75 a person. I can't afford to front the money or leave any seats unsold this year. If I hear back from enough people to sell 18 tickets by this Friday, (July 18,) I'll call the festival committee back to hold the space. BUT I'd have to have everyone's money in hand by the following week (Sat July 26) in order to pay for the space and have all your tickets back out to all of you in time.

So, please let me know ASAP if you are interested!

Thanks

Wendy

Currently reading : An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country Books) By Patrick Taylor Release date: 2008-01-22

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