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ST. PATRICK'S SINGERS, FIDDLERS AND PICKERS FROM IRELAND TO AMERICA

For St Patrick’s, it’s old and new cultural connections of singers, fiddlers and pickers from Ireland to rural and urban America. Reels and jigs for dancing, jazz takes on Irish tunes and songs about love, immigration and drinking from Hank Locklin, The Clancy Brothers and Louis Armstrong. Then a live set from the 80th National Folk Festival exploring the musical connections of Ireland and Appalachia with Irish musicians John Doyle and Seamus Egan and bluegrassers Rob and Ronnie McCoury.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Cat Rambles to the Saucepan Cherish the Ladies
    Out and About, Green Linnet
  • The Pure Drop/The Flax in Bloom Seamus Ennis
    The Best of Irish Piping, Tara Music
  • Bagpipe Blues Rufus Harley
    Atlantic Jazz: Best of the '60s, Vol. 2, Atlantic
  • Irish Black Bottom Louis Armstrong
    The Hot Fives & Hot Sevens Vol. 2, Columbia
  • Four Leaf Clover ReBirth Brass Band
    Do Whatcha Wanna, Mardi Gras
  • Instrumental: My Wild Irish Rose Benny Goodman Orchestra
    The Original Big Band Collection: Benny Goodman, Classic Fox Records
  • Pretty Little Girl with the Red Dress On Emma Shelton
    Celtic Mouth Music, Ellipsis Arts
  • Paddy Molloy Paddy Tunney
    The Man of Songs, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Diddlage Audrey Saint-Coeur
    Celtic Mouth Music, Ellipsis Arts
  • Bean Phaidin Susan McKeown
    Blackthorn: Irish Love Songs, World Village
  • Pretty Little Girl Carolina Chocolate Drops and the Chieftains
    Voice of Ages, Blackrock Records
  • CLIP: Seamus Connolly

    Listen
  • The Bells of Congress Seamus Connolly
    Live at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
  • Instrumental: Chanty Son Volt
    Wide Swing Tremolo, Warner Brothers
  • It's a Long Way to Tipperary Jimmie Revard and his Oklahoma Playboys
    Western Swing Heaven, Vol.1, Mondotone
  • I'm Leaving Tipperary Pat White
    The Wheels of the World Vol. 1, Yazoo
  • The City of Chigaco Christy Moore
    Live in Dublin 2006, Sony BMG
  • Forty Shades of Green Hank Locklin
    Irish Songs, Country Style, Sony
  • The Black Velvet Band Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
    Chorus from the Gallows, Topic
  • Whiskey You're the Devil Tommy Makem & The Clancy Brothers
    The Best of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Sony Music
  • Whiskey in the Jar Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
    Shady Grove, Acoustic Disc
  • The Parting Glass The Voice Squad
    Celtic Drinking Songs, X5 Music Group
  • End Bed: Danny Boy Al Hirt
    The Danny Boy Album, RCA Victor

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Quicksburg Rondevouz Rob and Ronnie McCoury
    Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
  • Vital Mental Medicine Seamus Egan and John Doyle
    Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
  • Goldrush Daren Beachly and Troy Engle
    Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
  • Instrumental: Midnight on the Water Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
    Song of the Hills, Shanachie
  • Miss McCleod's Reel/Up Jumped the Devil Hot Pickers Jam Session
    Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
  • Nine Pound Hammer Hot Pickers Jam Session
    Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
  • St. Anne's Reel Hot Pickers Jam Session
    Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
  • Instrumental: Le Jig Français (French Jig) Michael Doucet and Beau Soleil
    Parlez-Nous a Boire & More, Arhoolie
  • El Larabe Rio Verde/Irish Washerwoman Sones de Mexico with Sean Cleland and the Irish Music School of Chicago
    Live at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago 2014,
  • Si J'Aurais des Ailes Lost Bayou Ramblers with Spider Stacy
    Kalenda, Lost Bayou Ramblers
  • Rambling Irishman Billy McComiskey with Mick Moloney and Liz Carroll
    Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
  • End Bed: The Palm Tree Reel/The Controversial/The Commodore Reel Billy McComiskey with Liz Carroll and Mick Maloney
    Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,

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