Ah, spring traditions…! Letting out the waist on the shorts after a winter by the fire eating heavy root vegetables cooked in lard. Going through the T-shirts to see if you still agree with the slogans on them, or whether wearing them in public will get you branded as non-woke. You may have some of your own…?! While you think, why not listen to this week’s episode of Routes & Branches & Beyond, the fourth in a series on Celtic Spring. I’ll have solid tunes for questionable politicians, romantic songs of the good ole’ fishery, polka in the corners, wistful melancholy, life after Riverdance, men behaving badly, big muddy harps, lazy Flemish waltzes, Cape Breton bedlam, fiddle trios playing tunes about quints, and Irish Arran sweater sex symbols.
From bands like Aaron Collis & Emilia Bartellas, Ceolbeg, Aidan Coffey, Frankie Gavin, Alec Finn & Colm Murphy, The Cast, Niamh Ní Charra, Burning Bridget Cleary, Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman, Comas, Kevin Burke, Johnny Cunningham & Christian Lemaître, Còig, Connla, The Clancy Brothers and Johnny B. Connolly.
Pull off that sweater and join us.
