Celtic Language and Music Broadcasts & Podcasts on the Web
Becky Johnston, of Eugene, Oregon, presents music by Celtic musicians in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and eastern Montana.
Website URL: http://mediablog.mail2web.com/ladyeleanor/portal/
Podcast Feed: http://mediablog.mail2web.com/ladyeleanor/media/rss-podcast.xml
Al Mann, of Georgetown, Kentucky, provides a nice podcast consisting mainly of contemporary Celtic pop, some rock, and an occasional bit of boundary stretching.
Website URL: http://www.celticfolkpod.com/
Podcast Feed: http://downtownfolk.com/wp/?feed=rss2
Walt Haake produced his excellent Mists of Avalon program weekly for several years, but eventually reached the point that he needed to reduce the workload. So WDVR radio changed the name of the program to Celtic Brunch, and divided up the hosting duties three ways. Now Walt, Carla Van Dyk, and Diana Jordan take turns doing a program of Celtic music in the time slot. Walt still does his Mists of Avalon program when he’s on on the fourth Saturday of each month. Here’s the info, to the best of my understanding:
WDVR Website: http://www.wdvrfm.org/
Listen Live: mms://win2.fast-serv.com/wdvr24
Program airs Sundays, 1100-1300 local time (EDT), or 15h00-17h00 GMT
Mists of Avalon appears to be the fourth Sunday of each month and is available full-time in the archive
Mists website: http://www.themistsofavalon.com/
Mists archive: http://www.themistsofavalon.com/archives.html
Cleveland’s Wendy Donahue hosts an excellent podcast of Celtic rock and contemporary Celtic music, from the Cleveland area and around the world.
Website: http://clevelandcelticpodcast.com/
Podcast feed: itpc://rss.mac.com/elmhead/iWeb/Cleveland Celtic Podcast/Podcast/rss.xml
In this podcast, Fiona Ritchie picks new Celtic music releases for the Thistle & Shamrock radio program. Discover new and emerging artists, hear the latest from the greats, and savor the excitement of these evolving traditions.
Website: http://www.npr.org/programs/thistle/
Podcast feed: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510069
One of the site’s users (thanks, Ben) has pointed out a station-finder page for the Thistle & Shamrock program on NPR. This is mostly useful for finding live stations in your area that carry the program (there are many dozens of stations that carry it). I don’t see an easy way to find internet feeds for the station this way, but it’s still useful.
Anyway, here’s the URL: http://www.npr.org/wheretohear/index.php?prgId=34 .
Ar Radioioù en Brezhoneg is a collection of related Breton-language radio stations broadcasting both in FM and WebRadio media.
This a joint project of four Breton-language radio stations to make their broadcasts accessible on the internet. Broadcasts are in Breton or French. All four stations can be accessed using their own players or via streaming MP3 or OGG. The four stations are:
Radio Kerne is an all-Breton station, presenting 60 hours/week of Breton-language programming of various sorts, some original and some from the other stations listed below.
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Arvorig FM is all Breton.
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Radio Bro Gwened is bi-lingual (French/Breton, including Gwenedeg dialect), with special emphasis on education and music.
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Radio Kreiz Breizh is bi-lingual (French/Breton), presenting news, politics, music, and culture of the region.
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I’m creating a blog and RSS feed for my Celtic WebRadio Sites website. I previously had an RSS feed, but shortly after I started it, I had a hard-drive crash that caused me to lose the (rather primitive) implementation mechanism I was then using. Dealing with the adverse effects of the crash took many weeks, and I somehow didn’t get around to setting up the RSS feed again.
This time around, I’m using WordPress, which is an excellent blogging, RSS, and podcasting tool.
My hope is to post one or two messages per week to this blog, each presenting a WebRadio broadcast site or podcast dealing with Celtic languages or music. Comments are welcome.
Rudy Ramsey
Website: Celtic WebRadio Sites
Blog/RSS: Celtic WebRadio Sites Blog