Episodes

  • KPC_2026_01_11_Podcast

    KPC_2026_01_11_Podcast
    Jan 18 2026
    Our 577th episode, which aired on January 11, 2026. Tern – Smackpolskan, Flyway The McDades – Peggy-O, single release Becky Tracy & Keith Murphy – Nobody's Fool/Mr Roberts/The Puppeteer, Golden The Drowsy Lads – When First Unto this Country, Everybody In Danny Diamond & Brian Miller – The Priest In His Boots, Let Fly The Barra MacNeils – Horses, Geese And One Old Man, All at Once Olivia Barrett – One for Sorrow/Two for Joy, Elsewhere River East River West All Star Band – Too Many Whiskeys Under the Bridge, single release Solas – Coconut Dog/Morning Dew, Reunion: A Decade of Solas Gordon Lightfoot – Drink Yer Glasses Empty, Songbook Elaine Reilly – Seán Quinn’s/St Stephen’s Day, Epiphany: Irish Traditional Music on the Tenor Banjo Sean Og Potts with Manus Lunny – Easter Snow, The Irish Folk Festival: Harvest Storm
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    59 mins
  • KPC_2026_01_04_Podcast

    KPC_2026_01_04_Podcast
    Jan 10 2026
    Our 576th episode, which aired on January 4, 2026, and featured our annual New Years episode. James Cullinan – Dancing Eyes/Old Man Dillon/The Banks of Newfoundland, Here It Is The Oyster Band & friends – New Jerusalem, The Big Session Vol. 1 Kierah – Charlotte’s Web/Strong Bow/New Custom House /Under the Gun, Strong Bow David Howley – The Newry Highwayman, Of Songs & Tunes Andrea Beaton – The New Stove, The Tap Session Owen Marshall – Flannery's Dream/The New Mown Meadow, Throughline Carlos Sweeney McCartin – Con Curtin’s Big Balloon/The Man of the House/The New Line to Loughaun, The One After It Brad Tuck – Song for Newfoundland, The Rocky Isle Katherine Moller – New Beginnings Medley, Sheila’s Brush Alasdair Fraser & Paul Machlis – Lady Charlotte Campbell's New Strathspey/Lady Charlotte Campbell's Reel, Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle Vol. 1 Danu – The New House/Brown-Eyed Bridget/The Humours of Holliston, The Pearl Album: Live in Celebration Malcolm MacNeil – The New Land, The Bridge
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    59 mins
  • KPC_2025_12_28_Podcast

    KPC_2025_12_28_Podcast
    Jan 4 2026
    Our 575th episode, which aired on December 28. 2025, and featured our look back at 2025. TRIP – The 50 Reels, In Terra’s Keep Jenn Butterworth – Little Sparrow, Her By Design J.P. Cormier – The Duke of Fife Medley, 50 Years of Guitar Matthew Byrne – Lovely MaryAnne, Stealing Time Gnoss – Bennybeg, single release Danu – The Poor Man’s Fortune/The Long Strand/Reel Gan Ainm, The Pearl Album: Live in Celebration James Cullinan – Atlantic Wave/Lough Mountain/The Fourpenny Bit, Here It Is Cyril MacPhee – Nova Scotia to Me, Back on Track Nathan Gourley, Joey Abarta & Owen Marshall – The Primrose Road/The Tramp/Martin Wynne's, Copley Street 2 Enda Scahill and Joel Andersson – The Wind That Shakes The Barley, The Dark Well Dàimh – Còta Mòr, single release Heather MacIsaac – Ali's Waltz/The Sunshine King Boxing Day/Townhouse Session, The Moon’s Daughter
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    59 mins
  • KPC_2025_12_21_Podcast

    KPC_2025_12_21_Podcast
    Dec 28 2025
    Our 574th episode, which aired on December 21, 2025, and featured our annual holiday episode of Christmas and winter-themed Celtic music. Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy – St. Nick’s, One Boiled in Lead – Apple Tree Wassail, Silver Blackwater Ceili Band – Apples in Winter/The Green Fields of Woodford/James McMahon's, Music in the Valley Touchstone – White Snow, Jealousy Countercurrent – Her Bright Smile/Skating on the Harborfront, Not So But Far Otherwise Aisling Brendan Conal – Snow on the Tracks/Miss Ramsay’s, Jump Out of It Damien O’Kane & Ron Block – Two Metre Gossip/The Icy Skid, Banjovial Christine Primrose – Last Night My Mind Was.../The Drunkenness That Christmas Brought Us, Celtic Mouth Music Greenfire – The Ice Castle/Old Rag, Greenfire The Glencoe Lads – Shetland: Christmas Day I'da Mornin', Home Port Bohola – Christmas Concerto, Bo-Ho-Ho-Hola The Chieftains – The Dingle Set Dance, The Bells of Dublin John McCutcheon – For Unto Us A Child Is Born, Water from Another Time
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    59 mins
  • KPC_2025_12_14_Podcast

    KPC_2025_12_14_Podcast
    Dec 21 2025
    Our 573rd episode, which aired on December 14, 2025, and featured music from and conversation with Cape Breton guitarist Malcolm MacNeil. Assynt – Assynt House, Where From Here Cara Dillon – Johnny Lovely Johnny, Hill of Thieves Michael McGoldrick & Tim Edey – Rocking the Boat/Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie, Jamland Dane Pedersen – Travelling Alone, Travelling Alone Malcolm MacNeil – The Stubbert Medley, The Bridge Malcolm MacNeil – Bridge Jigs, The Bridge Interview with Malcolm MacNeil Malcolm MacNeil – Gordon’s Hook, The Bridge Malcolm MacNeil – An Eala Bhàn, The Bridge Merry Hell – Lizard on a Log, Rising of the Bold Malcolm MacNeil – Our Highland Queen, The Bridge
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    59 mins
  • KPC_2025_12_07_Podcast

    KPC_2025_12_07_Podcast
    Dec 13 2025
    Our 572nd episode, which aired on December 7, 2025. Capercaillie – Brenda Stubbert’s Set, Waulkroots Some One's Sons – The Chance to Feel Alive, single release Aisling Brendan Conal – The Skylarks Ascension/Sonny Brogan’s/The Connaughtman Rambles, Jump Out of It Ispini Na hEireann – Johnny Jump Up, Poxtail Soup Brenda Castles – The Shaskeen/The Jolly Tinker, The Light Side of the Tune Graham MacKenzie & Rory Matheson – Take Six, Take Six Malcolm MacNeil – Kyle Tunes, The Bridge Tessa Rose Jackson – By Morning, The Lighthouse Athena Tergis – Paddy Kelly’s/The Drunken Tinker/Con McGinley’s, A Letter Home John Jenkins – The Disappearance, Restless Hearts Ciaran O Maonaigh – Kitty O’Neil’s, Caillte sa Cheol | Lost in the Music Countercurrent – Two Rivers, Not So But Far Otherwise
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    59 mins
  • KPC_2025_11_30_Podcast

    KPC_2025_11_30_Podcast
    Dec 7 2025
    Our 571st episode, which aired on November 30, 2025, and featured music and conversation with Natalie MacMaster about her new book, I Have A Love Story. Natalie MacMaster – Stumpie, Cape Breton Girl Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy – Tribute to Buddy, One Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy – Dance Arnold Dance, Canvas Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy – Wish You Were Near, Canvas Interview with Natalie MacMaster Natalie MacMaster – Patricia Kelso’s, Sketches Natalie MacMaster – Barndances, Sketches Natalie MacMaster – Killiecrankie, Sketches Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy – Fiddler’s Despair, One Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy – Joyous Waltz, One
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    59 mins
  • KPC_2025_11_23_Podcast

    KPC_2025_11_23_Podcast
    Nov 30 2025
    Our 570th episode, which aired on November 23, 2025, and featured Shawn Collins co-hosting and programming a selection of Celtic music on hammered dulcimer. Dave Neiman & Beverly Woods – Lady Athenry, Balance on Air Dave Neiman & Beverly Woods – Carolan’s Draught, Balance on Air Guy George – Fanny Poer, Dream Castle Rich Mullins – 78 Eatonwood Green, A Liturgy A Legacy and a Ragamuffin Band Dan Landrum & Rich Humphries – Stickman Jig, Landrum/Humphries Karen Alley – Glass Island Reel, Sunlit Strings Dan Landrum & Rich Humphries – Planxty Oleson, Landrum/Humphries Guy George – The Shepherdess, Dream Castle Karen Alley – Twilight Dance, Sunlit Strings Nate Pultorak – The Wandering, Of Trees and Stars and Stuff Scott Williams – Atholl Highlanders, Road to Lisdoonvarna Magical Strings – Hardiman Jigs, Fairy Winds Magical Strings – Galloping Gertie/Caught in the Rain, Fairy Winds Russell Cook – Carrickfergus, Twilight in the Highlands Scott Williams – Three Nightingales, Road to Lisdoonvarna Nate Pultorak – The Road to Lisdoonvarna/Morrison’s Jig/The Blarney Pilgrim, Of Trees and Stars and Stuff Maggie Sansone – Variations on an Irish Air, A Celtic Fair
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    1 hr