WFUV has some Irish/Scottish music on weekends. Have any of you in the tri-state area listened to it? If so, is it just me or has it been getting less traditional lately?
I’ve been listening to www.liveireland.com lately and like it pretty well. I’m new to ITM, so I’m not sure how “traditional” their traditional station is, but I see a lot of names that I see here.
Sorry - not exactly on topic, but thought it might be of interest. I’m sure there are other streaming ITM stations, but I haven’t really checked.
Jason
Does NPR’s “Thistle and Shamrock” count?
http://www.npr.org/programs/thistle/season/index.html
Its been soooooo long since NPR in Chicago carried it …
Kathleen Biggins’s show A Thousand Welcomes is on WFUV from 9-12 am Eastern time on Saturday mornings. It sounds pretty traditional to my ears, and has been so for the five or six years I’ve been listening to it over the Internet stream. I know there are some other Irish shows on WFUV over the weekend, buit I can’t comment on them as I’ve never listened to them. But Kathleen’s show is great. Also, it’s archived on the WFUV web page, so you can listen to the stream anytime you want if you miss hearing the show live on Saturday morning.
Here’s the Boston NPR entry - A Celtic Sojourn. Great program, ranging from the very traditional to the very modern. Site includes playlists, streamimg audio of shows, concerts etc.
http://www.wgbh.org/schedules/program-info?program_id=29996&force_program=1
It doesn’t get more traditional than this:
You can’t exactly listen in your car (unless you happen to live in Ireland), but it’s easy to listen on-line: Just click “Eist.”
The one time you want to avoid is after 9:00 pm (Ireland time), when they have “Anocht FM”…a show geared toward young people that features contemporary rock music (and almost entirely in English). Other than that, it’s pretty much all trad.
Redwolf
Or. . . ya could listen to it with an open mind as long as you know what to expect 
There’s no reason NOT to listen to certain genres. . . IMO.
Yes, but people were looking specifically for trad. You’re not going to find trad on Anocht FM…in fact, you’ll be lucky if the music is even Irish.
I just didn’t want people tuning in and grumbling “I thought Redwolf said this would be trad, but it’s all rac-cheol!”
Redwolf
Unless you don’t like them.
Please excuse the shameless self-promotion, but I’m doing a show on KCSB 91.9 FM out of UC Santa Barbara, also webcast at www.kcsb.org. Every Tuesday morning 10-noon PST.
It’s called the Roadtunes Sessions and always starts out with Irish music, then heads into singer songwriters, both acoustic and electric, and whatever I feel like presenting before ending with a few more Irish tunes and songs.
This week will be a little unusual because I’ll be interviewing a band called Les Shelley’s who do alt country from Southern California. It’ll be my first on air interview!
But, give a listen and see what you think.
Slainte!
Ditto - I’ve been listening to NPR / college stations / alternative radio since the early 70’s when two of my favorite shows were Irish Echo critic Earle Hitchener’s celtic/folk show on WFDU-Teaneck and Chris Teskey’s (now CEO of Green Linnet Records) bluegrass and general folk shows on WPKN-Bridgeport. When Kathleen came on the air I had a new favorite, and she has only improved over the years. Really the best mix of “pure drop” and more commercial IrTrad type stuff I’ve heard anywhere.
I cannot speak about the other shows on WFUV - I don’t listen to them much. In fairness, they serve the Irish immigrant community in New York and so they try to provide the full spectrum of voices and sounds from home. Irish rock and bar band stuff are not my thing, but they make many people happy. I generally don’t tune in for the Sunday show, but I don’t guess they miss me.
All the best,
Tom
Thank you very much for starting this thread on WFUV. What a great archive. More to listen to and more to play on the Roadtunes Sessions.
More = better!