Trad Radio

Irish Flute
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Hey Folks,
I’ve been listening in to Irish traditional streamcasts via http://shoutcast.com and was wondering if anyone else knows of any others.

My favorites are:
Celtic Echoes Radio
Live Ireland–Traditional

and non-trad

Otto’s BAROQUE Music

Are the steams out there that I’m missing??

Thanks,
Byron

2

You would be interested in Celtic WebRadio. Have you found all of them?

Live365.com has a couple of good stations on it that I frequent, other than Rte 1 Ireland for The Late Session and Ceili House.

3

There is a quaint radio program out of County Mayo with Tommy Murphy that is here http://www.shamrockradio.com/ He plays more of the old songs than I usually like, but sometimes I’m in the mood.

Clark

4

Aahh, good topic. One of the best resources for streaming folk music is the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/folk_promo.shtml

This gives an overview of all folk music related radio broadcasts of the BBC. Especially “Folk Club” and “Culan” are great in my opinion!

5

There’s also The Late Session and Ceili House:

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/weekend/latesession/
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/weekend/ceilihouse/

Those are good, I try to listen to them every week (as long as I don’t forget!)

Then theres Clare FM:
http://www.clarefm.ie/

Trad music everyday 7pm to 9pm Irish time.

WFUV has this show called a Thousand Welcomes. Its a 3 hour show and there’re lots of archives on the site for you to access so you can catch up on past broadcasts. They play mostly commercial releases, bands and such.

www.wfuv.org

6

Thanks Everyone,

Fancy, that links page is going to be especially useful. The section of “scheduled” events is something I’ve been looking for.

Any more? I was secretly (ok, not so secret) wishing that someone might bring out the “All fiddle and flute Radio Show”…programmed especially for … well … Me.
But, I guess that’s really what CD’s are for.

Peace,
Byron

7

I enjoy listening to Radio Celt.

You’re able to choose from a few different subchannels, and also deselect artists that you don’t care to listen to.

8

I have a great jukebox (a computer running Linux) with all my cd’s ripped and encoded into oggvorbis (think mp3 but with better quality and open source). I can select piping, whistling, fiddling, fluting, very few concertina tunes (boy are they hard to find) or all and play in a random order. I also have most of my old vinyl and tapes recorded and encoded (that is the real chore, recording and editing).

It beats the heck out of a CD player unless you go some more bucks than I have in this cheap home made computer.

9

If you have a Mac, iTunes is good jukebox, too. Just create a Fiddle + Flute playlist, move stuff in there from your library, and boom. That’s actually how I make all my “Irish Monster Mix” CDs anymore …