Just curious.
I listen to:
1: Corrs
2: Chieftains
3: Orthadox Celts
4: The High Kings
5: Owl City
6: Green Day
7: Enya (I AM NOT A NEW AGE LOVER , I only like a few of her songs such as: May it Be)
I can’t think of any more at the moment…
Any imput is welcome!
Irish:-
Teada
Kila
Dervish
Altan
Dubliners
Coscan
Cherish the Ladies
The Sands
Craobh Rua
etc etc etc
Scottish:-
Deaf Shepherd
Old Blind Dogs
Silly Wizard
Battlefield Band
Boys of the Lough
Julie Fowlis and band
Paul McKenna band
Emily Smith band
The Chair
Session A9
Macumba
etc etc etc
David
This is what I just listened to on my MP3 player this last week.
Eric Clapton
Norah Jones
Pink Floyd DSOTM
Natalie Cole
Sting
Bombay Bicycle Club
Aspie types don’t spend a lot of time listening, but we pay close attention when we do.
Not Groups so much…
Kathryn Tickell. My best of CD went missing lately, and I’m still irked about that. I might even buy a replacement.
Liam Flynn
Seamus Ennis
Battlefield Band
Planxty
Inu
Boys of the Lough
All Blacked Up
The Bursledon Village Band
Michael Ormiston & Candida Valentino
Stackridge
Kate Fletcher & Corwen Broch
Abbie Lathe
John Martyn
Geckoes
Kirsty MacColl
Woody Guthrie
Bonzos
Too many to list in too many categories is my short answer.
Put it this way, my MP3 player has over 760 albums by over 360 artists on it, covering everything from Rock, Prog, Country, Folk, Blues, World and Classical. Jazz and hip-hop/rap are about the only things I can’t listen to.
Current rock stuff I’m listening to includes Mumford & Sons, I Am Kloot and Elbow
At the folky end of stuff I’m listening to Flook, Spiers and Boden, Kris Drever, Lau, Kathryn Tickell and Lunasa quite a lot at the moment.
Just now: on a journey of discovering Hungarian Csángó dance music, with wooden whistle/ low kaval-whistle as a lead instrument:
Zurgó együttes - Hojna: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41xka2xzCS8
Tűz Lángja zenekar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAFqE7eBVqg
Csürrentő együttes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoP7SRSeaXY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSY4oTQpzI8
Hojna reminds me of old time music. Zurgó was filmed in a Budapest dance house.
Tűz Lángja was filmed at the Budapest Christmas market.
I love the last Csürrentő clip, filmed in the open, with the kids joining in.
együttes and zenekar just mean band or group
Hmmm.
Not sure what lists accomplish but here goes. I don’t listen to Irish music much, but I do have some.
Heidi Talbot (she’s Oir 'ish! She used to sing with Cherish the Ladies)
The Innocence Mission (Pennyslvania)
Sam Phillips (California)
Maire Brennan (sister of glam new-age Enya 
)
Sarah Slean (Canada)
Veda Hille (Canada)
Basia Bulat (Canada)
Gillian Welch (I’m not a fan of her Dave Rawlings side)
Cowboy Junkies (until their last few albums that is…)
Julie Doiron (well…ok-ish)
Indigo Girls (early stuff only)
Maria McKee
Heather Nova (Jasmine Flower is beautiful!)
Victoria Williams
I wonder what happened with the later years of the Indigo Girls?
It depends on where I am, who I am with, and what I am doing, but I absolutely can’t stand Edith Rice Pilaf, or More Rice Chevalier or atonal contemporary, or whispery, consumption suffering, ethereal female vocalists, and/or Celtic Woman and Enya or their evil clones.
Random sampling of my Amazon Cloud Drive:
Eddie From Ohio
Emilie Autumn
Old Blind Dogs
Scissor Sisters
Old Crow Medicine Show
Karen Elson
Garfunkel and Oates
Crooked Still
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Steve Miller Band
I didn’t start listening very seriously to Irish and Scottish trad until about six years ago. Since then, I’ve been circling back and picking up on all of the great stuff I missed:
All the geezer flute & whistle players (particularly Mike Rafferty)
All the young lion flute & whistle players (particularly Kevin Crawford)
All the great pipers (particularly Seamus Ennis)
Chieftains
Battlefield Band
Altan
Solas
Planxty
Bothy Band
Patrick Street
Moving Hearts
…and so on…
I saw them live in Toronto and they were stellar with their acoustic set. Their early stuff with REM influences, Jane Scarpantoni on cell and Chris Macguire (ever heard of her?) on vocals were the most devastating acoustic albums I’d ever come across.
They went downhill after Rites of Passage for me. Swamp Ophelia with its grandiose gestures was showing signs of rock stardom and loss of artistic direction. Thereafter, they just being old and tired and bored, like Jimmy Hoffa jokes. Lol. That’s an Aimee Mann cover song. Modern fans of theirs will argue that they offer the peak of what desperate middle-aged housewives can churn up in the kitchen for music.
Word.
Planxty
Battlefield Band
Chieftains
CTL
Rawlins Cross
Kevin Burke & Micheal O Domhnaill
Eric Clapton
Van Morrison
The Bothy Band
Philo
Lunasa
Dervish
Planxty
Deanta
Chieftains
McGoldrick
Hayes
Peoples
Grada
Guidewires
CTL
Taproom Trio
Too many to name in Irish Music.
Non-Irish:
Neil Young
Pink Floyd
Albert King
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Rush
Crazed Mugs
Tom Waits
Steeleye Span
Brian Eno
Renaissance
Gentle Giant
King Crimson
Happy the Man
Steppenwolf
Carly Simon
Janis Ian
Joni Mitchell
Amy Winehouse (RIP)
Muse
Genesis
Deanta
Altan
Planxty
Oh my. Well…
Steeleye Span
Altan
Clannad
Gaelic Storm
Old Blind Dogs
The Irish Rovers
The Dubliners
The Clancy Brothers
Camogie
They Might Be Giants (daughter’s fave)
Peter, Paul and Mary
Huddersfield Choral Society
Irish mostly, but few groups, mostly individuals.
Deanta
Locanda Del Fatte
IQ
Gentle Giant
Il Volo (70’s)
Le Orme
Buffalo Springfield
Cream
Strawbs
Van Der Graaf Generator
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Jackson Browne
Linda Ronstadt
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Marillion