Saturday, June 25, 2016

Thistle

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/22/483106556/the-thistle-shamrock-the-longest-day


June 16, 2016Print
Program 1725: The Longest Day (June 16, 2016) Week 24
Ancient holidays, festivals and fertility rituals marked the time when the sun reaches its greatest height in the northern hemisphere.  Fiona joins in with music and song handpicked to celebrate the longest period of daylight.
Fire Dance...by Richard Wood from Fire Dance (Iona)
Roly Gentle/Hot Rivets/Tartar Frigate/Closed Face Reel...by Kathryn Tickell from The Very Best of Kathryn Tickell (Park)
Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance...by Loreena McKennitt from Parallel Dreams (Quinlan Road)
Tine Gheal/Bright Fire...by Anam from Tine Gheal/Bright Fire (Linn)
An Hour in the Gloaming...by Jim Malcolm from The First Cold Day (Beltane
Blackberry Festival Footrace/For Reals...by Hanneke Cassel from For Reasons Unseen (Cassel Records)
[ID Excerpt] Firedance/Andalucia...by Brendan Power from Plays the Music from Riverdance (Greentrax)
Beltaine...by Lúnasa from Lúnasa (Compass
We Build Fires...by The Poozies from Raise Your Head (A Retrospective) (Compass)   
The Fire of the Spirit...by Richard Souther from Illumination. Hildegard von Bingen: the Fire of the Spirit (Sony)
Flowers of Spring/The Wily Old Man...by John Carty from Yeh, That's All It Is (Shanachie
Snowdrops/Birth...by Maddy Prior from Year (Park
A Rosebud By My Early Walk...by The Birnam Quartet from The Music of Burns (Shoogle)
Firedance...by Bill Whelan from Riverdance (Celtic Heartbeat)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/sep/02/kathryn-tickell-interview


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