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A man painted green takes part in a Beltane May Day celebration on May 1, 2013 in Glastonbury, England.

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May 18, 2017 Program 1773: Season of Light (May 18, 2017) Week 20 Marked in early May, Beltane is one of four quarter-day festivals in the old year. Join our celebration of the natural elements –Air, Earth, Water and Fire – in a Beltane-themed hour of music. 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 Brendon Power 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)

May 11, 2017 Program 1772: Celtic Piano (May 11, 2017) Week 19 In the right hands, the driving rhythms of fiddle music and the ornamentations of Celtic pipes and harp will all dance freely on piano keys. Join us for a trip to the heart of the Celtic piano music. Jig in the Castle...by Antoni O’Breskey from The Colours of Music (O’Music)  Crest of the Wave: Barr nan Tonn/ The Little Cascade...by Tracey Dares and Paul MacNeill from Castlebaymusic.com (Castlebay Music) What Am I Bid…by Bill Jones from Bits & Pieces (Compass)  The Lowlands of Holland...by Antoni O’Breskey from Irish Airs (Forest Hill Records)  Liza’s Dream/The Westside Highway...by Cherish the Ladies from Threads of Time (RCA)  Brian Boru...by Micheal O’Suilleabhain from Between Worlds (Virgin) A Day Without Rain...by Enya from A Day Without Rain (Warner)  ID Excerpt: Masons Apron/My Love Is In America...by Seamus Egan from When Juniper Sleeps (Shanachie) At the Races...by Nightnoise from The White Horse Sessions (Windham Hill) The Banks of Claudy...by Maighread & Triona Ni Dhomhnaill from Idir an Da Sholas: Between theTwo Lights (Green Linnet)   Cuillin Hills...by Nightnoise from At the End of the Evening (Windham Hill) Reel: Graf Spee...by Dennis Botzer from The House (Sodaspeak)   The Birken Tree ...by Bachue from A Certain Smile (Culburnie)   Turas Go Tir Na nOg :Journey to the Land of Youth...by Micheal O’Suilleahain from Templum (Virgin) The Tipsy Sailor/The Future is Bright...by Simon Thoumire & David Milligan from The Big Day In (Foot Stompin)