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CELTIC MUSIC & More, broadcasting since 1979, with co-hosts Bill Dudley & Seán Sexton.
The best of traditional folk & contemporary songwriting from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England.
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CALENDAR — Upcoming on Music of the Isles …
11/16-22. We again turn to great tracks from the last few years.
11/23-29. The Thanksgiving holiday allows us to give thanks in song to friends and family. We offer songs to announce our love for our close ones, but we won’t be shying away from songs that also speak to how family friction sometimes, too, sparks at the dinner table.
11/30-12/6. Our annual O’Carolan Special is a tribute to the blind, itinerant, Irish harper Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738). It’s a show of contemporary Celtic artists playing his compositions.
12/7-13. We’re celebrating the diversity found in the Celtic lands and in Celtic music by playing Gaelic songs equally represented and respected right alongside English language songs.
12/14-20. Aware that this time of year the Solstice brings long nights, we help you to fill them by delivering a long “van full” show of Celtic Soul—long songs from Van Morrison. Stay tuned for a soulful journey.
12/21-27. This year for our CHRISTMAS SHOW we present a program of English carols.
12/28-1/3. We bring you the Best of 2024, releases this year that we quite liked. Thank you for tuning in throughout this past year. We’ve enjoyed bringing you the music. Thanks for your support throughout the years. We wish you and yours a very Happy New Year.
Bill Dudley has spent a lifetime in radio, working at a number of stations in the Tampa Bay Area. He began hosting the Music of the Isles show in early 1980. Bill founded the first Irish traditional band in Florida, the Wind That Shakes the Barley. Since the eighties he has made a living recording acoustic music albums for folks, as well as producing radio documentaries for the Florida Humanities Council, and, more recently, promotional and documentary video at billdudley.com.
Seán Sexton, co-host Music of the Isles, 2000 to present, is a retired English teacher. His great interest lies in folk balladry. Further, he received his MA degree in the Creative
Writing of Poetry while residing in Ireland. He holds both an Irish passport and a US passport.
