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CELTIC MUSIC & More, broadcasting since 1979, with co-hosts Bill Dudley & Seán Sexton.
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CALENDAR — Upcoming on Music of the Isles …
3/22-28. We continue on airing great selections of contemporary Celtic folk. These tracks are from 2023.
3/29-4/4. This month WMNF promotes Woman Empowerment. To close the month, we have an all-women artists program. These musicians will be covering songs from three seminal performer-songwriters: Canada’s Joni Mitchell (folkie), England’s Sandy Denny (folk rocker), and Scotland’s Annie Lennox (pop rocker).
4/5-11. This week we have an ARTHURIAN THEME in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the release of the film Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
4/12-18. We include a set of Lowell George compositions covered by Celtic artists in this week’s show. Lowell, a great songwriter and excellent slide guitarist, known for founding the hot band Little Feat, would have turned 80 this week. Sadly, he passed in 1979.
4/19-25. We’re paying a musical visit to the Isle of Man, one of the 6 Celtic nations. Stay tuned for songs both in English and the native Manx, along with traditional tunes.
4/26-5/2. April is National Poetry Month. We’re celebrating with Celtic artists setting poems to music. This year we have an all-Irish artists lineup singing the works of Irish poets.
5/3-9. We’re celebrating the 70th Birthday of Garnet Rogers, singer-songwriter, noted tunesmith and accomplished guitarist and fiddler.
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.
