High Country Celtic Radio

Series produced by High Country Celtic Radio

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From Nevada’s high desert to the mighty Sierra, Katie and Joe journey across the world of Celtic Traditional and Contemporary music.

High Country Celtic Radio focuses on the Traditional music and trad-based music of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Wales, and northern Spain, performed by musicians across the world. This is (mostly) about traditional songs and acoustic music, featuring traditional instruments.

"Celtic Music" conjures up different concepts of musical styles depending on whom you ask, for it encompasses a huge variety of music, from New Age, through Traditional, to rock. As denizens of Northern Nevada, hosts Joe Bly and Katie Marie may not be in one of the epicenters of Traditional Music like Boston, County Clare, or Chicago, but they are working, trad musicians that share their enjoyment of all things Trad.

For stations, we also offer FTP downloads and personalized evergreen and weekly promos.

Many of our episodes are tied to specific dates or seasons, but the "free-for-all" and "raggle-taggle" pieces are pretty sure to be evergreen. Prior to episode 34, we ran two-hour episodes, but each segment can be easily run as an hour. Hide full description

High Country Celtic Radio focuses on the Traditional music and trad-based music of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Wales, and northern Spain, performed by musicians across the world. This is (mostly) about traditional songs and acoustic music, featuring traditional instruments."Celtic Music" conjures up different concepts of musical styles depending on whom you ask, for it encompasses a huge variety of music, from New Age, through Traditional, to rock. As denizens of Northern Nevada, hosts Joe Bly and Katie Marie may not be in one of the epicenters of Traditional Music like Boston, County Clare, or Chicago, but they are working, trad musicians that share their enjoyment of all things Trad.For stations, we also offer FTP downloads and personalized evergreen and weekly promos. Many of our... Show full description


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Our Raggle-Taggle shows take the last ten shows, collect all the tracks from the playlists that didn't make the cut due to time, and we give them a...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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It's Independence Day here in the States, and Katie Marie and Joe celebrate not with fireworks, but with Celtic music played by American artists

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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This week, Katie Marie and Joe beat the heat by spinning up cool, Celtic tracks without any overall theme.

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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It's the Three Instruments of the Apocalypse: Accordions, Banjos, and Bagpipes.

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Katie Marie and Joe take a trip across the Irish Sea and the Channel to visit the Celtic regions of Europe: Brittany and Northern Spain

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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The Celtic holiday Lughnasadh is celebrated on August 1st as a time to commemorate the harvest and to start looking down the year to the coming of ...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week, Katie Marie and Joe put together a show featuring songs and tunes about the four elements: earth, fire, water, and air

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, it's just too hot to be thoughtful and clever, so Katie Marie and Joe put together a Free For All show, where there isn't a unifying the...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, Katie Marie and Joe take a musical tour around the world, where the music is from artists that don't come from Scotland, Ireland, or the...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on High Country Celtic Radio, Katie Marie and Joe play tracks that they enjoy, unlinked by any theme

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, Katie Marie and Joe celebrate the laborers chronicled in Celtic music that struggle for better wages, safer conditions, and a better life

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Every tenth show, Katie Marie and Joe put together a playlist featuring the tracks that didn't make the final cut over the last ten shows

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
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It's the Autumnal Equinox this week, and we don't know about you, but we're ready for summer to be over

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week, Katie and Joe watched people fleeing fires, floods, war, and poverty to find safety and a better life elsewhere, even if only temporarily

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
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This week, Katie Marie and Joe revisit one of our favorite topics: the Irish Wooden Flute.

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This week, Katie Marie and Joe pull up some Scottish traditional music featuring (mostly) Scottish performers

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
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This week, we feature piping from around the Celtic nations.

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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The veil between this material world and the spirit realms has grown thin, and Katie and Joe spin up some tracks to celebrate Samhain.

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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Every so often, Katie Marie and Joe put together a show featuring music from women artists or from bands dominated by women

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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It's the week of Veteran's Day in the US, which falls on November 11th

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12