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The Temple Records website gives you access to the best in Scottish Traditional Music, plus a little bit of Irish Music for good measure. Here at Temple, we have some of the best Scottish Traditional harp, bagpipe and fiddle music plus gaelic song, singer/songwriters like Pat Kilbride and not forgetting Battlefield Band. From artists...
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The harp that once through Tara’s halls the soul of music shed, now hangs as mute on Tara’s walls, as if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, so glory’s thrill is o’er, and hearts that once beat high for praise, now feel that pulse no more To tell the...
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The Celtic MP3s Music Magazine is seeking CD reviews of Irish, Scottish, Breton, Galacian, Nova Scotian Celtic CDs. All styles of Celtic music accepted from Traditional Folk to Celtic Rock to Celtic New Age. New and old CD reviews accepted. Each review must be a minimum of 250 words. Reviews become the property of...
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There’s definitely one big advantage to working at UT Austin. That was lunch time with Lunasa. On Wednesday (I think this was the last of the season), the Cactus Cafe hosts love music outside of the Texas Union when the weather is nice. The weather wasn’t great today, so instead, I spent my hour...
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The Celts celebrated Halloween as Samhain, ‘All Hallowtide’ – the ‘Feast of the Dead’, when the dead revisited the mortal world. The celebration marked the end of Summer and the start of the Winter months. During the eighth century the Catholic Church designated the first day of November as ‘All Saints Day (‘All Hallows’)...
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