There's so much good music out there! I can't play it all, but my goal is to share with the community the fun and beauty of traditional Celtic music.
For my opinions on most of the bands and musicians featured here, please go here.
For more details and complete discographies, go to the Ceolas Celtic Music Archive.
* Anam: House on the Hill (Riptide)
Relativity There Was a Lady Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Altan Donal Agus Morag (Heart of the Gaels)
* Bonnie Rideout: The Brown-Haired Maiden of the Goats (Soft May Morn)
* Andy Stewart & Manus Lunny: Tae the Weavers Gin Ye Go (Heart of the Gaels)
* Cherish the Ladies: Rolling in the Barell/The Pinch of Snuff/Vincent Campbell's/The Galloping Hound (Threads of Time)
* The Bothy Band: The Blackbird (The Best of the Bothy Band)
* Carol Thompson: Twisting of the Rope/Lady Gethin (The Peacock's Feather)
* Arcona Reel Band: St Brendan's Fair Isle (American Celtic)
* Local Hero: Local Hero Dancing Reels (Peace and Plenty)
* Moving Cloud: Fahy's Jig/Tap Room/The Maid Who Left the Country (Foxglove)
* Altan: Moll Dubh A' Ghleanna (The Best of Altan)
* Dervish: Touching Cloth (At the End of the Day)
* Milladoiro: Muiniera de Vilanova (Castelli Honesti)
* Ad Vielle Que Pourra: Evit Gabriel (Heart of the Gaels)
* Solas: Paddy Taylors/McFaddon's Handsome Daughter/The Narrowback/Frank's Reel/Esther's Reel (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* Johnny Cunningham, Kevin Burke, Christian LeMaitre: Dionne Reel/Mouth of the Tobique (Celtic Fiddle Festival)
* The Tannhill Weavers: Johnnie Cope/The Atholl Highlanders (The Best of the Tannahill Weavers, 1979-1989)
* The House Band: The Grey Funnel Line (October Song)
* Ken Kolodner & Laura Risk: Father Kelly's/Farrel O'Gara's/Richard Dwyer's (Walking Stones)
* Eileen Ivers: The Red-Haired Lass/Paddy O'Brien's/The Scholar (So Far)
* Miko Russell: The Potlick/The Peeler's Jacket (The Russell Family)
* The Bothy Band: The Tar Road to Sligo/Paddy Clancy's (1975)
* Reeltime: Guiness in Germany (Live It Up)
* The Whistlebinkies: The Wee Eddie Reel (A Wanton Fling)
* Capercaillie: Both Sides the Tweed (Heart of the Gaels)
* Natalie MacMaster: The Lass of Carrie Mills/Lennox's Love to Blantyre/Archie Menzies/Reichwall Forest (Fit as a Fiddle)
* Solas: Nil Na La (Solas)
12 February "Last night we spoke of love...."
* Relativity: There Was a Lady
* Aly Bain: Gillan's Reel/Charles Sutherland/Donald Stewart the Piper (Lonely Bird)
* Silly Wizard: Lover's Heart (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
* Altan: Mazurka (The Best of Altan)
* Maura O'Connell: Down by the Salley Gardens (Wandering Home)
* Natalie MacMaster: I'll Always Remember You (Fit as a Fiddle)
* Local Hero: Strathepeys and Reels for Smallpipes (Peace and Plenty)
* Cherish the Ladies: The Green Cottage Polkas (New Day Dawning)
* Reeltime: Believe Me (Live It Up)
* Luke Kelly: Whiskey in the Jar (Irish Drinking Songs)
* Metallica: Whiskey in the Jar (Garage, Inc)
* Ken Kolodner: Clock Waltz/Princess Beatrice/Loudons Bonnie Braes Strathspey/Princess Beatrice's Hornpipe (Walking Stones)
* The Bothy Band: Do You Love an Apple? (1975)
* Natalie MacMaster: If Ever You Were Mine (Fit as a Fiddle)
* Dervish: I Courted a Wee Girl/Josefin's Waltz (Live in Palma)
* Tannahill Weavers: Are Ye Sleepin' Maggie (Choice Cuts)
* Solas: The Primrose Lass/Molly from Longford/The Four Kisses (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* Cherish the Ladies: Green Grow the Rushes Oh (New Day Dawning)
* Altan: Jimmy Lyon's/The Teelin/The Red Crow/Broken Bridge (The Best of ALtan)
* Silly Wizard: Queen of Argyll (Live)
* The Boys of the Lough: Breton Wedding March/The Wild Irishman/The Scholar (Good Friends -- Good Music)
* Dervish: An Eirinn ni neosfainn ce hi (At the End of the Day)
* Deanta: Wille Taylor (There Was a Lady)
* Skyedance: Midnight on Raasay/The Braemar Cappucino (Way Out to Hope Street)
* Tannahill Weavers: Gypsy Laddie (The Best of the Tannahill Weavers, 1979-1989)
* Tannahill Weavers: Wild Mountain Thyme (Choice Cuts)
* Relativity: There Was a Lady
* Gaelic Storm: The Hills of Connemara (Gaelic Storm)
* Reeltime: Swaggering Jigs (Live It Up)
* Cherish the Ladies: Cherish the Ladies (Cherish the Ladies)
* Cherish the Ladies: Character's Polka/The Warlock/The Volunteer/The Donegal Traveller (The Back Door)
* Niamh Parsons: Alexander (Blackbirds and Thrushes)
* The House Band: Tom Hank/African Marketplace (Another Setting)
* Dervish: The Ploughman (Harmony Hill)
* The Whistlebinkies: Nuair a bha mi og (Timber Timbre)
* Tannahill Weavers: Lat May a braw wooer (Leaving St. Kilda)
* Gerald Trimble: War Hent Kerriguoarch/Gavotte de Scrignac (Heart of the Gaels)
* Donal Murphy, Matt Cranitch, Tommy O'Sullivan: Terry 'Cuz' Teahan's/Murphy's/O'Sullivan's (Sliabh Notes)
* The Bothy Band: Casadh An tSugain (The Best of the Bothy Band)
* Natalie MacMaster: Paddy LeBlanc's Set (No Boundaries)
* Ken Kolodner: Kevin Keegan's Waltz (Walking Stones)
* Solas: Vanished Like the Snow (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* Sharon Shannon: Blackbird (The Best of Sharon Shannon)
* Reeltime: Believe Me (Live It Up)
* Skyedance: Reel de Flores (Way Out to Hope Street)
* Milladoiro: Danze de Albarellos (As Fadas de Estrano Nome)
* Patrick Street: Wild ROver No More (Live from Patrick Street)
* Anam: The Last Pint/Trim the Velvet (First Footing)
* Niamh Parsons: Fear a Bhata (Blackbirds and Thrushes)
* Donal Murphy, Matt Cranitch, Tommy O'Sullivan: Siney's Jig/Rathawaun/The Hair in the Corn (Sliabh Notes)
* Altan: Glory Reel/The Heathery Cruach (The Best of Altan)
* Arcona Reel Band: Whiskey Before Breakfast (American Celtic)
26 February The curiousity of naming the tune.... With many thanks to my dear friend Don Cheetham
* Relativity: There Was a Lady
* Patrick Street: The Midnight Ramble/The Bogman/The Old Stage (Made in Cork
* The Boys of the Lough: I'll Buy Boots for Maggie/O'Connor's Polka (Regrouped)
* Seamus Ennis: The Rainy Day/First You Must Learn the Grip (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
* Finbar Furey: Rakish Paddy (The Irish Pipes of Finbar Furey)
* Finbar Furey: The Hag with the Money (The Irish Pipes of Finbar Furey)
* Gaelic Storm: Tell Me Ma (Gaelic Storm)
* Anam: Shetlag (First Footing)
* Sean Keane: The Golden Keyboard/Mayor Harrison's Fedora (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
* Carnloch: The Broken Pledge/The Old Torn Petticoat (The Crooked Road)
* Cherish the Ladies: Three Weeks We Were Wed (The Back Door)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Samuel the Weaver/The Panda/Thunderhead/The Cannongate Twitch (Heart of the Gaels)
* Johnny Cunningham: Celtic Society's Quickstep/42nd Highlander's Farewell (Fair Warning)
* Karan Casey: Roger the Miller (Songlines)
* Dervish: Drag Her Round the Road (At the End of the Day)
* The Boys of the Lough: The Morning Star/The FIsherman's Lilt/The Drunken Landlady (Out of the Wind and Into the Sun)
* Open House: Open House/Two to the Bar/Porter for Three (Open House)
* Jay Ungar & Molly Mason: The Lover's Waltz (The Lover's Waltz)
* Local Hero: The Windmill/Strathbogie Toast/Stewart's Rant (Peace and Plenty)
* Capercaillie: The Haggis (Crosswinds)
* Eoghan O'Sullivan & Gerry Harrington: I'd Rather be Married than Left/Gleantann Frolics/Nora Chrionna (The Smokey Chimney)
* Dervish: I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her (Playing with Fire)
* The Boys of the Lough: Kiss Her Under the Coverlet/The Lads of Alnwick (In the Tradition)
* Planxty: Merrily Kissed the Quaker (The Planxty Collection)
* Phil Cunningham: The House in Rose Valley (Airs and Graces)
* Stephen Quigg: The Bricklayer's Song (Dumbarton's Drums)
* The Whistlebinkies: My Wife's a Drunkard (Timber Timbre)
* Alasdair Fraser: Blue Bonnets over the Border/There Was an Old Woman Tossed up in a Blanket 17 Times as High as the Moon/The Rock and the Wee Pickle Tow (The Driven Bow)
* Gerry O'Connor: Niamh's Capers/The Flogging/The Reconciliation (Gaelic Roots)
* The Wood's Tea Co.: The Scotsman's Kilt
18 March All Irish, all the time...
* Relativity: There Was a Lady
* Carnloch: The Crooked Road/Man of Aran/Bobby Casey's (The Crooked Road)
* The Bothy Band: Rip the Calico (Out of the Wind and into the Sun)
* Cherish the Ladies: Inisheer (Putting on Airs)
* Niamh Parsons: Droimeann Donn Dilis (Blackbirds and Thrushes)
* Planxty: The Kid on the Mountain/An Phis Fhluich (The Well Below the Valley)
* Dervish: Lone Shanakyle (At the End of the Day)
* Altan: Con Cassidy's/Dusty Miller (The Red Crow)
* Gaelic Storm: Sammy's Fancy (Gaelic Storm)
* Eileen Ivers: The Geese in the Bog/The Wandering Minstral/Pride of Moyvane/The Low Road to Glin/The High Road to Glin (Eileen Ivers)
* Cherish the Ladies: The Back Door (The Back Door)
* Jerry O'Sullivan: If Ever You Were Mine (Putting on Airs)
* Altan: Tommy Beatty's Waltz (The Red Crow)
* Cherish the Ladies: The Dance (The Back Door)
* Mick Moloney & Eugene O'Donnell: St. Brendan's Fair Isle (Uncommon Bonds)
* Dick Gaughan: Song for Ireland (Heart of the Gaels)
* The Bothy Band: Green Groves of Erin/The Flowers of Red Hill (1975)
* Mick Moloney: There Were Roses (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
* The Bothy Band: Strayaway Child (Out of the Wind and into the Sun)
* Dervish: An Eirinn ni Neosfainn Ci Hi (At the End of the Day)
* Solas: The Flowing Bowl/Maire Breathnach's #1/The Doon/The Mason's Men (Solas)
* The Boys of the Lough: Welcome Paddy Home (Welcome Paddy Home)
* Patrick Street: McDermott's Reel/The Plough and the Stars/Miss McLeod's (Live from Patrick Street)
* Gaelic Storm: Whup Jamboree (Gaelic Storm)
25 March A walk on the wild side
* Relativity: There Was a Lady
* Phil Cunningham: Ceilidh Funk (The Palamino Waltz)
* Andy M. Stewart & Manus Lunny: The Haughs of Cromdale (At it Again)
* Sharon Shannon: The Bag of Cats (Each Little Thing)
* The House Band: Pharoh (Green Linnet 20th anniversary)
* Donal Lunny: Trip to Sado/Dan-ti dan-dan (Coolfin)
* Arcona Reel Band: Banish Misfortune (American Celtic)
* Martin Hayes & Darol Anger: Banish Misfortune (Diary of a Fiddler)
* Eileen Ivers: DNA Bourrees (Wild Blue)
* Ashley MacIsaac: Sleepy Maggie
* Natalie MacMaster: Catharsis (No Boundaries)
* Capercaillie: Ailein Duinn (To the Moon)
* Altan: A Tune for Frankie (Blackwater)
* Solas: Sraid an Cloig (The Words that Remain)
* Rare Air: Mammoth No Arms (Heart of the Gaels)
* Donal Lunny: Coolfin/Nora Criona (Coolfin)
* Reeltime: Hayes and Hayes (Live It Up)
* Capercaillie: Oh Mo Dhutaich (green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
* Altan: Si Do Mhaimeo (Best of Altan)
* Skyedance: Dizzy (Way out to Hope Street)
* Wolfstone: Clueless (Piping Hot)
* Capercaillie: Co Ni Mine Rium (Beautiful Wasteland)
* Eileen Ivers: Blue Groove (Wild Blue)
* Natalie MacMaster: Reel Beatrice (No Boundaries)
* Alasdair Fraser: Funky 105 (Dawn Dance)
* Rare Air: Onward Blindly Onward (Piping Hot)
* Wolfstone: The Glass and the Can (Pick of the Litter)
* Natalie MacMaster: The Drunken Piper (No Boundaries)
* Sharon Shannon: The Munster Hop (Spellbound)
* Relativity: There Was a Lady
* Gaelic Storm: Sight of Land (Gaelic Storm)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Fisher Row/Newmarket House (Dancing Feet)
* Niamh Parsons: The Water Is Wide (Blackbirds and Thrushes)
* Johnny Cunningham: Sad is my fate (Fair Warning)
* Altan: The Jug of Punch (Best of Altan)
* Sileas: Planxty Crockery/Domhnall Dubh (Play on Light)
* The House Band: Sadam's Reel/Kulsko Horo (Another Setting)
* Andy M. Stewart & Manus Lunny: Take Her in Your Arms (Dublin Lady)
* Gaelic Storm: She Was the Prize (Herding Cats)
* The Whistlebinkies: A China Set (Timber Timbre)
* Capercaillie: Brenda Stubbert's Set (Crosswinds)
* Cherish the Ladies: Broken Wings (New Day Dawning)
* Phil Cunningham: The Palamino Waltz/Donna's Waltz (The Palamino Waltz)
* Sean Keane: The Tennessee Stud/Arkansas Traveller/Miss Susan Cooper (Jig it in Style)
* Patrick Street: When Adam was in Paradise (Made in Cork)
* Solas: Mom's Jig/Bill Nicholson's 67th (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* Full Moon Ensemble: The Bounds of Beauty (Safe Harbour)
* Reeltime: The Mountains of Pomeroy (Live It Up)
* Deanta: Paddy and the Bandit (Whisper of a Secret)
* Karan Casey: Ballad of Accounting (Songlines)
* Patrick Street: The Raheen Medley (Live from Patrick Street)
* Andy Stewart & Manus Lunny: Humours of Whiskey (Dublin Lady)
* Dervish: Buckley's Fancy/Name Unknown/Finn's Reel (Playing with Fire)
* The House Band: The Rocky Road to Dublin (Another Setting)
* Gaelic Storm: After Hours at McGann's (Herding Cats)
8 April The battle of Culloden, 16 April, 1746
* Relativity: There Was a Lady
* Tannahill Weavers: Hieland Harry (Choice Cuts)
* Altan: Fermagh Highland/Donegal Highland/John Doherty's/King George IV (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
* Sileas: Cameron MacFayden/Dr. Cameron's Casebook/Miss Kirsten Lindsay Morrison (Play on Light)
* Full Moon Ensemble: The Bluebells of Scotland (Safe Harbor)
* Silly Wizard: Miss Shepard's/Sweeney's Buttermilk/McGlinchey's Reels (Live Wizardry)
* Aly Bain: Gillian's Reel/Charles Sutherland/Donald Stewart the Piper (Lonely Bird)
* Capercaillie: Both Sides the Tweed (Heart of the Gaels)
* Whistlebinkies: Aye Waulkin' Oh (A Wanton Fling)
* Capercaillie: Rob Roy Reels (To the Moon)
* Tannahill Weavers: Carls o' Dysart (Choice Cuts)
* Silly Wizard: Wha'll be king but Cherlie? (A Glint of Silver)
* Memories of Scottish Weekend: Lezlie and Gordon's Waltz
* Memories of Scottish Weekend: De'il Amang the Tailors
* Tannahill Weavers: The Three Healths (Leaving St. Kilda)
* Local Hero: Mo Run Geal Og/Si Morag (Peace and Plenty)
* Local Hero: Ye Jacobites by Name (Peace and Plenty)
* Local Hero: Blue Bonnets (Peace and Plenty)
* Tannahill Weavers: The Athol Gathering (Leaving St. Kilda)
* Local Hero: Cam Ye By Atholl (Peace and Plenty)
* Local Hero: Brose and Butter (Peace and Plenty)
* Tannahill Weavers: Tranent Muir (1979-1989)
* Local Hero: Burnside of Tynet/John Cheap Chapman (Peace and Plenty)
* Deanta: Culloden's Harvest (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
* Local Hero: Bonnie Charlie's March (Peace and Plenty)
* Local Hero: It was all for our rightful king (Peace and Plenty)
* Local Hero: Hame Hame Hame (Peace and Plenty)
* Sileas: Pi Li Lu (Play on Light)
* Local Hero: MacRimmon's Lament (Peace and Plenty)
* Tannahill Weavers: Hieland Harry (Choice Cuts)
* Tannahill Weavers: Kintail (Piping Hot)
15 April Your DJ was dancing her feet off at NEFFA
22 April
* Relativity: There Was a Lady
* Silly Wizard: The Green Fields of Glentown/The Galtee Reel/Bobby Casey's
#2/Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie's Reel (Kiss the Tears Away)
* Dervish: Molly and Johnny (Playing with Fire)
* Matt Molloy & Sean Keane: Kitty in the Lane/Captain Kelly/The Green
Mountain (A Gentle Breeze)
* Bothy Band: Slides (Out of the Wind and into the Sun)
* Cherish the Ladies: Highway to Kilkenny (New Day Dawning)
* Andy Stewart: At It Again (At It Again)
* Niamh Parsons: The Flower of Magherally O (Blackbirds and Thrushes)
* Altan: The King of the Pipers (The Best of Altan)
* Gaelic Storm: South Australia (Herding Cats)
* Open House: Okarina/The Tattoo (Hoof and Mouth)
* Alasdair Fraser: Lady Louisa Gordon's/Mrs. Gordon of Troup/The Fisher's
Wedding/Lady Harriet Hope/The Mill of Laggan (The Driven Bow)
* Paddy Keenan, Mark Simos, Cathal Hayden: Brendan Tonra's/Drumshambo
Fancy/Paddy Clancy's (Gaelic Roots)
* Solas: Johnny's Gone for a Soldier (Solas)
* The Last Gaspe: Two Rivers (Good to the Last Gasp)
* John McGann: Marie Anne's/the Log Cabin/Old Man, Old Woman/The Musical
Priest/Sailor on the Rock (Gaelic Roots)
* Planxty: The Lakes of Pontchartrain (The Planxty Collection)
* Deanta: Two Days to Go (Whisper of a Secret)
* Liz Carroll: Reel Beatrice/The Abbey Reel (Playing with Fire)
* The House Band: Seven Yellow Gypsies (October Song)
* Bonnie Rideout: The Seagulls of Scarba/How I Passed the winter/Fair
John's Sister/St Kilda Dance (Soft May Morn)
* Andy Stewart: If I never spend a morning without you (At It Again)
* Tony Ellis & Debbie Norris: Snowdrop (Gaelic Roots)
* Dervish: An Spailpin Fanach (At the End of the Day)
* Altan: Con Cassidy's/Dusty Millar (The Red Crow)
* Niamh Parsons: Sally Sits Weeping (Blackbirds and Thrushes)
* The Tannahill Weavers: The Cullins of Rhum (Choice Cuts)
* Altan: Yellow Tinker/Lady Montgomery (Live)
* Gaelic Storm: Drink the Night Away (Herding Cats)