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The Thistle & Shamrock
On The Thistle & Shamrock, award-winning radio host Fiona Ritchie 
explores evolving musicfrom Celtic roots in Europe and North America. You'll hear well-established and newly emerging recording artists along with in-studio guests, all surveying familiar territory and leading you to more distant landscapes and genres.
The Thistle and Shamrock is distributed by NPR.
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Recent editions of The Thistle and Shamrock
Jun 12, 2013 — Three decades after her journey into radio started, Fiona Ritchie meets up with the man who was her very first interview: Alan Reid, known for his long career with the legendary Battlefield Band.
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Jun 5, 2013 — There's more to this roots music business than high-energy dance tunes. Kick back with some soothing voices and some free-spirited instrumentals.
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May 22, 2013 — Meet Julie Fowlis who provided the singing voice in "Brave", Pixar's Oscar-winning animation set in the ancient Highlands of Scotland. Raised in the Outer Hebrides, Julie is reaching contemporary audiences with Gaelic music, and is one of a small group of singers bringing it into the cultural mainstream.
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May 15, 2013 — From the Northern Isles of Shetland and Orkney, to the Hebrides, the Isle of Man and Rathlin Island off the northern Irish coast, this week's diverse choice of music is insular only in the geographical sense.
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May 8, 2013 — It's time to unwrap the latest batch of newly arrived recordings to hear what's new from established artists and uncover the emerging talent.
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May 1, 2013 — How do you deliver a message of social justice, peace or environmental consciousness in a way that draws in an audience, regardless of their political stance? Find out in the songs of Christy Moore, Dougie MacLean, Maire Brennan, Sally Barker and others.
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Apr 24, 2013 — Old songs provide a lens through which we can view lifestyles and work-ways, now passed into history, when manual labors filled the day. Hear of horse-drawn ploughs, hand loom weavers, miners and the men who fished under sail with Davy Steele, Dick Gaughan, Christine Kydd and many more.
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Apr 17, 2013 — Intoxicating melodies from Brittany fill the air this week, with the ensemble of Kornog and Skolvan, vocalist Annie Ebrel, and the father of contemporary Celtic music in Brittany, Alan Stivell.
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