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Beoga are Back In the Lab after dropping out of Ed Sheeran’s tour. Finnish folk metalists, Ritva Nero drop Bombschottische, more new music from NYC’s Celtic Cross, Edinburgh’s Sisken Green, Breton Bourrees from Trouz Bras, and Shooglenifty pour out some ​compassion for the Bairns (Babies) Of Gaza. Music the wells up with heart and conscience from Celt In A Twist!   Beoga - Back In the Lab  Celtic Cross - Slan Go Foill  Cassie And Maggie - The Big Hewer  CANCON The Paperboys - I’ve Just Seen A Face CANCON Ritva Nero - Bombschottische  Roddy MacDonald - Bullet Train  Sisken Green - As I Went Walking Hayden Stern - The Morning Dark  The Go Set - The Miner’s Son  Grumpy O Sheep - Strayaway Child  Trouz Bras - Rainy Day Bourree/Courtship Bourree  Rum Ragged - The Apple Tree  CANCON Shooglenifty - Bairns O Gaza  Louise Bichan - Binnorie  Rawlins Cross - Joey Clements/Red Island Tune CANCON   59:37

Celt In A Twist regales with nautical tales this hour! Orkney fiddler tells the fable of the sea witch, Mammy Scott, a Celtpunk historical tale of the Shacklten expedition to the South Pole from the Real McKenzies, while The Dreadnoughts hoist anchor on the saucy Rosibella. PLUS, brand new Shooglenifty, their 10th and best yet! It all unfolds before your ears under the steady hand of Patricia Fraser. Heave away!   Shooglenifty - Up The McFud  Celtic Cross - TossItBack Melisande & Mamselle Ruiz - Sans Courir Toujours  CANCON The McDades - Telegraph Reel/tThe Three Sisters CANCON Basco - Jacky Tar  Dropkick Murphys - Chesterfields and Aftershave  Louise Bichan - Mammy Scott  The Real McKenzies - Fortitudine Vincimus/Shackleton George Duff - Gin I Were A Baron’s Heir  Nevrida - Matylek  Sketch - Bulgarian Shed  Dervish feat. Iron & Wine - Rock The Machine  The Dreadnoughts - Rosibella  CANCON Hayden Stern - Bomb Cyclone    59:53

Because the best Celtic comes from Canada, Celt In A Twist presents an hour of 100 percent Canadian Content, featuring Pat Chessell, ​The​ Real McKenzies and Early Spirit from the west, Melisande and MAZ from Quebec, Maritimers and prairie dogs alike. From coast to coast to coast, Canada loves its Celt In A Twist!   Adrianna Ciccone & Ellen Gibling - The Golden Goose  Artists For Action - Which Side Are You On  Vishten Connexions - Expansion  Pressgang Mutiny - Haul Away Joe  Pat Chessell - My Own Town  Melisande - Disco set Carre MAZ - Brique Chaud  Lucy MacNeil - I Know My Love The McDades - Peggy-O  The Mahones - Shakespeare Road (feat. Greg Keelor fr. Blue Rodeo) Haggis X-1 - This Is The Place (Caledonia) The Real McKenzies - Black Agnes Early Spirit - That’s Right  The Fretless - Lost Lake   59:52

Conscious Celtic for our times! New-style fiddling from Seattle’s Hayden Stern launches the hour. We take you back to a night at The Blarney Stone with The Town Pants, board The Earthship for our Cosmic Celtic trek and The Real McKenzie’s confess their love for ewe, a sheep named Fiona!    Hayden Stern - Boston Harbour Welcome  Lexington Field - Steps  Haggis X-1 - Arthur’s Gold (Any Means Of Persuasion) CANCON The Town Pants - Rasputin CANCON Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage - Reynardine  Homeland - Pressed For Time Stramash - Bonnie Ship The Diamond Patrick Mangan - The Canadian Set  Willos - Ophelia  The Real McKenzies - Fiona (Wee Luv Ewe)  CANCON Sketch - The Earthship Afro Celt Sound System - The Mantra  Steve Dawson - Hale Road Revolution  CANCON   59:52

So, that was Labour Day. We relish the last Summer Scraps from Alba’s Edge, Open the heavens with a Summer Storm from Patrick Mangan, tipple some Celtic Creole and Scottish Celtronica. You’ll even hear sounds from Finland and Galicia when you’ve got yer Celt In A Twist, this week with Patricia Fraser! Patrick Mangan - Summer Storm  The Go Set - Opportunities  Thunderor - Cape Breton Home CANCON  The Real McKenzies - I Love A Lassie Roamin’ In The. Gloaming CANCON Alan Stivell - Brezhnev Raok  Alba’s Edge - Summer Scraps  Lost Bayou Ramblers - Granny Smith  Maggie’s Wake - Louisiana CANCON La Bottine Souriante - Suede Inn  CANCON Niteworks - A Toll Dub feat. Sian  ROS - Ball de la Carxofa  Salamakannel - Salamahumppa  Aoife O’Donovan wq/ Kris Drever - Transatlantic Ashley MacIsaac - Johnny Cope  CANCON Laura Hurd - You Again    59:58

Take some time away from the worries of the day. Tap your feet and groove to the beat of a Celtic holiday! RANT play it LIVE in Glasgow for The Day Off, we order Another Round from The Scratch, catch up on our Jane Austen with Trous Braz’ Pride And Prejudice. PLUS, Haggis X-1 deliver LIVE in Plymouth, NH with Congress. You got yer Celt In A Twist!   RANT - The Day Off The Scratch - Another Round Slainte Mhath - Gravel Walks CANCON Sultans Of String - Kitchen Party CANCON Toxic Frogs - The Green Night Trous Braz - Pride And Prejudice Rocky Roads - Doolin Revisited Woodlands Backfall - Wild Mountain Thyme Valtos - Dorn Alexis Chartrand & Nicolas Babineau - Le Batteux CANCON Celtica - Itchy Fingers Haggis X-1 - Congress CANCON   59:59

Celtic comfort coming home to Celt In A Twist! You’ve Got  A Friend in  Australia’s Cloverhearts, Boiled In Lead slip in some jigs to start and The Real McKenzies give a surprising Celt Punk history lesson about Shackleton and the polar voyage of The Endurance! Dance, stroll, plug into the perfect soundtrack for your adventure. You might even learn something 😊 Celt In A Twist!   Boiled In Lead - Slip Jigs The Cloverhearts - You’ve Got A Friend Haggis X-1 - Across The Waves CANCON Jerry Cans - On The Rocks CANCON Drones & Bellows - The Carnival Set Brogeal - Stuck Inside Willos - Pound A Week Rise Martyn Bennett - Ale House The Sidh - The Legend Of Sidh The Real McKenzies - Fortitudine Vincimus/Shackleton CANCON RANT - Goran (Live In Glasgow) Mary Jane. Lamond - The Soldier’s Song CANCON    Phoenyx - Marley O’Reilly   59:58

In celebration of the Simon Fraser Pipe and Drum Corp’s World Championship Celt In A Twist tops the hour with Highland Echoes, a new composition for pipes by Jennifer Licko. Plus, great Canuck Celtic from Melisandre, Rum Ragged, The Real McKenzies and Haggis X-1. The world rings with the sound and soul of Scotland! Join Patricia Fraser for Celt In A Twist!   Highland Echoes - An Dannsa Gaidhlig RANT - The Day Off Melisande - Francos d’Amerique CANCON Rum Ragged - The Apple Tree Maggie McInnes - Bha Mi Raoir A’Gabhail d’Fhradhairc AfroCelt Sound System - My Secret Bliss Baka Beyond - Nangating The Mahones - Is This Bar Open ’Til Tomorrow CANCON Broom Bezzums - A Soulin’ Logical Fleadh - Fermoy Lasses - Noisy Curlew-Gravelwalk Trous Braz - Pardon Spezed-Far Breton The Real McKenzie’s - Black Agnes CANCON Haggis X-1 - March Of The Tartan Turtles CANCON The Ollam - The Arrows That Murder Sleep   59:58

It's a great week for Celtic music with some fresh spins and old chestnuts, like the title track from PM Mark Carney's favourite album, done in a Celtic stylee. Celt In A Twist, today’s Celtic mix each week, with your host Patricia Fraser. Afro Celt Sound System - Anatomic Sketch - The Whelker Beolach - Freddy's Set/Freddy's Reels CANCON Glen Graham & Amy Graham - Tempest Gaels CANCON The Led Farmers - Row By Row Tau & The Drones Of Praise - The Sixth Sun Lena Jonsson & Johanna Juhola - Childhood Hero Basco - Jacky Tarr Barleyjuice - London Calling The Glengarry Bhoys - In A Big Country CANCON Catrin Finch - Be Gone, Begin The McDades - Peggy O CANCON Pat Chessell - Galway Girl CANCON Adrianna Ciccone & Ellen Gibling - The Golden Goose CANCON   59:00

Small pipes, Border pipes, Uilleann pipes, Northumbrian, Galician and of course, Highland pipes. Smoke 'em if you got 'em! This hour has plenty o' pipes and fiddles, banjos and some spicy zydeco accordion. Homegrown Celtic too from Haggis X-1, The Mahones and The McDades.Come get your weekly hit of Celtivity with Celt In A Twist!   Broom Bezzums - Stanhope In Weardale Trouz Bras - Rainy Day Bourree/Courtship Bourree Haggis X-1 - Arthur's Gold (Any Means Of Persuasion) CANCON The Mahones - The Hunger, The Fight (ft. Tara Slone) CANCON Annbjorg Lien - Needles Eye Drones & Bellows - Song Of The Hammers Carlos Nunez - Danza De Espadas The McDades - Gardener's Child CANCON Dervish - Tobar an t'Saoil (ft. Mya Brennan) The Hackensaw Boys - Content Not Seeking Thrills Corey Arceneaux & The Zydeco Fusion Band - Washboard Zydeco Valtos - S.T.W. (ft. Gary Innes) Basco - Down In The Greenwood The Ollam - With Pure Crystal Teeth   59:32

New Celtpunk from Australia! You've Got A Friend down under with The Cloverhearts. Haggis X-1test fire Arthur's Gold and we spin new Tiller's Folly at the Far End Of The Road. Contemporary Celtic comes home to Celt In A Twist each week with Patricia Fraser.   The Cloverhearts - You've Got A Friend Daimh - Lock Load Haggix X-1 - Arthur's Gold CANCON The Tiller's Folly - Far End Of The Road CANCON Firkin - Az Ocean Szaga (The Scent Of The Ocean) Fairport Convention - Si Tu Dois Partir George Duff - When These Shoes Were New Gnoss - Vore Tullye Shooglenifty - Squat Lobster The Real McKenzies - Leave Her Johnny CANCON The Mahones - Girl With Galway Eyes ROS - Foc Fosc The Rumjacks - Pulled From The Shore Lena Jonsson & Johanna Juhola - Sjuplatarlaten Salsa Celtica - Rolling Road   59:18

Celt In A Twist presents an hour of Celtivity you can enjoy anytime, or 9pm Tuesdays on CHKG FM 96.1 in Vancouver. More fresh tracks from The Ollam, a transatlantic supergroup featuring John McSherry, Joe Dart and other monster musicians. You got yer Celt In A Twist with Patricia Fraser!   Drones & Bellows - The Carnival Set Dropkick Murphys - Bury The Bones (feat. The Merry Wallopers) The Dreadnoughts - Dusty Ground CANCON Haggis X-1 - We See the Sun CANCON The Ollam - With Pure Crystal Teeth Willos - Ghost Ship Tartan Amoebas - Giant Tiller's Folly - Far End Of The Road CANCON Frigg - Troll's Twilight Grumpy O Sheep - What's Left Of The Flag Michael McGoldrick - The Buckfast 5/Wired To The Moon Ten Strings And A Goat Skin - The Town CANCON Transatlantica - The Sea Is Calling   59:56

Join us for some fresh greens this week from The Cloverhearts, The Ollam, Edmonton family band The McDades and Scots bard Cabbie Drennan with a drink along, sing along.  Check out Celt In A Twist with Patricia Fraser at a new time, new day and new station; FM96.1, Tuesdays at 9pm. Barleyjuice - Sweet Young Thing Baltic Crossing - Whirling Waltz The McDades - Gardener's Child CANCON Mary Francis - Cheerio CANCON The Cloverhearts - Heartbreaker The Ollam - Stream Of Silver Brogeal - Stuck Inside Cabbie Drennan Band - Ma Rovin Eye Afro Celt Sound System - The Other Side The Mahones - Rise Again Solas - The Coconut Dog/ Morning Dew Rura - Allegory Punch Brothers - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Pol Helleou & Friends - Planty Irvine   59:59

Plenty of fresh Celtic to go around this hour, from Haggis X-1, Boiled In Lead, Alexandre Vilaboa from Galicia. along with the defenders of the realm, The Real McKenzies and their new album, On Yer Bike. Saddle up! You've got yer Celt In A Twist!   Willie Nile - The Day The Earth Stood Still Gangar - Grotleken Haggis X-1 - This Is The Place (Caledonia) CANCON Vishten - Gaillard feat. De Temp Antan CANCON Boiled In Lead - Fast Reels Dom DufF - Foeter Breizh Alexandre Vilaboa - Os Gaedil Dropkick Murphys - Who'll Stand With Us Collage Trad - Beeswax CANCON The Real McKenzies - I Wanna Eat Sardines(With Yer Mother) CANCON Firken – Tundermese - Kocsmadalok Iain Copeland - The Traveller Jeremy Kittel - The Curious Beetle Medley   59:25

New find Little Sparta encourages you to "Turn On The Radio" and tune this week for Celt In A Twist, a contemporary mix of Celtic rock, pop, jazz, funk and trad (from Stratford, Ontario's The Bookends) Plus, veterans of the craft like Runrig and Sinead O'Connor and another spin from supergroup The Ollam. Gems a plenty this week!   Brogeal - Draw The Line Flogging Molly - Until We Meet Again The Bookends - Dinny Donegal CANCON La Bottine Souriante - Pas De Credit CANCON Little Sparta - Turn On The Radio Peatbog Faeries - Martin Roachford'/The Oyster Woman's Rant Runrig - Clash Of The Ash Toxic Frogs - The Green Night Pete's Posse - The Echo The Mahones - Freeway Toll CANCON Sinead O'Connor - My Lagan Love The Young Folk - England The Ollam - With Pure Crystal Teeth   59:01