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CONTENTS:

1. Celtic Music News
2. Carl Peterson - "Bonnie Dundee & Glendaural Highlanders"
3. Hot Celtic Music CDs & More
4. Emerald Rose - "Fire In The Head (Live 2002)"
5. Featured Celtic Link
6. Manage your subscription & Contest Winner





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1. Celtic Music News
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"Thanks so much for the mention of Mouth Music's 'Seafaring Man'.
Sometimes I have a problem getting to the music so I ordered it
on your advice and it's wonderful. Thanks, keep up the good
work!" -Kristin


Wow, I've been busy. And this week's edition is extra special to
me because I met both of the artists in April for the first time.
The first is Carl Peterson, a charismatic and engaging Scotsman
who's made an incredible living playing throughout the U.S.

Then up at I-CON 21, the Northeast's Largest Convention of Sci Fi
and Fantasy, I got to meet Emerald Rose at long last after having
heard about them forever. And what a performance!


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2. Carl Peterson - "Bonnie Dundee & Glendaural Highlanders"
http://mp3.com/Carl_Peterson ?cm
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"One man. One guitar. One incredible concert." A performance by
Scottish singer and entertainer Carl Peterson, whether for a few
thousand people or for a few dozen, is best described as a warm,
everyone-involved, familiar evening-at-home experience. And home,
in Greenock, Scotland, is where Carl Peterson was first
introduced to music and song. He learned the traditional songs of
Scotland, Ireland, and England, as well as contemporary music of
the times, from family and friends alike. After learning to play
guitar and banjo, Carl added American folk songs and storytelling
to his repertoire, and took it all from Scotland to Canada, then
later to America, via radio and television.

I had the joy of meet and hear Carl Peterson on Tartan Day (April
6th) at the San Antonio Highland Games. Carl is a delightful
Scottish singer with albums upon albums of music to his name. And
I thought we were prolific!!!

He has number of great albums and although he is fantastic
Scottish singer, I love the concept of his most recent album,
"Scotland Remembers the Alamo". With piper John MacGregor and
fiddler Davy Crockett the men at the Alamo were often entertained
by the songs brought to the New World from Scotland and Ireland.
These songs were then used as tunes for ballads and stories
written about the Alamo and the Texas revolution.

"Bonnie Dundee & Glendaural Highlanders" is an instrumental song
performed on Highland bagpipes and fiddle and good dance tune. It
makes me imagine those early Texans confined in the Alamo but
dancing away to the brazen pipes and renewing the hopes of
hopeless.

CD Remember the Alamo: Sampler
Buy it: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/cds/197/197538.html





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3. HOT CELTIC MUSIC CDS & MORE
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"Best of 1979-1989" The Tannahill Weavers
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005CNV/thebards
"Old Hag You Have Killed Me" The Bothy Band
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Rio Riot Digital Audio Player (MP3/WMA) - 20 GB Hard drive
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000633E0/thebards


Music from the Celtic Music CD Store
"Best of the Bards CD Sampler" Brobdingnagian Bards
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4. Emerald Rose - "Fire In The Head (Live 2002)"
http://mp3.com/EmeraldRose?cm
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It was over a year ago that I first heard of this Celtic Fusion
Folk Rock band out of Atlanta, Georgia named Emerald Rose. I
reviewed their song "Hills of America", a wonderful anthem about
the dream of America. Their popularity soared in the MP3.com
heyday, and they disappeared from the MP3.com charts. But they
are back...and better than ever.

Where've they been, well they've been eating up the Atlanta
Celtic scene with regular performances and we last saw them at
I-CON 21 in Long Island, NY where they were on tour. That was my
first opportunity to see them live and to fully understand why
they decided to make their latest CD, "Fire in the Head" a live
CD. They put on one helluva show with people dancing in the
asiles of the convention hall!

"Fire in the Head" is also the title track off their live CD.
It's rapid-fire lyrical reel based on works of Amergin and
Taliesin. As they say, "a happy-go lucky song about Celtic
shamanism!" To me though, it is just a great well-written
original song that very smoothly cross the boundaries between
traditional Celtic and modern rock. I can visualize them rockin'
away with Sting or some other pop-rock celebrity, and as well as
they are doing in Atlanta, they may one day be doing just that.

If you get a chance, head out to the Atlanta Celtic Festival on
the weekend of May 17-19 where you can get a copy of their latest
CD. And here America's Celtic Folk Rock!

CD Fire in the Head [Live]
Buy it: available soon





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5. Celtic Heritage WebRadio
http://www.celtic-heritage-webradio.net
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Celtic Heritage WebRadio is one of the top ranks in the Irish
genre on Live365.com and in fact belongs to the top 200 stations
of over 40,000 on L365's network.  They play a variety of
traditional Celtic tunes, instrumentals, and modern Irish songs
by artists such as Van Morrison, Capercaillie, Lúnasa, Celtic
Soul, Clannad, Altan, Mary Black, Maddy Prior, Cathie Ryan, Iona,
Loreena McKennitt, Maire Brennan, Karan Casey and lots more.





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