Author Archives: Thomas Ribbrock

CeltCast Fantasy Awards 2021/22

01 Apr

Thomas Ribbrock

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Livestream 2022 – P60

🎤 Best Song 2021: Ye Banished Privateers – Ring the Bells
📀 Best Album 2021: Waldkauz – Labyrinth
🎭 Best Live Act 2021: The Dolmen
✒️ Best Cover Art 2021: FAUN – Eden
🎥 Best Music Video 2021: Plunder – Geef je eten
🛒 Best Merchant 2021: Feathers van Raven
🏰 Best Event 2021: Castlefest Litha – Online
🏛 Best Venue 2021: Broodfabriek (Rijswijk, NL)
🍷 Best Drink 2021: Warme appel/kaneel mede – Mead and More
🍴 Best Snack 2021: Schoorsteenbrood – Kürtőskalács
📙 Best Merch 2021: Rapalje – Songbook
😊 Positivity Award 2021: Maceál (Rapalje) – live every Tuesday 20:00 CET
🤣 Thanks for the laugh 2021: Zomerfolk (2019) – Chickens take the stage
🤝 Best Collaboration 2021: The Castlefest Collective (PerKelt)
❤️ Resilience award 2021: Evert Muis – Foundation Tutu

Monthly Marker April 2022: Mia Guldhammer & Morten Alfred

01 Apr

Thomas Ribbrock

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New month, new Monthly Marker!

The festival season is here again in the Netherlands! Although it’s currently snowing at CeltCast HQ, we are looking forward to enjoying nice weather, dancing to uplifting music and the togetherness at festival grounds. And if anyone knows how to get a crowd dancing, it’s Mia Guldhammer (FB)!

Recently, she released a lovely and danceable album she recorded together with Morten Alfred called ‘Tral, Trad & Traditioner’, of which we are going to play the song ‘Rundt Pa Gulvet (Around The Floor)’ five to six times a day in April! Let’s dance, be kind and enjoy life together!

P.S.: Cliff de Booy wrote a review about this album.

Photo by: Jes Paul

You can find Mia Guldhammer & Morten Alfred Høirup here:

Website: https://www.mortenalfred.com/
Facebook: @miaguldhammermortenalfredhoirup
Spotify: Tral, Tråd & Traditioner

Monthly Marker March 2022: Syr

01 Mar

Thomas Ribbrock

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A new month, a new amazing Monthly Marker!

Recently, we received the latest album of Syr, named ‘Sentinel’. It was released on the 14th of January. As our Monthly Marker we chose “Baobhan Sith”!

We’ll play this song 5 to 6 times a day for the whole month of March.

Look at the beautiful album cover! The booklet of ten pages contains all the lyrics of the songs.

More about SYR – Celtic Folk Rock from Columbia, S.C.

The band plays music inspired by Celtic history, mythology, and folklore.

You can find Syr here:

Website: https://syrmusic.com/
Facebook: @thebandsyr
Instagram: @syr_music
Bandcamp: https://syrmusicus.bandcamp.com/

Monthly Marker February 2022: Rokkende Vrouwen

01 Feb

Thomas Ribbrock

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New Month, New Monthly Marker! This time a song from Belgium!

Rokkende Vrouwen with the song “In ‘t Zoetste van de Meie” (In the Sweetest of the May).

We are going to play this song five to six times each day on CeltCast Radio in February!

Our photographer Andre Willemse (FB) went to see these ladies at the Dutch Festival Elfia Arcen (FB)! The organisers of this festival wrote about Rokkende Vrouwen:

Rokkende Vrouwen is a folk duo consisting of pianist and singer Hilde Van Belle and violinist and singer Lore Vancauwenberghe. Together they get old Flemish and Dutch songs from under the dust and put them in a contemporary jacket with here and there some Scandinavian influences. Expect danceable folk with unforgettable melodies and dreamy tones. Enjoy, dance, and travel through time and space with these ladies. From the 13th century poet Hadewijch to the 19th-century song ‘De Weverkens’; the Rokkende Vrouwen get their inspiration from everywhere, and bring their songs in a hip folk version.

You can find Rokkende Vrouwen here: