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Hello music lovers!

After a Castlefest Winter Edition weekend with a lot live music, we have much more music for you!

Today I present you: six albums of the CeltCast Fantasy Award longlist “Best Album 2019” and eight older (or digital) ones. Music from a lot of different countries and with a broad range of styles!

M’ANAM — M’ANAM (2019) — Ireland and Iceland
On Saturday, February 16, 2019, we were asked to make a live stream during the M’ANAM concert in Rotterdam. That was a very special evening and… it was an honor to be there! (You can see these livestreams on our webpage or Facebook page.) The men of ANÚNA , “M’ANAM” have also released this album and it is beautiful! 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦

Nadia Birkenstock – Celtic Harp & Song (2013 and 2019) — Germany
This week we have an older and a new album of Nadia! Of course, the harp is a well-known instrument in the folk scene. Nadia has made another album to dream away with magical harp tunes! 💭

Imbue and Twigs & Twine — The Netherlands
On the 12th of September the CeltCast team went to the Gasthuiskapel (-chapel) in Zaltbommel for the album release party of Imbue (folk, medieval music) and Twigs & Twine (folk pop). Although the bands are certainly not similar, it was a very interesting combination of musical sounds in this beautiful chapel. Both albums are beautiful in their own way! ⛪️

North Sea Gas — Hearth And Homeland (2019) — England
On our way back home after the Fantasy Forest Festival in England Alex and I travelled to Oxford. In a nice pub we met musicians during their Folk Session. After a couple of weeks, we found this amazing album in our mailbox! It’s their 21st album, so… a new collection of Scottish Folk Music! 🎻

EMIAN • PaganFolk Music — Egeria (2019) — Italy
Years ago, we’ve met the members of Emian in person at the lovely festival Celtic Night Geluwe and… they stole our hearts with their music ánd their personalities. I don’t have to say much about this album, because our Cliff de Booy did that already. You can find his review here (November 6th ) (pssst, I LOVE it <3)📜

Bruni — Kynda (2018) — England
The band Bruni released their first album last year. Their own words are: “Across borders, across languages and across the ages”. And, that is wat this album you brings. Keep an eye on this young band! Our own CeltCast Dylan Kerr (and his girlfriend Alana Bennett) are musicians on this album! 💫

Jolin – no physical album yet — Germany
This young lady has just started yet! She has a beautiful voice and we’re curious to what she is going to bring us in the near future. There is no physical album yet, but… we have permission to play a couple of her songs already! You can find Jolin regularly with The Dolmen clan. 😊

Victor Santal — Arpa Celtica (2012) — Spain
Yes, we finally have permission to play this wonderful album on our radio station. Enjoy this magical harp sounds! 🧚‍♀️

Tevenn — Rhuys (2007) — France Years ago, Alex and I were on holiday in Brittany (France), where we bumped into this folk band at our campsite. And, we still like to listen to this album! We hope for new material from this band soon. 🇫🇷

Clannad Irish Band — Past Present (1989) — Ireland
On June 26th, our Cliff de Booy wrote a large review about Clannad, so… if you want to know more about this Irish band, go to: https://celtcast.com/?s=clannad 🇮🇪

Kallidad — Unplugged 2018 (2018) — Australia
At Elfia Arcen we met the Australian band Kallidad (a band with Mexican and flamenco influences). Fantastic energetic music to listen to. When we brought home several albums, we already knew that most of it would not fit in the format of our radio station, but … there is one song on this unplugged album that we can play, yes! 💃🕺

Cuélebre — Anaman (2017) — Spain
This band brings us pagan folk music from Spain. This album Anaman made in 2017 takes you to earlier times, that’s for sure. We are eagerly awaiting new material! 🍃

Very happy that these beautiful CDs have been processed: 📀

M’ANAM — M’ANAM (2019) — Iceland and Ireland
Nadia Birkenstock — Whispering Woods (2019) — Germany
Imbue — Ut solis radium (2019) — The Netherlands
Twigs & Twine — Long Story Short (2019) — The Netherlands
North Sea Gas — Hearth And Homeland (2019) — England
Emian Pagan Folk — Egeria (2019) — Italy
Bruni — Kynda (2018) — England
Jolin — From the Woods (2019) — no physical album yet — Germany
Victor Santal — Arpa Celtica (2012) — Spain
Nadia Birkenstock and Steve Hubback — The Glow Within (2013) — Germany
Tevenn — Rhuys (2007) — France
Clannad — Past Present (1989) — Ireland
Kallidad — Unplugged 2018 (2018) — Australia
Cuelebre — Anaman (2017) — Spain
🎵🎶🎵

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Musical greetings, Ilona CeltCast

Photo of the albums

Good morning music lovers!

We open the week again with an update about the albums that have been placed on the new server. There’s so much beautiful and timeless folk music! It’s very special to take a closer look at our “old” albums. My work is reaffirming that we are spreading a lot of positive vibes with all this fantastic music! 🍀

Most albums were old acquaintances, and there was also an older album of Skrömta (a highly energetic folk band), which we didn’t have in our collection yet. Great music with lots of energy! And, the beautiful album of HarPetra from 2018, which we acquired at Fantasy Fest Rijswijk a couple of weeks ago! Harp music to dream away with …
The Orfeo album from 2014 reminds us of a time that CeltCast wasn’t airing yet. Erica Lowis is still regularly in our thoughts. Her music collection supplemented ours when she sold it to us, for which we are still grateful.

And of course OMNIA, the band with which everything started for Alex Sealgaire and me ( Ilona CeltCast ). On the album “Live Religion” are recordings in a church, together with our friends of FAUN ! I hadn’t listened to this album for a long time. 🎻

Actually… there’s one thing all the albums in this photo have in common: they form a collection of special music and artists who have an important meaning to us, to our folk scene, the balfolk scene and therefore for CeltCast – Community Radio!

So… soon to hear on our new server:
OMNIA , Trolska Polska , Orfeo , Rapalje Celtic Folk Music , HarPetra , Skrömta , EmBRUN , LEAF ( Kati Rán ), FolkNoir , RASTABAN , Lúnasa , IN VINO VERITAS (album of 2019, not in photo)

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CeltCast is celebrating its five year anniversary!

It isn’t a surprise, Alex mentioned it a few times already, but CeltCast is celebrating its five year anniversary!

Five years of love for folk festivals, fantasy festivals and acoustic folk music. Five years of making playlists, livestreaming at festivals, bringing a small music scene to as many people as possible and building a network of amazing friends along the way.

Over these last five years we have worked hard to develop a platform for the acoustic folk music scene to promote the music, bands, festivals and events through the many ways of the world wide web. For the whole team but especially for Arjan and Alex, it has at times been blood, sweat and tears but it was so worth it and we are going to celebrate this milestone.

This new banner and logo are only the start, over this coming year a lot of exciting things will happen, keep an eye on this page, our instagram and youtube channel to ensure you keep updated!

5 years CeltCast

Celebrated life and music at the Midwinter Fair Archeon and at Otava yo

These last days we celebrated life and music at the Midwinter Fair Archeon and at Otava yo (Отава ё) ‘s gig at the Melkweg. During these days, Holland was truly taken over by winter. Snow is falling, the wind is cold and the skies dark.

However, during our time at the Midwinter fair, we were warmed by music, many friends, and lots of fun. We tried to give you as much music as possible. We streamed Sunfire , Pyrolysis , Kelten zonder Grenzen , Trolska Polska , Sassenachs , Fiddle ‘n Drum and of course Rapalje .

Despite the snowfall and warning of slippery roads, our amazing Alex decided that after spending the whole day at the Midwinter Fair, it was going to be worth the difficult drive to Amsterdam to see Otava Yo – Melkweg Amsterdam on Sunday evening. Of which he provided us with some great live streams!! Apparently they blew off the roof!!

To watch and share our video’s follow this link !

Currently the whole team is recovering from an amazing weekend and preparing for all the beautiful things that are going to come our way soon. Keep an eye out for news on this all!!

Below we share some pictures taken on the Saturday of the Midwinter fair to relive those happy moments.



Who’s interested in a special treat? :-D

On Friday September 8 the awesome people of SeeD Pagan Folk will be joining CeltCast in the livingroom of Alex & Ilona for a very special event!
Are there any questions you really want to ask them? Now is the time, because we will be doing a live interview! Any special requests? Ask, and maybe ye shall receive, as Koen , Lars , Robin and Sara will be playing some tunes right there!
Looking for SeeD goodies? Be there online, because you might win a brand new SeeDee, or you could maybe adopt a Seed Ling !
All in all an event you don’t want to miss, and why should you, because you can join in for free from the comfort of your own home!

See(D) you all there, lovely people!!!

SeeD in the livingroom with CeltCast







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