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Music From The Glen
Sunday January 3rd, 2016 with Colin Henein
2015 retrospective

Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to another year of traditional music from the British Isles and beyond. This morning we look back at music that came to my attention and onto our airwaves in 2015. As every year, I'm playing the best albums in alphabetical order. Along the way I'll be identifying a few Gold Star Releases that I've particularly loved, with a few honourable mentions thrown in to boot.
White Birds
Altan - The widening gyre - Compass
Tale of two dragons
Calan - Dinas - Sain [HM]
Jimmie's
Cassie & Maggie - Sterling road - Self [GS] Canadian
All around my hat
The friends of Fiddler's Green - Old inventions - Self [GS] Canadian
Whisky you're the devil
Bella Hardy - battleplan - Noe
Great uncle Henry / Waiting for rain
Rob Harbron / Emma Reid - Flock & Fly - Self [GS]
Never ever lay them down
Nancy Kerr - Sweet visitor - Little Dish [HM]
It's a square world / Cossack square
Leveret - New Anything - Self [HM]
Great big sea
Keith Murphy - Suffer no loss - Black Isle [GS] Canadian
Llwynog
9Bach - Tincian - Realworld
Tom in the front
Peatbog Faeries - Blackhouse - Self
What you do with what you've got
Qristina & Quinn Bachand - Little hinges - Self [HM] Canadian
Letty lee
Norah Rendell - Spinning yarns - Two tap [GS] Canadian
Roses three
Greg Russell / Ciaran Algar - The call - Fellside '14 [HM]
Dark honey
Simpson / Cutting / Kerr - Murmurs - Topic [GS]
The scorpian / The devil's breath hornpipe
Shooglenifty - The untied knot - Shoogle
The whelker
Sketch - Highland time - Self
You won't find me on benefits street
The young'uns - Another man's ground - Self
London lights
Maz O'Connor - BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015 [VA] - Proper
Interactive CKCU
David Wallace
Great to hear Shooglenifty

12:53 PM, January 3rd, 2016
Colin Henein (host)
Thanks David, glad you enjoyed it!

9:55 PM, January 3rd, 2016