Celtic MP3s Music MagazineThe Celtic MP3s Music Magazine is a free monthly Celtic music magazine featuring free music downloads of Celtic, Scottish, Irish music from around the world. Here, you will find free music downloads from independent Celtic artists. Some MP3s are time sensitive. So download them now. All of the latest MP3s are available for at least a month. As always, if enjoy the music, please help the artist out and buy their CD. Serving Celtic music fans since 2000! Don't just download. "The Troubadour" by Jim Brannigan
Celt Folk Entertainment at its very best. Jim Brannigan is Celtic to the bone. Born of Irish stock in a small town in the West of Scotland, Jim brings a performance which is pleasing to any room. His repertoire includes an abundance of Scottish and Irish drinking songs and sea shanties and an endless stream of traditional songs and ballads as well as many of the works of our modern day poets.
"The Troubadour" is an original song by Jim Brannigan. It's a bright, pleasant folk song about the buskers on Vancouver Island's inner harbour. I bet it must be a joy to see Jim perfrom this song live. I imagine a cheerful smile on his face while the audience drinks a Guiness and sings along. Hometown: Victoria, Canada Website: Jim Brannigan Download MP3: Jim Brannigan mp3s Buy CD: see webpage
Posted by Anonymous, Wednesday, May 29, 2002. New to Celtic MP3s Music Magazine? Subscribe to this blog's feed. Or sign up to get email updates. Find free Celtic music downloads from Marc Gunn! "Ye Jacobites By Name" byTears for Beers
Tears for Beers has been around for a while. They got their start nearly twelve years ago playing traditional Celtic music with modern influences. They achieved wonderful success and are now one of the most popular Celtic bands in Germany.
In the golden days of MP3.com, "Ye Jacobites By Name", climbed to #1 on the Celtic charts. The song spent many subsequent days back at the top of the charts and for good reason. Tears for Beers has a lot of great music (see my past reviews), but in my opinion, this is by far the best recorded song to date! The arrangement is well done and includes some blazing fiddle work and ripping bagpipes. Hometown: Similar Artists: Website: Tears for Beers Download MP3: mp3s available on website Buy CD: CDs available through website
Posted by Anonymous, Thursday, May 16, 2002. New to Celtic MP3s Music Magazine? Subscribe to this blog's feed. Or sign up to get email updates. Find free Celtic music downloads from Marc Gunn! "Johnny Jump Up-The Swallowtail Jig" by Amadan
Amadán is Irish Gaelic for madness, or the fool…perhaps it should be plural! The band consists of five college students hailing from across the country, collectively based in Corvallis, OR. The lively, upbeat blend of traditional and modern Irish, Oi!, and punk will make you raise your fist and down a pint. They provide a well-rounded and original sound that delivers a soothing, danceable punch that can only be described as Stout Irish Music!
This song is a favorite of mine, and I've heard soo many different versions of it, but never like this. It's fast anxious, full of energy, just what you might expect from a band that likens themselves to the Dropkick Murphys. And of course, once you get past the ragingly intense drinking song, you've got a killer jig. Hometown: Similar Artists: Website: Amadan Download MP3: samples available on website Buy CD: Sons of Liberty
Posted by Anonymous, Thursday, May 16, 2002. New to Celtic MP3s Music Magazine? Subscribe to this blog's feed. Or sign up to get email updates. Find free Celtic music downloads from Marc Gunn! "Down by the Sally Gardens" by Stonecircle
Stonecircle is five-piece from Utah performing modern Celtic music that is both light and mystical, uplifting and haunting. They seamlessly mix original Celtic songs with traditional music in much the same way as you'd hear Loreena McKennit do the same.
They seem to have a fondness for W.B. Yeats as they have a couple Yeat's songs in their list of music. They beautifully perform Yeat's "Down by the Sally Gardens" with an almost opera-like beauty, but with eloquent simplicity. I love this song in general, but hearing thier version makes me want to redo ours. It's fantastic. Slow, subtle and magical. Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah Similar Artists: Website: Stonecircle Download MP3: 17 MP3s Buy CD: Serendipity
Posted by Anonymous, Thursday, May 09, 2002. New to Celtic MP3s Music Magazine? Subscribe to this blog's feed. Or sign up to get email updates. Find free Celtic music downloads from Marc Gunn! "Fire In The Head (Live 2002)" by Emerald RoseIt 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 on Long Island in 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! Hometown: Similar Artists: Website: Emerald Rose Download MP3: none available Buy CD: Fire in the Head
Posted by Anonymous, Thursday, May 02, 2002. New to Celtic MP3s Music Magazine? Subscribe to this blog's feed. Or sign up to get email updates. Find free Celtic music downloads from Marc Gunn! "Bonnie Dundee & Glendaural Highlanders" by Carl Peterson
"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. Hometown: Similar Artists: Website: Carl Peterson Download MP3: none available Buy CD: CDs available on website
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