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This week’s show is a mostly uptempo & light affair with a bittersweet conclusion…

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• Count Basie
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach
• Les Paul
• Bud Powell
• Paul Chambers
• Quincy Jones
• Fats Waller
• Sarah Vaughan
• Dinah Washington
• Anita O’Day
• Helen Merrill
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Charles Mingus
• Nat “King” Cole
• Dave Brubeck & Jimmy Rushing
• Mel Tormé
• Glenn Miller
• The Dorsey Brothers
• Johnny Hartman
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• George Shearing

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Welcome to my mostly-annual St. Patrick’s Day show! This year, I’ve got some new tunes, some classic tunes…and a lot of jigs, reels & pipes!

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• Clannad
• Iarla O Lionaird
• Bing Crosby
• Imelda May
• The Chieftains
• Luke Kelly
• Bill Whelan’s Riverdance
• Kane O’Rourke
• The Chieftains
• Emma Langford
• Villagers
• Glen Hansard
• Declan O’Rourke
• Afro Celt Sound System
• The Pogues
• Mary Black
• Billy Clifford
• Terry Teahan
• Seosamh Mac An Iomaire
• Seamus Beagley & Mary Black
• Megon McDonough
• Kate Bush
• Eileen Ivers
• The Bothy Band
• Davy Spillane
• Stephen James Smith
• Colm Mac Con Iomaire
• Planxty
• Horslips
• Glen Hansard
• Van Morrison
• Hothouse Flowers
• Fiachna O Braonain
• Kane O’Rourke
• Afro Celt Sound System
• Sibal Ni Chasaide
• The Gloaming
• Joe Chester
• Arrivalists
• Alana Henderson
• Ed Sheeran
• Glen Hansard & Friends

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This week’s episode is again a mostly up affair…and brought to you by jazz & joy!

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• Billie Holiday
• Duncan Sheik
• Sinéad O’Connor
• The Roots & Bobby Womack
• Bobby Womack
• Nat “King” Cole Trio
• Bud Powell
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach
• Charlie Parker
• Charles Mingus
• Holly Cole Trio
• Thelonious Monk Quartet w/ John Coltrane
• John Coltrane
• Louis Prima
• Grant Green
• Big John Patton
• Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

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This week’s episode is dedicated to the swing music that made the era around WWII so wonderful. I’d had a thought earlier this week about how “VC Day” (Victory Over COVID) will be like “VE” or “VJ Day” and that made me think of swing music…so, here you are…a toast to COVID being being gone soon!

• Louis Armstrong
• Lionel Hampton
• Nat “King” Cole
• Dinah Washington
• Dinah Shore
• Sarah Vaughan
• Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington
• Duke Ellington
• The Andrews Sisters
• Benny Goodman
• Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
• Tommy Dorsey ft. Frank Sinatra
• The Dorsey Brothers
• Fletcher Henderson
• Bing Crosby
• Count Basie
• Artie Shaw
• Johnny Hartman

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This week’s episode is a tribute to love…no matter how or what or who…the good, the bad, the rest…it’s also a tribute to my friend’s wife, who died earlier today. Allison Sandlin Feldman struggled with cystic fibrosis for decades…may she rest in peace.

• Ella Fitzgerald
• Ann Hampton Callaway
• Nat “King” Cole
• Al Hibbler with Leroy Lovett & His Orchestra
• The Valentines
• Johnny Hartman
• Van Morrison
• Marc Jordan
• Sharon Van Etten
• The Cinematic Orchestra
• Damien Rice
• Declan O’Rourke
• Carole King
• Eric Dolphy
• Yusef Lateef
• Frank Sinatra
• Van Morrison & Chet Baker
• Patty Larkin
• Kate Bush
• Foo Fighters w/ Chick Corea

“It’s times like these you learn to live again
It’s times like these you give and give again
It’s times like these you learn to love again
It’s times like these time and time again…”