Image: River Tay, Scotland, scene of A Special Thistle & Shamrock Christmas on NPR stations. (Photo by Fiona Ritchie)
Hope you were able to into your public radio station over the festive season for our brand new radio show: A Special Thistle & Shamrock Christmas. We headed out on a Midwinter walk along the banks of the River Tay in Scotland, accompanied by music from Jerry Read Smith, Sting, Tim Edey, Emily Smith, Kim Robertson, Al Petteway & Amy White, Joel Mabus, Hanneke Cassel, and more. Exploring the Celtic winter legend of the Cailleach, we also heard from the poetry of Jon Plunkett, Stephanie Norgate, and Robert Frost.
View the playlist and check the Thistle Archive online where this special show will soon be added for streaming, along with hundreds of other episodes of The Thistle & Shamrock now available there.
Setting out on a Midwinter walk to record
A Special Thistle & Shamrock Christmas.
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Fiona with Chris Thile ~ photo by Finley Hodgson at The Barbican, London
“Wayfaring Strangers” at the Southern Festival of Books, Nashville TN