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This Week

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Just check your local station for broadcast day and time and join us for this week's Thistle.



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May 23 

Time To Dance

The rhythms of Celtic music will always get into your feet and before you know it, you're dancing.  Limber up before you tune into this hour of music featuring Alasdair Fraser, Trian, and a pair of traditional dance bands from Ireland and Scotland.

Here's a clip from the show:

The Point Road…by Shooglenifty from Venus in Tweeds (Greentrax)

 
Week 20 Print E-mail

May 16
Julie Fowlis

When you sing the theme for an Oscar-winning movie, it gives you a platform.  For Julie Fowlis, that means taking the Gaelic song of her native Outer Hebrides into the cultural mainstream.  Julie had already toured the world with Dòchas and had fronted her own band. Now having sung the theme for "Brave," the Disney Pixar animation set in ancient Scotland, her solo career continues to soar.  Host Fiona Ritchie met up with Julie to talk about her song tradition, Brave's Princess Merida, and the joy of recording a live album.  Hear their conversation and music from Julie's four albums.

Here's a clip from the show:

Hùg Air A' Bhonaid Mhòir…by Julie Fowlis Live at Perthshire Amber (Machair)