KBRP LP 96.1 Bisbee

HOLY SMOKES!

What with all the world practicing to keep our distances from one another during these times of pandemic…I just thought it might be helpful—nay…INVIGORATING—to hear a whole two hours of LIVE performances. So then, this week’s Eclecti-Celt features just those energetic, communal, not always technically perfect performances from some of my favorite artists of a Celtic persuasion. Remember when we could all gather together and dance and frolic and frolic and dance? Tough times are upon us—probably not without cause—but, nevertheless…let the music move you! Sláinte.

Mahoney

Hello all good people...

I'm not going to mention the viral word. Just, that I hope you are all well as can be and get much better. I'm back from an Eclecti-Celt hiatus of a few weeks due to illness, family passages, and good work in Death Valley.

So, here this week, the week of remembering that pagan-scourging fanatic Saint Patrick, a day when people the wide world over celebrate their quantum of green blood, and up here in the Northern Hemisphere when the clouds of pollen announce that Spring approacheth--and downunder in the Southern Hemisphere, that the daylight grows shorter and the temperatures slowly subside--we observe and celebrate: Equinox. There you have the themes of this week's Eclecti-Celt radio programme. It'll be different, I think it'll be fun. It's always a little weird getting back into the studio and spinning this show after time away. It's like, "Well, how did I get here?!"

Thanks be to Bisbee's Radio for the People, thanks be to family and friends, thanks be to the artists who share their musical souls with us, and thank YOU.

Definitely...sláinte!

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Grandpa Michael Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at our fabulous website: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

Hello...

Try a wee drop this week.

Mahoney

Hello friends and family or both...

This week's Eclectic-Celt is almost all by the seat of my pants. I'm basically unprepared and so it should be a fascinating experience all around.

I will say that the overall theme I'm aiming my arrows at is: LOVE. St. Valentines Day and all. And I'm going to start the show with the soulful song, "Peace of Iona" from the album Universal Hall by The Waterboys. One more thing, this week's program is dedicated to Eunice Fabry. Mother of Elizabeth and seven other beautiful, quirky, Fabry childrens.

So, forward through the fog...and sláinte. To your health.

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Old Softie Michael Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at our fabulous website: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

Happy Imbolc, Midwinter, Start of the Old Spring, Brexit, etc...

Last Friday, Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland—the Isle of Man and Cornwall seem to have slipped through the Untied cracks—officially divorced itself from a 75 year marriage with the European Union. That’s what this week’s Eclecti-Celt will commemorate.

‘Celebrate’ is not a word I associate with this radical right-wing, disgruntled midsection of the country’s electoral decision. Certainly NONE of the old Celtic regions of the United Kingdom included in the title voted to cleave themselves from a greater Europe; not even that bastion of ancient madness: Northern Ireland. heavy sigh

This is one of those programs when the words and music veritably launched themselves into the playlist. As sobering as the subjects of classism, racism, depression and division are...please...enjoy the show!

Sláinte...

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. A Celt of Solidarity M. Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at our fabulous website: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

Hello hello...

Yesterday, Sunday, the 26th of January, there was a spirited assembly of over 400 people down at the San Pedro River, a Riparian National Conservation Area.

The river flows gently—usually—into the USA from Mexico, northward about 150 miles to her confluence with the Gila River. Donald Trump and his administration have targeted construction on the San Pedro River where she crosses the border with a WALL/DAM. This structure is not needed, even in the opinions of the US Border Patrol and right-wing locals. What it WILL do is seriously impede the flow of what has been identified as the last undammed river in Arizona: causing ecosystematic havoc to this rarest of riverine habitats yet remaining in the American Southwest.

The 400 folks who met on Sunday, chanted “NO WALL! SAVE OUR RIVER!” En-chantments are good. Writing and telephoning our political representatives and applicable agencies is called for, certainly. But, what more will it take to stop this madness?

I give you this week on Eclecti-Celt tunes and songs themed around Rivers and Waters.

Sláinte y'all.

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. River-Loving Mick Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at our fabulous website: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

Hello,

This is the day we celebrate the birth of a great American, one of the greatest, really: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His dream of racial equality, his policies of non-violent resistance and anti-racism, have inspired and stirred people to ACTION. Actions which have caused the drafting and implementation of anti-racist laws into make the United States government and gestalt of the United States. So much personal reflection and societal reconcilliation is still needed to bring the Dream to fruition. But, I can be done. It IS being done. It must be done.

Sláinte.

Mahoney

Hiya there...

So then, this week’s Eclecti-Celt broadcast from Bisbee’s Radio for the People—KBRP—we have the juxtaposition of old Irish folk music and the arrangements of young folk of those songs. The band, LANKUM (www.lankumdublin.com) came highly recommended as one of her favorite bands by the brilliant young Irish musician, Ms. Clare Sands (https://claresands.com/). I was blown away by their musicianship and their quirky, if dark, interpretations of the old folk songs.

So, let the voices of the Millennial’s be heard! And…tunes and songs of the WOODS. I have no idea why they wanted to be included, but here they are. So be it.

Sláinte!

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Young-at-Heart Mick Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at our fabulous website: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

It rained in Australia. Of course, not the whole continent, but some parts of the country that really needed the precipitation. Here's to however you INVOKE: please, some more rain. This week on Eclecti-Celt I'm being joined by Clare Sands, and maybe even Dave Donohue, hailing from Ireland. They and family and friends are here in Bisbee to help Sharon kick off a TREEmendous birthday celebration. And they have kindly agreed to join me LIVE in the tiny auspicious studio of KBRP, Bisbee's Radio for the People. So, you, and me, we're all in for a special treat of beautiful, raucous, tender, inspiring music and chat from two of Ireland's most talented musical artists. WOOHOO! And THANK YOU to them. And YOU.
Go here! https://claresands.com/ And be HAPPY. I believe this week's show will be one for the KBRP history books...if there are such tomes.
So then, the first hour or so will be LIVE and I have no idea what they’re gonna play…but, it’ll be grand. The second half will be me spinning some of theirs and some of mine from the Celtic vaults.

Sláinte!

Mahoney

Seasoned Greetings!

Well, don’t time fly when you’re spinning the Celtic songs and tunes? Fifteen years broadcasting this programme from the slightly guerrilla, definitely funky but in a good way, studios of the Bisbee Radio Project—THIS WEEK. WooHoo! And a profound privilege it has been.

So then, I invite yourselves to just kick back or dance around as the music moves you. And crank up the volume on your contraption throughout. Let the sounds escort you to the wild, humid, cool, cold, craggy, green, green, light and dark landscapes of the ancestors of the Celtic singers.

Sláinte agus Athbhlian faoí mhaise duit! Here's to Your Good Health and Happy New Year!

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. New Year Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at our fabulous website: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

Hello and Greetings...

Well, mostly this is a softer seasonal Eclecti-Celt; that is, if you don’t count Martyn Bennett’s two contributions to this week’s broadcast. But, they totally fit into the show, so what could I do? Also, two versions of that salacious song, “Fairytale of New York”. One from The Pogues and one from Whalebone. And both have been swirling around my brain since adding them. Like sugar plums. Dylan Thomas’s Christmas in Wales, too.

I hope you thoroughly enjoy this wintry, solsticey, sweet little Eclecti-Celt.

Nollaig Shona agus Síochána. Happy Christmas and Peace.

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Santa's Big Helper Mick Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at our fabulous website: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

Friends, Family...

Sixteen years ago on Winter Solstice day, my dad, George Henry Mahoney, passed away after a mostly good long life. He was born and raised in San Francisco, and lived when the mouth of the bay was open to the interior and the wild ocean. He walked across the Golden Gate Bridge the day it opened. He was charming, and loved his workshop. He doted on his wife, he was tougher on his son--as it should be probably. Towards the end, as his vigor deteriorated, he was a bit too fond of the whiskey. Making perhaps his dilemma, his son’s lesson. Anyway, he is still and always missed.

So then, the first while of this week's Eclecti-Celt is to his memory. The rest of the show is all about and for and celebrates WINTER, even and especially the cold drear and cloudy covered days. Welcome...dear storytelling WINTER. And a peaceful season’s toast to all of you.

Sláinte,

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Grandpa Michael Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at our fabulous website: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

Hello Hello Hello,

I LOVE doing this programme on Eclecti-Celt. I’ve done it times before and it just turns me on. That is…triple spirals of music from great artists of the Celtic persuasion. I believe you will agree that triplets allow for us to drop into the talents of the artist more deeply than spinning different folks one after the other. And in the case of this week’s show, I’ve tried to select their albums title tracks, as well. Not always possible but, pretty cool as they happen. Certainly, these musicians, bardics, chose the titles for good reason, eh? SLÁINTE!

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Tri-corn Chimney Sweep Michael Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at our fabulous website: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

HALLO!

And wilkomen to this week’s Eclecti-Celt programme…straying eastward, and also northward from the Celtic regions into mountainous Europe. This coming Friday, the 6th, is St. Nicholas’s Day. Patron saint of children: good children and the not-so-well-behaved children. The kinder who beamed polite and proper according to Alpine morals were blessed, and gifted treats. The other young derelicts were awarded an encounter with the Krampuses; the deliverers of consequences for the errors of their ways. This show pays musical homage to the patrol and prowl of St. Nicholas and the Krampus, from Alpine mountain crags and caves, from house-to-house, and down village streets.

Check out these couple of links to a Krampuslauf of renown in LA, and a just birthed Bisbee Krampuslauf...

www.krampuslosangeles.com.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/431878994194638/?ref=group_header

Corvus Corax, The Compatible, Heilung, Rammstein, Ranarim, Hoven Droven, Wardruna, Faun and others! This is VERY good music to work on your Krampus costumes for this year and the next. And the next.

PROST!

Máhoney, and née my mother, Schultz

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Possibly Some Anglo-Saxon Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at our fabulous website: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

Greetings friends & families,

This week's Eclecti-Celt programme pays homage to the gathering together of friends and family, to celebrate each other and the incredible abundance that invokes gratitude. The show feature's songs and tunes all about beverages and food, and joy. And here and there, the lack of all. A simple show, really. But, hearty, and filling.

Truly sláinte & peace,

Máhoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Abundant Mick Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

HELLO! We just had a weekend of massive amounts of live music down here in Bisbee, Arizona. It’s part of a Side Pony movement, I think, around the country to introduce communities to relatively unknown musicians and bands. SOoo, Angelika had a great idea for this week’s Eclecti-Celt to feature “unknown” names in Celtic music. SOoo, here we have a program dedicated to those hard-working folks who do not usually get much spotlight or airtime. Still, and all in all, just great great offerings from the Celtic worlds. As always, SLÁINTE!

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Always LIVE Mick Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

Hello from the Mule Mountains...

What's got me stirred for this week's Eclecti-Celt?

The sounds of the Celtic languages: lilting and guttural, squishy and sonorous, beautiful and in the mouths of the young artists especially ALIVE. I’m always mesmerized by the songs of the People; the traditions and stories that are conveyed as only indigenous languages are able. As if on a long boat of singers and storyers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages

You will hear them all this week on Eclecti-Celt: Irish, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, Welsh, Breton, Galician, & even English. For over 2,000 years, battered and belittled by oppressormen, the Celtic languages are still ALIVE.

Sláinte. YES! Sláinte.

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Grandfather Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

Happy Halloween week, or as it’s more anciently and properly know in the Irish language: Samhain. Please consider pronouncing it anciently and properly as: SOW-en. This is a great time of year to be broadcasting tunes, songs and stories from the Celtic countries. The observances of Samhain have, in fact, their origins in these misty, dreary, ominous, beckoning landscapes. And, of course, the musical interpretations of this season are equally so. SO…here you all go…my offerings of mist drear and beckon for your Halloween pleasure!

Sláinte & BOO!

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Truly Spooky Mick Egan will discover that NOW on our new spectacular KBRP website, you can online stream Eclecti-Celt at: https://www.kbrpradio.com/ But, of course, if you miss the MONDAY LIVE broadcast, and would like to hear the programme on Friday, at a relatively civilized hour for those of you whom hit the hay around 7:59 pm on Monday's, or live WAY east of here and/or across various seas and oceans, it'll be re-broadcast on Friday from 1 - 3 pm AZ Mtn Time.

Hello!

This week on Eclecti-Celt we have a special show dedicated to Scotland, Sheep, and three Bisbonian Fiber Artists right now find themselves in the Shetland islands at the 10th anniversary of one of the world's biggest Wool Weaving Spinning and Sheep Festivals. SO--get your minds out of the udder--this programme is NOT what you might have been thinking it was about! It's gonna be a great week for SCOTLAND! Sláinte vah!

Mahoney

Well Well...HELLO...

The Earth and the Sun are just in that special place this week. Equinox. Whether you're on this curve of the Sphere or Downunder...you got Equinox. Here in Bisbee, Arizona, we're seeing the end of Summer and the beginning of Autumn. Hence the inspiration for this week's Eclecti-Celt programme. Leaves--Harvest--Sunshine--Frost--Beer and other spirits--Wind...it's all in the week's show. With special homage to Hurricane Lorena, chugging her wet and wild way up the Sea of Cortez. Will she gift the region with some of our last monsoonal rain?

Sláinte all.

Mahoney