KBRP LP 96.1 Bisbee

Ahoy there...

Seems like this was the right Eclecti-Celt for right now. “EDGY”. Certainly encompasses my frame of mind and moods of late. I don’t have a lot to say in this missive. The tunes and songs will—I believe—accomplish the communications. They always do, really. Here’s to you good people. As best I can lift the glass: Sláinte.

Mahoney

OH…by the way, the playlist here does not reflect about a half hour of this week's show. Purchased music that iTunes will not download to my computer no matter how much I plead or ladled obscenities at the machine.

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. On-the-Edge 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.

Greetings from Bisbee and KBRP, Bisbee's Radio for the People!

Well, here it is, the week we see the world celebrating the novel, “Ulysses”, by James Joyce. The event is called Bloomsday, and features readings from this monumental tome and music and traveling from pub to tavern and general Irish Edwardian shenanigans. Due to this global pandemic, of course, the fun will be quite subdued. But, this week on Eclecti-Celt we shall do our best to Bloomsday and carry on.

Be safe out yonder and lift the book and toast to Joyce’s indomitable wordsmithing. Sláinte all!

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Top Hatter 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.

Oh hello everybody...

Two weeks ago, Eclecti-Celt was aptly themed: Wistful, melancholy, yearning. And then LAST WEEK, we got a lot of the rowdy on! WooHoo!

THIS WEEK…it’s back to the moody, pensive and airy. BUT, it’s still really CATCHY, these songs and tunes. More like en-chanting. I can’t help it—it’s the times. So, you may fall asleep listening to this week’s show, but you’ll likely have sultry green dreams.

To your health and happiness. Sláinte!

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Wistful 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...

Last week’s Eclecti-Celt was aptly themed: Wistful, melancholy, yearning. THIS WEEK is just the bloody opposite. It’s just for the joy of it all. Why the hell not, I say? I mean, the world—and this radio programme—has been in such a state, I think it’s about time we just went for it and played tunes and songs of veritable joy, happiness and had ourselves a bit of FUN.

So there!

And sláinte, bigtime!

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. The Wandering 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 from Shelter...

Wistful, melancholy, yearning. Yearning to be out and about with little to zero agenda. Just wander. This then is musical wanderlust, as brought to us by musicians and bards from Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, Canada, and Ireland. Eclecti-Celt.

“All that is gold does not glitter / Not all those who wander are lost / The old that is strong does not wither / Deep roots are not reached by the frost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.

Have yourselves a splendid journey!

Sláinte.

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. The Wandering 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 and neighbors...

Sometimes it’s well nigh impossible not to dip down into those Dark Places. Sometimes it’s actually a good idea to go there and plumb their Depths: alluring and validating. Thankfully, ‘sometimes’ is not All the time.

This week’s Eclecti-Celt found me hitting the darker music pretty hard—for the first half hour. Then something—someone—happened: Rónán Ó Snodaigh. “Raise the Road.” The beat and rhythm and lyrics turned what could have been a show that made you want to cram a pillow into your breathing tube—into INVIGORATION. At least for myself. Go raith maith agat.

https://www.ronanosnodaigh.ie/

And I hope you, too. Sláinte, truly.

Mahoney

LIVE...Monday evening from 8pm to 10 pm AZ Mtn Time. Invigorating 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 hello, you good sheltering people you...

This week’s Eclecti-Celt thematic prestidigitation was suggested by Ms. K. Sherwood, one of the many of us going slightly STIR CRAZY with COVID-19 sheltering-in-place. And so, here have a playlist reflecting one of my top two things to do…having: OUTDOOR ADVENTURES.

Horses, smuggling, trout-fishing, bike-riding, shpelunking, ships and sailing, and of course, faeryenticement and other Bealtainne entanglements!

Stay pandemic free y’all. But, if you can, because you must, go get yourselves some outdoor adventures!

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.

Friends and Family...

Without a clue nor wiff of inspiration, listless even—a fairly overhanging COVID cloud these days—I had a radio show to prepare. For YOU. And so, I pressed on into my library, starting with “A” in Albums. I thought of Scott upthere in BC hunting for his ancestors and saw the perfect track from the Afro Celt Sound System. A. From there I went down to a beautiful “B” from Wales. You see where this Eclecti-Celt is headed now, I’m sure.

And so this week we have a delicious Celtic alphabet musical porridge. How about that? Thank you, Music. Thank you, Muses. Thank YOU!

To your Health. 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...

OHMYGOD, from all points on the compass, from all the Four Directions, the WIND has been breezing and gusting to the edge of human psychological stability for months now. Night and day. It’s hard not to curse the Wind; we likely deserve every atom of irritating ionic energy. BUT, PLEASE, I BESEECH you Wind, at least blow gently part of the time.

AND SO, I offer YOU this program of Celtic music with WIND and GALES and STORM riven through it.

Jaysus.

Sláinte, everyone.

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.

Oh my goodness...

This week’s Eclecti-Celt programme finds me missing friends, and musically exploring the meaning of the companionship during these lonely and brutal times. It’s sure that I wish you: Sláinte! To your very good health, my friends!

Mahoney

Greetings from shelter in the Mule Mountains,

The title of this week’s Eclecti-Celt programme says it all: Let the Mystery Be. Not only is this the title of the Iris DeMent song in the show, but it is the theme that was used to create the playlist. A sort of kindly, melodic, state of cluelessness. One tune or song following another according to no particular reasoning on my part.

Although that could cause some concern amongst serious aficionados, I believe that you will be pleased overall.

Let the Mystery Be. 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.

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