Love In This “Crazy Old Life”

As Valentine’s Day draws near, this week’s show features songs and tunes about love. Some chronicle romantic attachments – but there are also pieces, old and new, that involve love of family, friends, place, country . . . and just plain fun.

Winter Scenes, Remembering Dr. King, & Making Some Celtic Connections

This week’s show begins with a few pieces to acknowledge our amazingly wintery weather and then moves on to sets honoring Dr. Martin Luther King and conjuring up several notable scenes and characters that come to mind as Black History Month draws near. Later on, after a few brief musical previews of coming events, we finish up with some Celtic Connections, including a few songs to celebrate the birthday of Robert Burns.

Welcoming the New Year & Singing Out the Old

This week (in a show pushed back a week by freeezzzing weather), after welcoming in the New Year, we listen back to some songs and tunes that turned up in the Song Parlor in 2017.

Darkness Into Light – And Some Songs for the Holiday Season

As winter solstice and Christmas draw near and we near the end of this year’s Hanukkah celebration, this week’s show features songs and tunes for the season to help carry us from darkness into light.

December, Reveling, & Friends

This week’s show features songs and tunes that seem appropriate as we move into December. Several pieces acknowledge challenges – and opportunities -- we face this year as winter draws near, a couple of sets offer musical testimonials to the support of wonderful friends, and we finish up with a bit of December reveling.

From Chilly Winds to Thanksgiving (and other) Gatherings

As the days grow shorter and colder – and as Thanksgiving draws near – on this week’s show we listen to some songs that seem appropriate for the season, many of which seem to transport us to (or call on us to encourage) warming gatherings of friends – around the dinner table, or in the parlor, or halfway around the world.

Time & Encounters (Eerie & Otherwise) on the Road

On this week’s show, as we move past Halloween into November, as the days grow shorter and the Clocks Fall Back, we feature songs and tunes about encounters along the way (several of them eerie) as well as some pieces about time and changes.

Dollars, Declarations & Dreams

The songs and tunes on this week’s show carry us into the varied realms of money & banking, relaxation & activism, and give us a chance to meet some notable questers & dreamers.

This week: Some songs and tunes to carry us into a change of season (including, among other things, a little tribute to the weed/wildflower called “Joe Pye”). Our show also recalls several September and October events that mark key moments in the ongoing journey from slavery to freedom – and we take some time to appreciate more Celtic colors.

This week’s show features songs and tunes that invite a look up into space, as well as several pieces that urge us to look around This Old Earth to consider environmental challenges in our rapidly changing world. And, in anticipation of the Celtic Colours Festival that comes along in Cape Breton in October, we finish up with a few pieces with a distinctly Celtic flavor.