With the high holy days of the St. Patrick's Day season upon us, there's plenty to celebrate in the Windy City Irish Radio studios and in the Windy City with parades on the northside, southside and downtown, pubs open, music performed and lots of dancing, singing and merriment all to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland, ol' Maywan Succatt, that's right, old St. Patrick himself.  Join Mike and Tim for an hour of celebration to Ireland's favorite saint with music from the Irish Rovers, The Pogues, Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, Bing Crosby, The Screaming Orphans, Cherish the Ladies, Niamh McElduff, and so much more.  Happy St. Patrick's Day from Windy City Irish Radio!

With the high holy days banging on the doors of the Windy City Irish Radio Studios, there's not much to do than to let the party in, so let's do it.  Bar the doors, Katy!  It's Windy City Irish Radio and they ain't takin' no for an answer.  That's right, check them out at WNDZ 750AM or at www.windycityirishradio.com or on globalirishradio.com.  You'll like it.  Trust me!!

The Mardi Gras season is always a special season but this year it's even more special as parades roll on through the streets of New Orleans again.  Mike and Tim celebrate the Mardi Gras season yet again bringing their 9th Annual Mardi Gras celebration to the airwaves featuring the best of Irish music with a Cajun-New Orleans flare featuring music from great Irishmen, Professor Longhair and Fats Domino, Drops of Green, Scythian, Aoife O'Donovan and Colm Mac Namara, Damian McGeehan, Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong, Daniel O'Donnell, Wayne Toups and Zydecajun with a Van Morrison classic, La Vent Du Nord, The Lash, La Bottine Souriante, and the big voice of Maura O'Connell.  Grab yourself an Abita, kick off your shoes and let the Mardi Gras Parado Roll On!  Check out Windy City Irish Radio live on WNDZ 750AM and live streamed on www.globalirishradio.com or check out the website at www.windycityirishradio.com.   

As winter drones on, Windy City Irish Radio looks forward to the upcoming high holy days of the St. Patrick's Day season with music from acts appearing live in the upcoming weeks including Dervish, Jig Jam and Josh O'Keefe as well as music from Clare Sands, Susan O'Neill, Lemonchello, Fiachtna O Braonaine, The Screaming Orphans, All Folkd Up, Glen Hansard, Dylan Walsh, Tupelo and Liam Clancy.  We'll have lots of St. Patrick's Day merriment in the upcoming weeks as we count down the days to the return of the downtown, southside and northwest side parades and a full calendar of Irish and Irish American acts gracing venues all over the Chicagoland area.  Check out Windy City Irish Radio each and every Sunday afternoon on WNDZ 750AM at 12 noon, live streamed on www.globalirishradio.com and on our website at www.windycityirishradio.com.   

Love is in the air this week on Windy City Irish Radio.  Those pedagogues of love celebrate Valentine's Day with an hour of Valentine's Day music for those seeking love, lost love or those still madly in love.  That's right, Cupid has pulled back is bow and is ready to shoot it straight into your lovers heart (in a very loving and caring fashion, of course).  Join Mike and Tim for an hour of Valentine's Day music featuring songstress, Tara O'Grady, a classic from Sharon Shannon and Jim Murphy, The Coors featuring the Chieftains, a little love poem from Yeats read by the lovely and oh so talented Sarah Bolger, JigJam, Imelda May, Finbar Furey, Dropkick Murphy's with the boss, Bruce Springstein, Barnbrack, Elenor McEnvoy & Mary Black, U2 and The Pogues.  Check in live on 750AM WNDZ or live streamed on www.globalirishradio.com or via our podcast at www.windycityirishradio.com.  Happy Valentine's Day!! 

February 1st may mark the beginning of Spring on the Celtic calendar and a rememberance of Ireland's mother, the Patroness of Erin, St. Brigid, but when you live in the Windy City, February can seem like the longest and bleakest month of the year.  As the snow flies, cold weather lingers and "dibs" squabbles continue, there's plenty of singing, dancing and joy in the Windy City Irish Radio studios with lots of new music and celebrations.  This week we celebrate a belated Feast of St. Brigid's Day with a new song from Eamon Flynn, we celebrate country music icon Garth Brooks on the eve of his 60th birthday, remember piano great, Libarace, with music from Tara O'Grady and a little diddy from ol' Władziu himself on the anniversary of his passing on February 4, 1987.  As live music creeps back into society, we anxiously await upcoming shows from Dervish, Jig Jam, The Merry Ploughboys and Derrick Warfield and the Young Wolfe Tones plus a new songs from John Prine tribute band, Bruised Orange, Austin, TX native, Aaron McDonnell, and from rising star, Dan McCabe.  Hey, it's all right here on Windy City Irish Radio.  Check us out live on 750AM WNDZ or live streamed on www.globalirishradio.com or on our podcast at www.windycityirishradio.com.  

After a two-year hiatus, the Celtic Women Tour -- Postcards from Ireland, returns to the U.S. with an 84-city tour including Chicago on April 7th at the Rosemont Theater.  Accomplished on fiddle and harp and with the voice of an angel, Tara McNeal of Celtic Women fame joins us for an hour of stories and music from their latest CD, DVD and PBS special, Celtic Women: Postcards from Ireland, a beautiful complication recorded in 14 different locations through the north, south, east and west of Ireland.  Tickets are on sale for the April 7th show at www.celticwomen.com.  Join Tim, Mike and Tara for an hour of Windy City Irish Radio featuring Celtic Women.  You can check out the show each Sunday afternoon from noon to 1pm on 750AM WNDZ, the podcast at www.windycityirishradio.com and you can listen to the live stream on www.globalirishradio.com.  

Founded in 1990 by creative force and renowned choreographer Mark Howard, the Trinity Irish Dance Group is a uniquely Irish-American company serving as the birthplace of progressive Irish dance.  Chelsea Hoy joins Mike and Tim in the Windy City Irish Radio studios ahead of their upcoming tour taking them as far as Japan.  This week's show features music from Billy Tracey and the Scope, Tim O'Brien, Jiggy, Socks In the Frying Pan, UZ, and Aslan.  It's all right here on WNDZ 750AM or on our website at www.windycityirishradio.com or tune in live at www.globalirishradio.com.  

When the cold and snow settle in the Midwest, it's time to heat things up in the Windy City Irish Radio studios and there's no better way than to lay down some new tasty tracks from Irish artists spanning the globe -- some old faces and some new faces but lots of new music this week from Billow Wood, Lunasa, Eleanor McEvoy, Planxty, Socks In the Frying Pan, Damien McGeehan, Dervish with Steve Earl, House of Hammill, Colm Gavin, The Byrne Brothers, Lee Hayes, and the Fitzgeralds.  So put some turf on the fire, pull your favorite pint and listen to Chicago's most popular Irish Radio show, Windy City Irish Radio.  Listen live locally at 750 WNDZ Chicago, live streamed on Global Irish Radio at www.globalirishradio.com, or on our website at www.windycityirishradio.com.  Stay warm out there!!

In December we celebrated the birth of a the boy king but in January, we celebrate the birth of another King -- the undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Aaron Presley.  Born in Tupelo, MS, Elvis made his way to Memphis, TN where he made his new home and it's still the home of the King where thousands visit Graceland and pay homage to the King.  We too pay homage to the King of Rock and roll but we do it Windy City Irish Radio-style.  Elvis' contribution to music is unmeasurable and reached every corner of the world including his ancestral homeland where his great-great-great-great granddaddy emigrated from County Wicklow to the New Orleans after an incident where a bunch of Carlow roughens knocked him down, stepped on his face and maybe slandered his name all over the place but thankfully never stepped on his suede shoes.   Elvis loved the Irish and they, in turn, loved him.  In honor of the King's 87th birthday, we celebrate his musical legacy featuring music from singer songwriter and Irishman, Phil Coulter, Bing Crosby, a poem by Bono, Daniel O'Donnell, Delores O'Roirdan, Orla Fallon, Imelda May and Jack Savoretti, The Waterboys, Elvis impersonator, Jim Brown, a great story from broadcaster and journalist, Joe Jackson, on why Heartbreak Hotel is an Irish song, The Poor Clares from New Orleans and one from the King himself.  It's all right here on Windy City Irish Radio broadcasting live on WNDZ 750AM Chicago and live streamed on www.globalirishradio.com and the podcast at www.windycityirishradio.com.