About the Show
Foolkiller Folk
The Foolkiller Folk collective explores the storytelling, cultural, and protest power of folk music from as far back as the Child Ballads through as current as released today.
"When one becomes enlightened one kills the fool within" -Jack Conroy
Lots of good Celtic music w/M&V today, including a fair number of songs in Gaelic. You’ll be hearing from Padraig O’Neill and Ian Kinsella (two lads from Dublin); Grainne Holland (a singer/songwriter from Belfast); The Chieftans (from their 1976 recording, Chieftans 6); Iontach (an Irish/British/German trio whose name means ‘wonderful/strange’); Laoise Kelly (who has recorded over 60 albums with many of Ireland’s foremost artists); Eileen Ivers (who transformed the Irish fiddling tradition from a folk music staple into an internationally acclaimed art); Aoife Scott (daughter of Frances Black; niece of Mary Black); The McDades (Canadian band of siblings and subject of a 2012 feature-length documentary); and The Hydes (another set of siblings, this time from Denver). Tune in at 11:00 for some great Celtic music and some serious butchering of the Gaelic language (that would be us – not the artists :-)).
