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Celtic Crush is the only Celtic rock and traditional radio show broadcast throughout all of North America. It can be heard every Saturday morning and Tuesday night on Sirius XM Satellite Radi “It really makes a difference,” says its host, Larry Kirwan, leader of Black 47, “when you know you can be heard from Arizona up to the Canadian Arctic Circle or from Florida to Alaska. Even on the big New York AM channels you can rarely be heard fifty miles from the city.” But then Celtic Crush is a unique show no matter what way you look at it....

I've spent the last three or four days drowning myself in websites filled with Celtic music midis and learning to play O'Carolan's Ramble to Cashel. My music library is a strange collection of 80s compilation albums, collections of Celtic music, works by Steel Eye Span, Moya Brennan, Pentangle, Clannad, Dougie McClean, and Bluegrass. I can sometimes tell you which Child Ballad a song is a variation of, and might know how to sing two or three different major variations. Tis a sickness. Wonder if anybody else had picked up this bug besides me....And I am logged in, my beeper is...