Click above for the audio of a special segment of our A Celtic Sojourn broadcast for Memorial Day, 2021. Songs and Poems of War and Remembrance. Playlist is below.
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Poetry used:
Long, Too Long America: Walt Whitman
To Fight Aloud is Very Brave: Emily Dickinson
Memorial Day, 2021 Playlist:
"Johnny Has Gone for A Soldier," U.S. Academy Band, Songs of the Civil War
"Was My Brother in the Battle," Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Songs of the Civil War
"Paddy's Lamentation," Linda and Teddy Thompson, Won't Be Long Now
"The Boston Boy," Eric Merrill, The Western Star
"The King's Shilling," Karan Casey and James Taylor, Transatlantic Sessions
"The Civil War Song," Mick McCauley and Dave Curley, The Crannua Collective
"The Vacant Chair," Kathy Matea, Songs of the Civil War
"Aura Lee," Sean Keane, Sean Songs
"Loreena," John Hartford, Songs of the Civil War
"Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier "(song), Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Foxglove and Fuschia
