from RADIO REBEL GAEL :
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Our new Samhain-Halloween Playlist Is Now Online:
http://www.live365.com/stations/bronxgael
Featuring new music by:
Sharky Doyles
Saint Bushmills Choir
Ray Collins
Eire Og
Larkin
Blood Or Whiskey
Nogoodnix
Wages of Sin
Siobhan
Ballydowse
Cruachan
Greenland Whalefishers
Flatfoot 56
Zydepunks
Junkman's Choir
JD & the Longfellows
And more great music by:
The Battering Ram
The Irish Swingin' Bobs
Athenrye
Flogging Molly
The Tossers
Wilderness 1916
Dropkick Murphys
The Dubliners
The Wolfe Tones
One Way System
The Spectres
All Torn Up
The Hillbilly Hellcats
The King Drapes
The Mahones
The Skels
The Electrics
Neck
Seanchai
Angelic Upstarts
New Model Army
The Popes
Luther Wright & The Wrongs
Lotta Red
The Tin Cans
The House Wreckers
Justice
Christy Moore
Johnny Cash
and much more!
Samhain Salutations, Happy Halloween and All Saint's Day Blessings to you all...This Halloween Playlist is up now and will have a limited run from today, Friday October 27th, through October 31st, Hallow's Eve....
Samhain (pronounced 'Sow-in') - known to modern Americans as Halloween - known as All Saints Day or All Hallows Eve by Irish Catholics ---
To us here at Radio Rebel Gael it has the same spiritual meaning as our ancient Gaelic ancestors -
A time to honor those who have gone before -
To our dearly departed, lost loved ones, to our ancestral dead
To our forefathers
And all those Irish martyrs and heroes who sacrificed their lives for unmitigated Irish freedom and an Irish Republic (and not the so-called "Free State" that presides in the halls of corruption in Dublin)
And Samhain is also to be remembered as a time when the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead becomes very thin - so thin that it may be possible for the dead to walk amongst us ---
For the spirit of our ancestors and the spirit of the Irish heroes and heroines to be present - for their immortal spirits to join with us in our celebrations, in our prayers, in our thoughts and dreams - and be a guiding light through the darkness....
Other cultures, have similiar traditions --- in Mexico, the Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, is a festive day when the people parade in costumes with elaborate masks and sugar skulls towards the graveyard to leave candies, flowers and wreathes upon the grave sites of their loved ones. Like the ancient Gaels (and many of our modern day Celts) they also believe that the spirits of the ancestors and their lost loved ones -- are present --- that their immortal spirits are paying a visit to the Land of the Living....
Our ancient pre-Christian Gaelic holiday of Samhain was brought here to the USA by Irish exiles - to become that popular holiday we all know and love as Halloween -
Thanks to Irish-Americans who cared about their roots and the need to preserve Irish traditions for future generations we can celebrate on this happy holiday - Old folks, married couples, children, young couples, hell, even singles and the family cat, dog, or barnyard owl hooting at the moon, while us Bronx City Billies yee-howl like Blue tic hounds from the remotest hollers of Appalachia at the sounds of Irish Rebel rhythm, Celtic Rock, Paddy Punk, Pub Rock & Roll or old school Rockabilly boogie :)
This Halloween let us remember our lost loved ones, those who have gone before, to our ancestors, to those who languish in prison cells because of their loyalty to the Cause, and to those who paid the ultimate price -
Who gave their lives for a United Ireland -
Remember their deeds and their sacrifice -
Because Ireland unfree
Will never be at peace ....
Tiochfaidh ar la!
And Gods Bless....
Rory Dubhdara, Radio Rebel Gael
Thanks to Bad Mama Jamma for this cool pumpkin photo :)
