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Celtic Curiosities: Travelling Around the World

The second entry in an ongoing series of celebrating Celtic folk music. This list will feature artists from Celtic regions as well as artists from non-Celtic countries. Three clovers equal a great jam, four clovers an essential listen and five constitute a masterpiece. Entries are loosely ranked chronologically, with more non-European entries in the latter half of the list. (Last updated and list finalized on 27/7/2024).

1

Ward Irish Music Archives
The Francis O'Neill Cylinders

Irish Folk Music | Historical Recordings

USA (Illinois) | Recorded ca. 1904 | Released in 2010

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): The Monaghan Jig

Available on digital streaming platforms

2

Thomas L. Thomas
Welsh Traditional Songs

Welsh Folk Music

Wales | 1955

Personal Score | 4.3 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Dacw 'Nghariad (There Is My Sweetheart) | Cyfri’r Geifr (Counting the Goats) | Suo-Gan | Clychau Aberdyfi (The Bells of Aberdovey)

Available on digital streaming platforms

3

Sean McAloon and John Rea
Drops of Brandy

Irish Folk Music

Northern Ireland | Ireland | 1976

Personal Score | 4.5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlights: Jackson's Drum / Jackson's Mistake / Jackson's Coagy (Jigs) | Coil the Hawser / Lord McDonald's (Reels) | Wandering Minstrel / Katy Is Waiting / The Basket of Shamrocks (Jigs) | Tim the Turncoat / The Quarrelsome Piper (Hornpipes) | The Old Siege of Valencia / The Lark in the Morning (Jigs)

Available on digital streaming platforms

4

Þrju a palli
Ljóð Jónasar Árnasonar Við Erlend Þjóðlög

Contemporary Folk | American Folk Music | (minor) Irish Folk Music

Iceland | 1971

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Þegar Sérðu Bylgjur Brotna | Mjöll Á Fururgrein

Available on digital streaming platforms

5

Mellow Candle
Swaddling Songs

Progressive Rock | Folk Rock | Celtic Rock

Ireland | 1972

Personal Score | 3.9 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Heaven Heath | Sheep Season | Lonely Man

Available on digital streaming platforms

6

Flibbertigibbet
Whistling Jigs To The Moon

Folk Rock | Celtic Folk Music

Ireland | South Africa | 1978

Personal Score | 3.6 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Mariner Blues

Link: https://alisonodonnell.bandcamp.com/album/whistling-jigs-to-the-moon

7

Kevin Burke and Micheal O Domhnaill
Promenade

Irish Folk Music

Ireland | 1979

Personal Score | 4.5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Lord Franklin | Walsh's Hornpipe, the Old Torn Petticoat, the Old Torn Petticoat (Reel), the Bank of Ireland | The Promenade

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this duo:

Kevin Burke and Mícheál Ó Domhnaill – Portland (LP; 1982) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

8

Caitlin Maude
Caitlín

Sean-nós | Poetry

Ireland | 1981

Personal Score | 4.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Dónal Óg

Available on digital streaming platforms

9

Christine Primrose
Aite Mo Ghaoil

Gaelic Song | Scottish Folk Music | A cappella

Scotland | 1981

Personal Score | 5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Ceann Loch an Dùin | Greas ort dhachaidh a dh'Eilean a' Fhraoich | Calum Sgàire

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist:

Christine Primrose - Gun Sireadh Gun Larraidh (LP; 2001) 🍀🍀🍀

10

Meg Davis
Captain Jack and the Mermaid

Contemporary Folk | Celtic Folk Music

USA (Ohio) | 1978

Personal Score | 4.6 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Seamus and Ivy

Available on digital streaming platforms

11

Robin Williamson
A Glint at the Kindling

Contemporary Folk | Chamber Folk | Scottish Folk Music

Scotland | 1979

Personal Score | 4.3 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Me and the Mad Girl | By Weary Well

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1i1j-XNXFc

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Robin Williamson – Myrrh (LP; 1972) 🍀🍀🍀

Robin Williamson and His Merry Band – American Stonehenge (LP; 1978) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Robin Williamson – Songs of Love and Parting (LP; 1981) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxTqpCAXSlo & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHMm7hdvVHA

12

Rhona MacKay
Ceòl na Clàrsaich

Gaelic Song | Scottish Folk Music

Scotland | 1984

Personal Score | 4.5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Waly, Waly | Bi Falbh O’n Uinneig | Cearcall A’Chuain

Available on digital streaming platforms

13

Barde
Barde

French-Canadian Folk Music | Cape Breton Folk Music | Irish Folk Music

Canada | 1977

Personal Score | 3.9 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Julia Delaney (Le reel de la sorcière) | Banshee (The Boy in the Gap, The Banshee, The Music in the Glen)

Available on digital streaming platforms

14

Galorn
Galorn

Breton Celtic Folk Music

France | 1978

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Jezaig | Kergadig | An Dro

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh950pM1qT4

15

Soazig
Chant et harpe Celtique

Breton Celtic Folk Music

France | 1980

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Jenovefa

Available on digital streaming platforms

16

Andy Irvine and Paul Brady
Andy Irvine / Paul Brady

Irish Folk Music

UK | 1976

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Lough Erne Shore | Bonny Woodhall | Mary and the Soldier

Available on digital streaming platforms

17

Matt Molloy, Paul Brady and Tommy Peoples
Molly, Brady, Peoples

Irish Folk Music

Ireland | Northern Ireland | 1978

Personal Score | 3.6 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Shamrock Shore

Available on digital streaming platforms

18

Kristen Noguès
Marc'h Gouez

Contemporary Folk | Progressive Folk | French Folk Music | Breton Celtic Folk Music

France | 1976

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Hunvre | Hirness an devezhiou

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JhTT_L7s3s

I also recommend from this artist:

Kristen Noguès – An Evor (LP; 1999) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Available on digital streaming platforms

19

Mrs. Sarah Makem
Ulster Ballad Singer

(Grandma) Lullabies | Irish Folk Music

Ireland | 1968

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Farewell My Love, Remember Me | It Was in the Month of January | The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Available on digital streaming platforms

20

Emilio Cao
Fonte Do Araño

Galician Folk Music

Spain | 1977

Personal Score | 5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Fonte Do Araño | Chegando AO Caurel | Mentras Ela Fia | Baixaron As Fadiñas | E As Geivotas Sobor De Nos...

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Emilio Cao – Lenda Da pedra Do Destiño (LP; 1979) 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

Emilio Cao – Cartas Mariñas (LP; 1992) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Available on digital streaming platforms & YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY8SBFccqTc

21

Ar Re Yaouank
Breizh Positive

Breton Celtic Folk Music | Contemporary Folk

France | 1994

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Breizh Positive | L’ Antre 4

Available on digital streaming platforms

22

Ar Skloferien
Folk Celtique

Breton Celtic Folk Music

France | 1973

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Gavotte A DeuX Violons | Koster C`hoad | An Dro | Gavotte Ar Menez | Gavotte D`honneur De Plougastel Daoulas

Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlpTAQF0quc & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs0umlfCsHQ

I also recommend from this artist:

Ar Skloferien – Keltia (LP; 1974) 🍀🍀🍀

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H04AReQCP5I&t=4s

23

Katrien Delavier
Harpe Irlandaise

Irish Folk Music | Breton Celtic Folk Music

France | 1989

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): An paistin fionn (hornpipe) | The Aran boat (slow air) | Fontanella

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfk9-pRRkBw&t=732s

24

Almanaque
Descantes e cantaréus

Trás-os-Montes Folk Music

Portugal | 1979

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): La Sirigoça | Cantiga de la Segada

Available on digital streaming platforms

25

Yann-Fanch Kemener and Didier Squiban
Enez Eusa

Breton Folk Music | Breton Celtic Folk Music

France | 1995

Personal Score | 4.5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Gwerz kêr Is | Marivonig an Dourduff | Ar voraerion | Gwerz Penmarc’h | Plac’hig Eusa

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Didier Squiban & Yann-Fañch Kemener – Ile-exil (LP; 1996) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Didier Squiban & Yann-Fañch Kemener – Kimiad (LP; 1998) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

26

Gwerz
Musique Bretonne de Toujours

Breton Celtic Folk Music | Progressive Folk

France | 1986

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Ar plac’h ifiernet | Heuliad kaolmorc’h

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist:

Gwerz – Au-delà… (LP; 1988) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

27

John Rea
Traditional Music On The Hammered Dulcimer

Irish Folk Music

Ireland | 1979

Personal Score | 3.9 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Whistle O'er The Lave O't / The Braes Of Tulimet / Scudding Through The Whins | The Mountain Hornpipe / The Kingston Hornpipe | The Kinnegad Slashers / The Tenpenny Bit | Roaring Mary / Tim Moloney

Available on digital streaming platforms

28

Kevin Burke
If the Cap Fits

Irish Folk Music

UK | 1978

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Toss The Feathers / The College Grooves / The Pinch OF Stuff / The Earl's Chair / The Woman Of The House / The Girl That Broke My Heart / The Drunken Tinker / Paddy Cronin's / McFadden's Handsome Daughter / The Hunter's Purse / Toss The Feathers

Available on digital streaming platforms

29

Therese Schroeder-Sheker
Rosa Mystica

Neoclassical New Age | Celtic New Age

USA (Michigan) | 1990

Personal Score | 4.3 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): For the Roses | Longing | The Gartan Mother’s Song

Available on digital streaming platforms

30

William Jackson
Inchcolm

Scottish Folk Music | Celtic New Age

Scotland | 1995

Personal Score | 4.5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Corryvreckan | In the Northeast Kingdom | Salve Splendor | Columcille | A Lover’s Call

Available on digital streaming platforms

31

Si-Folk
Si-Folk III: East Céili

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 1990

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): The Mist Covered Mountain / Lannigan's Bowl (Jigz) | Bill Sullivan's / Finnish (Polkas)

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Si-Folk – Fairy Dinner (EP; 1988) 🍀🍀🍀

Si-Folk – Si-Folk Roots (Compilation; 1998) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Si-Folk – Longing Time (Compilation; 2009) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3dq7x7j-Sw&t=340s

32

Cathie O'Sullivan and Summerhaze
Summerhaze

Chamber Folk | Psychedelic Folk | Celtic Folk Music | Chamber Jazz

Australia | 1987

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Cameron Quartermain | Loving One | O Waters

Individual tracks available on YouTube

33

Cathie O'Sullivan
Artesian Waters

Chamber Folk | Contemporary Folk | Irish Folk Music | Australian Folk Music

Australia | 1980

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Green Bushes | Barbry Allen | Love’s Coming

Individual tracks available on YouTube

34

Currency (AUS)
First Exchange

Folk Rock | Celtic Folk Music

Australia | 1982

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): The Miner | Hangmans Noose | Wreck of the Amphitrite

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRSd57PY4P4

35

Anima (BR)
Espiral Do Tempo

Brazilian Folk Music | Celtic Folk Music

Brazil | 1997

Personal Score | 4.3 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Deodora | Estampie | Tirana da Rosa

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vH05QsrM8

I also recommend from this artist:

Anima – Especiarias (LP; 2000) 🍀🍀🍀

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uDihP5aY2k&t=1408s

36

Carousel
Carousel

Progressive Folk | Chamber Folk | Celtic Folk Music | Spanish Folk Music

New Zealand | 2002

Personal Score | 3.5 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Slip Away | Rainstorm

Available on digital streaming platforms

37

Lisa Lynne
Daughters of the Celtic Moon

Celtic New Age

USA (California) | 1998

Personal Score | 4.5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Sister Moon | Maiden Dance | Fields of Gold | Nightingale

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Lisa Lynne – Seasons of the Soul (LP; 1999) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Lisa Lynne – New Morning (LP; 2001) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

38

Terre di Mezzo
Terre di Mezzo

Celtic Folk Music

Italy | 1996

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Bianco Scudiero | De Ægypto

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njWjHRFs0us

39

Mince Pye
Pye To Go

Neo-Medieval Folk Music | Renaissance Music | Celtic Folk Music

USA (New York) | 2000

Personal Score | 4.3 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): More Champagne | Knocknagow | Brian Boru’s March | Spancil Hill / The Mist Covered Mountains of Home | La Rosette

Link: https://mincepye.bandcamp.com/album/pye-to-go

I also recommend from this artist:

Mince Pye – Renaissance Dance Music (LP; 1998) 🍀🍀🍀

Link: https://mincepye.bandcamp.com/album/renaissance-dance-music

40

Celtic Cross (UK)
Hicksville

Psybient | Trance | Downtempo | (minor) Celtic Folk Music

UK | 1998

Personal Score | 3.7 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Hicksville | Darshannon

Available on digital streaming platforms

41

Lothlorien (NZ)
Greenwood Side

Celtic Folk Music

New Zealand | 2000

Personal Score | 3.5 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Schottische Fran Havero | The Black Cat

Link: https://lothlorien.bandcamp.com/album/greenwood-side

42

Hector Zazou
Lights in the Dark

Celtic Folk Music | Hymns

Algeria | France | 1998

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Seacht Ndólás Na Maighdine Muire (Seven Sorrows Of The Virgin Mary) | Caoine mhuire (Mary's Lament)

Seacht Ndólás Na Maighdine Muire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZmbEGHd274

Caoine Mhuire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqKI-qR1g9E

43

Peatbog Faeries
Faerie Stories

Celtic Electronica | Techno | Progressive Breaks

Scotland | 2001

Personal Score | 4.6 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Martin Roachfords / The Oyster Woman's Rant | Faerie Stories | Cameronian Rant | Caberdrone

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Peatbog Faeries – Welcome to Dun Vegas (LP; 2003) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Peatbog Faeries – Croftwork (LP; 2005) 🍀🍀🍀

Peatbog Faeries – What Men Deserve to Lose (LP; 2007) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Peatbog Faeries – I See a World (LP; 2023) 🍀🍀🍀

Link: https://peatbogfaeriesofficial.bandcamp.com/album/i-see-a-world

44

Tartan Amoebas
Evolution

Celtic Electronica

Scotland | 1997

Personal Score | 4.5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): He Ro Ho Ro Hi | The Watergaw | Face to Face | Once

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Tartan Amoebas – Tartan Amoebas (Self-titled LP; 1993) 🍀🍀🍀

Tartan Amoebas – Giant (LP; 1999) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

45

Hughes de Courson
O'stravaganza: Vivaldi in Ireland

Baroque Music | Classical Crossover | Irish Folk Music

France | 2001

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Estro-Reel | Ceol Cuàine | Jig della inquietudine | La ciacconna rossa

Available on digital streaming platforms (under the name ‘Le Orfanelle Della Pieta’)

46

Carreg Lafar
Hyn

Welsh Folk Music

Wales | 1998

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Afon Yr Haf (The Summer River) | Llef Harlech / Aberdulais (Harlech’s Cry/Aberdulais)

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist:

Carreg Lafar – Proflad (LP; 2002) 🍀🍀🍀

47

The Campbells
Fonn

Gaelic Song

Scotland | 2012

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Ceud soraidh, ceud slàinte | Cnoc nan Craobh | M' agh donn: Ged dh'fhanadh crodh chàich a-muigh

Available on digital streaming platforms

48

Afro Celt Sound System
Volume 1 - Sound Magic

Celtic Electronica | African Folk Music

International | 1996

Personal Score | 4.3 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Saor / Free / News From Nowhere | Whirl-Y-Reel 1 (Beard and Sandals Mix) | Sure-as-Not / Sure-as-Knot

Link: https://realworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/volume-1-sound-magic

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Afro Celt Sound System – Volume 3: Further in Time (LP; 2001) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Afro Celt Sound System – Seed (LP; 2003) 🍀🍀🍀

Afro Celt Sound System – Volume 5: Anatomic (LP; 2005) 🍀🍀🍀

Link: https://realworldrecords.bandcamp.com/music

49

Galandum Galundaina
Senhor Galandum

Trás-os-Montes Folk Music

Portugal | 2009

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Fraile Cornudo | L Cura Stá Malo | Balsa Rastreira / Heilena

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Galandum Galundaina – Modas i anzonas (LP; 2005) 🍀🍀🍀

Galandum Galundaina – Quatrada (LP; 2015) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

50

Greg Joy
Celtic Secrets

Celtic Folk Music

Canada | 1993

Personal Score | 3.9 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Lovely Joan / The Spirit Flies Free | When I Was On Horseback | Ancient Sojourn

Available on digital streaming platforms

51

Berroguetto
Hepta

Galician Folk Music | Progressive Folk

Spain | 2001

Personal Score | 4.5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Nanatsu | Heptacordo | Hebdomadaria | Cantos de Monzo

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Berroguetto – Navicularia (LP; 1996) 🍀🍀🍀

Berroguetto – Viaxe por Urticaria (LP; 1999) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Berroguetto – 10.0 (LP; 2006) 🍀🍀🍀

Berroguetto – Kosmogonías (LP; 2010) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

52

Paddy Keenan, Frankie Gavin and Junji Shirota
Eire Japan

Irish Folk Music | Japanese Folk Music

Ireland | Japan | 2017

Personal Score | 3.5 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Sodeyamabushi | Si Bheag Si Mhor

Available on digital streaming platforms

53

You Joe Ceili Band
The Best of You Joe Ceili Band

Irish Folk Music

Japan | 2009

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Shamrock Valentinus | a-sa-ya-ke (The Morning Glow) | Shetland Air Set | a-ri-ga-to (White Precious Air)

Available on digital streaming platforms

54

Clann Zu
Rua

Art Rock | Folk Rock | Celtic Rock

Australia | Ireland | 2002

Personal Score | 3.4 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Rí Rá

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jcJ7yYOnkQ

55

2nd Moon
두번째달

Fusian Gugak | Jazz Fusion | Irish Folk Music

South Korea | 2005

Personal Score | 4.4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): 서쪽하늘에 | 바람구두 | 꽃개구리들은 왜 물기로 젖은 개나리이끼 숲으로 몰려나올까? | Ag Damhsa leis an Ghaoth [애그 다우사 레쉬 안 그웨]

Available on digital streaming platforms

56

Donnacha Dennehy
Grá agus Bás

Post-Minimalism | Orchestral Song | Sean-nós

Ireland | 2011

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Grá agus Bás

Available on digital streaming platforms

57

Paul Mounsey
City of Walls

Celtic Electronica

UK | 2003

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Billy’s Birl

Available on digital streaming platforms

58

Treacherous Orchestra
Grind

Celtic Electronica | Celtic Rock

Scotland | 2015

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Masters | Hounds | Rise

Link: https://treacherousorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/grind

I also recommend from this artist:

Treacherous Orchestra – Origins (LP; 2012) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Available on digital streaming platforms

59

Xera
Lliendes

Asturian Folk Music | Celtic Electronica

Spain | 2006

Personal Score | 3.9 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Lliendes

Available on digital streaming platforms

60

Lorena Alvarez y su Banda Municipal
Anónimo

Asturian Folk Music | Indie Folk | Psychedelic Folk

Spain | 2012

Personal Score | 3.5 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Novias | Manolo | Plegaria

Link: https://sones.bandcamp.com/album/an-nimo

61

Camerata Meiga
Habelas Hailas

Galician Folk Music

Spain | 1999

Personal Score | 4.3 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Brincadeira

Available on digital streaming platforms

62

Rosa Cedron
Entre dous mares

Galician Folk Music

Spain | 2007

Personal Score | 4.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Romance de Mirabella | Se nos deixan | Máis amor | Macedonia | Tus sueños

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist:

Rosa Cedrón – Nada que perder (LP; 2016) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

63

Trobar De Morte
Nocturnal Dance of the Dragonfly

Neofolk | Neoclassical Darkwave | Celtic Folk Music

Spain | 2004

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Los duendes del reloj

Link: https://trobardemorte.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnal-dance-of-the-dragonfly

I also recommend from this artist:

Trobar de Morte – Fairydust (LP; 2005) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Trobar de Morte – Reverie (LP; 2006) 🍀🍀🍀

Trobar de Morte – The Silver Wheel (LP; 2012) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Trobar de Morte – The Book of Shadows (LP; 2020) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Link: https://trobardemorte.bandcamp.com/music

64

The Trials of Cato
Hide and Hair

English Folk Music | Celtic Folk Music | Welsh Folk Music

UK | Lebanon | 2018

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Gloria | My Love’s in Germany

Available on digital streaming platforms

65

Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach
Spiorachas - A High Place

Scottish Folk Music

Scotland | 2021

Personal Score | 4.5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Ghruamach | Forest of the Red Stags | Mairi | Misty Corrie | Reel

Link: https://cgjpmusic.bandcamp.com/album/spiorachas-a-high-place

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach – Waves Rise From Quiet Water (LP; 2016) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach – Air iomall (LP; 2019) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Link: https://cgjpmusic.bandcamp.com/music

66

Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita
Clychau Dibon

Mande Music | Griot Music | Welsh Folk Music | Modern Classical

Senegal | Wales | 2013

Personal Score | 4.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Genedigaeth Koring-Bato | Future Strings | Bamba | Ceffylau | Llongau Térou-Bi

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this duo (chronologically):

Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita – SOAR (LP; 2018) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita – Echo (LP; 2022) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

67

Serendou
Avel An Douar

Breton Celtic Folk Music | African Folk Music

Niger | France | 2011

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Bandaberi / Lamourou | La famille | Daneedjo

Available on digital streaming platforms

Serendou – Zinder (LP; 2017) 🍀🍀🍀

68

oofujitsubo
Heartbeat of the Sky (空の鼓動)

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2007

Personal Score | 4.5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Eternal Reflection | Reel Set No.1 (Fleur de Mandragore / Lady Margaret Stewart / Sean Sa Ceo) | Too Beautiful Memories | Jig Set (Johnny O'leary's / Paddy Falhy's / The Rocky Road to Dublin) | A Bird Had Past | Jack Frost in the Sky | Hydrangea Garden | The First Gale of Spring

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Oofujitsubo – Remains of Dreams (LP; 2011) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Oofujitsubo – Yoh No Enshin (LP; 2015) 🍀🍀🍀

Oofujitsubo – Hill of Desires (LP; 2021) 🍀🍀🍀

69

oofujitsubo and Rita
夕暮れの声 / Yuugure no Koe

Celtic Folk Music | Folk Pop

Japan | 2013

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Dublin 25:00 | Culloden’s Harvest | 青の湊～Skye Boat Song

Link: https://tsuboy.bandcamp.com/album/yuugure-no-koe-bandcamp-edition

I also recommend from this artist:

Oofujitsubo and Rika – 螺旋の刻印 / Rasen no Kokuin (LP; 2017)
🍀🍀🍀🍀

Link: https://tsuboy.bandcamp.com/album/rasen-no-kokuin-bandcamp-edition

70

KURI
Rei Mei [黎明]

Celtic Folk Music | Japanese Folk Music

Japan | 2013

Personal Score | 4.4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Bountiful Harvest Blessing [豊穣] | On the Banks where the Lotus Bloom [蓮の花咲く水辺のほとりにて]

Link: https://kuri.bandcamp.com/album/rei-mei-2

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

KURI – Dancing of the Wind [風の舞] (LP; 1999) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

KURI – Distant Memories [遠い記憶] (LP; 2002) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

KURI – Mirage Market [蜃気楼の市場] (LP; 2008) 🍀🍀🍀

Link: https://kuri.bandcamp.com/music

71

Groovedge
4 CORNERS

Celtic Folk Music | Jazz

Japan | 2017

Personal Score | 3.9 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Epsilon | Machibito | Swear to the Stars

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Groovedge – Reduction (LP; 2019) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Groovedge – Build (LP; 2021) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

72

Hirofumi Nakamura and Tetsuya Uchiyamada
The World Is Filled With Blessings

Celtic Folk Music | Orchestral

Japan | 2022

Personal Score | 4.3 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Paired Worlds, Golden Wings, Golden Bird | A Woman with the Bracelet | Faster Than Three Hundred Thousand Kilometers per Second

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist:

Hirofumi Nakamura and Tetsuya Uchiyamada – The World is Filled with Blessings (Instr.) (Compilation; 2023) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

73

muTRIO
muTRIO

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2013

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Nara | Mangetsu

Available on digital streaming platforms

74

Montz Matsumoto
Missing Home

Contemporary Folk | Bluegrass | Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2023

Personal Score | 3.9 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Spring Wind | Missing Home

Link: https://montzmatsumoto.bandcamp.com/album/missing-home-2

75

O'Phan
Jugemu

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2014

Personal Score | 3.4 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): The Old Flail / The Orphan / Taylor Bar, 4am

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist:

O’Phan – Love and Freedom (LP; 2014) 🍀🍀🍀

76

Daikanyama Oukoku
Before the Peperoncino Gets Cold

Chamber Folk | Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2019

Personal Score | 3.3 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Tanebi | Sukuiageru

Available on digital streaming platforms

77

Salacoro
After Tears...

Celtic New Age | Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2013

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): The Last Rose of Summer - Down by the Sally Gardens | Sala & Coro | The Lark in the Clear Air

Available on digital streaming platforms

78

De Domhnaigh (JPN)
Turas

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2021

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Leprachaun | Unknown Village | For You

Available on digital streaming platforms

79

Yumie Kushitani
Hikari

Nordic Folk Music | Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2021

Personal Score | 3.6 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Sea of Clouds

Available on digital streaming platforms

80

Masato Anjyo
Luule

Nordic Folk Music | Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2019

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Bell | Little Bird Waltz | Snowy Day

Available on digital streaming platforms

81

De Domhnaigh (CZ)
10 Let

Irish Folk Music

Czech Republic | 2020

Personal Score | 3.3 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): The Bagpiper | Morrison’s Jig

Available on digital streaming platforms

82

The Xi'An Si
The Xi'An Sessions

Chinese Folk Music | Celtic Folk Music

China | 2008

Personal Score | 3.3 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Óró Sé Do Bheatha Bhaile

Available on digital streaming platforms

83

K.C. Jiang
Chinese Music for Irish Whistle (爱尔兰哨笛吹奏的中国歌曲)

Irish Folk Music | Chinese Folk Music

USA (California) | Taiwan | 2015

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Faraway Place | Shepherdess | Kangding Love Song | Waves Washing the Sands | Red Bean Poem

Available on digital streaming platforms

84

Chululu
Letter from Murray

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2019

Personal Score | 3.9 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Greenland | yae rintosuru

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist:

Chululu – Tapestry of the Stars (EP; 2021) 🍀🍀🍀

85

Toshihiro Nakanishi's Reel's Trip
Reel's Trip

Celtic Folk Music | Chamber Jazz

Japan | 2015

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Slow Hot Wind

Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnClbhJnsHyNe222mKva_JQ

86

Harry Gorski-Brown
Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats

Scottish Folk Music | Avant-Folk | Drone

Scotland | 2024

Personal Score | 3.7 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Mo bhò dhubh mhòr | ’S gann gun dìrich mi chaoidh

Link: https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/durt-dronemaker-after-dreamboats

87

OXN
CYRM

Irish Folk Music | Drone | Darkwave

Ireland | 2023

Personal Score | 4.5 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Cruel Mother | The Wife of Michael Cleary | Farmer in The City

Available on digital streaming platforms

88

Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and Irish Chamber Orchestra
Róisín ReImagined

Sean-nós | Irish Folk Music | Modern Classical

Ireland | 2022

Personal Score | 4.6 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Bruach na Carraige Báine | Sliabh Geal gCua

Link: https://muireann1.bandcamp.com/album/r-is-n-reimagined-2

89

Modern Irish Project
3 Films

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2010

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Virginia Set | Time Distance | 3 Films

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Modern Irish Project – Tune Up (LP; 2011) 🍀🍀🍀

Modern Irish Project – Moving Cloud (LP; 2016) 🍀🍀🍀

90

Neko Modal
Tuneful Tunes

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2015

Personal Score | 3.7 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Dan Sullivan’s / The Dripsey | Slán Leat Go Bráth (Farewell for Evermore) | Sliabh Geal gCua / The Green Mountain

Link: https://fueguruhi.bandcamp.com/album/tuneful-tunes

I also recommend from this artist:

Neko Modal – Have a Pint of Whiskey (EP; 2012) 🍀🍀🍀

Link: https://fueguruhi.bandcamp.com/album/have-a-pint-of-whiskey

91

Rinka
Black Diamond

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2009

Personal Score | 3.5 | 🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Yasumi-ishi

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist:

Rinka – Rinka3 (LP; 2007) 🍀🍀🍀

92

Oriver
ティンホイッスルのうた～Song Of The Tin Whistle～

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2017

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Down by the Sally Gardens | The Languor of Love | Hector the Hero | Si Bheag Si Mor

Available on digital streaming platforms

93

Men's Cap
Trace

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2019

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): The Sunlight in Early Morning | Three Fragments of Sea

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist:

Men’s Cap – In My Hands (EP; 2021) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

94

Kondo Minako
Living-room musics

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2022

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Driveaway | Not the first time, but the first time | Exit of the Winter | Snowing | Road in the basin town

Link: https://kondominako.bandcamp.com/album/living-room-musics

95

CyberTribe
Cyber Dawn

Progressive Rock | (minor) Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2020

Personal Score | 4 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Ocean Dreams | Dragon's Feathers / 龍の羽衣

Link: https://tsuboy.bandcamp.com/album/cyber-dawn

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

CyberTribe – Cyberthnic (LP; 2019) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

CyberTribe – Cyber Cycle (LP; 2022) 🍀🍀🍀

Links: https://tsuboy.bandcamp.com/album/cyberthnic & https://tsuboy.bandcamp.com/album/cyber-cycle

96

Yuki Kojima
Take Off -Beyond the Respect-

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2018

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Bouncing Floor | Amadare | Adventure of Wind

Available on digital streaming platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

Koji Koji Moheji (same artist) – Across the Line (LP; 2017) 🍀🍀🍀

97

Yumi Tahara
My Gentle Harp

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2018

Personal Score | 3.9 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Sheebeg and Sheemore | Warabi-gami Blessing from Heaven | Elpis

Available on digital streaming platforms

98

Patrick and Patricia
Folk or Alive

Celtic Folk Music | Folk Punk

Japan | 2021

Personal Score | 4.3 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Weather Cock | Come Up Roses | Frontier | Flip the Bird

Available on digital streaming platforms

99

The Land of Nod
The Land of Nod

Celtic Folk Music | Japanese Folk Music

Japan | 2021

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): TJ's Lullaby | Katakuri No Hana | Reverie

Link: https://brucehuebner.bandcamp.com/album/the-land-of-nod

100

You Joe Gakudan
Aura, Venias

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2015

Personal Score | 4.2 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Aura, Venias | Paddy Ryan's Dream / Janine's / Boys of Malin | Sky of Helsingor | Story of Sakushima

Available on digital platforms

I also recommend from this artist (chronologically):

You Joe Gakudan - Tusind Tak (LP; 2016) 🍀🍀🍀

You Joe Gakudan - Fiddlism Theory (LP; 2019) 🍀🍀🍀🍀

101

Tri-
Notes of North

Celtic Folk Music

Japan | 2023

Personal Score | 3.8 | 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Highlight(s): Hometown Air

Available on digital streaming platforms

Show/Add Comments (17)

Elynna 04.20.24	Still very much a WIP. I'll be posting the remaining entries in the next couple of days. Link to Volume I: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=1059224&listid=195830
budgie 04.20.24	bookmarked etc (let's see rockhill get some love)
Havey 04.20.24	chat is Celtic Electronica a real genre
JohnnyoftheWell 04.20.24	ifg it is killer list as always, what should I peek first?
Havey 04.20.24	in my mind 9 is the natural starting point, canon shit, some undeniable ballads
bighubbabuddha 04.21.24	cool list
budgie 04.21.24	poor rockhill 😔
Elynna 04.21.24	I absolutely adore Beltaine and Rockhill is an incredible record (might even be a top 10 Celtic folk record for me). I believe you were the one that rec’d them to me initially. But I already have them as an entry on my first Celtic folk list. @johnny 9 would make a great starting point if you’re looking for something more traditional. Maybe you’ll dig 54 and 55 too
AsleepInTheBack 04.21.24	Legend
AsleepInTheBack 04.21.24	Get some Alan Stivell in here for that Breton Harp madman vibe
Elynna 04.22.24	Alan Stivell is a legend. He was one of the first artists I included in my first list
AsleepInTheBack 04.22.24	Oh shit this is part 2? My bad. His Celtic harp renaissance thing is chefs kiss. Doing gods work with these
dedex 04.22.24	great great list my Breton ass is happy yeeehaw was also gonna say Stivell but damn man you really be doing gods work with these [2]
Demon of the Fall 04.24.24	hmm, this Christine Primrose lass is v good... update, it's rather gorgeous in fact! Thank you for this. List is massive and informative. Great effort!
Elynna 04.24.24	Thanks for all the kind words! Christine Primrose took a while to win me over, it's a real beauty of a record
Demon of the Fall 12.15.24	Bumping this to say I’m still the only person on this website to have rated that album (other than yourself) ^ which is a darn shame. It’s really wonderful. A keeper, not just a curiosity What would you recommend here, specifically for someone who loves that Christine Primrose album… Rhona MacKay has my eye perhaps?
Demon of the Fall 12.15.24	Tartan Amoebas sounds like a curious find

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