MobyD's Blog – April 2008 Archive (5)

My latest Squidoo lens is a natural choice: liveIreland.com, the site and station that got me inspired to create Celtic music lenses in the first place. Needless to say, I listened to the station throughout the creation of the lens, except when I was checking out the YouTube videos on the page. The first video is Klara McDonnell singing "Ride On." The other five I chose by going through the listings of videos that members of… Continue

Another day, another Squidoo lens, although I wouldn't count on that continuing to be a daily event.



This lens is about The Thistle & Shamrock, Fiona Ritchie's weekly hour-long program on NPR. Of course, the program has its own excellent and extensive website, so what I've done is give a brief idea of the show and site, then I picked five CDs (so far) featured on recent broadcasts Fiona did for new music she'd… Continue

I've got another relatively quick lens up on Squidoo. This one's for Sinead O'Connor's CD Sean Nos Nua. This is another discovery as a result of listening to LI. Since the page is only about the one CD, it's the only one linked. I did find six YouTube videos and linked to them, plus a couple of more videos - "She Moved Through the Fair" and "Raglan Road" - which are not songs on Sean Nos Nua.



Have a look and… Continue

Listening to LiveIreland has gotten me back in touch with some of the music I'd listened to over the years. My listening gave met the idea to put up a Squidoo lens (actually a web page, but since the pages are meant to focus in on a topic, the Squidoo people call a page a lens) for Altan, which I posted yesterday.



For my second lens, I decided to feature one of my new discoveries resulting from listening to LI, so now there's a… Continue

The following post is a copy of my blog entry on my Blogspot blog. I had a few links in that post, and have copied the relevant ones here.



Altan



My newest Squidoo lens is Celtic Music: Altan and it can be found here. I just published it, so changes may occur.



Altan is a great traditional Irish group that began in the 1980s with Belfast flute player… Continue