Selkies and Sirens

The program for June 22, 2013, offered songs of selkies and sirens and the deep sea.

First hour:

Artist Song Title Album (Label)
Karan Casey The Song of the Seal Seal Maiden: A Celtic Musical (Music for Little People)
Lui Collins The Ballad of the White Seal Maid There's a Light (Green Linnet)
New Set
Laura Simms The Seal Maiden Fish Tales (Lyrichord)
Maddy Prior Great Silkie of Sules Skerry Ravenchild (Park)
Connemara Sea Moods / Rowing from Isla to Uist / Welcome Home Grainne Siren Song (Blix Street)
Niamh Parsons Fear a Bhata Blackbirds & Thrushes (Green Linnet)
Karan Casey Dialogue Seal Maiden: A Musical (Music for Little People)
Music Under Announcements
various (Bearded Seals) (Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bioacoustic Research Program)
Kitka Lamentation The Rusalka Cycle (Diaphonica)
Moira Smiley Grey Shore Rua (s/p)
Susheela Raman Song to the Siren Salt Rain (EMI)

Second hour:

Artist Song Title Album (Label)
Pantelis Thalassinos Atlantidha Astranammata (Music Box International)
Tish Hinojosa Edge of a Dream Dreaming from the Labyrinth (Warner)
Kitka Transformation The Rusalka Cycle (Diaphonica)
Children of the Revolution Santa Maria Children of the Revolution (World Music 2000)
Tish Hinojosa Atlantico Dreaming from the Labyrinth (Warner)
New Set
Gordon Bok Peter Kagan and the Wind North Wind's Clearing (Folk-Legacy)
New Set
Mandalélé Riddled in Rhyme Riddled in Rhyme (Strange News Music)
The Pentangle Pentangling The Pentangle (Sanctuary)
New Set
Jennifer Cutting's Ocean Orchestra The Sands of Time Songs for the Night Sea Journey (SunSign)
The Poozies Neptune Infinite Blue (Compass)
Connemara Far Away / Sea & Sky (faded) Siren Song (Blix Street)