Windy City Irish Radio
Windy City Irish Radio, hosted by Tim Taylor and Mike Shevlin each Wednesday evening from 8pm to 9pm CST on WSBC 1240AM Chicago and WCFJ 1470AM Chicago Heights, ties current events to Irish culture through music, books, theater and the arts.
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Windy City Irish Radio - March 19, 2014
Everyone may be Irish on St. Patrick's Day but in ...
Everyone may be Irish on St. Patrick's Day but in the Windy City Irish Radio studios we're always Irish. Despite our post-St. Pat's weariness, the show must go on and on it goes! Join Mike Shevlin and Tim Taylor for an evening of new music wtih an in...
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Windy City Irish Radio - March 12, 2014 - St. Patrick's Day
St. Patrick was born in England in 385AD, was captured ...
St. Patrick was born in England in 385AD, was captured by pirates as a child and brought to Ireland, at which time he was called to Christianity. He escaped his captors and returned to Ireland as a missionary. In his teachings, he combined Irish paga...
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Windy City Irish Radio - March 5, 2014
March to Windy City Irish Radio is like December to ...
March to Windy City Irish Radio is like December to Santa Claus -- It's another busy evening in the studio. The Southside Irish Parade has been the cornerstone of St. Patrick's Day celebrations in the Beverly neighborhood since 1979 and this year's pa...
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Windy City Irish Radio - February 26, 2014
"Laissez les bons temps rouler" or "Lig na hamanna maithe ...
"Laissez les bons temps rouler" or "Lig na hamanna maithe dul aghaigh"! However you like to say it, it's Marti Gras Time, Irish-style. Traditional Irish Music and Cajun Music both have roots in the Celtic nations of Ireland and the Brittany region of F...
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Windy City Irish Radio - February 19, 2014
Traditional Irish music graces the studios of Windy City Irish ...
Traditional Irish music graces the studios of Windy City Irish Radio with Pat & Karen Cannady along with Donald Terao performing live and singer, songwriter, composer and musician Linda Marie Smith stops in to discuss her March 1st show at the Irish Am...
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Windy City Irish Radio - February 12, 2014
February 9, 1964, The Beatles made their U.S. debut on ...
February 9, 1964, The Beatles made their U.S. debut on the Ed Sullivan Show to an audience of screaming girls, thus beginning the British Invasion. The Beatles not only claimed Irish roots but expressed the plight of the Irish in their music. Their mus...
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Windy City Irish Radio - February 5, 2014.mp3
The Chancey Brothers are, perhaps, the quintessential Irish American family ...
The Chancey Brothers are, perhaps, the quintessential Irish American family band, developing a hunger for both Irish and contemporary music at a very young age. Music and dance filled their home where they learned to stepdance, sing and play a variety...
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Windy City Irish Radio - January 29, 2014
Pete Seeger was an American fixuture during the 40's with ...
Pete Seeger was an American fixuture during the 40's with a string of hits during the 50's, blacklisted as a communist during the McCarthy era and reimmerging during the 1960's as the voice of the common man, human rights, the worker, disamerment, the ...
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Windy City Irish Radio - January 22, 2014
What better way to celebrate the bone chilling temperatures of ...
What better way to celebrate the bone chilling temperatures of January with the Winter Winds by Mumford & Sons along with music from The Chieftans & The Decemberists, Eileen Ivers, Gaelic Storm, Carlos Nunez, and a sneak peak at a new release by the Ch...
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Windy City Irish Radio - January 15, 2014
Steve Davern from the band, Pin Drop Theatre, joins Mike ...
Steve Davern from the band, Pin Drop Theatre, joins Mike and Tim at the Windy City Irish Radio studios for a night paying tribute to country legend, Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash had a strong connection with the Irish penning his 1961 hit,"Forty Shades of G...
