Windy City Irish Radio

With the high holy days of the St. Patrick's Day season upon us, there's plenty to celebrate in the Windy City Irish Radio studios and in the Windy City with parades on the northside, southside and downtown, pubs open, music performed and lots of dancing, singing and merriment all to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland, ol' Maywan Succatt, that's right, old St. Patrick himself.  Join Mike and Tim for an hour of celebration to Ireland's favorite saint with music from the Irish Rovers, The Pogues, Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, Bing Crosby, The Screaming Orphans, Cherish the Ladies, Niamh McElduff, and so much more.  Happy St. Patrick's Day from Windy City Irish Radio!

With the high holy days banging on the doors of the Windy City Irish Radio Studios, there's not much to do than to let the party in, so let's do it.  Bar the doors, Katy!  It's Windy City Irish Radio and they ain't takin' no for an answer.  That's right, check them out at WNDZ 750AM or at www.windycityirishradio.com or on globalirishradio.com.  You'll like it.  Trust me!!

The Mardi Gras season is always a special season but this year it's even more special as parades roll on through the streets of New Orleans again.  Mike and Tim celebrate the Mardi Gras season yet again bringing their 9th Annual Mardi Gras celebration to the airwaves featuring the best of Irish music with a Cajun-New Orleans flare featuring music from great Irishmen, Professor Longhair and Fats Domino, Drops of Green, Scythian, Aoife O'Donovan and Colm Mac Namara, Damian McGeehan, Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong, Daniel O'Donnell, Wayne Toups and Zydecajun with a Van Morrison classic, La Vent Du Nord, The Lash, La Bottine Souriante, and the big voice of Maura O'Connell.  Grab yourself an Abita, kick off your shoes and let the Mardi Gras Parado Roll On!  Check out Windy City Irish Radio live on WNDZ 750AM and live streamed on www.globalirishradio.com or check out the website at www.windycityirishradio.com.   

As winter drones on, Windy City Irish Radio looks forward to the upcoming high holy days of the St. Patrick's Day season with music from acts appearing live in the upcoming weeks including Dervish, Jig Jam and Josh O'Keefe as well as music from Clare Sands, Susan O'Neill, Lemonchello, Fiachtna O Braonaine, The Screaming Orphans, All Folkd Up, Glen Hansard, Dylan Walsh, Tupelo and Liam Clancy.  We'll have lots of St. Patrick's Day merriment in the upcoming weeks as we count down the days to the return of the downtown, southside and northwest side parades and a full calendar of Irish and Irish American acts gracing venues all over the Chicagoland area.  Check out Windy City Irish Radio each and every Sunday afternoon on WNDZ 750AM at 12 noon, live streamed on www.globalirishradio.com and on our website at www.windycityirishradio.com.   

Love is in the air this week on Windy City Irish Radio.  Those pedagogues of love celebrate Valentine's Day with an hour of Valentine's Day music for those seeking love, lost love or those still madly in love.  That's right, Cupid has pulled back is bow and is ready to shoot it straight into your lovers heart (in a very loving and caring fashion, of course).  Join Mike and Tim for an hour of Valentine's Day music featuring songstress, Tara O'Grady, a classic from Sharon Shannon and Jim Murphy, The Coors featuring the Chieftains, a little love poem from Yeats read by the lovely and oh so talented Sarah Bolger, JigJam, Imelda May, Finbar Furey, Dropkick Murphy's with the boss, Bruce Springstein, Barnbrack, Elenor McEnvoy & Mary Black, U2 and The Pogues.  Check in live on 750AM WNDZ or live streamed on www.globalirishradio.com or via our podcast at www.windycityirishradio.com.  Happy Valentine's Day!! 

February 1st may mark the beginning of Spring on the Celtic calendar and a rememberance of Ireland's mother, the Patroness of Erin, St. Brigid, but when you live in the Windy City, February can seem like the longest and bleakest month of the year.  As the snow flies, cold weather lingers and "dibs" squabbles continue, there's plenty of singing, dancing and joy in the Windy City Irish Radio studios with lots of new music and celebrations.  This week we celebrate a belated Feast of St. Brigid's Day with a new song from Eamon Flynn, we celebrate country music icon Garth Brooks on the eve of his 60th birthday, remember piano great, Libarace, with music from Tara O'Grady and a little diddy from ol' Władziu himself on the anniversary of his passing on February 4, 1987.  As live music creeps back into society, we anxiously await upcoming shows from Dervish, Jig Jam, The Merry Ploughboys and Derrick Warfield and the Young Wolfe Tones plus a new songs from John Prine tribute band, Br

After a two-year hiatus, the Celtic Women Tour -- Postcards from Ireland, returns to the U.S. with an 84-city tour including Chicago on April 7th at the Rosemont Theater.  Accomplished on fiddle and harp and with the voice of an angel, Tara McNeal of Celtic Women fame joins us for an hour of stories and music from their latest CD, DVD and PBS special, Celtic Women: Postcards from Ireland, a beautiful complication recorded in 14 different locations through the north, south, east and west of Ireland.  Tickets are on sale for the April 7th show at www.celticwomen.com.  Join Tim, Mike and Tara for an hour of Windy City Irish Radio featuring Celtic Women.  You can check out the show each Sunday afternoon from noon to 1pm on 750AM WNDZ, the podcast at www.windycityirishradio.com and you can listen to the live stream on www.globalirishradio.com.  

Founded in 1990 by creative force and renowned choreographer Mark Howard, the Trinity Irish Dance Group is a uniquely Irish-American company serving as the birthplace of progressive Irish dance.  Chelsea Hoy joins Mike and Tim in the Windy City Irish Radio studios ahead of their upcoming tour taking them as far as Japan.  This week's show features music from Billy Tracey and the Scope, Tim O'Brien, Jiggy, Socks In the Frying Pan, UZ, and Aslan.  It's all right here on WNDZ 750AM or on our website at www.windycityirishradio.com or tune in live at www.globalirishradio.com.  

When the cold and snow settle in the Midwest, it's time to heat things up in the Windy City Irish Radio studios and there's no better way than to lay down some new tasty tracks from Irish artists spanning the globe -- some old faces and some new faces but lots of new music this week from Billow Wood, Lunasa, Eleanor McEvoy, Planxty, Socks In the Frying Pan, Damien McGeehan, Dervish with Steve Earl, House of Hammill, Colm Gavin, The Byrne Brothers, Lee Hayes, and the Fitzgeralds.  So put some turf on the fire, pull your favorite pint and listen to Chicago's most popular Irish Radio show, Windy City Irish Radio.  Listen live locally at 750 WNDZ Chicago, live streamed on Global Irish Radio at www.globalirishradio.com, or on our website at www.windycityirishradio.com.  Stay warm out there!!

In December we celebrated the birth of a the boy king but in January, we celebrate the birth of another King -- the undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Aaron Presley.  Born in Tupelo, MS, Elvis made his way to Memphis, TN where he made his new home and it's still the home of the King where thousands visit Graceland and pay homage to the King.  We too pay homage to the King of Rock and roll but we do it Windy City Irish Radio-style.  Elvis' contribution to music is unmeasurable and reached every corner of the world including his ancestral homeland where his great-great-great-great granddaddy emigrated from County Wicklow to the New Orleans after an incident where a bunch of Carlow roughens knocked him down, stepped on his face and maybe slandered his name all over the place but thankfully never stepped on his suede shoes.   Elvis loved the Irish and they, in turn, loved him.  In honor of the King's 87th birthday, we celebrate his musical legacy featuring music from singer songwriter and Iris

As Bing Crosby sang in Irving Berlin's classic movie, Holiday Inn, "Let's Start the New Year Right!" and with just two days in, so far, so good.  On today's show, Mike and Tim ring in a year of hope, promise, happiness, prosperity and, most important, our health.  Join Mike and Tim and ring in 2022 with music from the McGuire Sisters, Van Morrison, Bing Crosby, Lyra, U2, Enda Reilly, Imelda May, Donovan, Aimee, Mairi Cambell, and Emma Langford.   Wishing you all the happiest and healthiest of New Years!  Check out our show on www.windycityirishradio.com or live on 750AM WNDZ Chicago or live streamed at www.globalirishradio.com.  

The wren, the wren, the king of all birds,St. Stephen's Day was caught in the furze,Although he was little his honour was great,Jump up me lads and give him a treat.That's right, it's St. Stephan's Day and the first day of Christmas and Windy City Irish Radio has wrapped it up in a big red bow celebrating the Christmas season and, of course, St. Stephen's Day with music from The Outside Track, The Makem and Spain Brothers, Scythian, Screaming Orphans, U2, Hudson Taylor, Lorraine Nash, Picture This, Ed Sheeran, Lisa O'Neill, The Cheiftans, Elvis Costello, and Nastalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy.  It's a holiday extravaganza you can catch each week on WNDZ 750AM, on our website at www.windycityirishradio.com or live streamed on globalirishradio.com.  

Despite the ongoing supply chain issues around the world, the boys at Windy City Irish Radio will be delivering an abundance of Christmas spirit with a bounty of Irish and Irish American new Christmas Classics that will sure to infuse the spirit of ol' St. Nick and the birth of the boy king.  This week we feature all new Christmas music from Anne Brennan, We Banjo 3, Noel Flynn, Tara O'Grady,  Eammon Jackson, Marian Kirby, Michael Ferrell, Pete and Tom on Song, Screaming Orphans, Ashley Davis, Mary Duff and the Celtic Women.  It's the gift of the season.  Merry Christmas from Windy City Irish Radio.  Check out the live stream at www.globalirishradio.com or our podcast at www.windycityirishradio.com.  

The Christmas spirit is alive and well in the Windy City Irish Radio studios with an hour jam packed with Christmas merriment fearing music from We Banjo 3's newest Christmas album, Sharon Shannon, The Outside Track, Eileen Ivers, The Lost Brothers, Megan O'Neil, Michael Landra, Niamh Farrell, Enda Reilly, Kodaline, Lisa Hannigan, Alexandra Sykes and Anton Glackin and Imelda May with Michael Lagrand.  Christmas time is here and you can check us out on www.windycityradio.com or live streamed on www.globalirishradio.com.  

As we roll through the holiday season, it's starting to feel a lot like Christmas with the gift of new music and the gift of Christmas music.  This week it's a mix of the new and the classic with music from Seamie O'Dowd, Brid O'Riordan, John Doyle and Cillian Vallelly, Lee Hayes, Jason McAllister, Murphy's Lawyer, Eammon Flynn, Niamh Regan, Al Walser, Aoife Scott, Ashley Davis, Tara O'Grady, Brendan Monaghan, and Becky Dellow.  Get in the holiday spirit on Windy City Irish Radio each and every Sunday afternoon from 12 noon to 1pm on WNDZ 750 AM or live streamed on Global Irish Radio at www.globalirishradio.com or check out our podcasts on www.windycityirishradio.com.  

Lawrence, Kansas native, Ashley Davis spreads winter and Christmas cheer in the Windy City Irish Radio studios this week ahead of her upcoming concert at the Irish American Heritage Center on December 4th.  Ashley features a mix of music from her last three albums giving us a peek into her upcoming Midwest Tour.  Join Tim and Mike each and every Sunday afternoon live on WNDZ 750AM and live streamed on Global Irish Radio at www.globalirishradio.com or check out the podcast at www.windycityirishradio.com.   

As we emerge from another year dealing with this no-good pandemic, Mike and Tim still have things to be thankful for and, yet again, celebrate one of their favorite holidays with another Thanksgiving, Windy City Irish Radio style!  There's still a lot to be thankful for this holiday season especially with world emerging from its collective cocoon and with the pandemic on the verge obsolesce. Join Tim and Mike with music from Street Lights, Danny O'Donnell, The Cranberries, The Commitments, The Fureys, The Waterboys, Bing Crosby, Cheryl Wheeler, The Crooked Road, Sinead O'Connor and Ashley Davis.  Happy Thanksgiving from Windy City Irish Radio!!

This week on Windy City Irish Radio it's a mix and new and old featuring music from the "Wagaon Wheel", Nathan Carter, Cuig, a classic by the Screaming Orphans, Kate Rusby, Richard Thompson, Liam Clancy with Tom Paxton and the Dublin Gospel Choir and a Veteran's Day set featuri ng the Dropkick Murphys, The Wolfe Tones, a live one from the Elders, and U2.  Tune in next Sunday for our annual Thanksgiving Special with all music of "Thanks and Gratitude".  Check us out each week live on WNDZ 750AM or live streamed at www.globalirishradio.com or on our website at www.windycityirishradio.com.  

This week on Windy City Irish Radio we feature new music from We Banjo 3, House of Hamill Sharon Shannon and Jig Jam, who return to the states for a performance at Chicago Gaelic Park.  And we have a lot of classics from Lunasa, Paul Brady, Atlan, Mundy, Roisin O, Ashley Davis, Eleanor McEvoy, The Whileaways, and we celebrate Tommy Makem's 89th birthday!  It's all right here on Windy City Irish Radio.  Tune in to WNDZ 750AM or live streamed on www.globalirishradio.com or on our website at www.windycityirishradio.com.  

Over the course of the past eight years, Windy City Irish Radio has shared Halloween stories of the banshee and the pooka, both demonic entities of the Celtic underworld, but this year it's new stories of other demonic entities infiltrating the Windy City Irish Radio studios and lurking under your porch, in a dark basement or your bedroom closet or across the pond on the isle of Erin.  It's a Samhain/Halloween special on Windy City Irish Radio featuring music from Scythian, Dani Larkin, Roy Buckley, Billow Wood, Daori Farrell, Runa, Shane McGowan,  Brave Giant, The Flat Five and Lisa Theil.  Brace yourself -- you'll be scared out of your socks!  Check us out each Sunday afternoon at 12 noon to 1pm on WNDZ 750AM or on our podcast at www.windycityirishradio.com or live streamed at www.globalirishradio.com.