Episode XXXIV features music songs, bird songs, harmony songs, prison songs, drill songs, Irish songs and Sicilian songs.

Tracklist:

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill – The Night Poor Larry Was Stretched
Planxty - Pat Reilly
Nightingales and Beatrice Harrison - The Derry Air
David Harper - The Turfman from Ardee
Skara Brae - An Cailín Rua
The Voice Squad - The Banks of the Bann
Francie Byrne - The Wild Irishman
Wade Ward - Old Jimmy Sutton
Rosa Balistreri - Buttana di to ma
The Dubliners – Lag Song
Ronnie Drew – Easy and Slow
Sello - Process
Sello feat. Offica - Oggy
Seán ‘ac Dhonncha - Liam Ó Raofille
Denis Murphy - The Queen of O’Donnell
Joe Mulherron - The Wee White Turban
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill - O’Reilly’s Greyhound / Palmer's Gate
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Fire Draw Near Episode XXXIV

I'm a one-man music laboratory -- mostly centered around the electric and acoustic mountain dulcimer, which I make myself in my workshop in South East Ohio, and more often these days in Wooster, which is Northeast Ohio.

I'm currently working with the aspects of the mountain dulcimer which tend to calm and soothe -- though I go through strong reactionary cycles now and again, when I have had enough of the meditative stuff. Sometimes this takes the form of wild filter-synched electronica, and sometimes it is more bluesy.

My music contains many influences, with Celtic music being the primary one most of the time. I've always been an improviser, and I have had some formal jazz training (Ohio State WI-89 BA Music), though I'm not a jazz musician by any stretch. 

I love working with extremely simple, circular chord progressions: those progressions that seem to go on for hours and are hard to stop playing. There is a strong minimalist vibe to this.

I also love the DRONE which is one of the most appealing aspects of the mountain dulcimer. These days, I tend more toward arpeggiating the open drone strings of the dulcimer, rather than the more strident strummed drone typical of the more traditional styles of playing.

Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms.

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