It’s the Friday before Halloween and the start of the Celtic New Year. This show is our annual celebration of those events. This year the music concentrates on balladry, especially touching on ghosts and witches with a bit of comic relief thrown in to ease the terror and fright.

• Artist, "Title", Album, Label

• Malicorne, “La Chasse Gallery”, Legende, Hannibal

• Loreena McKennitt, “All Soul’s Night”, The Visit, Quinlan Road

• Deanta, “The Druid’s Mountain”, Whisper Of A Secret, Green Linnet

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• Maggie Sansone, “Samhain Set”, A Traveller’s Dream, Maggie’s Music

• John Roberts & Tony Barrand, “Oak, Ash And Thorn”, Dark Ships In The Forest, Folk-Legacy

• Anne Lister, “Hawthorn”, A Flame In Avalon, Hearthfire

• Simon Mayor, “All Hollow’s Dance”, The Acoustics Collection, Acoustics

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• Mike Waterson, “Tamlyn”, Mike Waterson, Topic

• Kevin Burke, “The King Of The Fairies”, Sweeney’s Dream, Smithsonian/Folkways

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• Cindy Mangsen, “Sweet William’s Ghost”, Songlines, Compass Rose

• Harvey Reid & Joyce Anderson, “The Wreck Of The Isidore”, The Great Sad River, Woodpecker

• Cindy Mangsen, “The Cruel Mother”, Songs Of Experience, Redwing

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• Harry Tuft, “Mrs. Ravoon”, Across The Blue Mountains, Folk-Legacy

• Armor & Sturdevant, “Halloween”, You Dance Like You Drive, Tatema

• Richard Shindell, “Are You Happy Now?”, Sparrows Point, Shanachie

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• Stan Rogers, “The Witch Of The Westmoreland”, Between The Breaks…Live, Fogerty’s Cove

• Kate Rusby, “Drowned Lovers”, Hourglass, Compass

• Chantan, “The Witches Reel”, Primary Colours, Culburnie