Enter the Haggis said goodbye in 2025, and now the goodbye is on every streaming service. Exit the Haggis, the Canadian Celtic rockers’ live double album, landed on Spotify and Apple Music on October 1: 27 tracks and two hours of music, recorded over two sold-out farewell nights in Troy, New York.
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20th Century Paddy: Shane MacGowan Tribute Gets Global Launch Parties
Shane MacGowan tribute album 20th Century Paddy isn’t out until November 13, but the wake starts early. Rubyworks has announced launch events running November 9 to 18 across Ireland, the UK, Europe, Japan, Australia and New York.
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Dónal Lunny, 1947–2026: The Bouzouki Man Who Rewired Irish Music
Dónal Lunny, the bouzouki man who rewired Irish music, died Friday morning in Dublin’s St James’s Hospital after a battle with cancer. He was 79.
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The Langer’s Ball Kickstart Shamrocktoberfest: St. Patrick’s Day Meets the Beer Garden
St. Paul’s Irish folk-punk two-piece The Langer’s Ball have launched a Kickstarter for Shamrocktoberfest, a 14-track album that’s already recorded and built to carry you from St. Patrick’s Day to Oktoberfest and back again.
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Madra Salach Take Gorta on the Road: 2027 Europe, UK and Ireland Tour
Three weeks after debut album Gorta lands on Island Records on January 15, Dublin’s Madra Salach take it on the road, with the Gorta tour kicking off February 4 in Stockholm.
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Tir Nan Og: Call of the Void Lands Tomorrow, Then the Born To Folk Tour
Bavarian Irish folk-rockers Tir Nan Og mark 25 years with Call of the Void, their seventh album, out tomorrow, October 23. Fan-funded, it’s pipes and fiddle wrapped round mythology, life, death and a good kick at the state of things.
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Chicago & Midwest Scene Report: The Elders Come Home, Stone Clover Take Hamtramck and a Wallopers Invasion
First stop for the Midwest in our tour of the regional scenes: Chicago and the big flat middle, from the Great Lakes down to the Kansas City stockyards. Flatfoot 56 and The Tossers country, where the drive between gigs is longer than the set. Here’s what’s new.
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Fiddler’s Green Unveil Shamrock Castle 2027: Skinny Lister, Manky Melters and More
Fiddler’s Green have unveiled the line-up for the 16th Shamrock Castle, their own Celtic and new folk festival in the grounds of Schloss Jägersburg in Franconia’s Fränkische Schweiz, on July 9 and 10, 2027. The Erlangen speedfolk lifers headline, with London folk-punk shouters Skinny Lister right behind them.
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New England Scene Update: Boston Music Awards Nods for the Murphys, Kettle Burners Hit the Slopes
The Boston Music Awards shortlist landed last Friday, and the Hub’s Celtic punk and Irish rock lot are all over it. Public voting is open through November 16 at bostonmusicawards.com, with the winners crowned at Big Night Live on December 16. Here’s your fortnightly New England round-up. Vote early, vote often (you can’t, it’s one vote each, but you get the spirit).
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The Rumpled: The Road Goes On, New Album and a 2027 UK/EU Tour
Trento’s accordion-powered folk-punks The Rumpled have named the next one. New album The Road Goes On lands April 9, 2027, and pre-orders for black vinyl, a 100-copy yellow vinyl and CD opened October 13 on the band’s shop.
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