Here's the playlist for last week's Womenfolk Radio St. Patrick's Day
special that originally aired on 3/11/26, featuring music from and inspired
by Ireland, including new and old favorites from Aoife O'Donovan, Sinead
O'Connor, Solas, Natalie MacMaster, Natalie Merchant, The McDades, Karan
Casey, Kris Delmhorst and more. It's available to stations via PRX and can
be streamed any time at womenfolkradio.com. Slainte! -Ellen Stanley

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WOMENFOLK RADIO (3-11-26)
St. Patrick's Day Special

HOUR #1 PLAYLIST:
*New Releases
**Womenfolk Theme Song

**Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem / Cocktail Swing / Cocktail Swing / Signature Sounds / 0:50 (2001)
Maura O'Connell / West Coast of Clare / Wandering Home / Rykodsic / 3:57 (1997)
Aoife Scott / Irish Born / Homebird / Self / 3:07 (2020)
Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy / Woman of the House (feat. Rhiannon Giddens) / Canvas / Self / 3:36 (2023)
Solas / Ghost of Tom Joad / The Turning Tide / Compass / 4:57 (2010)
Katie McMahon / St. Patrick Was a Cajun & Paddy Bless the Gumbo / St. Patrick's Day / Credo / 2:47 (2007)

[Instrumental Bed]
Katie McMahon / St. Patrick Was a Cajun & Paddy Bless the Gumbo / St. Patrick's Day / Credo / 1:00 (2007)

Dáithí Sproule & Laura MacKenzie / Farewell to Minnesota / The Pinery / New Folk Records / 5:31 (2009)
Altan / Fare Thee Well, a Stor / The Gap of Dreams / Compass / 4:25 (2018)
The Chieftans / A Stór Mo Chroí (feat. Bonnie Raitt) / Tears of Stone / BMG / 3:46 (1999)
Heidi Talbot / Time / In Love + Light / Compass / 4:21 (2008)

[Instrumental Bed]
Sharon Shannon / The 3-Headed Monster / Spellbound / Compass / 1:00 (1991)

*Triple Fiddle / Engelska / not yet released / Self / 1:47
The Chieftans / The Lowlands of Holland (feat. Natalie Merchant) / Tears of Stone / BMG / 3:48 (1999)
Mary Black / Song for Ireland / Women of the World: Celtic / Putumayo / 4:55 (1995)
The McDades / Telegraph Reel/The Three Sisters / Telegraph Reel/The Three Sisters - Single / Free Radio Records / 3:58 (2026)
Dani Larkin / The Mother Within (acoustic) / The Mother Within (acoustic) - Single / Self / 3:08 (2019)

HOUR #2 PLAYLIST:
*New Releases

[Womenfolk Find]
Maggie's Wake / Bridget O'Brien / Maggie's Wake / Self / 2:18 (2024)
The Outside Track / Trouble in the Fields / Light Up the Dark / Lorimer Records / 5:28 (2015)
Norah Rendell / The Pinery Boy / Spinning Yarns / Two Tap Music / 4:09 (2015)
Grosse Isle / Grainne Mhaol aux cheveux de braise / Homerique / La Compagnie du Nord / 3:16 (2025)
Sharon Shannon / The Whitestrand Sling / Libertango / Compass / 4:37 (2003)

[Instrumental Bed]
Cherish the Ladies / Paddy O'Snap / Woman of the House / Rounder / 1:00 (2005)

Emmy Woods / Ballad of Lake Superior / Live From the Haunt (Recorded Live at WA Frost) / Self / 4:13 (2025)
Dervish / Sweet Viledee / Midsummer's Night / Self / 3:44 (1999)
Aoife O'Donovan / Lakes of Pontchartrain / Bull Frogs Croon (and Other Songs) / Yep Roc / 4:08 (2020)
Sinead O'Connor / The Last Day of Our Acquaintance / I Do No Want What I Haven't Got / Chrysalis / 4:40 (1990)

[Instrumental Bed]
Altan / Piper in the Cave / The Gap of Dreams / Compass / 1:00 (2018)

*Joy Zimmerman / Before Spring / Before Spring - Single / Self / 2:38 (2026)
Nuala Kennedy & Eamon O'Leary / Liffeyside / Hydra / Under the Arch Records / 3:25 (2024)
Solas / Tell God and the Devil (Live) / Tell God and the Devil (Live) - Single / Self / 3:44 (2025)
Karan Casey / I Live in a Country / Nine Apples of Gold / Crow Valley / 4:15 (2023)
Kris Delmhorst / Birds of Belfast / Shotgun Singer / Signature Sounds / 4:57 (2014)

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