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Latest Interview...March 2010
Máirtín de Cógáin

of Captain Mackey's Goatskin & Stringband
Note: The interview was conducted outside the Auld
Recreation Center in Lincoln, NE - expect some wind and birds!
Music used in interview with the Artist's permission |
Contact
Grace McKinley - Set up an interview - suggest a band or individual to
interview
Previous Radio
Interviews Available as Podcasts NOW
To Listen to Any of the
Interviews Below...CLICK HERE
NOTE: These interviews
are several years old, and while the info from the musicians is still
excellent, some of the references to upcoming gigs, workshops, etc., are
dated. In other words, please don't show up for a gig that happened 5
years ago. Just enjoy the podcast for what it is. And the next time you
see the musician is playing in your area...make a point to go hear them
"live"!
10-3-2003 - Kathy Mattea - live
interview with CD cuts added
Website: www.mattea.com
7-1-2004 - David Kincaid - phone
interview - includes CD cuts Website:
www.hauntedfieldmusic.com
1-27-2005 - Connie Dover -
phone interview - includes CD cuts
Website: www.conniedover.com
2-24-2005 - Ken Kolodner - phone interview - includes CD cuts
Website: www.kenkolodner.com
12-21-2006 - Chris Sayre - live in-studio interview - includes CD cuts
Website:
www.chrissayre.com
Check back for more in April 2010
Previous Interviews Available Soon as Podcasts
9-26-2003
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Bonnie Rideout - live interview with music added
5-13-2004 - Leonor Castillo - live studio interview
4-2005 - Kenneth Sillito - live interview
4-07-2005 - Laura Risk - phone interview
11-2007 - Matt & Shannon Heaton - live interview
Chronology of Interviews by "Grace McKinley"
- Celtic Heartland Radio Show/KZUM
January 2003 thru September 2007 -
unfortunately, due to station limitations, not
all interviews were recorded as they were done
09-26-07 - LIVE
phone interview with
Alasdair Fraser
08-23-07 -
LIVE phone
interview with The
Beggarmen
05-31-07 -
LIVE in-studio with Lincoln based,
Spitfire Fiddle
Band
03-29-07 -
LIVE in-studio with
Four Shillings Short
02-15-07 -
LIVE phone interview with Texas singer/songwriter,
Denice
Franke, while subbing at Acoustic Cafe
01-18-07 - LIVE in-studio with
Lincoln musicians, Bill Behmer & Gwen Meister
12-28-06 - LIVE in-studio with
Dave Marsh of
Ellis Island
12-21-06 - LIVE in-studio with
Lincoln based musician, composer,
Chris Sayre
11-10-06 -
LIVE phone interview with Ian Byrne of
The Elders
11-03-06 - LIVE phone interview
with Matthew & Shannon Heaton,
Boston based musicians
10-26-06 - LIVE phone interview
with Mick Bolger of the Colorado based group,
Colcannon
10-05-06 - LIVE in-studio with Arizona
based,
Oceans Apart
09-14-06 - LIVE in-studio
with Ireland's,
The
Fuchsia Band
05-18-06 - Live
phone interview with Boston musicians,
Matthew & Shannon Heaton
05-11-06 - Live
phone interview with Irishman, Paddy
O'Brien
02-23-06 - Live
in-studio with Karen Ashbrook &
Paul Oorts
01-26-06 - Live phone interview with
Connie Dover
12-29-05 - Live phone interview with John Good & Steve
Colby of Arizona based group,
Oceans Apart
11-05 - Live
in-studio with Wild Clover Band
10-06 - Live
in-studio with Four Shillings Short
08-18-05 - Live
in-studio with Chris Sayre
06-09-05 - Live in-studio with Karl Clark Colón of
Changeling,
the Ohio based duo.
06-02-05 - Live
in-studio with
Oceans Apart,
in town from Phoenix, AZ.
05-19-05 -
Live in-studio
with
The
Turfmen, the great area group that has kept folks
tapping their toes for years!
04-14-05 - Live
phone interview with Ian Byrne from
The Elders.
Also, Aaron Svoboda from
Wild Clover Band
on the phone
03-31-05:
Live in-studio with Four
Shillings Short
02-17-05: Live-in
Studio with Charles Bethea, Artistic Director,
Lied Center for
Performing Arts.
01-13-05: Live in
Studio with Charlie Horner & John Baylor (first half of show)
08-26-04: Live in
studio with Four
Shillings Short.
07-22-04: Live
phone interview from Chicago with
Another Pint;
and live in-studio with
Dave Marsh
05-27-04: Live
in-studio with
Wild Clover Band
04-15-04: Live
in-studio with Four Shillings Short
03-11-04: Live phone interview with
Steve Twigger, Patrick Murphy & Steve Wehmeyer of
Gaelic Storm
02-26-04: Live phone
interview with Paddy O'Brien from
Chulrua
02-05-04: Live phone interview from Dublin with
Méav
01-22-04: Live phone interview with Connie Dover
12-18-03: Live in-Studio with Lori McAlister (Welsh
Heritage Project) and live phone-in from John Good of Arizona
based,
Afan
11-27-03: Thanksgiving broadcast (with guest co-host Brody Allen)
11-20-03: Live in-Studio with
Chris Sayre & Terry Keefe, and
phone-in from The Elders
11-06-03: Live phone interview with Gloucester Hornpipe &
Clog Society from Boston.
10-23-03: Live phone interview with
Dearga
(Matthew & Shannon Heaton) from Boston
10-02-03: Live in-Studio with
Victoria
Parks
05-15-03: Live
In-Studio with Jill
Anderson
04-03-03: Live In-Studio with
The Elders
About Grace
McKinley...

Grace McKinley
at age 16.
Dec. 25, 1902 |

Barb Biffle Bennett
granddaughter of Grace,
& slightly older than 16 |
Grace McKinley is the alter ego of Barb
Biffle Bennett, Lincoln, NE, musician and webmaster. Actually, Grace was Barb's maternal
grandmother who passed away in 1964. The McKinley ancestors came to
America from the area around Moville in County Donegal. When Barb developed Celtic
Heartland as a radio show for KZUM in January of 2003, she thought that
the host should have a Celtic sounding name, and her grandmother's name
seemed perfect!
Grace was a businesswoman at a time when
there were very few of them. She was a go-getter who enjoyed carpentry,
travel, sewing, bridge & her insurance business. So who knows...she might
very well have enjoyed doing a radio show, had she had the chance. Well,
her spirit took wing again with Celtic Heartland.
The show was produced and hosted each week
by Barb as Grace McKinley. It ran from January 3, 2003, thru September 30,
2007. She left to devote more time to other endeavors, but always had the
idea to bring it back in some format more attuned to today's listening
audiences.
Barb is now reviving her popular radio show
as a monthly podcast. As she did on-air, she will feature regular
interviews with Celtic musicians and occasionally writers and others with
Celtic connections. The podcast formula allows people to either listen
on-line or download the interviews/music used on those interviews as
MP3's.
Contact her
if you would like more information, to set up an interview, or to suggest
someone to interview.
In addition to her day job as a webmaster,
Barb is half of the successful duo,
Wee Brazen Hussies. She
is also a former member of the contra dance band, Hot Rosin. She suffers
from MIS...multiple instrument syndrome, and is married to Don Bennett,
who has the same affliction. They are not seeking a cure.
Listen to Wee Brazen Hussies music here...www.weebrazenhussies.magix.net
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