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You may also download them as MP3's

Contact Grace McKinley - Set up an interview - suggest a band or individual to interview

Previous Radio Interviews Available as Podcasts NOW

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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 - 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