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	<description>Newsworthy Irish and Original Music: Melodic, Percussive, Sassy.</description>
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		<title>Farewell Barney McKenna: Dubliners&#8217; Last Original Member Dies at Age 72</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barney McKenna, the last surviving member of the original Dubliners lineup, died around lunchtime yesterday in Dublin. McKenna, along with Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, and Ciar&#225;n Bourke, began the Ronnie Drew Ballas Group, 50 years ago this year, 1962, as the folk revival was blossoming. Drew&#8217;s unhappiness with the name, and Luke Kelly&#8217;s reading The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Spillane and Fanta Mbacké Kouyate: Bean Pháidín</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Irish Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out John Spillane, with help from Senegalese griot singer Fanta Mbacké Kouyate singing the peppy traditional Irish song Bean Pháidín. Spillane with in Senegal for Magamedia&#8217;s music programme Ceolchuairt. Fanta Mbacké Kouyate, from Dakar, Senegal, is a singer of modern songs as well as songs of the traditional West African storytelling tradition, known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celtic Woman&#8217;s Tommy Martin Introduces the Uillean Pipes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Instruments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[celtic woman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tommy martin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fascinated? Bewildered? Frightened? How do you feel about the uillean pipes, the national pipe instrument of Ireland? Celtic Woman Band&#8217;s own Tommy Martin is here to ease you into an understanding of the crazed, elbow-bellowed (hence uillean) brother to the Highland Bagpipes, the Galician pipes, and the Breton pipes. Tis a long way from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flogging Molly Cover Bob Dylan&#8217;s &#8220;The Times They Are A-Changin&#8217;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Better World]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flogging Molly, our beloved friends of Irish Punk, contributed this recording of &#8220;The Times They Are A-Changin&#8217;&#8221; to the new tribute to 50 years of Amnesty International, Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International. The lads&#8217; version shows classic Flogging Molly style, Dave King opens the first verse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santorum &#8211; C.U.M.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Jonathan Ramsey Institute&#8217;s department of We Couldn&#8217;t Make This S**te Up has uncovered another precious nugget. In an Andy Kaufman-esque commitment to character, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has begun a campaign that is its own parody, Conservatives Unite Moneybomb (that&#8217;s right, C.U.M.). Perhaps, Santorum hopes to succeed Stephen Colbert, or even Jon Stewart. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U2&#8242;s &#8220;One&#8221;: Important Turning Point for The Band</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read American Songwriter&#8217;s &#8220;Behind the Song&#8221; article on U2&#8242;s introspective, and vulnerable, One from the album Achtung Baby. This is a great story of a huge fork in the road for the band, especially for Bono and the Edge. I greatly love this passage: On an album filled with irony, sex and self-deprecation, “One” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advent of Jonathan Ramsey: Irish Christmas &amp; Holiday Songs for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re not keen on Christmas/Holiday/Xmas/Exmas Music, you might like my current project, &#8220;Advent of Jonathan Ramsey: Irish Christmas &#38; Holiday Songs&#8221;. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it has started off with pre-Baby-Boomer Holiday classics, &#8220;Hey Ho, Nobody Home&#8221;, and an Irish tenor banjo and mandolin version of &#8220;Un flambeau, Jeannette Isabella&#8221;. Between now and Boxing [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://jonathanramsey.com/kerry-cottage-saint-louis-helps-st-vincent-de-paul-black-friday-weekend</link>
		<comments>http://jonathanramsey.com/kerry-cottage-saint-louis-helps-st-vincent-de-paul-black-friday-weekend#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irish Saint Louis! Help Saint Vincent de Paul help fragile members of the Saint Louis community by shopping at Kerry Cottage the weekend after Thanksgiving. For your purchases, 10% of the total will go to Saint Vincent de Paul. Check out the cool Irish gifts at Kerry Cottage! I fancy the Guinness Rugby, Baby, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11-11-11 End of World/New Peace/Whatever Cancelled for Y2K Violations</title>
		<link>http://jonathanramsey.com/11-11-11-end-of-worldnew-peacewhatever-cancelled-for-y2k-violations</link>
		<comments>http://jonathanramsey.com/11-11-11-end-of-worldnew-peacewhatever-cancelled-for-y2k-violations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[11-11-11, this day whose numeric abbreviation is the same date for North Americans, Europeans, islanders, and other continentals everywhere, has been cancelled. The world ended, or whatever, 2000 years ago today. Stay tuned&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>John Hodgman Takes Saint Louis: The Shocking Aftermath</title>
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		<comments>http://jonathanramsey.com/john-hodgman-takes-saint-louis-the-shocking-aftermath#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Hodgman seized the stage at Mad Art Gallery last night to the thrill of 250+ Saint Louis fans, who now all own fresh copies of his new book &#8220;That Is All&#8221;. The Art Deco building, a one-time police station to the denizens of Soulard, was full of song and story for two hours. Of [...]]]></description>
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