415, 419 - Playlist
This week's music was Michael McGoldrick's Wired. Michael is a Manchester-born Irish musician of renown. At the Celtic Connections fesitival I go to every January, he's just known as "Michael", as in "Michael's arrived" - and everyone knows who you mean. Everybody's favourite accompanist (flutes, whistles, pipes, several other instruments) and a really nice man too. He has been a huge influence on Celtic music, from traditional to fusion (he frequently has African and Arabic musicians on stage with him). He doesn't really have a Web page, but search for Michael McGoldrick in YouTube to see him at play. He is in Wikipedia. If you have seen the Scottish group Capercaillie in the past few years you have probably seen Michael.