<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>https://ecency.com</link><image><url>https://ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>https://ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:36:10 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ecency.com/created/celtic-music/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[“Singing” DNA]]></title><description><![CDATA[Image from Pixabay, I ran across a fascinating study the other day. An acquaintance in the healing music field, Del Hungerford of Healing Frequencies ( wrote a fascinating post on music and how our DNA]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/singing-dna</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/singing-dna</guid><category><![CDATA[healing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[heatherthebard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:11:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVeVQzX3gvDHytNF793bg88B7fESPieLQ8dxHocpL8mXKbgZ7hNMtCZ89Fw9ydnNunK95KWtbVszxJuh5Pc7KgJnnSypGiWKg5hqgM6HjRStsFKZ5wkC8Hj5YsxYhRYgFfxNef9Jw7aQX9vMe6SBdGHBze?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy New Year! The Spirit is Moving!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hey there Steemians! My holiday was extra busy — how about yours? This is about the first time I’ve had to sit down and trawl through my feed in weeks.... maybe since Thanksgiving. So what have I been]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/happy-new-year-the-spirit-is-moving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/happy-new-year-the-spirit-is-moving</guid><category><![CDATA[bardic]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[heatherthebard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:23:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVeVQzX3gvDHytNF793bg88B7fESPieLQ8dxHzfaVTgRVQ77nTgYBst8KiWAtRf1xihbEoU95odnxFoZJunnQr24QCmUFUz4pApmfPtbfso2zyKGX2YFzfjfHcsiHdYv66U5psHf2DVezTMV8pfbm5vHMQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merry Christmas — Breton style!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas! 🎄🥰 Here is a beautiful carol from Brittany (the region of northern France and moden-day Normandy), that I learned some years ago by ear from the Chieftain’s “A Celtic Wedding” album.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/merry-christmas-breton-style</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/merry-christmas-breton-style</guid><category><![CDATA[bardic]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[heatherthebard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2018 23:42:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVeVQzX3gvDHytNF793bg88B7fESPieLQ8dxHezjZBxn1k5UL2zn5sshotnBgs9pHuXiHd1v797MnB4nRD3vNLPHHJ8G7tqaLC9ULaMWBJniG1YSg4SQKCAM5DYEJ9qAjZ9HuuR82nkmRgHRNssUjKguyp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brighter Days: a Celtic E.P.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Available for purchase at As I mentioned in my previous post, this holiday season is going by SO FAST. 😳 Between all the baking, reading up on the healing musician texts for use in my music ministry,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/brighter-days-a-celtic-e-p</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/brighter-days-a-celtic-e-p</guid><category><![CDATA[bardic]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[heatherthebard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:09:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVeVQzX3gvDHytNF793bg88B7fESPieLQ8dxHat8ZLk6dqLhud4T4PbA5XGHmUz6uaTJj7sE3DnaAma5AVTBgtz512vrYQ7vicSGoWj2SeYcDX45Hw8ymaH5CWYrBzGqpeBk5j9XkSgve8txHdvjGGFhUi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kitchen Sessions: Con Cassidy’s + Daniel Collins’ Father’s Jig]]></title><description><![CDATA[Con Cassidy’s + Daniel Collins’ Father’s Jig on my Celtic Sweetone. 🎶 These were two of the earliest jigs I learned, thanks to my grandmother’s support of my Irish music habit. She saw in the newspaper]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/kitchen-sessions-con-cassidy-s-daniel-collins-father-s-jig</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/kitchen-sessions-con-cassidy-s-daniel-collins-father-s-jig</guid><category><![CDATA[bardic]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[heatherthebard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2018 01:31:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVeVQzX3gvDHytNF793bg88B7fESPieLQ8dxHezjZBxn1k5UL2zn5sshotnBgs9pHuXiHd1v797MnB4nRD3vNLPHHJ8G7tqaLCCKrAasBtMFwRG8urbWf6UTfWEUNRjZdqtnTffMKPnBfFGBs9Fe8eT9FU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Musical Chapter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hey Steemit! How are you? I dropped off the radar this week, but I have been music-busy and am very excited about a new chapter: This book (by Stella Benson) is a textbook in the Clinical Musicianship]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/a-new-musical-chapter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/a-new-musical-chapter</guid><category><![CDATA[bardic]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[heatherthebard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2018 05:39:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVeVQzX3gvDHytNF793bg88B7fESPieLQ8dxHcY8dB1kky7ofeAJYUQbHZ2yj1FBTx9uDPMwPMGMaVTZpkNX34hhBU5FNzscjkms5ESHvK1iAMSgX29tLWLdxd8AucWcS7SXYSQ7uxHHN14zqerAuQXot2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apples in Winter]]></title><description><![CDATA[BRRRR! 😶❄️🌬 It was a VERY cold morning here on the farmstead. And yet, a couple of my antique apple trees still carry their fruit! It amazes me. Please enjoy my interpretation of this fun jig, the “Apples]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/apples-in-winter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/apples-in-winter</guid><category><![CDATA[bardic]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[heatherthebard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:02:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVeVQzX3gvDHytNF793bg88B7fESPieLQ8dxHezjZBxn1k5UL2zn5sshotnBgs9pHuXiHd1v797MnB4nRD3vNLPHHJ8G7tqaLC9vNfdrtdZNfemqwhmVmHeUUdNzezdRfs8ofHz4WXBbQi2uotUu68DR5p?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renegade Music]]></title><description><![CDATA[I feel so renegade. I concealed carried a weapon of musical destruction today... and wanted to pull it out in church amongst unsuspecting worshippers.... (hey, they picked a bunch of songs written in ‘jig’]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/renegade-music</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/renegade-music</guid><category><![CDATA[bardic]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[heatherthebard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:30:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVeVQzX3gvDHytNF793bg88B7fESPieLQ8dxJ6GQ2U2Cp5spp2EjQ9JqLH6BscXHRNd5t5i6hU1DUnaWt3dKNb4oD6p63v7cmMnXnZYmSFr1jzQpxwGUkRM45ALQ6rqvVEVTy2kZbT7sgdcvwnHi8vueU6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eleanor Plunkett]]></title><description><![CDATA[The weather cleared up today, even if we are still facing very high winds here. I stand at my kitchen sink and look out the window onto my front yard; the leaves skitter across the damp grass and create]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/eleanor-plunkett</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/eleanor-plunkett</guid><category><![CDATA[celtic-music]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[heatherthebard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 20:38:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVeVQzX3gvDHytNF793bg88B7fESPieLQ8dxHezjZBxn1k5UL2zn5sshotnBgs9pHuXiHd1v797MnB4nRD3vNLPHHJ8G7tqaLC9ULZhnVG4xgPeAMLGHUK3ZCXveVihw31WMwNEyyChdbHZyV6hJeNFzxE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tinwhistle Belt Holster]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a while now I’ve been oogling the tinwhistle “belt holsters” I occasionally see on Etsy, marketed toward the Ren faire and SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) crowd of which I am a part. The Irish]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/tinwhistle-belt-holster</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/tinwhistle-belt-holster</guid><category><![CDATA[craft]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[heatherthebard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:59:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVeVQzX3gvDHytNF793bg88B7fESPieLQ8dxHb8eqNW4BCkXBG9hjnuHF8XPa1p7mnsfSyyqv2Rv7Qd5ecENJMR4k4TWYQmQeYBHryNttDqR8HxZKgsGFMLHHTpRFnQ7dZqdPQqkArp4SPdznk7ueMsD7k?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Butterfly]]></title><description><![CDATA[I boogered my fretting hand thumb again last week and playing my ukulele and guitar is back to hurting. 😢 But you know what they say about musicians: they only stop playing when there is no more music]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/the-butterfly</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@heatherthebard/the-butterfly</guid><category><![CDATA[celtic-music]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[heatherthebard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:42:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVeVQzX3gvDHytNF793bg88B7fESPieLQ8dxHcH1i4VcwyJp6dYdLpsKbjjdS92jjY6ThtwVz81DQ5YvRcppopCUvUKdUyooRkS7p3oYdX9XbNJwSH9Knfo7iJPyTnuwM1oV1BgPHeaKi9xvg7jkmQu8aa?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dunmore Lasses - trad Irish tune by CELTICA]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dunmore Lasses, a traditional Irish tune, from "Celtic Fire" the 2017 CD from Brown County, Indiana's progressive Celtic band, CELTICA. CELTICA IS: Tammera Lane - hammered dulcimer, psaltery,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@stringdancer/dunmore-lasses-trad-irish-tune-by-celtica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@stringdancer/dunmore-lasses-trad-irish-tune-by-celtica</guid><category><![CDATA[celtic-music]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stringdancer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2018 12:16:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eAHnPy3pvHSVbfWKtR7aLxVU56XJWckZEnJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Weather Here]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a fun, upbeat song about the longevity qualities of drinking Guiness Beer. An adaption of a poem by Jenny M. Jones and music composed by Lily Ross and myself.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@tucandu/the-weather-here</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@tucandu/the-weather-here</guid><category><![CDATA[celtic-music]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[tucandu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:47:06 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>