The Thistle & Shamrock was launched to an unsuspecting public radio audience across the U.S. on June 4th in the early 1980s. What's changed in the world of recorded music — those with Celtic roots — since those days? What endures? Find out with artists Battlefield Band, Martyn Bennett, Jig Jam and Natalie MacMaster.
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