Fiona MBE. Talks on the wireless, writes, loves living in Scotland. NYTimes Best Seller: WAYFARING STRANGERS
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Joined January 2009
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THANK YOU listeners and musicians for all the kind messages about my stepping back from weekly broadcasts of The Thistle & Shamrock. I've so enjoyed bringing great music to you for 41 years! You can browse my archive of recent and older shows. #FinalFling npr.org/thistle
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Fantastic to see #ClimateCafes featured on
@BBC100women from Nairobi during #COP28 with incredible #women on #BBC100Women panel.
#GlobalClimateCafe with @pepper_jess @GBulus
@PastorRichenda & @ShookaBidarian
Watch at bbc.in/3NaZiP4 #ClimateCafe climate.cafe
ALT Images of Gloria, Richenda, Shooka & #ClimateCafe mug #GlobalClimateCafe
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Jess Pepper, an inspiring @climatereality Leader from Scotland, and a founder of @TheClimateCafes, was acknowledged as one of the Climate Pioneers on the @bbc100women 2023 list!
Congratulations, dear Jess!🌟
Beyond honoured to be acknowledged on @bbc100women list 2023, alongside such inspiring, remarkable women. Congratulations to all.
Always grateful for all the wonderful women in my life & all those active for our #Climate & our #World
#ClimateCafe #BBC100Women @TheClimateCafes
Loving browsing the 2023 #100women list from the @bbcworldservice. So much inspiration here including from my friend @pepper_jess who founded @TheClimateCafes to share with the world. (More: climate.cafe ) Congratulations to each and every one! bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt…
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Authors, volunteers, friends, and all who'd planned to attend this wkend's Birnam Book Festival: thanks for all the messages of support following our weather cancellation. With the very severe 'red warning' affecting our region this was beyond our control. Stay safe! #StormBabet
Rain and fog is often a suitable backdrop for the music on The Thistle & Shamrock. Glad to be along for the ride. ;-)
Great drives from @gettysburg to @CityofYorkPA & back Sat & Sun 10/14-15, listening to @fiona_ritchie through rain & fog on @WYPR881FM & then blues & Sleepy Hollow on @wxpnfm; went through central squares in New Oxford & Abbottstown among many other sights
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Birnam Book Festival’s favourite illustrator Kate Leiper is joined by poet and storyteller @morag_caimbeul to guide us into The Wisdom of The Cailleach, Celtic goddess of the winter months. @BirnamArts 21st Oct 9:45-10:30. Tickets: Pay What You Can (Family event for all ages.)
Lord I needed to lose myself in #AddtoPlaylist this evening. Thanks to @cerysmatthews
@IsataKm and all the team at @BBC6Music Freed from desire, mind and senses purified… And off we go to Gershwin. Na-na-na-na-na, na-na, na-na-na, na-na-na… And breathe. In a happy place now.
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Agnes Sampsoune, Issobell Atkine, Geillis Duncan… real names, real people. Almost 4,000 accused of witchcraft in Scotland. Birnam Book Fest explores lore, legend and more with @healandharrow @witchesofscotl1 Margaret Bennett @gnotesscotland
21-223 Oct birnambookfestival.co.uk
Heading to the @scottishparliam tomorrow for the "Welcoming the Impact of @Climate_cafe" debate led by MSP @JohnSwinney Great to see this incredibly positive movement growing, with sister cafés emerging all around the world. One near you? climate.cafe/ @TheClimateCafes
Glad you were exploring it all and revelling in the confluence!
Such a great memory, like traveling down two dangerous rivers – listening to punk AND to Fiona Ritchie's "Thistle & Shamrock" on @NPR — and then finding their surprising confluence here, in The Pogues. (Respect to their offspring, Orange County's The Fenians.) @thefenians @fiona_ritchie
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Delighted you heard the airplay. Thanks for the great music! 🎶
Thankyou @fiona_ritchie for spinning songs from Crossing the Causeway on Thistle and Shamrock the last two weeks! Honoured to be on this epic @NPR show! 🤯 💚🎶
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Lots of great music to enjoy here folks! npr.org/2023/07/28/119069933…
Been taking a break from Twitter and all that for a while cos, well y'know... but thought you'd like to join me for an hour of New Sounds for Summer on radio this wk (part 1 of 2) inc a lovely nod to Perthshire from @edsheeran Join me on your @npr station youtu.be/29lq-cvvlSo
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The foundation for today’s Celtic roots music scene was established 50 years ago. Check out some of the artists who elevated the profile of this music through the 70s and 80s, on this week's Thistle & Shamrock with @fiona_ritchie, Saturday at 10 a.m. CDT bit.ly/RdioHrtlnd
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It is always good to re-visit artists from New Releases shows whose music is well deserving of more airtime. There is so much to discover!
Join @fiona_ritchie for the Thistle & Shamrock, Saturday at 10 a.m. CDT on Radio Heartland. bit.ly/RdioHrtlnd
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The Thistle & Shamrock goes vintage this week. Explore music captured on 10” shellac discs and even wax cylinders by pioneering artists from a century ago as weak as digital re-masters of recordings.
Join @fiona_ritchie on Saturday at 10 a.m. Central. bit.ly/RdioHrtlnd