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Yes, we're back for another three hours of great Celtic music, all our features in place and everything ship shape for a great time! Catch all the awesomness on Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern, or listen to the replay on Friday at 4:00 AM Eastern. Also, don't forget the archive, which is available at http://www.mushroomfm.com/sarahillis. however and whenever you listen, I hope you'll enjoy it!

Yes, Sunday is coming around again, and this Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern, it's haggis in July on Come by the Hills, Mushroom Fm's premier Celtic music show! Yes! This week, we present an encore presentation of the 2019 Robby Burns special which was first aired on January 27th. It was a live show, and I thought it might be fun to relive those heady days when the show was alive Alive-O! Who knows? It may be that way again someday. However, till then, we have our memories. Don't we?

Yes, Sunday is fast approaching once again, and that means that it'll soon be time to get out the fiddles, whistles and pipes and settle down for three solid hours of even more solid (solidly awesome!) Celtic music on Come by the Hills! We have all our usual features and even a special request. We've got some new songs (to the show at least,) and some old show favourites as well. So, hang out with me on Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern for great Celtic music, or catch the replay on Friday at 4:00 AM Eastern, 9:00 AM in the UK and Ireland. Also, don't forget the archive!

Yes, it's almost time for another brand new episode of Mushroom Fm's premier Celtic Music show, known round here as Come by the Hills. This week, as well as our usual features, we'll be showing off both the vocal and instrumental talents of artists and bands from around the folk and Celtic world. It promises to be a great show as always, so I hope you'll come out and join the folk revolution!

Join me, Sara Hillis, on Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern for three hours of great Celtic music on Mushroom FM!

This week, it's our Canada Day special: awesome singers. song-writers and musicians of all sorts from the Great White North! We've got songs about Canadian history and songs that have made Canadian history! We've got listener suggestions and even a special birthday request! In short, we've got a positively cracking show for Canada Day, and you're invited!

Yes, Mushroom Fm's premier Celtic music show is back for another week with all the usual features intact, some great music celebrating Jean-Baptist Day in Quebec, and three hours of general musical madness. We're even including a few songs in honour of Summer, but we won't make a big deal of it lest we inadvertently insult Jonathan's Southern Hemispheric sensibilities. (It's Winter there, you know.)

Join me on Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern for great Celtic music from around the world on Come by the Hills!

This week, we've got all our usual features including a very special "Me Music" and a comedic "Celtic Cover" for your enjoyment.

If you miss the show on Sunday, you can catch the replay on Friday at 4:00 AM Eastern, 9:00 AM in the UK and Ireland, or you can download the archived version at: www.mushroomfm.com/sarahillis. However and whenever you listen, enjoy the show!

I can't believe I did this, but in looking up Sandy Denny's dates recently, I reversed the numbers in the day/month/year format for her date of birth. She was not born on June 1, but rather on January 6. Even so, we are of course still doing the episode, as this year does mark the fiftieth anniversary of Liege and Leaf and it's still a good excuse to salute Sandy's amazing music. I do apologize for printing misinformation! I promise I'll get it right tonight on the show.

2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Liege and Leaf, the highly influencial Folk-rock album by British band Fairport Convention. Also, June 1 would have been the birthday of their lead vocalist on that album, Sandy Denny! She was only 31 when she died in 1978, and she led a somewhat complicated life, but her talent for song-writing and vocal interpretation is second to none! So, to mark these two occasions, this week, I'll be playing the entire album of Liege and leaf, some songs written and/or sung by Sandy Denny, and some other great Folk-rock tunes.

Sunday, June 2nd, will be the 36th anniversery of the untimely and tragic death of one of Canada's greatest musicians and ambassadors, Stan Rogers. So, to mark this occasion, I will be replaying a show that I produced in 2018. Stan only had about thirteen years on the public stage, and I always wonder what kinds of songs he might have written if he had lived longer, what topics he might have tackled and whose stories he might have sung into life if is own life had not been cut short so suddenly in an airplane accident in 1983.