July 16, 2025:Trans Atlanticant

We’re connecting with the Celtic diaspora on two sides of the river, much like they straddle the North Channel.In Florence this weekend, many will gather fife, pie, and drum, don their kilts and take to Look Park for the Glasgow Lands Scottish Games, where over 700 musicians, crafters, athletes, and more will gather to celebrate, and we’ll speak with founder Peter Langmore about the new things this year brings to the festival, and hear music from Roger Bernier, Pipe Major for the Holyoke Caledonian Pipe Band, the oldest continuously operating in the country. Then we’ll slip west to the Irish side to hear more of the collaboration between Éilís Kennedy and Peter Blanchette.. The two have been making music together for over 2 decades, and tomorrow night at the Drake will unite again to translate music from many continents, traditional and modern, into duets of archguitar and voice, and we’ll learn what new things are in store for their show in Amherst including new works they've been developing based around the work of Emily DIckenson. And word nerd Emily Brewster helps us explore the word “restaurant” and “resturauteur” and the rabbit hole of linguistic lineage that opens from the suffixes "-ant" and "-eur."