Announcing The 1st Annual Celtic Music Awards & Official Podcast

AUSTIN, TX (celticmusicpodcast.com) - The Celtic MP3s Music Magazine, the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast (https://www.celticmusicpodcast.com/), and The Brobdingnagian Bards are pleased to announce the winners of the 1st Annual Celtic Music Awards for 2005. In hosting the awards, the sponsors above hope to raise the visibility of this genre while recognizing some of it's rising stars. The winners were chosen were chosen by Celtic music fans via a popular vote. Polling ran from December 2005 through January 2006.

Irish & Celtic Music Podcast No 17; Celtic Music Awards features the top, ten listener chosen groups of 2005. The winners included The Elders, The Dropkick Murphys, The Great Big Sea and The Blaggards. The number one spot was given to the Bloody Irish Boys for their song Drunk Tonight.

An eclectic mix of beautiful ballads, traditionally inspired tunes and witty drinking songs this podcast has something for every Celtic music lover. Keep an eye on this website for more Celtic Music Awards with additional music categories, and enjoy the Celtic Music Awards podcast to listen to music from the winners. Buy Celtic CDs from many of these artists from CDBaby. A few are available through Amazon.

The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is a free, bi-monthly, downloadable radio show of independent Irish & Celtic music. It features Irish drinking songs, Scottish folk songs, bagpipes, music from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Wales, Nova Scotia, Galicia, Australia, the United States, and around the world.