Celtic Music Awards Winners of 2005

#10 Great Big Sea

"Captain Kidd"
Great Big Sea
from The Hard & Easy

#9 Blaggards

"Bog Songs"
Blaggards
from Standards

#8 Dervish

Dervish

#7 Dropkick Murphys

Dropkick Murphys

#6 Charm City Saints

"Never Go Home Again"
Charm City Saints
from Never Go Home Again (EP)

#5 Flogging Molly

"Factory Girls" with Lucinda Williams
Flogging Molly
from Within A Mile of Home

"The Orange and The Green"
Brobdingnagian Bards
from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales

#4 Amadan

"Johnny Cope/Green Groves of Erin"
Amadan
from Hell-Bent 4 Victory

#3 Fardaxu

"El Pericote"
Fardaxu
from Revolucion Celta

"Gwydion's Song to Lleu"
Emerald Rose
from Archives of Ages to Come

#2 The Elders

"Moore St. Girls"
The Elders
from American Wake

Next time music from Niamh Parsons, Sarah Dinan, and Heather Dale in a special feature on Celtic women. Find out more about the podcast at http://www.celticmusicpodcast.com/

#1 The Bloody Irish Boys
"Drunk Tonight"
The Bloody Irish Boys, http://www.thebloodyirishboys.com/
from Drunk Rock

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Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats. He is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards. He is also Celtic music podcaster and promoters as well as publisher of Celtic MP3s Music Magazine.