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Thistle & Shamrock Sundays at Noon

One of NPR's most popular music programs produced in the foothills of the Scottish Highlands by award winning host Fiona Ritchie.

  

Ritchie explores evolving music from Celtic roots in Europe and North America with well established and newly emerging artists, festival recordings and world premiere performances.
 
This week, Fiona and her guests explore selections from the American Folklife Center's collection of about a half million recordings.


Thistle & Shamrock airs Sundays at noon at 91.5 KIOS FM and at www.kios.org . If you miss the show, you can listen at www.thistleradio.com

Mike Jacobs has been with KIOS since 1988 while attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Mike began his career at KIOS working weekends acting as local host for NPR’s Weekend Edition. He also hosted Morning Edition from 1990-1996. Mike began hosting the weekly blues program “Blues in the Afternoon” in October 1994 and took on the responsibilities of jazz programming and maintaining the music library in 1996. He has held the position of Music Director since 2002. In addition to hosting “Jazz in the Afternoon” on Wednesdays and Thursdays, Mike also helps with assembling music for “Jazz From Studio One” hosted by the advanced radio students at the Omaha Public Schools Career Center. Mike is an Omaha native and graduated from Technical High School in 1984.