Welcome to Charlie McGettigan’s page at Podcasts.ie. We hope you enjoy the audio podcasts that Charlie has made exclusively for your listening pleasure. Charlie McGettigan began his musical career in the 1960s, here he gained experience at all levels of the entertainment industry. When he moved to Dublin in 1968 he honed in on the thriving folk scene there at that time. His influences then were people like Paul Brady, Donal Lunny and Andy Irvine and, having played electric guitar up to then, he purchased his first acoustic guitar concentrating on developing the finger picking style, which is now his stock in trade.
Charlie moved to the rural environment of Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim in 1973, and formed the highly successful Jargon group, which went on to win the prestigious Letterkenny Folk Festival, following in the footsteps of bands like Clannad and Pumpkinhead. This win led to a recording contract with Polygram records and the release of Jargon’s first single Bailieboro and Me. The band went on to record two more singles and then Charlie went on to pursue a solo career.
During the following years Charlie worked with artists like Maura O Connell and Eleanor Shanley who both recorded many of Charlies songs including “I dont know how you do it”, “Feet of a dancer”, “A bed for the night”, “If anything happened to you” and others.
He released two solo albums – Songs of the night and Charlie McGettigan – before joining forces with Paul Harrington and Brendan Graham to win the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest with Rock n Roll Kids. He recorded Rock n Roll Kids The Album with Paul Harrington but the duo went their separate ways shortly after its release.
Charlie has since pursued a solo career releasing the albums, In Your Old Room and Family Matters. He tours extensively both In Ireland and in many other countries. His songs have been recorded by many other artists including De Dannan, Mary and Frances Black, Ray Lynam, Daniel O Donnell, Hal Ketchum, Maura O Connell and Eleanor Shanley to name but a few. In November 2005 Charlie travelled to Nashville, Tennessee to work with the legendary producer Bil Vorndick. With Bil he recorded the album Stolen Moments. Bil has been nominated for no less than 42 Grammy Awards and has worked with artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Marty Robbins, James Taylor and Alison Krauss. Top acoustic musicians, Randy Kohrs ( Dobro) Aubrie Hainie (Fiddle/Mandolin), Mark Fain (Bass) Pete Huttlinger (Guitars), Sam Levine(Clarinet), Pat McInerney (Drums/ Percussion), Patti Mitchell and Chip Davis (Vocals) participated in the recordings over a four-day live session. The album contains new songs by Charlie and some written in collaboration with other writers. Charlie presents his own radio programme ” The Saturday Connection” on Shannonside/ Northern Sound Radio in Ireland every Saturday between 10am and 12.00 noon. Here at podcasts.ie you will find some very special recordings by Charlie. Here you will find an interview with Jho Harris, and two live and exclusive performances of Charlie’s thought provoking songs; ‘Valentine’ and ‘Feet of a Dancer’.
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#1 by Tess on March 8, 2010 - 10:29 am
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I enjoyed very much the interview with Charlie McGettigan. I loved the song Bailieboro and Me and agreed with him that everyone has a unique feeling for a particular place that makes a song. Love Podcasts Jho. Thank you Tess.
#2 by Marie Chidley on March 29, 2010 - 6:48 pm
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Enjoyed the interview with Charlie McGettigan very much. Yesterday I was listening to Maura O’Connell’ Just In Time album and noticed that Charlie had written Feet of a Dancer, and I immediately connected this song with another he wrote, and a favorite If Anything Happened to You, recorded by the beautiful Ennis Sister, from St. John, Newfoundland and my home. Absolutely beautiful version. I love to hear the voice of the songwriters and it is always important to me to know who is behind the music, the lyrics and the themes. Well done – a fan
#3 by Eva on June 8, 2011 - 4:26 pm
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I love this music! Thank you so much for posting the interview with Charlie. It made my day to listen to it!
#4 by CB on June 9, 2011 - 6:05 am
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Since we loved your site so much we decided to add it to our “Sites to Visit” list
#5 by ella on June 15, 2011 - 3:12 am
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I love his music very much. Thanks for posting the interview with Charlie. I enjoyed lisatening to it. Charlie is really great !
#6 by Mark Jackson on June 23, 2011 - 7:29 am
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Charlie McGettigan is really gifted with an incredible talent in music. He has proven to be a legend in music. I love his songs so much!
#7 by OMDS on July 1, 2011 - 8:42 am
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This music track is really scintillating. A huge round of applause for his great talent.
#8 by Dennis Mattof on July 10, 2011 - 12:25 pm
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I only heard about Mr. McGettigan recently. He is truly a gifted musician and songwriter. Hope to be able to see him one of these days.
#9 by Jim Nichols on July 10, 2011 - 12:27 pm
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I finally got to listen to Charlie’s music. Great talent as a musician and songwriter.
#10 by Cyril Wilkinson. on February 14, 2012 - 9:04 pm
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May I see one of Charlie McGettigan’s latterday albums just in case it might charlie’s great composition about his former day job in the E.S.B?
#11 by The Podcast.ie Team on February 18, 2012 - 12:17 am
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Hi Cyril,
Charlie has sent us the following response to your question.
The only song I wrote about working in the ESB is “04337 Blues” It was never recorded but we did sing it on a series called “Festival Folk” on RTE back in 1980s.
#12 by Donna Sloan on October 1, 2012 - 7:00 pm
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I first heard Charlie McGettigan on a TV programme called ‘As I Roved Out’ back in the late eighties. On it, he sang a song which might’ve been called ‘Someone to Love’, but I can’t find it anywhere. Can anyone tell me what it’s called and where I can get it? The lyrics in the chorus go something as follows:- “Someone to keep me warm when winter breezies blow/ Someone to take my hand/ Oh, someone to love./ Someone to share the pain/ Someone to make it real?/ And I need someone here/ Someone to love.” Many thanks, Donna.