On the meaning of Beltaine

Posted on December 27, 2008

Check this out – Patrick Flannery on the meaning and origins of Beltaine:

watch the full 9-part series here:  http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E42F46BD4D3C00E3

Audio from live set on kkup

Posted on December 14, 2008

Just a quick post today, here’s the audio from our set on kkup on friday.

KKUP 12/12/08 Set Beltaine’s Fire, Live on KKUP 91.5 fm

enjoy -

December update: Live on the Radio + January 2nd show + almost out of CD’s

Posted on December 11, 2008

It’s been a busy month and it’s just about time for an update, so here it is, the latest in thrilling news from your friendly neighborhood celtic rap revolutionaries…

The first is that tomorrow, Friday December 12th at 5pm, we’ll be playing LIVE on 91.5FM, KKUP Cupertino.  KKUP is one of our favorite community radio stations and the Friday Folk Off! hosted by David Stafford is a great program showcasing some of the best live folk music in the Bay Area.  We’re hardly strictly folk, but David is very eclectic and invited us back for a second live set on the air.  Our set will last an hour and he’s got other musicians coming in before and after us, so if you’re in the South Bay tune on in!

that’s Friday, december 12th, 5-6pm; on 91.5fm KKUP Cupertino &  you can pick up the signal anywhere from Hayward to Monterrey.

The second big thing is that I’ve made a change to how our website works so when you buy a physical cd (and they make great christmas/solstice/samhein/atheists-need-presents-too-day gifts) you can download the digital version of the music for free.  The Mp3’s are super-high quality and DRM free so you can move then from your computer to your ipod to your phone to CD and back without any hassle.  The upshot of that being that if you buy either of our albums to give as a gift this holiday season you can keep the digital version for yourself.

Speaking of CD’s, we’ve got less then a hundred copies each of Liberty and Weapon of the Future left and hope to have sold them all by January.   We may or may not be doing another print run soon…. so f you DO want to get a physical cd, you should get it sooner rather then later.  Especially if you want it to arrive before Christmas.

http://beltainesfire.com/products-page

And, of course, we’ve also got t-shirts and digital versions of Lynx & Laura’s solo albums up on the site, so if you haven’t checked those out….

The last thing is that we’ve got a free show coming up January 2nd @ the Bistro in Hayward (1001 B St, Hayward, CA 9454).    If you’re in or near the East Bay you should definately come through, we don’t do small shows like this much anymore since we’ve been focused on booking festivals and college campuses.  The Bistro is a cool little venue and a fun one to do small shows like this.  Free music, a fully stocked bar, good people, and good times. Consider it our Christmas present to you-all.

hope ya’ll have a good solstice and a happy new year,

lynx
for Beltaine’s Fire
http://beltainesfire.com

Pictures from the Barrington in NJ

Posted on November 8, 2008

We’ve just gotten back the pictures from our show @ the Barrington in New Jersey, check ‘em out!

None of the Above

Posted on October 7, 2008

The brand new animated music video from Beltaine’s Fire about the elections.

**As of Oct 19 this video is also available on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4KyEesMb-E, so you can grab that version and embed it, or if you prefer the original flash version (it’s higher quality and faster loading) you can embed it into your blog/myspace/bebo/facebook etc by using the following code:

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