Tune in at 12 a.m., Monday, August 5th, and hear the Gypsy Scholar present the second installment of the Orphic Essay-with-Soundtrack series, “The Celtic Harvest Festival of Lughnasadh,” a high summer celebration marking the start of the autumnal harvest season and the acknowledgment of the natural cycle of growth and sacrifice. This musical essay is in anticipation of the “Astrological Date” (“True Lughnasadh”) of the celebration, which occurs on August 6th.

Be sure to check out the “Lughnasadh-Lammas” webpage which is dedicated to this musical essay series, at revradiotowerofsong.com.

Update: This program is now (August 5th, 3:30 pm) available for listening on the “Archived Musical Essays” webpage, along with the corresponding playlist on the “Programs & Playlists webpage, of the Tower of Song website. (This program is a different version of the original broadcast, which was prerecorded and automated to play at 12 am, because the GS could not be present in the studio. Unfortunately, do to a station computer glich, hour one was repeated for the second hour of the broadcast. Therefore, be advised to listen to the program on the Tower of song “Archived Musical Essays” webpage only and not the KSQD “Two-Week Archive webpage, which will have the defective program uploaded on Tuesday.)