Hear a variety of artists in the intoxicating thrall of the songs — timeless and thriving — of Robert Burns, Scotland's National Bard.

Listen in this week and before you know it you’ll be on the deck of a full rigged ship, tiller in hand, navigating the ocean waves.

Next time on The Thistle & Shamrock... Gaelic Voices.

The choice of listening through recordings of Gaelic singing voices was runner up in a listeners’ poll of program themes.

When host Fiona Ritchie first traveled to the US in the early 1980s, she discovered the connections that tie her world to the music of the Southern Appalachians.