Podcast Episode 222: FAIRHAVEN PODCAST SERIES – EDDIE DILLON
Release Date: 11/18/2025
Southcoast Artists Index
Welcome, Midori Evans, founder of . She understands how creatives think. Through workshops, coaching, and community projects, Midori follows an inner vision to make spaces for exploring creativity, connection, and meaningful life choices. Midori Evans is a powerful public speaker and certified creativity coach. She offers workshops on the creative process and the internal thinking that can create creative blocks. She is also the founder of , which cultivates and promotes the literary arts of the SouthCoast (MA and RI). Midori has coordinated, contributed to, and published two local...
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Welcome, musician Tyler Kingsland, a multi-instrumentalist and music instructor from Currently, he teaches public school in , and occasionally he also teaches privately. Tyler's priority is to enjoy both his family and his teaching job. He continues to do so while happily playing professionally when life allows. spoke with Tyler, who shared his story as a musician and so much more. Recording Projects: - Rum Ham (Guitar/Vocal, Composition, Engineering) - Rum Ham (Guitar, Composition) - Jive Slippers (tenor sax, Composition) Live at Umass Lowell rm #114 Ticklebomb...
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Welcome, musician Myles Goulart, AKA Myles Goulart-Romano, who started playing the violin at 5 years old. Throughout the years, Myles started taking lessons on other instruments: piano, flute, and voice. He joined the , and during one holiday concert, playing side-by-side with the adult full-size orchestra, he was seated next to the harpist. Myles spoke with the harpist as she was packing away her harp in the parking garage, and signed up for lessons with her. Myles Goulart grew from a 22-string to his current . He continued the classical training for years and started playing the harp in the...
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In Episode Eight, Jazz Podcast Host Dave Reis speaks with guitarist Russ Campoli, about his talent, passion, and dedication. Russ is a prominent jazz educator and musician. He has been widely recognized for his long-tenured career as the Jazz Band Director at in where he served in the music department for 34 years. He retired in 2011. Under his direction, the became a highly competitive ensemble, frequently participating in prestigious events like the and the International (IAJE) festivals. His retirement was famously compared by students to the film highlighting his profound impact...
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Welcome to our first post-holiday post since mid-December. Here is our first-ever, back-to-back twin episode post featuring The Artists Index podcast host Scott Bishop's conversations with Maggi Kerr Peirce, the author of . HERE IS PART TWO: According to the Parkhurst Brothers Publishing website, she "...sang her native Irish ballads from the to Puget Sound during the 1970s. She performed on many of the same stages as the and " She graced storytelling festivals from coast-to-coast with her Irish stories. The revered storyteller, a founder of the a legendary and long-running...
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Welcome to our first post-holiday post since mid-December. Here is our first-ever, back-to-back twin episode post featuring The Artists Index podcast host Scott Bishop's conversations with Maggi Kerr Peirce, the author of . HERE IS PART ONE: According to the Parkhurst Brothers Publishing website, she "...sang her native Irish ballads from the to Puget Sound during the 1970s. She performed on many of the same stages as the and " She graced storytelling festivals from coast-to-coast with her Irish stories. The revered storyteller, a founder of the a legendary and long-running...
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Welcome, Colin Williams, whose fascination with the use of language began with a grandfather from down Downeast Maine, at a university way down south, and with work in international commerce. It all inspired a poetic and lyrical volume of work. After several years of sea duty in the Navy during the , his matriculation at (Southeastern Massachusetts University) was a welcome home flavored by the delight of the University's architecture. His tenure there included the co-chairmanship of the , which included finding art majors to design handbills, posters, tickets, and backstage passes. He...
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Welcome, Marcus Coward, who says, "I've been performing my whole life." It started with dance recitals in elementary school. Marcus continued performing through middle and high school. He participated in many theater productions and founded his high school's first improv club. He has evolved into podcasting and started his own podcast show, where he interviews a variety of people on television with a show called on YouTube. He is also the co-host of the , which is a part of the . As he related, "Having been in the army for a brief period, I have become comfortable with being uncomfortable,...
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Welcome to 's Fairhaven Podcast Series. This Farihaven Performing Artists number six features Eddie Dillon. This is the second of a two-part podcast. Listen to . Eddie is a singer/songwriter and musician with over 500 songs in his catalog. His music has been recorded and released by , , , , and . Eddie Dillon's two original CDs, and , are available online, and a new CD, , was released this year. Active in the Irish music world, he is the only American to tour with the , he appeared with them on television and in concert in Ireland and the States. Dillon was a founding member of the...
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Welcome, George Macedo, a musician originally from the He immigrated to , at the age of eight. From an early age, he developed a deep passion for music, which led him to perform in bands throughout his youth—eventually playing in nightclubs up to six nights a week. George has been a long-standing member of the Portuguese-American band, (The Capitalists). During the , he launched a solo career, allowing him to continue exploring his creativity. Since then, George has written, composed, and produced three full-length studio albums. He is currently in the studio working on his fourth...
info_outlineWelcome to Scott Bishop's Fairhaven Podcast Series. This Farihaven Performing Artists number six features Eddie Dillon. This is the second of a two-part podcast. Listen to part one here.
Eddie is a singer/songwriter and musician with over 500 songs in his catalog. His music has been recorded and released by Aoife Clancy, Barleycorn, Seamus Kennedy, Shananagans, and The Jammin’ Divas.
Eddie Dillon's two original CDs, The Barber’s Lament and Things You Wished You Said, are available online, and a new CD, All For a Song, was released this year. Active in the Irish music world, he is the only American to tour with the Clancy Brothers, he appeared with them on television and in concert in Ireland and the States.
Dillon was a founding member of the Shananagans,, in Massachusetts, and still performs with the band on occasion. He was also a member of the Celtic rock band The Aliens. He toured throughout the Northeast with both Aoife and Finbarr Clancy and has played with many other bands as well as solo in venues across New England and New York.
Eddie Dillon spoke with The Artists Index Scott Bishop and discussed his love of music, Irish music, the South Coast, and so much more.
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