Beltaines_Fire

The Short Version:Beltaine’s Fire is a five-piece Celtic Hip Hop Fusion project based in the San Francisco Bay area. Our sound blends melodies inspired by the music of the Celtic diaspora with funk, rock, and hip hop elements.The Long version:There is a space where the protest ballads of the Irish and Scottish Rebel Bards and the directness and passion of conscious hip-hop music intersect. Beltaine’s Fire occupies that space.American music was born out of fusion between African and Celtic mus...

The Short Version:Beltaine’s Fire is a five-piece Celtic Hip Hop Fusion project based in the San Francisco Bay area. Our sound blends melodies inspired by the music of the Celtic diaspora with funk, rock, and hip hop elements.The Long version:There is a space where the protest ballads of the Irish and Scottish Rebel Bards and the directness and passion of conscious hip-hop music intersect. Beltaine’s Fire occupies that space.American music was born out of fusion between African and Celtic musical traditions, brought here by slaves forcibly dragged from their homelands on the one hand and by refugees fleeing the genocidal oppression of English colonial rule n the other. That fusion is at the root of all modern north american music - from bluegrass to the blues, jazz, rock, and hip hop. Beltaine’s Fire taps into that same fusion in a totally new way with a sound that is both deeply rooted in tradition and history and completely original.