Heard about these guys on NPR's The World last night. Good stuff. Some people might think that Celtic fiddle and Indian music are a strange combination, but linguists know that it's just a reunion of distant cousins: the westernmost and the easternmost branches of those prolific proto-Indo-Europeans (see chart). I wonder if they could record a song that consisted of a call and response of Sanskrit and Gaelic cognates (I stole the following from Metro Gael; more of the same to be found in published books as well):
Raja - Ri
Arya - Aire
Badhira - Bodar
Pibati - Ibid
Minda - Mend
You could do a song about a deaf king who gets drunk with a freeman and ends up disabled or stammering.
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