AUSTIN, TX (October 16, 2006) – The Celtic MP3s Music Magazine, the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast, and the Brobdingnagian Bards are proud to announce the opening of the 2nd Annual Celtic Music Awards. The awards page began with the goal to try and determine who the most-popular independent Celtic music groups are online through popular voting.

In 2005, only the top 10 Celtic music groups, by listener votes, were counted. This year, the voting opportunities are expanded with the addition of new award categories to better recognize contributors from the individual Celtic music genres (including folk, traditional, rock, new age). Listener’s can vote online from now until December 31, 2006. The results will be announced in March 2007 with a special Irish & Celtic Podcast that features music by the most popular artists in each category. You can see who the winners were in the 2005 Celtic Music Awards on the website. CDs from these select artists are also available for purchase at CDBaby.com and Amazon.com.

Complete contest rules can be found on-line at http://www.celticmp3s.com/awards/.


ABOUT Marc Gunn / Brobdingnagian Bards:
Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats. He is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards, an internet music promoter, podcaster, poet, photographer and publisher of many, many things on and offline. Marc Gunn is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards. He is also Celtic music podcaster and promoters as well as publisher of Celtic MP3s Music Magazine.

http://thebards.net Brobdingnagian Bards, Celtic Folk Music
http://celticmusicpodcast.com/ Irish & Celtic Music Podcast

Renaissance Festival Podcast - Music and Entertainment from Ren Faires http://www.renaissancefestivalmusic.com/


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For Further Information Contact Marc Gunn (512) 470-4866.

I was listening to NPR this morning with their program, "This I Believe". They had an essay on the power of failure as a building block to success. That made me think of knowing my limits. When is it when I need to ask for help to do what I need doing. Like office helpers. I get office helpers when I find myself unable to finish basic tasks like mailing out CDs and such. Or recording a CD, I hired a producer to help me complete my Cat CD, which I knew would take five times as long by myself. So this idea came to my mind:

"There is no shame in failure.
There is only shame in not asking for help to succeed."

Not sure I entirely stand behind the second half of that concept, but it sounds nice...

AUSTIN, TX (October 6, 2006) – The Renaissance Festival Podcast in conjunction with the Brobdingnagian Bards have announced the commencement of the second annual Renaissance awards. In 2005 they held the first ever such awards (that they know of) for best Renaissance Festival performers. Nominated and voted on by podcast listeners and Ren Faire Fans, these awards selected the cream of the crop. In 2005 the number one musical performers were The Lost Boys and the number one act in the non-musical category was the Tortuga Twins. The awards were so well received that it will become a permanent fixture on the Ren Awards Scene.

To add someone to the voting pool or select your favorite among the existing nominees, participants can access the voting function and contest rules at http://www.renaissancefestivalmusic.com/awards/. Voters can cast their ballots from now until December 31st, 2006 with winners being announced in January of 2007. For those interested in nominating someone, the number one criteria is that they have performed at least one time during 2006 at a Renaissance Faire.

This is a rare opportunity for Renaissance Faire enthusiasts to recognize the performers that they enjoy most at the Faires.


ABOUT Marc Gunn / Brobdingnagian Bards:
Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats. He is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards, an internet music promoter, podcaster, poet, photographer and publisher of many, many things on and offline. Marc Gunn is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards. He is also Celtic music podcaster and promoters as well as publisher of Celtic MP3s Music Magazine.

- Brobdingnagian Bards, Celtic Folk Music
- Irish & Celtic Music Podcast

Renaissance Festival Podcast - Music and Entertainment from Ren Faires

1 Corinthians 13

¹ If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

³ If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

⁵ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

¹⁰ but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

¹² Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.