Beer songs. Yeah, I perform a lot of songs about beer. Some call them pub songs. But more particularly, they are indeed songs about beer. When you play Irish music, you find lots of songs about beer and other forms of alcohol. Here’s a few songs that I perform about beer: Beer, Beer, Beer Black […]
Author Archives: Marc Gunn
PUB SONGS PODCAST
The Pub Songs Podcast is a personal podcast of Marc Gunn. It opens with some pub songs from Ireland, Scotland and around the world, song that you may hear in pubs, plus, folk song lyrics and news. It also features poetry, rants, and raves and some of the favorite non-Celtic bands of Marc Gunn. Visit […]
A Modern Roman Look at the News
I was watching the first season of Rome and had an interesting idea for portraying the news. In modern times, we have political cartoonists, television shows, radio programs, that all discuss the news. In Roman times, they had actors on stage acting out the “news” of recent battles in a comical fashion. I just saw […]
Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #30
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Bragging About Celtic Music Success
Tonight, I wrote some news that I sent off to the Ceili, a newsletter put out by Southwest Celtic Music Association. It got me thinking of my successes. I’m not really one to brag about about my accomplishments. Most of the time, I forget to tell people about them period. Part of the reason is […]
Irish Song Lyrics Podcast
Well, the Irish Song Lyrics podcast hasn’t come together yet. Can’t seem to get the RSS feed working and then I though I might make a few more changes. We’ll see if I continue it.
Working While It Snows
It’s snowing on and off. That makes me snow happy! So I’m sitting warmly under a quilt working on the computer and watching Lord of the Rings: Two Towers. Very nice. I just updated the Your Weekly Irish Stout Podcast. I’m publishing that every week now. Into a good four weeks. It hasn’t received much […]
Clandestine Returns
If you’re familiar with Clandestine, the Celtic group that dissipated a few years back after taking the nation by storm, well, they are reformed and playing again with a minor lineup change. And they have a new website: www.clandestineceltic.com. You can find more about the original incarnation of Clandestine here.
Austin Celtic Calendar and Meetup
About this time last year, I had this brilliant idea of creating a monthly Celtic calendar and distributing it around Austin so folks in Austin would know when Celtic happenings are happening. I created a template, even went so far as to purchase a domain–www.austincelticcalendar.com. Then gigs and life got the better of me and […]
Eugene House Concert
For many years now, I’ve wanted to go to Oregon. I hear such wonderful things about it. I finally have the opportunity thanks to an International Cat Show taking place at the end of January. Since we have a number of fans up in that area, I decided to try and put together a small […]
