Speaking of topping the charts. I updated the Celtic Top the Charts feature at the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast with a new artist. My goal is to help push an independent Celtic music group to the Top of the Charts on iTunes. The next new chart topper is scheduled for June 15th. This month’s […]
Pub Songs #23: Wandering Dublin with Blarney in Ireland
I arrived in Dublin and missed the tour bus for the Brobdingnagian Bards Tour of Ireland. So I had a few minutes to share my own early arrival experiences. Notes: Wandering through Dublin John Wilmott with Celtic Ways Visiting Tara, Home of the Irish Kings of Old High King’s Chair Fairie Trees Drinking Guinness Staying […]
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New CD Online on June 6th!
Shoot! I’ve been so busy trying to get ready for Ireland I forgot to promote the fact that my new CD is out on the June 6th. Yes, Irish Drinking Songs: The Cat Lovers Companion is officially available online in TWO DAYS!!! I was hoping to try to get the word out so I could […]
Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #36
Brought to you by Song Henge, the online archive of free and legal Celtic music downloads. Find out more at SongHenge.com Do you download your podcasts by Hand? For shame. Let iTunes do it for you. Notes: – Vote in the The Celtic Top Five – Victims of Irish Music Now on CDBaby – Webcasted […]
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Pub Songs Podcast: Folk Music with Delusions of Grandeur
My live performances on the Pub Songs Podcast have gone over very well. I’ve only released two from my home studio, but I get a lot of emails from people who enjoyed them and want to hear more. So I listened to the shows again and picked the recordings that were made in those shows. […]
Irish Song Lyrics Podcast – Fiddler’s Green
What happens when fishermen die? They go to Fiddler’s Green, a paradise for those who lived their lives on the sea. It’s a beautiful fantasy by John Connolly. I learned the song from The Wolfe Tones and liked it so much, it was one of the first songs I parodied on Irish Drinking Songs for […]
New Irish Podcast with “Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love’s Hair)”
This is such a beautiful song. I think it was Nick Hennessey who inspired me to finally learn it. It’s an old song with origins in both Scotland and the Appalacian Mountains, meaning its true origins are lost in time. The cat parody I made for Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers was a love […]
Update Lyrics – My Puddy Tat, Sylvester
Even before I became a cat lover, I never liked Tweety Bird. Arrogant SOB with big feet and an annoying voice. So as I was thinking of parodies for my Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers, I came up with an idea for a song that I called “Big Strong Cat (“My Puddy Tat, Sylvester)”. […]
New CD Cover Art for Irish Drinking Songs: The Cat Lover’s Companion
Graphic artist, Molly C. Loar, finished the CD cover Marc Gunn’s upcoming CD, Irish Drinking Songs: The Cat Lover’s Companion. The result is a stunning piece of art.
Irish Megalithic Tombs
From the Celtic History Newsletter: Last month I said that one of the more notable changes started by the early Irish farming culture was in the burial of their dead. There is little surviving evidence of burial customs among the earlier hunter-gatherer peoples of Ireland, but starting around 4000 BC we see the first funerary […]