Christmas is less than two weeks away. So here’s your last-minute reminder to buy Celtic for Christmas. There are a lot of great Celtic stores, business, and of course musicians selling their wares. When you buy Celtic, it’s sorta like buying Local, except your supporting your cultural heritage and community. If you’re looking for some […]
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Celebrating the Birth of Podcasting
I just got my annual notification that the Renaissance Festival Podcast turns 7 years old today. Seven years. Wow. I started this podcast and podcasting around the time when podcasting first started. Most people didn’t know what to do with it. Hell, I’m not sure I did.
What if? The Universal/EMI Merger
I just read an interesting article by Bob Lefsetz on the Universal/EMI merger. Bob is a music, let’s say, analyst who writes on all aspects of the music biz. In this article, he worries about the consequences of these two giant companies merging. Right now, Universal plans to buy EMI for $1.9 billion if…or rather […]
My Ideal Band
I love playing solo. However, I miss having a band. There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you’re jamming with a few like-minded individuals, creating music together. I still remember some of those sessions with my first band, Skander. It was a such rush. It sticks with me 20 years later. When Brobdingnagian Bards […]
Celtic Christmas Songs
We’re just days away from Christmas and I’m still fine tuning my Celtic Christmas playlist. It is tough finding good Celtic music for Christmas. I’ve spent the last few weeks listening to Celtic Christmas albums of all shapes and sizes. I’ve also been listening to classic Christmas songs, and I think I see the problem–there’s […]
Hobbit CD Collaborator Profile: Laurent Leemans
There were sooo many great musicians who recorded on Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits. I emailed these folks and asked them a few questions. Who are you and what do you do? My name is Laurent Leemans, aged 40, 3 lovely daughters (the only thing I love more than making music), librarian because music is […]
Karen Mueller Autoharp and Celtic Christmas
I’m proud to say I won’t be the first autoharper putting together a Celtic Christmas album. I was listening to Riverdance soprano, Katie McMahon‘s CD Celtic Christmas for an article on the Celtic Music Magazine when I heard the distinctive sounds of an autoharp in the mix. “An autoharp?!,” I thought, “That’s awesome! But who?” […]
New Irish Music Website
When I got a link request from Irish Music Forever last spring, I thought it was just a link hog site, another internet marketer trying to capitalize on Irish music popularity. I was wrong. Yes. It is obviously run by a marketer, but the content is solid. Pat Kehoe is writing and acquiring great articles […]
Can Cover Songs Make or Break a Folk Musician?
It’s not easy making it as a folk musician. That’s why I spend a lot of time thinking about how to succeed in the music biz. I do it for me, but also for other musicians that I help out through my free music marketing ezine. Nearly every day, I learn something new. There are […]
Top 5 Regrets About DragonCon 2011
I had an amazingly awesome time at DragonCon, but whenever you plan something, it never quite works like you expect it to. This time, the whole weekend turned out better because my family came out. Yet, there’s still a few things I wish could’ve happened. I wish the Bedlam Bards could’ve made it. The Firefly […]
