Is Google Analytics accurate? According to my stats this year, visits to my Irish & Celtic Music Podcast were at an all-time low, about 750 visitors. That’s down 100 from last year and down about 3000 from the year before that. Because last year’s numbers were down, I worked extra-hard this year to promote my […]
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This started as a St. Patrick’s Day post… It’s early morning. I’ll Ramble instead…
Just five more days until the big day. It looks like I will not have any shows on St. Patrick’s Day proper, but my St. Patrick’s Day music preparations are going great. I finished two Paddy’s Day shows for the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. The Celtic Music Magazine has a bunch of new articles and […]
Buy Celtic for Christmas
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 […]
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 […]
