I drove to Huntsville, Alabama for Nerdy Noel: A Midsummer Market on Sunday. It was a great event. I had two shows with a large number of people listening and singing along with. Lots of fans showed up. The rest of my time, I sat at my booth selling new album pins, Celtic Heartstrings, and of course CDs.
As I was packing for the event, I saw this:
Cats and boxes!?!?
Last week, I mentioned the live show show at Maggie McGuinness Pub and Pub Songs & Stories. That show doesn't come out until August. Subscribe here to listen when it's available. I haven’t published anything new this summer… until yesterday. It's a mini-episode.
I published it to promote the new Kickstarter that launches this Thursday. It’s for an album pin and CD for a compilation called The Secret World of Celtic Rock.
The album was original released 20 years ago as part of the the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast and Celtic Music Magazine. It's rocking fusion of Celtic music and rock. It encompasses so many different styles of Celtic Rock. It's fantastic!
I have one track on the album. It’s a remix by my friend Rimbo made of me singing “My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose”.
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UPCOMING SHOWS
AUG 3-6: Gen Con, Indianapolis, IN
Next week, I’m heading back to Gen Con. There are some tickets still available for my Saturday show. Most are sold out.
AUG 19: Fiddler's Green Coffeehouse Concert series
This is a big thing for me. It’s a concert presented by Atlanta Area Friends of Folk Music (AAFFM). It’s my first paid concert in the Atlanta area. Tickets are $10. Admiral Radio is performing as well.
I would REALLY appreciate it if you could mark your calendar and join me for this exciting event.
Thanks so much for being you. You make me smile.
Slainte!
PS. Big thanks to Gordy. He's the newest member of the Gunn Runners Club, and an annual member no less! Thanks Gordy!
Interesting story about putting down the accompaniment to that song.
At first, I tried to adjust your vocals to the song. Cut the vocal, slide it over to where the measure begins… squash the audio to fit a similar tempo… but I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out the tempo you were singing. Then I realized that each line WAS in the same tempo… like clockwork, no less; it’s just that, like a Gregorian Chant, each measure was a different length; some had 3 beats, many 4, some 5.
So I left the vocal track alone, set the tempo to that, and then fit the time signature to each measure. And that’s how that funky rhythm happened.
Very cool!