Insert this RSS Feed into your podcatcher to have the shows downloaded automatically: http://www.celticmp3s.com/podcast.xml Do you download your podcasts by Hand? For shame. Let iTunes do it for you. Brought to you by Song Henge, the online archive of free and legal Celtic music downloads. Find out more at SongHenge.com This week: #10 Great Big […]
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It’s not really his birthday. Well, not yet. That’s officially on Sept 22. But I wanted to tell you about my latest music promotion idea. That’s to say, “Happy Birthday”. I’ve long had a love of birthdays. So much, in fact, I keep writing birthday songs. If I don’t watch out, I’m gonna be known […]
A ST PATRICK’S DAY POEM by Marc Gunn St Patrick’s Day music, St Patrick’s Day drink, St Patrick’s Day merriment, Grand birthday for me. All are Irish on St Patrick’s Day Shamrock stickers stuck to cheeks Bluegrass mixed with Irish drinking songs Makes your heritage feel complete. People dressed as leprechauns Drinking green beer Living […]
Irish & Celtic music from Mrs. Ferris’s Pighouse Collection, Barleyjuice, The Killdares, Piper’s Creek, Trinity River Whalers, Poor Man’s Fortune, The Makem and Spain Brothers, Sarah Dinan, Ed Miller, Brobdingnagian Bards, The Muses, Bedlam Bards, Michael Murphy and The River Shannon Band. Shownotes at celticmusicpodcast.com/012 If you enjoy this podcast, then please rate the show on […]
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I was born on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th. So as I’ve said before, it’s kinda ironic that I now play Irish music. In fact, I notice a lot of synchronicity in my life these days. Like the fact that I wrote a CD called Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers and March 17th is […]
Hundreds of years ago in England, many children dressed up as adults on Valentine’s Day.They went singing from home to home. One verse they sang was: Good morning to you, valentine; Curl your locks as I do mine— Two before and three behind. Good morning to you, valentine. In Wales wooden love spoons were carved […]
by Marc Gunn, January 31, 2006 They say you should write what you know. I know the online Celtic music community. My Irish music friendships grow every year. So I thought it was about time I wrote a poem or song about it. Slainte! On a grassy mall, I sat playing songs, When people started […]
I got up earlier than usual to go to 24-Hour Fitness. I’ve wanted to learn Yoga for a while. They have a Sunday at noon Yoga class (early? what can I say, I’m a musician). This was my first-ever Yoga class. Oy! What a workout. I’m not used to actually exercising. But it’s good for […]
Intriguing. I was watching The Name of the Rose, and I came up with an interesting thought. In it, an Inquisitor comes and tortures a man to confess that a woman he was feeding was a witch, or something like that. He, a “Man of God” stands around and watches… almost delights, in the torture […]
Dear Diary, today I was eaten alive… I was standing there with my wife Ellen peering through the trees when we saw them–a group of people trespassing on MY land! Holy sh*t! How dare they! I was ready for a major ass-kicking. Ellen and I ran out of the bushes. Our 12-gage shotgunns were locked […]