Playing the Autoharp

Playing the Autoharp

I started playing the Autoharp at the end of 1997. I was in an Avant Quark Rock band called Breastfed. We had a fiery year booking gigs and recording music. Then the lead guitarist quit. The band fell apart. I was bummed but I learned one great thing from the break up. My songwriting sucked. […]

How the Autoharp Changed My Life

How the Autoharp Changed My Life

It was the end of 1997. The guitarist for my Alt-Rock band Breastfed decided to quit. Our drummer didn’t want to start another search for a lead guitarist. The band was over. I was surprisingly okay with that. I decided to be a musician because I wanted to be a songwriter. But I recognized that my […]

Introduction to the Music of The Celtfather

Introduction to the Music of The Celtfather

This is Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. I’m a Celtic musician and podcaster. I thought it might be nice to have an episode of the podcast that lets you know about many of the things I do online. I don’t think this will be a comprehensive list. But it should give you a great starting point […]

St Patrick’s Day Pub Songs 2016 Video Show

St Patricks Day is just two weeks away. So I recorded another show for my St. Patrick’s Day Internet Music Festival.The show was originally shot on Google Hangouts. You can watch it, but the video and audio quality is terrible. Fortunately, I had a second camera. It’s not perfectly lined up, but it looks and […]

Ginger Ackley – Celtic Music Spotlight

Band: Ginger Ackley Homepage: http://www.gingerackley.com Description: Ginger’s music is Celtic – with at Twist!  A Texas native happily transplanted to Ohio, Ginger has taken her life-long passion for music, combined it with a love of history and tradition, and mixed it all  into a delightful style of Celtic Folk. Performing both traditional and original songs, […]

Celtic Empire overview for November and December 2015

Celtic Empire overview for November and December 2015

It’s time for an update of all the things I am working on right now. On my drive back home from the Louisiana Renaissance Festival, I discuss my projects and the new things coming down the pipeline! Learn more about what’s new with my music and podcasting in the past few weeks and what’s to […]

Please Make Another B-Side!

One of the bands I enjoy is Mumford & Sons. A while back I posted an article saying that their latest album Babel just sounded like a B-Side to Sign No More. My blog said there was nothing new, and the songs were less memorable. I can’t find the article. I guess I must’ve deleted it when I fell […]

Spock, Star Trek, St.Patrick’s Day

Some sobering news as we lost Leonard Nimoy, the legendary Spock from Star Trek last week. The St.Patrick’s Day Internet Music Festival is kicking off next week, I’m gearing up for Thursday’s album release, and we’ve hit the initial goal for the Kickstarter campaign! Finally, planning the Celtic Invasion Vacation, and some musing on the benefits […]

#SaveTheDragons with My New Album Dragons vs. Pirates

I finally made some decisions about upcoming albums for the year and what’s next as you’ll see in my latest Kickstarter–Dragons vs. Pirates. This album is a bit of vanity project. It started years ago with an album I recorded with Captain Black Jack Murphy called Pogue Mahone Means Kiss My Arse. It was a fun […]