Special Announcement: Dragons vs Pirates, Help Me #SaveTheDragons

Many people don’t realize that for a short period of time in January 2013, I was shanghaied by air pirates. I’m the coming weeks, I will share this riveting story as well as a new Kickstarter for my next album, Dragons vs Pirates. I look forward to sharing more about it, but for now, please […]

Happiness and Celtic Music, Strategic Planning for 2015

Welcome to episode 1 of The Celtfather podcast. This is my brand new podcast for 2015. And of course when I say “new”, I mean, it’s just a continuation of The Celtic Geek and Pub Songs Podcast before it. You don’t even have to subscribe to a new show. If you were subscribed to The […]

Adventures in Rhythm & Folk

I remember when I first started playing the autoharp. my first real gig was at a Renaissance festival. Andrew and I were picking songs that we would play. then we worked up arrangements. “frog kissin’” was one of those early songs. i learned it from a Christian musician named Ed Kilbourne. it was poppy and […]

People You Should Know: Rie Sheridan Rose, The Bardabee Poet

I met Rie Sheridan Rose before she was married back in 2001 or 2002 where she heard the Brobdingnagian Bards out at the late, great Excalibur Fantasy Faire.  “I was instantly transported by the music, and became one of the Brobdingnagian Bards’ biggest fans,” she tells me. She continues: “The Bards were magical, everything worked […]