Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #121

Music from Oisin McAuley, Haggis Rampant, Gallowglass Irish Trio, Susan Kidney and Donna Germano, Ed Miller, Canned Haggis, Sligo Rags, Headland, Plaidgrass, Hair of the Dog, Greenwich Meantime, The McDades, Fergus, Brian Hebert & Friends. www.celticmusicpodcast.com Subscribe to our Celtic Music Magazine. Remember to support the artists who support this podcast: buy their CDs, download […]

Pub Songs #96: Big News about the Pub Songs Podcast

New Gunn Runners Podcast Celtic Music Magazine New focus on Irish & Celtic Music Podcast and the Renaissance Festival Podcast Louisiana Renaissance Festival Recording projects for 2012 Rie Sheridan Rose Irish Song Lyrics   Music: “Jug of Punch” by Marc Gunn from Happy Songs of Death “All For Me Grog” by The Poxy Boggards from […]

Hobbit CD Listening Party Now Online in Podcast Form

I had a totally awesome time at the CD listening party for Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits.  We only played a few tracks from the album, but had a great time talking about it.  It was even cooler because in addition to joining the hosts Michael Kaiser and Mark Ostley on the show, Rie Sheridan Rose […]

Raise a Glass in Parting (Lyrics, MP3)

Raise a Glass in Parting (Lyrics, MP3)

Lyrics Rie Sheridan Rose, music Marc Gunn Performed by Marc Gunn & Jamie Haeuser From Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits The time will come for leaving… I know you cannot stay But later for the grieving… You’re here with me today. I’d rather tend my garden Than wander down the road And so, I beg your […]

A Long-Expected Party 2: There & Back Again, Another Glimpse at Perfection

I’m back from A Long Expected Party 2: There & Back Again at Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.  I had a brilliant time. A Look Backward at ALEP 1 Three years ago, I wrote that the first ALEP was one of the top 5 weekends of my life.  It was a magical experience.  For […]

20 Hobbit Songs Done!

Good day in the studio.  I finished mixing all but the last tracks–“Cat and Rat” and an alternate version of “Scouring the Shire” with percussion.  All of the other songs are awaiting mastering. Nathan Deese of the band Barrowburn is adding additional instrumentation to those two songs. “Cat and Rat” was written like it was […]

Negative Comments and Musical Extremism

Today, I got my first negative feedback from one of the hobbit songs.  Like most people, I don’t like to hear negative comments about my art.  But I want to hear them anyway, especially when they are well-thought out and not attempts to be just plain malicious. This one was regarding “A Well-Dressed Hobbit“.  The […]

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 […]

Big Change: The Hobbit CD Is Next!

I had a change of mind today. I decided to start work on the Hobbit CD. As you may know, I have three CDs on the back burner: Firefly Drinking Songs, Scottish Songs of Drinking and Rebellion, and Hobbit Songs. This coming Friday, the Bedlam Bards and I hope to record the last songs for […]