Greetings Gunn Runner I’m sure everyone north of Alabama dug their heals into the ground to prepare for Snowzilla. However, my family loves snow. And we love a good adventure. So on Saturday, we drove up I-65 to Columbia, Tennessee. We stopped at a hardware store and bought some trash can lids. Then we drove […]
Tag Archives: Scottish songs
Celtic Love for Valentine’s Day
There’s a blog I saw online that said Irish “love” songs were unromantic. That’s a bunch of hogwash by some cynical people who don’t know or appreciate Celtic music. The Celts are some of the most-passionate people in the world. One of the goals of my new compilation CELTIC LOVE is to highlight the beauty […]
2 Toughest Things About Songwriting
I’m currently engaged in my Song of the Week Challenge. My goal is to write a new song every week. It doesn’t matter how good it is. I just want to write. Then I will record the song and share it with my Patrons at www.marcgunn.net. I haven’t written a lot of new music over […]
Fulfilling Scottish Kickstarter
I’m about to send out surveys from the Kickstarter fundraiser for Scottish Songs of Drinking & Rebellion. One of the questions includes a choice of CDs from my catalog. Here are the albums from which you can you choose: MARC GUNN Soul of a Harper (2004) What Color Is Your Dragon? (2009) Heart’s Ease (2009) Happy […]
Why Irish Songs and Scottish Songs?
Larry on Facebook responded to yesterday’s post about my Scottish music album. He liked the idea and thought I should play more Scottish music. After all, I am from the Scottish Clan Gunn. Why not more Scottish music? When I was a kid, my dad took me to some Scottish Highland Games. I fell in […]
Thank God for “Celtic Music”!
“Celtic music” is a marketing term used to define the sound and music of the Celts. I’ve used it to promote my Celtic Music Magazine and my Irish & Celtic Music Podcast and a LOT of my websites. A decade ago, it was lamented as a useless term because every band who thought they were […]
