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A few updates from the week.

Find links at www.marcgunn.com/2008/10/marc-…

I had a great time visiting the Texas Renaissance Festival and catching up with friends. I wandered all over that faire and played a few songs in the process, filled with a flood of wonderful memories performing there. I look forward to seeing it again, but not this year.

To quote my song, now it's time to go. Tomorrow, I leave for New Orleans. I haven't really had much time to think about the fact that I'm leaving Austin after 18 years.

Wow! Eighteen. Being the military brat that I was, I can't fathom how I stayed in one place so long. Yet, here I've been. Now it's time for some exciting new adventures recording more CDs and podcasts, collaborating with musicians (drop me a line if you're interested), fusing new styles, creating art, and making a ton of new friends in a new home. Let the journey begin!

This Week:

-- Quote of the Week: "Justice is what love looks like in public." Justin Dillon, Call+Response.

-- CD of the Week: Poetry of Wonder by Arthur Hinds. I love "Pantheon". Very cool song!

-- Hear My Music on: Dave's Music Notes, I Still Get Demented Podcast Edition, ATC Pagan Information Network, Little Reds Writing Hood

-- Gaelic Songs on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. Check out the Celtic Mini-Podcast special feature on Gaelic songs. I was hoping to do more such mini-podcasts, especially since the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was nominated for the People's Choice Podcast Awards.

-- Vote DAILY for the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. The ICMP was nominated for the Podcast Awards. Now you can go every day to podcastawards.com and vote for my podcast from now until November 6th. The winner will be announced a couple weeks after that. Please help me to win. While you're there, vote for Irish Fireside, The Signal, and Buffy Between the Lines. Those are all podcasts that I listen to regularly. They deserve to win. So please vote every day.

-- Celtic Invasion of Italy. Like I said, people will drop out. Lost two already. But we still have a full lineup at present. If you are interested in getting on the waiting list. Email me.

-- SLAINTE!. In Irish Gaelic that means "Cheers" or "To Your Health". What friendlier way to say that all the time when you pick up one of my new t-shirts. While you're checking out the swag, imagine your very own CD of music. What color is YOUR podcast?

-- Tell A Friend. Please take a moment right now and email Marc Weeklies to a friend, or repost it in your blog. Or share your favorite song. Email it or add a link to one of my webpages. Then drop me a line below and say, "Hi!"

-- UPCOMING GIGS.

Louisiana Renaissance Festival. As of now, it looks like the only show I have scheduled is at the Wine and Whiskey Tasting at Louisiana Renaissance Festival. A full-fledged stage show just didn't develop. So I'll have to create my own, I guess. I plan to play the lanes. Hopefully, once I'm out there, I can solidify a place and time to have a show. Look for me each morning and I'll let you know where I will be to share my music.

House Concert? Imagine fifteen of your best friends coming over to your home, eating, drinking and having a great time. Now imagine a rollicking sing-along as I guide you through the wonderful world of Celtic American music. That's a house concert. If you have a 10x10 foot room, you're ready to go!

-- Check me out on Myspace, SoundClick, Demand a Show on Eventful, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal, Sonicbids, and DeviantArt. And if you'd like a CD...

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A few updates from the week.

Find links at www.MarcGunn.com/

DragonCon is over. Wow, what a great weekend! This was probably the most-relaxed DragonCon I've done. We had some incredible shows, and I had more fun than ever. Now we're taking our annual repose outside of Atlanta. I slept twelve hours last night. I'm feeling nicely recovered to catchup on work. I'll post more DragonCon thoughts in a wee bit. But for now, the weeklies.

This Week:

-- Quote of the Week: "I hope to always have more taste than money." Jamie Haeuser.

-- Stop. Breathe. Listen to "Stardust Serenade". Relax a moment.

-- CD of the Week: Real Men Wear Kilts by Brobdingnagian Bards. Our new CD was released this weekend at DragonCon. Aside from a typographical error and not remembering who took the photo (Thanks to Jen Clower-Brown who did take that picture), it seems a great success so far. You can pre-order your copy now. They won't be available on CD Baby for another month, but I'll have your copy in the mail when I get off tour in a couple weeks.

IMG_4185_f800_raw-- DragonCon Twittered. I sent a lot of Twitters while at DragonCon. That was good because I had virtually no internet access for the weekend. But I had plenty to do nonetheless.

-- I'm thankful to hear that Gustav lightened up before hitting New Orleans. Most of my friends seem to be okay after the storm.

-- Irish & Celtic Music Podcast show #55 made it out right before I left for Atlanta. Already getting a ton of great feedback. I can't believe how many people came up to me at DragonCon and told me how much they love the podcast. I think I might talk to the Podcast Track about doing a live show next year.

-- Mur Lafferty's book Playing for Keeps climbed to #13 on the Amazon book charts. How amazing is that for an indie author!!!!!

-- Think I'll catch up on some Netflix movies online while I'm relaxing. I think I can watch most of Dead Like Me there. W00t!

-- Cats for Obama. My cats are voting for him too. :)

-- The winners of the 2007 Renaissance Festival Hall of Fame are now live. Still hoping to have a website dedicated to them, but hasn't happened yet. Also should have the 2008 Renaissance Festival Award nominations going live very, very soon.

-- Upcoming Shows. This Friday, we're in South Carolina performing at an Irish pub. Saturday, we return to Apex, North Carolina for a house concert. Contact the venues for more details.

-- Check me out on Myspace, SoundClick, Demand a Show on Eventful, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal, Sonicbids, and DeviantArt. And if you'd like a CD...


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Weekly Update

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A few updates from the week.

-- I'm back from another weekend at the Castle Muskogee. It was a decent weekend all things considered, but Saturday I was hit with heat problems that left me forgetting lyrics on Sunday. It was another sad reminder that I am not physically able to perform at faires. For now, I continue to do so. But I won't be able to much longer, I think. My constitution is just too weak.

-- When I got in, I finally booked our U.S. flights for the Brobdingnagian Bards Tour of Ireland. Our trip is now all scheduled. Oddly enough, we still have a couple spots left open for this tour. And this is the last Brobdingnagian Bards Vacation Tour of Ireland. So if you ever wanted to join us on a tour, contact me now.

-- I'm getting ready to transfer my Marc's Musings mailing list to ReverbNation. The site seems just too useful not to take advantage of. If you're not already on my mailing list, sign up now.

-- I've spent a few days brainstorming ways to visit more faires in 2009. These won't be gigs, but an opportunity to do promo for the Renaissance Festival Podcast. So if you ever wanted to meet me at a faire, keep an ear open on the podcast. And watch for new Faire Minion stickers and shirts.

-- Tomorrow, my friend Clif Haley comes in to record for one of the songs on What Color Is Your Dragon?. The CD features a number of original songs as well as filks submitted by fans. I hope to have a track listing by the end of the week. Then you will be able to pre-order that album as well.

-- Whiskers in the Jar (as well as Going for Brogue) is at Diskfaktory being printed. I'll let you hear a few more songs on the Pub Songs Podcast later this week if you haven't already listened online. The Gift of Cat Love is now iTunes.

-- Did you see the new SoundClick widget on iTunes? You can listen to a bunch of my songs on my website while you read my latest news.

-- Check me out on Facebook, Myspace, SoundClick, Demand a Show on Eventful, Wikipedia, and DeviantArt.

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You can help us become the #1 folk band in Austin.

It's that time of year. The Austin Chronicle Music Poll is here again.

Last year, The Original Celtic Renaissance duo, the Brobdingnagian Bards, were voted the #2 for the most-popular folk band in Austin! We'd love to be number one this year. All it takes is a couple minutes of your time.

I posted some suggestions for categories to vote for us and some of our favorite Austin band suggestions as well.

Vote at thebards.net/links/Austin_Chro…

P.S. Anyone in the world can vote, but only Once. So please help us out and get your friends involved in making us the #1 Folk Band in Austin.

THANKS!!!!!

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I'm trying to slowly get around to using this account more. Following Jen's advice, I also plan to post some poetry here to get more feedback.

Meanwhile, today, i was setting up a my "Adopt a Cat CD" page for my Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers CD. I'm looking at trying to raise money to effectively record, duplicate, and promote the album. So I added some Donation bonuses.

If you have any thoughts that might help make this a reality, let me know. Or if you know anyone in the cat business world that I might joint venture with... please let me know.

Thanks!
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