MarcSONGS Podcast
By Marc Gunn
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Podcast Description
Marc Gunn, author of the Celtic MP3s Music Magazine and the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast, presents a the Irish Songs and Lyrics podcast. This is a weekly podcast where you can download a Celtic and Irish song by Marc Gunn. Learn Irish songs (and other songs from Marc) and share them with your friends. All songs are released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike License. This means if you like the music, please feel free to share it with your friends, YouTube it, or do whatever you like as long as you're not making money off it.
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Johnny Jump Up | Next to "Irish Ballad", I think this was one of the first Happy Songs of Death that I ever learned. So isn't it fitting that it goes on a CD of the same name? The new arrangement is a big favorite of mine. It's something you can tap your toes to. Released | 10/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Won't You Come With Me? | Maybe it was my love of the Kingston Trio singing 'Tom Dooley' as a child, or maybe it was totally inspired by watching Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, but when the desire to write a murder ballad overtook me, I ran with it. The song that erupted from my autoh | 7/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Buttercup's Lament (Princess Bride) | Who doesn't love The Princess Bride? I sure do. I wrote this song in December 2000. It began with the idea of a woman who's True Love was lost at sea. But as the story developed, it reminded me of Buttercup's 'True Love'--Wesley--in the cult classic. So I | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Lil' Bit of Love | A couple years ago, I was performing at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival when The Mews... I mean Muse struck. No mews was correct. The frequent meowing came from a black cat named Lil' Bit. That talkative cat inspired this bluesy song that turned into a | 3/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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St. Patrick Never Drank (featured on The FuMP) | Isn't it kinda funny how St. Patrick's Day is now synonymous with getting plastered on March 17th? What a shame! There's so much more to the Irish than getting drunk. Listen to the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast--www.celticmusicpodcast.com, and you'll kno | 3/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Of Twilight Shores | I've been on a writing binge this Fall, especially of instrumental autoharp music. I love the sound the autoharp creates. It's very unique and I've heard no one experiment with effects. When I wrote this, my goal was to create a musical landscape to expre | 3/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stardust Serenade | This instrumental tune was written after watching the new movie based on Neil Gaiman's popular book, Stardust. I like to write music that tells a story, and that movie inspired me to write something on that very topic. It is a song based about seeking lov | 2/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wild Mountain Thyme | This is one of the earliest songs I learned when I began playing Celtic music. The Brobdingnagian Bards recorded it on A Faire to Remember, and it never ceased to capture someone's attention. I rearranged the song a couple years ago to make it more sing-a | 9/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beer, Beer, Beer | I played this song for a number of years with the Brobdingnagian Bards. Earlier this year, I got bored with my original version of it. I wanted a new rhythm. So I re-arranged the song with swing. When I started playing it Ireland, it quickly became the mo | 9/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Monahan's Mudder's Milk (Firefly Song) | It all began three years ago when I was introduced to Firefly, a Sci Fi Western by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. I became a huge fan. The TV series is still one of my most-watched DVDs. One of my favorite episodes is "Jaynest | 8/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kitty's Rambles/Dowd's 9 Lives/Jenny's Chickens | When I decided to put together my cat CDs, my goal was to serve up a delicious blend of traditional Irish music, but make it about cats. So I picked some of the best Celtic musicians in Austin to help me record these albums. This set of tunes starts was p | 7/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Lusty Young Sith | Two years ago, Diane Frost sent me a funny parody of "Lusty Young Smith". It was too funny to pass up. It included first favorite Sci Fi genre, Star Wars, and it beautifully capture the original song, except it is about a battle between a Jedi and Sith. W | 7/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Song of Assisi | During Spring Break in 1990, my mom and I went on a pilgrimage of the art of Piero della Francesca. We followed his art around Italy, culminating in a stop in Assisi. I don't know what it was about the town, but upon entering, and throughout the visit, I | 6/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Drop of Nelson's Blood | Legend says that after Lord Nelson fell in the Battle of Trafalger, his body was sealed ina cask of rum to preserve it. When the sailors heard of this, they drank their fill. Thus, grog became known as "Nelson's Blood". This walkaway shanty is also known | 6/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Irish Rover | I think I first heard this song at the Texas Renaissance Festival by the Flying Fish Sailors. They had a great version of the song, mixing in band members onto the ship. Well, when I decided to throw together a wee piratey set of songs, I decided to add t | 6/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Botany Bay | I think I first learned this song from The Wolfe Tones when I first started learning Irish songs. It captured my imagination as it told the story of an Irishman who immigrates to Australia. The song was collected in Australia in the 1950s by H.P.C. 'Duke' | 5/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When the Dairy Farm Caught Fire | What happens when the dairy farm catches fire? The stray cat go crazy and have a field lapping up all the milk in this raucous song by Jean Prior, Nancy Pearsall and me. Jean came up with the idea when she started rewriting the lyrics to "Old Dun Cow". It | 5/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Molly Malone... Cat's Perspective/Plaxty Hewlett | One of the great ghost stories of Ireland is that of Molly Malone, the fishmonger who died in Dublin and who's ghost is reputed to wander the streets still selling fish. My friend Emilee Rush seems to think the cats were just as disappointed with the deat | 3/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rosin the Bow (Live) | One of the first songs I learned when I started playing Irish music. And somewhere along the way it's become a renewed favorite of mine. This one was recorded live in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland. Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike Licens | 3/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Danny Boy (St. Patrick's Day Cat Song Parody) | No. This is not your typical "Danny Boy". The original "Danny Boy" was written by Frederick Weatherly, an English lawyer, using a traditional Irish melody called "Londonderry Air" in 1910. The song was popularized by opera singers at the turn of the centu | 2/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Shall We Do With a Catnipped Kitty | I am back in the studio to record my second edition of Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers. I had so much great feedback from the first album, I HAD to do another. And lo and behold, I haven't finished this album and already people are talking about a THI | 2/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Black Is the Color (Live) | What a beautiful song! I really fell in loved with it listening to Nick Hennessey perform it on his solo albums. Nick plays harp. I play autoharp. But the first thing I did after falling in love with it was rewrite it about cats for my Irish Drinking Song | 2/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finnegan's Wake (Live) | "Tim Finnegan lived on Walklin' Street..." Yeah. It's one of the first Irish songs I learned nine years ago. And it's still a favorite of mine and many others too. Here it is live and in it's raucous glory. Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial | 2/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gollum Blues (Live) | What happens when you read Lord of the Rings and drink too much in a pub in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland? A live recording of "The Psychopathic, Chronic, Schizophrenic Gollum Blues". Complete with butchered lyrics. But toned with lots of live sing-a-long fun. Re | 1/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harry Potter and The Rising of the Moon | I was re-reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when a story crept into my mind. Professor McGonagall was there in tabby cat form while London wizards celebrated the defeat of Voldemort. But what were the London cats doing? As I sang "Rising of | 1/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Johnny Jump Up (Live) | "Johnny Jump Up" seemed the perfect song to start the evening with when I was in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland last summer, because I was drinking a lot of Bulmers cider (known stateside as Magners). I learned the song from Christy Moore. So it's one of the few v | 1/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hero of Canton (Live) | Firefly is was a brilliant TV Sci Fi Western by Joss Whedon. I turned into a Huge Browncoat right before the movie Serenity was released. "Hero of Canton" is from the episode Jaynestown and much like in the movie, this song was recorded live in an Irish p | 1/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Auld Lang Syne | It's New Years Eve. I've wanted to record "Auld Lang Syne" for years now. It's just a beautiful song. As I was napping today, I finally came up with a solo arrangement for this classic song by Robert Burns, the national poet of Scotland. Released under a | 12/31/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Faire Is Over | I wrote this poem in 2003 after another blissful year as the late, great Excalibur Fantasy Faire came to a close. I released in my poetry book, Bella Fillioct, and my friend Lorella Loftus liked it so much, she asked that we do a recording. When the Renai | 12/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Soul of a Harper (Live) | A lot of people asked about recordings from my excursion to an Irish pub in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland last summer. I led twenty friends into a sing-a-long of Irish songs to a raucous evening. I grabbed a dozen of those tracks and put them together as an MP3 a | 12/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My Father Was a Werewolf | Not too long ago a band called Redhill Rats submitted music to my Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. I loved their style so I played "My Father Was a Werewolf" in the show. A listener and fan of Harry Potter, named Peg Kerr, loved the song too. So much so th | 12/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tiziano Gunn | In my first cat CD, Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers, I felt like I had a song for Jasper and a song for Torre, but no real song FOR Tiziano, my other tabby cat. Lyrics came to me based on the Irish song, "Old Fenian Gun" that just seemed to cool to mi | 11/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hobbit Journey Home | I recorded this instrumental tune in the winter of 2006 at my mom's. I was practicing on my autoharp when this melody came to me. It had a fairly sad, yet uplifting feeling that reminded me of Frodo and company returning home after their semi-triumphant r | 11/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Heart and Soul | I don't remember where I first heard this song. But my favorite version was in the movie BIG. But I was really surprised to find out that there were lyrics to the song. I started singing it and I sounded like Jimmy Durante. But I soon worked out an arrang | 11/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Froggie Went A-Courtin' | I learned this song from my dad. These are the lyrics he used to sing to me as a kid. It was always a favorite song, which is why I recorded for my CD, "A Tribute to Love". I think my dad learned it from The Brothers Four. Released under a Creative Common | 11/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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They Call Me Crazy | Falling in love is a funny thing. It's often not very rational. You just fall. Even if you shouldn't. I recorded it for my non-typical love songs CD, A Tribute to Love. Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike License. If you enjoy this | 10/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Silhouette of Longing Love | I wrote "Silhouette of Love" while leaving Zilker Park, here in Austin. I spent a good forty-five minutes practicing in the heat of the day and wanted some traveling music. I started playing a melody. It was simple, beautiful, and touching. And as I walke | 10/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Here's to the Dreamers | The movie, Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery and staring Megan Follows has long been an inspiration to me. I first saw it in high school. It's sort of a comfort movie for me. While watching in before bedtime late one evening, the inspiration o | 10/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Star of County Down | This is probably one of the first Irish songs I heard in my first year playing Celtic music. Just about everyone has a recording of this song. It took me years to create an arrangement that I liked. That's a shame, because it really tells a beautiful, vis | 10/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Faint Heart | A couple years ago, a local songwriter took interest in the Brobdingnagian Bards. He asked to co-write a song with us and almost immediately sent this song. Yesterday, I finally set down and wrote a melody for the song. I recorded it for my non-typical lo | 10/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marry for the Heart | While in the final stages of recording A Tribute to Love, I realized there was something missing--a wedding song. I've never been married, but my band, the Brobdingnagian Bards, have performed at a number of weddings. One of our most popular wedding instr | 9/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Another Lonely Night | I wrote this song in 2001 while performing at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. It was the first time I was removed from my fiancee at the time, and it got lonely. It took a wee bit of revision, but I finally put together a song that I love. Released | 9/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Rabbit for Halloween | One of my favorite episodes of Bugs Bunny was "Broom-Stick Bunny" where Bugs meets Witch Hazel. The ugly witch is threatened by Bugs Bunny dressed as an uglier witch for Halloween. But when Witch Hazel finds out that Bugs is actually a rabbit, she realize | 9/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When She Held Me In Her Arms | Love is an amazing thing that you never want to end. I wrote this love song about finding your true love and never turning back. Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike License. If you enjoy this recording, support independent music and | 9/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Gosling Reborn | This was one of the first songs I wrote for my latest CD A Tribute to Love. I had met someone who really clicked with me and inspired me in an almost magical way. This was my tribute to that response. Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareA | 8/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patriot Game | This song was written by Dominic Behan, brother of Brendan. It tells the story of Fergal O'Hanlon from Ballybay, Co Monaghan, who tried to abolish the border between the Six Counties and the Republic. He was killed during the Brookborough attack at the ag | 8/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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She Said Her Name Was Saffron (Firefly Song) | I am a HUGE Firefly fan. Firefly is a Sci Fi Western by Joss Whedon, who gave us Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. I found the show in the summer of 2005 and fell in love. That Fall, I wrote an instrumental piece, but it wasn't until we were in Ireland that I he | 8/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gypsy Rover | One of the first songs I ever learned at faire was "Gypsy Rover". I heard another musician at Excalibur Fantasy Faire sing the song and vaguely remembered the chorus. "Ah di do ah di do dai day". That night, I went home and looked up the lyrics on the net | 7/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lord of the Dance | "I danced in the morning when the world was begun." I loved that song growing up. But it wasn't until I got on MP3.com a few years back that I heard a great version by Muckle Flugga that renewed my interest of the song. However, it was Pam Owens, aka Moth | 7/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wild Rover | Ah... "Wild Rover"! I know some people who hate this song because it seems like one of the most-popular Irish drinking songs ever. The chorus is simple, and there's a nice clapping part in it which adds to that interactivity that goes so well with Irish d | 7/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I'll Tell My Ma | This Belfast street song has earned all sorts of performances from groups like The Clancy Brothers and The Dubliners, but I first heard it from tbhe Kansas City Irish group, Tullamore. But I soon modified it for my own purpose. And that was a parody calle | 7/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When Irish Eyes Are Smiling | This Irish American song was written by Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr.. Perhaps it's not the most "Irish" of songs but it does capture an important piece of the Irish ex-patriot tradition and despite it's parlor music sound, it's rather pretty too. | 7/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Barnyards of Delgaty | A Scottish bothy ballad. The bothy is the shed where the plowman slept. These plowmen would go to special fairs to find work. They didn't always have the best working conditions. This song tells of the struggles and dreams of a Scottish farm worker in De | 6/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fiddler's Green | What happens when fishermen die? They go to Fiddler's Green, a paradise for those who lived their lives on the sea. It's a beautiful fantasy by John Connolly. Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike License. If you enjoy this recording, | 5/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bonnie Ship the Diamond | Over-fishing in the Greenland sea during the early 19th century had a devastating toll on the whale stocks. A new hunting ground, the South-West Fishery, was discovered in the region of the Davis Straits and it was mostly here that The Diamond fished. In | 5/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Black Is the Colour | This is an old song dating with tune origins probably dating to the 18th century. The lyrics were first recorded in around 1916 and believed to be out of the Appalacian Mountains, although it is so fully engrained in the folk tradition that many believe i | 5/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finnegan's Wake | This was one of the first Irish songs I ever learned from some cassette of Irish drinking songs. It's about Tim Finnegan who dies and a wake is held in his honor. It quickly turns into a free-for-all. Even death, it's terrible thing to waste good alcohol. | 5/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Black Velvet Band | "Black Velvet Band" is an Irish classic. It has a great story about drinking, women, and getting sent off to Van Dieman's Land as a punshment for a falsely accused crime. Ain't that great? On Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers, I parodied the song. I cal | 4/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Moonshiner | A song about the joys of moonshine. Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike License. If you enjoy this recording, pick up our CD 'Irish Drinking Songs: The Cat Lover's Companion' at www.catdrinkingsongs.com or by calling 1-800-BUY-MY-CD | 4/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Foggy Dew | A song from the Easter Uprising of 1916 Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike License. If you enjoy this recording pick up our CD, 'Going for Brogue: Irish Pub Songs and Sea Shanties with an Accent' at www.marcgunn.com or by calling 1 | 4/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whiskey in the Jar | Great pub sing-a-long about a man who robs Captain Farrell on the road. He brings the money home and shows it to his love, Jenny. Then while he's sleeping, his love takes his money and tells Captain Farrell where to find him. Metallica covered it in 1999 | 4/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rattlin' Bog | A classic Irish sing-a-long. Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike License. If you enjoy this recording pick up our CD, 'Going for Brogue: Irish Pub Songs and Sea Shanties with an Accent' at www.marcgunn.com or by calling 1-800-BUY-MY | 4/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Old Fenian Gun | This is a beautiful visual song about a boy who learns about his father's support for Irish independence and decides to follow in his father's footsteps. Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike License. If you enjoy this recording pick | 3/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 63 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Already Addicted
This podcast showcases a great range of talent from old classics to original songs the bard wrote himself and from playful to profoundly passionate. The music gets trapped in my mind and beckons me to return to listen over and over again.
I was impressed!
As a Scotch-Irish American who is addicted to listening to her heritage music, I was thrilled to find such a great podcast! The music was really catchy and I listened to it over and over again. Marc Gunn is very talented and I look forward to hearing more of his music! Two-Thumbs Up!!
Awesome Music!
This podcast is a must for anyone who loves Celtic music. Mr. Gunn is very talented and creative.
