Marc Gunn's "Celtic MP3 Music Magazine"
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Changing the way you hear Celtic Music
A free weekly ezine of free        January 30, 2003    
Celtic MP3 downloads          Subscribers: 4500+

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CONTENTS:

1. Celtic Music News
2. Celtic Band Feature #1 - The Irish Experience
3. Celtic Music CD Store -The Clancy Brothers
4. Celtic Band Feature #2 - The Angel's Share
5. Featured Celtic Website - North Texas Irish Festival
6. New Celtic Music Single Releases
7. Manage your subscription

Read this issue online at http://www.celticmp3s.com/magazine/ .



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1. Celtic Music News
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FUNNY GIVEAWAY OBSERVATION
I find it very amusing that so many people sign up for my
newsletter and yet only a few people respond when they win
CDs. Maybe I'll have to change the CD Giveaway a wee bit for
just the loyal readers? I'd love to get some feedback on that.


TOLKIEN CD UPDATE
If you haven't heard the news, the Brobdingnagian Bards have
been working on their next CD, "Memories of Middle Earth".
The CD is almost complete! Final touches will be made this
weekend. So stay tuned!


COMPILATION CD -- ARTISTS WANTED
If you are a Celtic musician and would like some free promotion
of your music, please consider donating a track to my upcoming
compilation CDs. To find out more,
mailto:celticcompilation@...


CHANGE TO HTML?
I've been thinking about turning this newsletter to an HTML
ezine. What do you think of that idea? Give me your Yay or
Nay votes.


Station suggestion of the week:
CELTIC MP3s .com - GRAB A GUINESS! - Great Irish Drinking Songs
http://mp3.com/stations/irishdrinking?cm

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2. Celtic Music Band Feature #1
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The Irish Experience - "Rocky Road to Dublin & Tam Lin"
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The Irish Experience is a Blarney Phoenix, that rises up on Saint
Patrick's Eve and brings bountiful cheer to all the little people
at heart. The Irish Experience is a festive force, an insatiable
"jig". The Irish Experience is renewed vigor. They perform Celtic
and Appalachian music on traditional and electric instruments.

The Irish Experience begin the set with an delicate electric
guitar when in steps the electric fiddle playing an instrumental
version of the "Rocky Road to Dublin" slip jig. The guitar ends
and the fiddle takes off backed by down bass and percussion as
the band jumps into a breakneck version of the "Tam Lin" reel. It
stops followed by bass version and back into the reell more fiery
than before.

When I read the bio of the band, they mentioned how Snowboarders
loved their music, and well, I can see that. It's high-impact,
Mountain Dew (the soft drink), Celtic music at it's finest.

Buy CD The Irish Experience
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/irishexperience





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3. CELTIC MUSIC CD STORE
http://www.CelticMusic.org/
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"28 Irish Pub Songs" by The Clancy Brothers
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000L2N/thebards

Many, many people who first heard traditional Irish
songs, heard them from The Clancy Brothers. This
collection by the Clancys and Tommy Makem contains
over two dozen songs that have become the staple for
most pub bands from "The Moonshiner" to "Rising
of the Moon", "Foggy Dew" to "The Parting Glass."
It's a rousing collection at price that can not be
beat!

More about The Clancy Brothers at
http://www.CelticMP3s.com/bands/theclancybrothers/





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4. Celtic Music Band Feature #2
http://www.celticmp3s.com/bands/
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The Angel's Share - "Ten Penny Bit"
http://mp3.com/The_Angels__Share?cm

Formed in December 1998, the Angels' Share perform what they
describe as Celtic music that is guaranteed to get your hands
clapping and your feet tapping. They have appeared at venues
around Northamptonshire as well as playing in the Lake District
and Scotland including the Western Highlands and Islands. Their
recent tour of Scotland also included Glasgow, Edinburgh and
Falkirk.  With an assortment of musical backgrounds from
classical and opera to Rock 'n Roll, they are sufficiently
different.

When you start listening to this song, you're gonna think you've
found a Celtic New Age band with some heavy synthesizers forming
a body of sound behind a beautiful flute solo. But then you find
out what this band is made of as they break into a toe-tapping
reel that'll set your head spinning! Fantastic fiddle performance
by Mark Osborne.

Buy CD Sufficiently Different
http://theangelsshare.50g.com/ourcd.html





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5. Featured Celtic Music Website
http://www.celticmp3s.com/resources/
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North Texas Irish Festival
http://www.ntif.org/

The North Texas Irish Festival is the largest Celtic Festival in
the Southwest. This event is produced by the Southwest Celtic
Music Association. The 2003 Festival will include live
entertainment on seven stages, music and dance exhibitions,
workshops, craft demonstrations, wandering musicians, the Urchin
Street children's area, traditional Irish food and drink,
cultural displays and much more!

NTIF 2003 is scheduled for the first weekend in March in the same
location at Fair Park, so mark your calendars now. And according
to the website, discount tickets are available until February
21st. So order your tickets soon!





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6. NEW RELEASES
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"Danny Boy" by Ian Gallagher
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/535/ian_a_gallagher.html?cm

"Land Of Opportunity" by Oona
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/225/oona.html?cm

"Inishture" by David Kilpatrick
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/130/david_kilpatrick.html?cm

"The Road to Number 1" by Kundalini Brothers
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/537/kundalini_brothers.html?cm

"The coblers" by matt larrabee
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/536/matt_larrabee.html?cm

"Bard of Armagh_(Streets of Laredo)" by Celestial Image
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/57/celestial_image.html?cm

"True Love Of Mine" by Manach
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/530/manach.html

"The dream of the sad minstrel" by Gruppo Cameristico Gamut
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/521/gruppo_cameristico_gamut.html?cm





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7. ABOUT THE CELTIC MP3s MUSIC MAGAZINE
http://www.CelticMP3s.com/
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"Celtic MP3s Music Magazine" is a weekly publication by
Bard Marc Gunn of the Brobdingnagian Bards, The Original
Celtic Renaissance. Help spread the word about great
Celtic Music Online!

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