It's day one of the Podcast Awards. Please go vote for the Irish &
Celtic Music Podcast for
People's Choice
Best Podsafe Music

and the Irish Fireside for
Best Travel

You can cast your votes at http://www.podcastawards.com

Thanks!

--
MARC GUNN, Celtic American Songwriter Cat Bard, and Podcaster
http://www.marcgunn.com/

http://celticmusicpodcast.com --> Irish & Celtic Music Podcast

Load Up on Marc Gunn's Mailing List
http://www.reverbnation.com/marcgunn

Today is the last day for nominating podcasts in The People's Choice
Podcast Awards. Please vote for the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast.
Here's how:

     * Go to http://podcastawards.com
     * Vote for "Irish & Celtic Music Podcast,
http://celticmusicpodcast.com/"
     * Nominate it for "Best Podsafe Music" and also "People's Choice"

     * If you want vote for another add Celtic podcast, nominate "Irish
Fireside, http://irishfireside.com/" for "Best Travel"

That's all you need to do. You can only vote once.

PLEASE tell a friends about the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast and ask
them to nominate us for The People's Choice Podcast Awards too.

Thanks!
Marc Gunn

Hey all,

Thank you for you St. Patrick's Day help! I disappeared after getting sick. But I'm well and looking to the future.

In fact, the next big promotion I hope to do is for the PodCastAwards. I'm hoping to say "The Award-Winning Irish & Celtic Music Podcast" come later this year with your help. Starting July 1, the Podcast Awards open up. I don't know how it works at present. But what I do know is that July 1st they open up nominations. Then a couple weeks later, they open up voting. To be nominated, I think you need to vote daily.... but I"m not yet certain. http://www.podcastawards.com/ . Hopefully, I'll know more closer to the date.

This July show will also mark the 3-year anniversary of the show. So with those two combined, I want to do three mini-shows per week for the entire month. And of course, I would like your help getting the word out about the podcast. If you have theme ideas for the mini-shows, let me know. I was thinking bagpipes, fiddles, drinking songs, original songwriting, flutes, gaelic language, celtic rock, reels, jigs, ballads. Those are a few ideas. And I'd welcome yours as well.

Finally, I joined a site called ReverbNation at http://www.reverbnation.com/marcgunn . I'm not yet sure I can setup a separate site for the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast, but I'm thinking about looking into it. If not, and for now at least, I'm gonna use my site to run some street team promotions, because it's well-setup for that goal.

Alrighty, let's kick in a Celtic Summer Extravaganza!  Ohh... Hmm... We need a good name... Maybe it's time to revive the free Celtic CD giveaway too...?


--
MARC GUNN, Celtic American Songwriter and Podcaster
http://www.marcgunn.com/

http://celticmusicpodcast.com --> Irish & Celtic Music Podcast
http://thebards.net --> Brobdingnagian Bards, Celtic Folk Music

Submit Your Band to My Celtic Podcast
http://www.celticmp3s.com/submit/

with faith, trust and pixiedust, anything is possible! 

we can do that?

Cool! I'll have my IT guru do some and pass them out~

thanks!!

 

"I have found wonderful places and made many new friends while wandering lost."  ~ My Mother, A Gypsy in her heart~

----- Original Message ----
From: Chris <lt6206@yahoo.com>
To: celticpromotions@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:48:03 PM
Subject: [celticpromotions] CD's of the St. Patricks Day Podcast

Just letting the group know that I have burnt 10 CD's of the new St.
Patricks day podcast and I will be passing them out this week to
friends and co-workers.

---

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Just letting the group know that I have burnt 10 CD's of the new St.
Patricks day podcast and I will be passing them out this week to
friends and co-workers.

Marc I received the following the My Space from LabGraal:

<snip>
Thank you for your proposal!
We are happy to partecipate but we have to understand what we must do.
At what address must we send the MP3? Can you help us to understand
this? (I don't speak very well english :)
Thank you for thinking to us!

Rosalba
<pasted>

So I sent them the URL in your message
(http://www.celticmp 3s.com/submit/ ), and thanked them.

Doug in Maine

OK Marc,

Sorry for my last post - sometimes it takes a while for the servers to
warm up around here (3+ feet of snow & some freezing rain - ha, ha).

I'll wait for your new list and contact who I can when I have time.

BTW, if you remember I wrote you that I used to promote the bands I
was in back in the 1970's, and attempted to get KRAUKA the Danish Folk
band here in Maine last year.  No success on that but I have some
ground work for future events with contact at theaters, etc.

I find this a great opportunity to bring my old stuff into the new age
of computers etc.

Question: what were you thinking about for a promotional, just a
review like your CDs or a HTML with hyperlinks etc.

Doug

--- In celticpromotions@yahoogroups.com, "Marc Gunn" <marc@...> wrote:
>
> I think all the ones on the list are taken for now. So I'll see
about coming
> up with a new list soon.
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Chris Cooper <lt6206@...> wrote:
>
> >  I certainly don't think it will hurt for them to receive multiple
> > requests from us.  I used various methods if they were available.
Some
> > emailing their promotions/management and others using Myspace if
they have a
> > myspace page.

Hey Doug..  I have contacted every group on the list except a few that I could not locate information for.  Scratch Winston Fitzgerald off the contact list..  He is deceased. 

----- Original Message ----
From: Doug Saball <dr_douglittle@yahoo.com>
To: celticpromotions@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 7:53:57 AM
Subject: Re: [celticpromotions] Switchback

Hi Chris, I did too - through My Space.  I also contacted Bad Haggis, but have not got a reply yet.  I'll be sending out more emails of the groups on Marc's list as time permits.

 

Doug in Maine

Chris <lt6206@yahoo. com> wrote:

Just got a reply from Switchback! Woohooo! Awesome!

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Just got a reply from Switchback! Woohooo! Awesome!

Just got a reply from Switchback!  Woohooo!  Awesome!

Just wanted to let the members of the group know that I am contacting
some bands for the promotion as well.  It is my understanding that
others are doing it as well.  So it would be great if we can
coordinate our efforts through this group.

Chris Cooper



--- In celticpromotions@yahoogroups.com, "Marc Gunn" <marc@...> wrote:
>
> Well, the big St. Patrick's Day holiday rapidly approaching, and I'm
> feeling the pinch with too many things to do. So I want to ask for
> some assistance in a few areas.
>
> FIRST, I need someone (or a few someones) to contact artists. There
> are a LOT of bands who are still unaware of the Irish & Celtic Music
> Podcast and the Celtic MP3s Music Magazine.
>
> I want to setup a message board somewhere, specifically for promoting
> stuff. Prolly looking at doing it on the Song Henge website. Though
> for now, I'll just use this site.
>
> So if you could list 5-10 bands who you will contact for the Irish &
> Celtic Music Podcast, and ask them to submit at
> http://www.celticmp3s.com/submit/ , that'd be a great start.
>
> Here are some bands that need contacting:
> - Needfire
> - THE SALTY DOGS, http://www.saltydog.ca/flash/main.html
> - Green Man
> - Switchback
> - Ancient Hype
> - Bad Haggis
> - Enter The Haggis (not sure if they have new material)
> - Great Big Sea (never have received permission from them
> - Dropkick Murphys
> - Linda Rutherford & Celtic Fire
> - Urban Trad (www.urbandtrad.com)
> - Alan Stivell, www.alan-stivell.com
> - Liz Carroll
> - Brendan Bulger of The Sprigs
> - Gan Bua
> - Chris Bain of Gan Bua
> - Barra MacNeils
> - Jerry Holland, Cape Breton
> - Sandy McIntyre, Cape Breton.
> - Winston Scotty Fitzgerald
> - The Rankin Family
> - Slainte Mhath
> - Leahy
> - Ashely MacIsaac
> - Corquieu, from Asturias,
> - Carlos Nunez, from Gallicia!
> - Breizh
> - Shenaniganz from New-Zealand
>
> Remember if they have a record label, we will need permission from
> them as well to be played on the podcast.
>
>
> SECOND, I need a couple press releases. Anyone know how to write
> those? Basically, one to promote the St Patrick's Day podcast and the
> Celtic MP3s Music Magazine. You can read past editions of the magazine
> at
>
http://ezinedirector.com/admin/publisher/archive/public?fuseaction=a&e=7947555E0\
046067845
> for reference for the magazine and read up on it at
> http://www.celticmp3s.com/
>
> The highlight of the podcast is the "17 Free Celtic Music Downloads
> for St. Patrick's Day", a special article and feature from Song Henge
> that will give away MP3s. I think this this is like my fifth or sixth
> year doing it. They'll be able to download those at
> http://www.songhenge.com/
>
> I'd also like you to send the press release out to Celtic
> organizations and radio shows. You'll need to find a list to send it
> to once it's done.
>
>
> That's all my scattered brain can come up with right now, but I would
> REALLY LOVE your help. As much as you can do!
>
> Please let me know.
> Slainte,
> Marc
>

Well, the big St. Patrick's Day holiday rapidly approaching, and I'm
feeling the pinch with too many things to do. So I want to ask for
some assistance in a few areas.

FIRST, I need someone (or a few someones) to contact artists. There
are a LOT of bands who are still unaware of the Irish & Celtic Music
Podcast and the Celtic MP3s Music Magazine.

I want to setup a message board somewhere, specifically for promoting
stuff. Prolly looking at doing it on the Song Henge website. Though
for now, I'll just use this site.

So if you could list 5-10 bands who you will contact for the Irish &
Celtic Music Podcast, and ask them to submit at
http://www.celticmp3s.com/submit/ , that'd be a great start.

Here are some bands that need contacting:
- Needfire
- THE SALTY DOGS, http://www.saltydog.ca/flash/main.html
- Green Man
- Switchback
- Ancient Hype
- Bad Haggis
- Enter The Haggis (not sure if they have new material)
- Great Big Sea (never have received permission from them
- Dropkick Murphys
- Linda Rutherford & Celtic Fire
- Urban Trad (www.urbandtrad.com)
- Alan Stivell, www.alan-stivell.com
- Liz Carroll
- Brendan Bulger of The Sprigs
- Gan Bua
- Chris Bain of Gan Bua
- Barra MacNeils
- Jerry Holland, Cape Breton
- Sandy McIntyre, Cape Breton.
- Winston Scotty Fitzgerald
- The Rankin Family
- Slainte Mhath
- Leahy
- Ashely MacIsaac
- Corquieu, from Asturias,
- Carlos Nunez, from Gallicia!
- Breizh
- Shenaniganz from New-Zealand

Remember if they have a record label, we will need permission from
them as well to be played on the podcast.


SECOND, I need a couple press releases. Anyone know how to write
those? Basically, one to promote the St Patrick's Day podcast and the
Celtic MP3s Music Magazine. You can read past editions of the magazine
at
http://ezinedirector.com/admin/publisher/archive/public?fuseaction=a&e=7947555E0\
046067845
for reference for the magazine and read up on it at
http://www.celticmp3s.com/

The highlight of the podcast is the "17 Free Celtic Music Downloads
for St. Patrick's Day", a special article and feature from Song Henge
that will give away MP3s. I think this this is like my fifth or sixth
year doing it. They'll be able to download those at
http://www.songhenge.com/

I'd also like you to send the press release out to Celtic
organizations and radio shows. You'll need to find a list to send it
to once it's done.


That's all my scattered brain can come up with right now, but I would
REALLY LOVE your help. As much as you can do!

Please let me know.
Slainte,
Marc

Make sure your friends know that they DO NOT have to own an Ipod or
other device to use iTunes to download the podcast and listen the
programs.  They can sit and enjoy them right from their computer where
ever they may be at the time or they can burn the podcasts to a CD and
  listen to them while they are traveling.  A lot of people really and
truly believe that you have to have an Ipod to utilize iTunes.  So
tell them that is INCORRECT!  Give them the direct link to the podcast
or better yet..  Go to http://www.celticmusicpodcast.com/banners.shtml
  grab one of the banners and post it on EVERYTHING that you have
whether that be Myspace, Facebook, Fubar, LiveJournal, Myyearbook, and
whatever else you may use.  Post those Banners!  Make sure you post
bulletins about the podcast at least WEEKLY, preferably everytime you
get online.  Start a list on your Yahoo Messenger (or whatever IM
program you use) for Celtic Music Fans and send out MASS messages when
a new podcast is posted.  These are just some things that come to mind
right off.. There are plenty of other things you can do to promote the
podcast.