Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast

Andrew and Marc are back to talk about the Sherwood Forest Faire, Dragon Con, an online internet concert, plus individual podcasts, upcoming shows, and lots more. It's on the Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast #61. NOTES Show Titles Sherwood Forest Faire Bards Internet Concert on April 29. Paid Concert.  Dragon Con Final Words ANDREW NEWS Life's a Faire Channel on Facebook and Youtube Dragon Con Admission sent in Brobdingnagian Bard shows at Sherwood April 24-25 and May 1-2 Sherwood Forest Faire New Jersey Ren Faire  SHOWS Weekly Shows on Life's a Faire Monday night Talk Show "Faire Life! with Andrew McKee" FEB 11: Composed Background music for Show on Life's a Faire MAR 5 : Shakespeare Approves Friday Night Show (LIVE) Tickets $5.  Free for my Patreon Fans. MARC NEWS Irish & Celtic Music Podcast St Patrick's Day episodes of the Pub Songs & Stories Podcast Selcouth. Guest musicians. Ockham's Razor, The Muckers, Sam Gillogly, Screeched Inn, Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, Nathan Deese By Amazing Grace .

We talk about our ups and downs from the year as well as our methods of adjusting to the changing climate of music and performance. ----  This is Patreon Episode number 20 and overall Episode 60. ANDREW MCKEE SHOWS & NEWS New Years Eve Show - Shakespeare's New Year's Shakin' Eve!  Youc an get tickets on EvenBrite  $5 off Discount code: IRISH Life’s A Faire Personal Livestreams coming up Patreon Pages for Lifesafaire and TheIrishBard   MARC GUNN SHOWS & NEWS Weekly Coffee with The Celtfather on Thursday at 11 AM Eastern Coffee with The Celtfather at Santa's Workshop  DEC 17: Celtfather Live on YouTube @ 8:00 - 9 PM EDT. Tickets $8. If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section.  We would love to hear from you! Visit our website at thebards.net.  #brobdingnagianbards

Dragon Con 2020 is virtual this year. We have lots of shows and workshops we will do this weekend. But it also starts on Wednesday, September 2 with the Filk Music Track Pre-Show. You can find our complete Dragon Con schedule right here. This is Patreon Episode number 19 and overall Episode 59. ANDREW MCKEE SHOWS & NEWS Life’s A Faire Personal Livestreams coming up Patreon Pages for Lifesafaire and TheIrishBard MARC GUNN SHOWS & NEWS Weekly Coffee with The Celtfather on Thursday at 11 AM Eastern Newest Pub Songs Podcast: Dragon Con and New Hobbit Dance Tune, Songs by Rie Sheridan Rose Videos: Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits, The Mermaid, Tough Times If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section.  We would love to hear from you! Visit our website at thebards.net. #brobdingnagianbards

“Bog Down in the Valley” aka “Rattlin' Bog” is a musical staple of the Brobdingnagian Bards. The Bards also perform it separately. In April, Marc Gunn challenged Andrew McKee to a Bog Off! Andrew narrowly won that competition. They are back next week with an all new challenge. Who will win this month? Watch the Bog Off live on Wednesday, May 13 at 11 AM CST on the Bards Facebook page. This is Patreon Episode number 18 and overall Episode 58. Check out Flupandemic on YouTube. ANDREW MCKEE SHOWS & NEWS Life’s A Faire Personal Livestreams coming up Patreon Pages for Lifesafaire and TheIrishBard MARC GUNN SHOWS & NEWS Weekly Coffee with The Celtfather on Wednesday at 10:30 AM EST Newest Pub Songs Podcast: Star Wars Drinking Day Videos: Skellig Michael, Ballincollig Castle, Wild Rover  Patreon Special Offer: Get a Marc Gunn Sticker and Exclusive Concert on May 14 If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section.  We would love to hear from you! Visit our website at

We talk about what's going on with music in this crisis, what gigs we still have, and what are new projects are!  In this episode.... What we are going to do to keep getting music to you, how we are helping others, and a little random silliness (Because we need silliness now). This is Patreon Episode number 17 and overall Episode 57. Links we talked about Brobdingnagian Bards on Patreon Andrew McKee's New Irish Bard on Patreon. Life's A Faire on Facebook on YouTube Marc's Gunn Runner's Club on Patreon Marc's video shows on Celtfather.net If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section.  We would love to hear from you! Visit our website at thebards.net.  

We have projects new and old, upcoming gigs together, and new equipment! In this episode.... We talk about Sherwood Forest Faire, Marc's Kickstarter, New instruments, Our views on songwriting, and a little random silliness (Which never hurts). This is Patreon Episode number 16 and overall Episode 56. If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section. We would love to hear from you! --- As always, this show is brought to you by our Nagians Only Club on Patreon. Sign up today so we can keep entertaining you! Find out more about our show #46 in the shownotes and more about our music at www.thebards.net.

It's time for a new year, new gigs, new news, and a NEW CD! In this episode.... We talk about our new CD, Groundhog Day, the Chemistry of Unicorns, our upcoming schedule, a look at last year and hopes for the new year. This is Patreon Episode number 15 and overall Episode 55. If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section. We would love to hear from you! --- As always, this show is brought to you by our Nagians Only Club on Patreon. Sign up today so we can keep entertaining you! Find out more about our show #46 in the shownotes and more about our music at www.thebards.net.

As we close out this momentous year, here is another update with the Brobdingnagian Minute! In this episode.... We talk about Christmas, our own Holiday memories, our upcoming schedule and upcoming projects. This is Patreon Episode number 14 and overall Episode 54. It's getting VERY close to the holidays so have fun and be safe! If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section. We would love to hear from you! -- Yes. I finally decided to use Andrew's numbering system. 

Here is another update with the Brobdingnagian Minute!  In this episode.... We talk about Halloween, Thanksgiving, our upcoming schedule and upcoming projects. So starts the holiday gauntlet so have fun and be safe! If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section.  We would love to hear from you! --- UPCOMING SHOWS   Brobdingnagian Bards * Memorial Day Weekend: Georgia Renaissance Festival   * The Last Jedi Drinking Song on December 13 * I Will Not Sing Along official release on Feb 2   Andrew McKee * NOV-DEC: Louisiana Renaissance Festival, Hammond, LA * JAN: GaFilk, Atlanta, GA ??? * MAR-APR: Sherwood Forest Faire, Paige, TX   * Everything Is Filk Podcast * Andrew Irish Bard CD in January * Renaissance dance music, Fun Happy Instrumental Music * Convention CD   Marc Gunn * FRI 15 NOVEMBER: Brennan's Irish Pub, Birmingham, AL, US * SAT 16 NOVEMBER: Pepper Place Market, Birmingham, AL, US * FRI 29 NOVEMBER: Starbase Indy, Indianapolis, IN, US * Coffee with The Celtfather

Dragon Con 2019 is over. It will go down in the record books as one of the best. We share with you our thoughts of this year's convention. Were these the best shows ever at Dragon Con? As always, this show is brought to you by our Nagians Only Club on Patreon. Sign up today so we can keep entertaining you! Find out more about our show #46 in the shownotes and more about our music at www.thebards.net.

We are gearing up to launch a Kickstarter for our first studio album in over ten years. How do you stand out in a world where streaming rules? How do you get your music heard? Years ago, we gave away all of our music on MP3.com. We're gonna do it again. You can now download all of our music for free on Bandcamp. We're giving it away so that YOU have a compelling reason to talk about us on- and offline. As always, this show is brought to you by our Nagians Only Club on Patreon. Sign up today so we can keep entertaining you! Find out more about our show #44 in the shownotes and more about our music at www.thebards.net.

Here is another update with the Brobdingnagian Minute!  The last time we heard the Bards, they talked about how they got started.  In this podcast, we not only talk about our first full CD, Marked By Great Size, but we play every single track from it! Episode #44. This is a VERY long podcast and we are testing the upload limit but I hope you enjoy it. If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section.  We would love to hear from you! Since it is so long, here are the full time markers: Songs: 2:55 None But A Harper 5:34 Satisfied 9:01 Lady Faery 12:57 Gypsy Rover 16:13 Swift Dining 18:59 A Begging I Will Go 21:39 Do Virgins Taste Better 24:13 Irish Ballad 27:09 Bella's Highland Jig 31:35 O'er The Way 35:47 Liquid Sunshine 39:17 The Dragon's Retort 41:59 Happily Ever After 45:03 A Prudent Thief 48:11 If I Had A Million Ducats 51:39 Pachelbel Canon in F - Variations   Discussions 57:45 Marked By Great Size History 1:09:38 None But A Harper 1:20:10 Satisfied 1:27:31 Lady Faer

Brobdingnagian Bards are back for the 10th season of Sherwood Forest Faire. That means were are once again in the same vicinity of each other. That means craziness will ensue. Andrew McKee is a little hoarse in this episode. That means Marc Gunn gets to make fun of him while Andrew's guard is down. But it's not all goofiness. In fact, we make a big announcement. We're making a new album! You can learn the new album name.  As always, this show is brought to you by our Nagians Only Club on Patreon. Sign up today so we can keep entertaining you! Find out more about our show #43 in the shownotes and more about our music at www.thebards.net.

2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the Brobdingnagian Bards. To celebrate this amazing milestone, we are releasing a LOT of cool new content every month. We have also made this podcast public once again. Last year, we restarted the band through Patreon. We are creating all new music together. That hasn't been done since 2007. We wanted to give our kind members of the Nagians Only Club on Patreon, a special treat.  However, we realized that this podcast is a great tool for bringing new Brobdingnagian Bards fans back into the fold. We asked our Nagians if we could make it public again. They overwhelmingly agreed. And so... it's back! In this episode, we take one of the most in depth examination of how we got started. We share some fun anecdotes and stories from our time together early on. Yes. We've done some of this before. But this is a 20 year retrospective. So it's all new to us. We hope you will join us in our crusade to have fun sing Celtic songs and being Renaissance festival geeks. Maybe you'll even joi

Last year, this podcast became patron-only as part of the Nagians Only Club on Patreon. That is now changing! You see, January marked the 20th anniversary of the Brobdingnagian Bards. It seemed a shame to hide all of this great content from Nagians around the world. So we asked them if we could make this podcast public once again. They resoundingly said, "YES!" We are very pleased to share this show with you. Once a month, you will hear us chat about what's new, funny things that happened or are happening, behind-the-scenes look at new songs, chat about geek culture, and all of the silly antics that make up a Brobdingnagian Bards show.  Yes, it's a lot like listening to a Brobdingnagian Bards with all of the craziness that ensues. Sign up today! Of course, this podcast would not be back without the generosity of members of the Nagians Only Club. You can support our mission to make Celtic music fun when you join us there on Patreon for as little as $5 per month. Plus, you'll get episodes before regular listene

Welcome to show #40 of the Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast. Yup. This is the last one. In our public feed. That’s because we have decided to relaunch A Brobdingnagian Minute into a monthly podcast exclusively available for our new Nagians Only fan club on Patreon! The Brobdingnagian Bards are back with a brand new Patreon page. We’re gonna start working on a new album. Plus, we’ll share stories behind the songs, rants and raves, chat you and lots more. This is a big change. We will tell you all about it in the show. PLUS we’ll share Andrew’s experience with MoviePass and his 2018 Oscar Picks. Do you think he will pick the winners?

We’re gonna step back in time to see how our first CD, “Marked By Great Size” came to be. You’ll hear never-before-told-stories about the how we rolled with the punches and made lemonade…figuratively speaking. Plus, you’ll enjoy some music from our first official album as well as music from the atrocity that we tried to hide… As Andrew requested, here’s the track listing for Marked By Great Size: None But A Harper (from The Last Unicorn), Satisfied, Lady Faery, Gypsy Rover, Swift Dining, A Begging I Will Go, DO VIRGINS TASTE BETTER?, (Tom Lehrer’s) Irish Ballad, Bella’s Highland Jig, O’er The Way, Liquid Sunshine, The Dragon’s Retort, Happily Ever After, A Prudent Thief, If I Had A Million Ducats, Pachelbel Canon in F – Variations. The Brobdingnagian Bards’ self-titled preview CD features: Nonesuch, If I Had A Million Ducats, Satisfied, None But A Harper, The King’s Song, The Brobdingnagian Love Song, Ramblin’ Boy, Oe’r the Way, Gypsy Rover (Instrumental). Music Played in this Show “Swift Dining” (intro music

Andrew and I are performing separately at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival. We thought it would be nice to record a podcast. But people kept walking in on us. Our Top 5 movie theme was hijacked into a round table of wandering entertainers and a lot of fun. Special guests: Paolo Garbanzo, Melanie and Melissa of Chaste Treasure, Mandie Kitty Cat Turner, Tom Zadoyko What’s in this Week’s Show Unofficially sponsored by Paolo Garbanzo’s RenAdventures.com Top Travel Movies: Around the World in 80 Days, French Kiss, Road Trip, Darjeeling Express, The Illusionist, The Quiet Man, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Aliens, Ice Pirates, Serenity, Timeline Top Book to Movie Disasters: Howl’s Moving Castle, Starship Troopers, The Hobbit, Avatar Last Airbender, Alone in the Dark Favorite Movie Ever: The Big Sleep, Fifth Element, Raising Arizona, Fight Club, Velvet Goldmine, The Kingsman, Three Musketeers (1973), The Crow Bards Songs Played This Week “Rosin the Beau” from Real Men Wear Kilts “Loch Lomond” from Real Men W

Photo by GRHookPhoto.com As we prepare for our reunion show at Sherwood Forest Faire, wandering through the grounds, we record a podcast for the world to hear! And our theme is: What you can do with worn out Bards CDs? When they’ve been listened to far too often, rendering them useless for further musical perusal? Here are our suggestions… 10. Coaster! 9. Oriental Star – be a CD ninja! 8. Frisbee 7. Mirror 6. Christmas Ornaments 5. Reflect on the Virgin Song (?) 4. Confounding Jugglers at Ren Faires 3. Sundial (using a recorder!) 2. “Fun” things to do in your microwave (Disclaimer: Don’t try this at home. DANGER.) 1. Wall Art! What would YOU do with your worn out Bards CD? Yesterday’s show was great! The show went well, the crowd was fun, and we were good – we didn’t go over time! We went through a bunch of old favorites, and some others that we rarely play for some of our die hard fans. Most importantly, as we log off, in order to replace your beloved CDs, go to thebards.net to replenish and restock your she

Here’s our improvised podcast while driving to DragonCon 2015! The first question that raises it’s head is “What is the purpose of a podcast?” In the past, we’ve done brainstorming, as well as just chatting about what’s going on with our lives. A behind-the-scenes tour, if you will – or a self-covering band! So how do you create a podcast for a band that only meets once or twice a year? Do we just go for the general chatting about life and work, or do we go for something completely off-the-wall? We don’t have much time together, so outrageous skits and dashing fight scenes aren’t really options… But these options of chatting about TV and our lives are all boring… a good setup is usually starting off with news, followed by an intro, and then the meat of the podcast. Informing, entertaining, evergreen. Crazy idea – we could do skits, but ask our audience to send in suggestions of what they’d like to see! Improv, parodies, rambling, actual dialogue, commentary – who knows! Or we could just start classifying ever