| Love Irish music? Love cats? Curl up in your | | | | instrument is an autoharp and I sing about |
| favorite chair - Irish Drinking Songs For Cat | | | | cats."That is the beauty of Irish Drinking Songs |
| Lovers by Marc Gunn & The Dubliners' Tabby | | | | For Cat Lovers - the songs are part of the |
| Cats will tickle your feline fancy.Irish Drinking | | | | patchwork of American music, a culture with |
| Songs For Cat Lovers is the pet project by Marc | | | | deep Irish roots. Marc Gunn has extensive |
| Gunn, singer-songwriter and one-half of the | | | | experience as not only a recording musician but |
| award-winning duo, the Brobdingnagian Bards. Full | | | | as a veteran performer in renaissance fairs and |
| of funny feline folk music, Irish Drinking Songs For | | | | fantasy festivals. The result is a clever collection |
| Cat Lovers gathers popular drinking tunes and | | | | of music that appeals to not only Irish and cat |
| retrofits them with cat-worthy lyrics. The result is | | | | lovers, but anyone who appreciates a lyrical |
| a warm and wonderful CD that sees songs such | | | | laugh.Japan's Ari Koinuma, also a cat lover, |
| as "Lord of the Dance" redone as "Lord of the | | | | produced Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers. |
| Pounce."Why take Irish drinking songs and rewrite | | | | Participating musicians include Hannah Gunn and |
| them with lyrics about cats? "Well, I was a big fan | | | | Cedric the Fiddler of the Bedlam Bards. Additional |
| of Weird Al growing up," confesses Gunn, himself | | | | musicians include Chris Buckley, Sarah Dinan, |
| owned by two cats named Tiziano and Torre plus | | | | Hamby, April Porter, Blake McCaig, and Franco |
| visiting rights with the tabby Jasper, from a | | | | Bordoni. Marc Gunn wrote all the lyrics to the |
| previous relationship. "When I listen to a song too | | | | classic songs.Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish |
| often, I typically will change the lyrics. I did that | | | | folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, |
| with 'Wild Rover,' changing the claps to meows. It | | | | drinking songs and cats. He is the lead singer for |
| was all downhill from there.""The CD is also not | | | | the Brobdingnagian Bards. He is also Celtic music |
| just Irish drinking songs," Gunn points out. "It's | | | | podcaster and Irish music magazine publisher and |
| more like a traditional Irish CD with a combination | | | | promoter. Last but not least, he is poet, |
| of drinking songs and Irish tunes, except the chief | | | | photographer and music business educator. |