Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast
Marc Gunn, Andrew McKee
From 1999 to 2008, the Brobdingnagian Bards performed coast-to-coast, and in a given month could be found at a Lord of the Rings Oscar Party, a Celtic festival, or a Science Fiction Convention. However, they were an absolute favorite at Renaissance Faires where they added high-energy and wit to make every show a memorable experience.
Thanks in part to this podcast, their shows are never done!
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What is an Album Pin? #89
Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast
11/11/24 • 2 min
Another Faire to Remember #92
Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast
11/16/24 • 10 min
Another Faire to Remember is our 10th full-length, studio album. We are now funding the album on Kickstarter. Click here to make a pledge.
In 2001, we released our fourth album. A Faire to Remember was a tribute to our love of Renaissance festivals. It featured our pick of the Top 10 most-popular Renaissance festivals that we had seen in the two years since we started playing music. Then it had some other found favorites like "Do Virgins Taste Better Medley", "Irish Ballad", "A Fairy Story", Monty Python's "Always Looking on the Bright Side of Life", plus our hit song, "If I Had a Million Ducats.".
The album was a smashing success. A years after it's release, my step-mom was at a party talking with someone. She mentioned me and said I played with the Brobdingnagian Bards. They person responded, "Brobdingnagian Bards?! They're legendary!"
I don't know about that. But the album was a big part of our success. It includes a bunch of our early-on, most-popular songs.
Another Faire to Remember is a continuation of that triumphant album. We're recording it 23 years after that hit album. But we're not just making a B-side. Instead, we're showing our growth as musicians and as songwriters.
You will hear several traditional songs on the album, but you'll also hear our songwriting. We are actively making new music for the Renaissance festival community.
That's what this Another Faire to Remember is ultimately about. It's about sharing new songs that are inspired by our love Ren Faires. This album is for Rennies.
You will love the music. But it's not just about loving the music. It's about learning the songs and singing along. That's why many supporters of the Kickstarter will get a songbook to go with the album featuring lyrics and chords for all of the songs played on the CD.
Speaking of CDs...
[You have Cdeeeees]
The goal of our Kickstarter is to raise funds to print physical copies of CDs and our Album Pins.
Will you help in that endeavor?
Thank you for all your support!
Love Song to Alcohol #91
Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast
11/15/24 • 2 min
What are your favorite types of alcohol? They could end up on our next album, Another Faire to Remember. It's on Kickstarter.
We need your generous support.
Make a pledge. http://thebards.net/kickstarter/
Slainte Mhaith #94
Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast
11/18/24 • 1 min
Talking Traditional Irish Songs #93
Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast
11/17/24 • 1 min
A Fairy Story
Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast
08/24/22 • 30 min
We're taking a flashback look and listen to A Fairy Story" on this new episode of the Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast show #70. Is this song still PC?
WELCOME
- Dragon Con
- New merch
- Marc’s New Kickstarter for Come Adventure With Me
- What song would you like to hear us talk about?
UPCOMING SHOWS
Andrew McKee:
- SEP 1-5: Dragon Con, Atlanta, GA
- SEP 10-11 Sherwood Celtic Festival
- NOV 5-DEC 11 Louisiana Renaissance Festival
Marc Gunn:
- AUG 26: Three Taverns Brewery, Decatur, GA @ 6:30-9:30 PM
- SEP 1-5: Dragon Con, Atlanta, GA
- SEP 10-11: Middle Tennessee Highland Games & Celtic Festival, Hendersonville, TN
- SEP 28-OCT 2: Hobbit Band at ALEP in Shakertown, KY
- OCT 14-16: MultiVerse, Atlanta, GA
SONG STORY: A FAIRY STORY
“A Fairy Story” by Brobdingnagian Bards from A Faire to Remember
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The Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast was produced by The Celtfather, Marc Gunn, and Andrew McKee, The Irish Bard.
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SONG LYRICS: A FAIRY STORY
words and music by Shay Healy, Oisin Music Ltd, Ireland
In days of old in a kingdom bold, there lived a fearsome dragon. And the King he was in great distress and the countries spirits flagoned. Until one day there came a knight, he was handsome, bold, and charming. And he slew the dragon with his sword with a smile that was so disarming. With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, a smile that was so disarming.
Said the King I wish to know your name, but the knight said do not bother. For the name of a knight of the realm says he, is the same as any other. Said the King tonight in my daughter's bed you shall take your leisure. And she'll reward you for your deed, with a night of exhausting pleasure. With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, anight of exhausting pleasure.
One daughter she had raven hair, a maiden young and chaste. And she slept all night in the pale moonlight, naked to the waist. The other daughter she was fair, the fairest in the town. And she slept all night in the pale moonlight naked from her small waist down. With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, naked from her small waist down.
Well the knight he spends many hour behind the castle wall. But the ending to my story dear, isn't what it seems at all. For in neither bed of neither maid was he repaid for his glory. But he slept all night with the King instead for this is a fairy story. With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, for this is a Fairy story.
Origin Story of Brobbdingnagian Bards: We Made Lemonade
Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast
11/29/16 • 81 min
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)
“Ramblin’ Boy” from Brobdingnagian Bards
“O’re the Way” from Brobdingnagian Bards
“None But A Harper” from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales
“Do Virgins Taste Better” from Marked By Great Size
“Pachebel’s Canon in F – Variations” from Marked By Great Size
“Bella’s Highland Jig” from Marked By Great Size
“If I Had A Million Ducats” from Brobdingnagian Bards
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Marc Gunn’s band, Kilted Kings, and Andrew McKee, The Irish Bard are both performing at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival this year. We are releasing our next albums together on February 2nd–GROUNDHOG DAY! You might even get to watch and comment along with Andrew on the day of the release. Either way, you can help us climb the charts by buying our CDs on February 2nd.
If you enjoy the Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast, support Marc Gunn and Andrew McKee. Subscribe to our mailing list at www.thebards.net.
Buy our music. And then LIKE and SHARE this podcast with other Nagians.
Top 5 Movie Round Table of Seven
Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast
11/07/16 • 54 min
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 ShowUnofficially 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 Wear Kilts
“Fellowship of the Ring” from Memories of Middle Earth
“The Leprechaun” from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus
“Join the British Army” from Songs of Ireland
“Old Dun Cow” from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales
“Valeria” from Songs of the Muse
This edition of the Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast was brought to you live from the Louisiana Renaissance Festival where you can see Andrew McKee, The Irish Bard, perform as well as Marc Gunn’s band, Kilted Kings.
You can find shownotes for this episode at bardbootlegs.com where you can also buy CDs and sign up to our mailing list.
April Fool’s and The Autoharp That Could’ve Saved Rome
Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast
04/01/15 • 33 min
Let us start with apologies to everyone who got excited about yesterday’s April Fool’s joke. Yes, it was another bad joke brought to you by Brobdingnagian Bards. I don’t know if it was as bad as 2001 or 2002 when we told everyone we were breaking up the band... but it sounds like it was close. So our apologies. We are NOT reuniting, except at DragonCon.
That said, we have a bunch of fun Bards news where you can hear some of the legitimate news, some of which was included in yesterday’s podcast.
If you enjoy our insanity, then then please buy a CD over on our website at thebards.net and make sure you also subscribe to our mailing list.
- April Fools Day – When Bards of a Brobdingnagian persuasion see how far they can push fans before being burned in effigy (previous post)
- A new Brobdingnagian Bards CD is in development! Magical Mystery Lore is on the way!
- Ms.Inara Gunn shall be joining the family in May
- The Unicorn Song
- DragonCon 2015 – Keep your eyes open
- Andrew’s wrapping up a new CD, set to be ready by DragonCon – described as “Fantasy Renaissance with an Irish Stance”
- Saying Farewell to Leonard Nimoy
- Poll – Which part of the various styles of Marc’s Music do you enjoy?
- Marc’s new CD – Dragons vs. Pirates – just has a few more days left on Kickstarter!
- Louisiana Renaissance Festival –
- Booking the Library: A Guide for Entertainers, Musicians, Speakers, and Authors by Jessica Brawner
- Ethics of Kickstarter use
- Rosin the Bow
The Irishman Who Doesn't Drink #90
Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast
11/13/24 • 1 min
Is there an Irishman who doesn't drink? You too may connect with this funny anti-drinking song on our CD, Another Faire to Remember.
Make a pledge on Kickstarter today http://thebards.net/kickstarter
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How many episodes does Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast have?
Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast currently has 87 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Fiction, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Music, Storytelling, Podcasts, Movies, Science, Tv, Songwriting and Fantasy.
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The episode title 'Dragon Con 2024 Bootleg Concert #85' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast is 34 minutes.
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Episodes of Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast are typically released every 40 days, 8 hours.
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The first episode of Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast was released on Jun 30, 2005.
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