The Celtic MP3s Music Magazines began as a newsletter linked mainly to MP3.com. It was a way to promote Marc Gunn's former band, the Brobdingnagian Bards' unique brand of Celtic folk music. Then, something amazing happened. He heard some of the best Celtic music he'd ever heard. And it was unaffiliated with any record label. From that point on he decided to help these great Celtic music groups find an audience.

Since then, he has featured CDs and MP3s from bands like Enya, Black 47, Natalie MacMaster, Silly Wizard, The Chieftains, Brobdingnagian Bards, Altan, Loreena McKennit, Clannad, The Dubliners, Lunasa, The Corries, Solas, U2, Planxty, The Clancy Brothers, Afro Celt Sound System, Capercaillie, Ewan MacColl, The Corrs, Irish Rovers, Seven Nations, Tannahill Weavers, and many more.

But the vast majority of what you download is Independent Celtic music from traditional Irish music and tunes, Scottish folk songs, Celtic rock, and a tiny bit of Celtic New Age music. However, the ezine leans more towards the traditional Scottish/Irish folk music that he loves.

About Marc Gunn

Cats. Irish music. Drinking songs. Nowhere else but from the bright imagination of MARC GUNN would those three elements be so neatly integrated. Yet Gunn, sometimes called "the hardest working man in Celtic music" around his hometown in Austin, is an accomplished musician and entrepreneur who not long ago headlined at the Oscar party for Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King with the Brobdingnagian Bards, a musical comedy duo who perform at Renaissance festivals nationwide. Marc plays the autoharp with the group and for The Dubliners' Tabby Cats, a pet project for his Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers parody. He also publishes a free music marketing ezine for musicians.

In addition to Celtic MP3s Music Magazine, he hosts five podcasts including the Renaissance Festival Podcast, and the highly-celebrated Irish & Celtic Music Podcast, which is one of the most-popular music podcasts on iTunes.