September 15, 2009

Believe in Your Voice and Sing it: Chicago Vocal Lessons

Children that love music can’t afford to be afraid
to enroll in music lessons, or any craft to a personal liking, and
learn it. A respected piano school in Chicago likely has qualified
teachers who will personally help you learn to read and play in
different types of music, instruments and genres. A music student
wouldn’t have to go terribly far to find a Chicago music school with
personable and competent music masters.

Take for first measure, piano lessons. You know, the piano is a
hugely common music-making tool (but you could also play the
accordion). You can’t go wrong with any of them. A good piano teacher
would guide you through an entirely new sound that’s worthy of the
lesson! Different than hippy piano classes, small Chicago schools of
music are the trendy up-and-coming way to master your favorite
songs.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re a beginner or you’ve longed to
find a grove in music for less than a year–Lakeview Chicago violin
lessons will aid a student to master the music that you sing in your
heart. There’s group href="http://www.backbeatmusic.net/ChicagoGuitarLessons.html">kids
guitar lessons, Father and Daughter piano instruction, elementary
music instruction for the kids and even classical vocal lessons. It’s
no surprise, pinny pinching friends will still tell you to study your
piano scales, guitar tabs and how to carry a beat as a prerequesite to
fun piano songs you hold dear. But lessons are often affordable,

A new generation of music students and teachers are training in a
completely dissimilar feel. really you could find mountains of playful
approaches! All that aside, the most valuable piece of info to
remember is that singing lessons, and music lessons of all types
should be loved. Music is love and that’s the secret.. Voice lessons
make such an impact in your how quickly you learn.

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July 10, 2008

Marc Gunn’s Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers Is Purrrrfectly Amusing

Love Irish music? Love cats? Curl up in your favorite chair - Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers by Marc Gunn & The Dubliners’ Tabby Cats will tickle your feline fancy.

Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers is the pet project by Marc Gunn, singer-songwriter and one-half of the award-winning duo, the Brobdingnagian Bards. Full of funny feline folk music, Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers gathers popular drinking tunes and retrofits them with cat-worthy lyrics. The result is a warm and wonderful CD that sees songs such as “Lord of the Dance” redone as “Lord of the Pounce.”

Why take Irish drinking songs and rewrite them with lyrics about cats? “Well, I was a big fan of Weird Al growing up,” confesses Gunn, himself owned by two cats named Tiziano and Torre plus visiting rights with the tabby Jasper, from a previous relationship. “When I listen to a song too often, I typically will change the lyrics. I did that with ‘Wild Rover,’ changing the claps to meows. It was all downhill from there.”

“The CD is also not just Irish drinking songs,” Gunn points out. “It’s more like a traditional Irish CD with a combination of drinking songs and Irish tunes, except the chief instrument is an autoharp and I sing about cats.”

That is the beauty of Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers - the songs are part of the patchwork of American music, a culture with deep Irish roots. Marc Gunn has extensive experience as not only a recording musician but as a veteran performer in renaissance fairs and fantasy festivals. The result is a clever collection of music that appeals to not only Irish and cat lovers, but anyone who appreciates a lyrical laugh.

Japan’s Ari Koinuma, also a cat lover, produced Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers. Participating musicians include Hannah Gunn and Cedric the Fiddler of the Bedlam Bards. Additional musicians include Chris Buckley, Sarah Dinan, Hamby, April Porter, Blake McCaig, and Franco Bordoni. Marc Gunn wrote all the lyrics to the classic songs.

Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats. He is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards. He is also Celtic music podcaster and Irish music magazine publisher and promoter. Last but not least, he is poet, photographer and music business educator.

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