Fall Video Plans (Patreon)

You will note me that there’s no video or podcast explaining my fall video plans. That’s because I have no time. 

The trip to Texas was great, except it meant we didn’t organize any daycare or camp for the girls when we got home. 

I’m working on fumes. I’m writing this while the girls are eating lunch and watching shows. Sigh. 

I’ve been trying to figure out my video and other plans for the fall. I WANT to continue building what I started in the spring. But that’s unlikely to happen due to big changes in the Gunn household. 

My wife will be in Memphis until December. She’s working on the next part of her genetic counseling degree. That means working at hospitals, learning the trade, hands on. 

It’s an awesome experience for her. But we’re not gonna pull Kenzie out of school for a few months just to move to Memphis. So I get full parenting duties during the week. We will see Gwen on the weekend. 

Kenzie starts back to school in two weeks. Inara starts Mother’s Day Out about the same time. She’s going there three days a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) so I can get work done. 

As I said, I have limited time.

So for your interest and to help me organize my own brain, here are my weekly plans...

Irish & Celtic Music Podcast comes out every Thursday. I have no plans to change that. Right now, I batch record a couple episodes so that the week in between I can focus on MY music... What a concept!

Coffee with The Celtfather moves to Wednesday at noon. It will stream live on Facebook. I see the Coffee show as a good way to make regular sales and reach new people in the short-term, but each and every week. It's like having a live gig each and every week.

Weekly YouTube Video. In the spring, I released a new video every Tuesday. I want to continue that. But I’m afraid I don’t have time to edit. So I'm thinking about changing that to another live weekly show, but on YouTube. 

YouTube has a longer life for videos, especially if it is well-themed.

What I'd REALLY love is to turn it into an interactive "show". The thought right now is that I pick a theme. I sing a song on that theme. Then I share news and maybe other videos by me and others related to that theme. And then maybe close it out with another song.

The challenges of course is to (a) come up with a weekly theme with songs that fit it, (b) to make the time to record those, (c) find content to fill the news section of the show without being repetitive and boring. I'd like this to be "evergreen" content. It will be fun or useful to watch for years to come.

Any thoughts on show names?

As for my monthly plans...

I like where Celtfather Music & Travel is heading. I'm gonna try to keep creating good monthly, evergreen, content for the show. 

Geek Pub Songs is gonna take a wee break from the monthly schedule. I'm just concerned about my time and I also feel like my time would be better spent doing videos. I already have the Celtic podcast to share music. I don't know. I'm just not feeling it.

That said, I may actually release episodes to fit a theme as the theme presents itself. But until that happens, it's gonna take a step back. If you're currently subscribed, I would stay so. Because ye never know when a new episode will appear. 

I should point out that if you LOVE LOVE LOVE this show, just email me. Let me know. I don't get any feedback for it. So it's hard to consider.

Celtfather Live is gonna be the tricky one this Fall. In the past, I could ask Gwen to put the kids to bed so that I could go live for you fine folk. But with no Gwen, my options are to start an evening show at 9 PM central or just not doing them. Ugh. 

I'm not fan of either option. Let me know your thoughts on those...

For patrons, I will continue to release a Stories from the Road and Behind the Scenes podcasts every month. The latter will sometimes work for Celtfather Music & Travel though as well. For higher tiered patrons, I want to keep putting out my Bootleg Concert Recordings. And I confess I like that I'm getting some sheet music out there at long last. I'm gonna try to keep that going. But I run out of it in August.

I'm hoping to grow my personal Patreon page in the coming weeks with two of my biggest shows about to start (Gen Con and Dragon Con).  Maybe I can finally hit that next milestone. It's been stuck for the past few months.

And of course, I have this Patreon page to create music. So I hope to keep making new music to share with you. If you watched my latest YouTube Concert, you heard my newest song, "Cambridge in September". 

I'll try and get a recording for my Behind-the-Scenes folks soon. (Who I'm nicknaming Scenics this week;) 

Any case, that's the news and plans for the fall. I have more than enough stuff to do. Not enough time to do it. 

Thank you as always for continuing to support my music and putting up with my constantly changing mind. You are amazing and far too kind! Thank you.