Celtfather Monthly: September 2018 (Patreon)

Greetings Gunn Runner

I am back! The summer is over. I'm back working on... everything.

Actually, that's not entirely true. I have a new strategy for the fall.  I mentioned some of it in last month's Fall Video Plans. It revolves a lot around live streaming video. 

But first I want to thank our newest Patrons in the Gunn Runners Club: Anna Nichols, Randy Brown, Jeff Hay, Christopher Kelly. And an extra special thanks to those raised their monthly pledge this month, including: Scott & Anita Gorrell, Evan Meehan, Jen Wallace, Kimber Grey. Y'all are awesome!

I relaunched Coffee with The Celtfather two weeks ago. It was a huge success. A lot of Gunn Runners logged on to watch the show. I thank you! I will keep it coming out every week that I am able to. I also finally figured out what I wanted to do for a YouTube show. 

I still don't have a name for the show. But I have a goal. My goal is to have a video for every song I possibly can up on YouTube. So while it may be live streamed, I jump straight into a song and do my best not to screw it up so I can use the the video for future promotion.

But that's not all!

I also share weekly news in that show followed by a second song. So far, I got two out of three good videos out of it. That's not too bad. And the news is usually short and sweet, pertinent to the coming week or what's new.

And I even added in a component to promote my Irish & Celtic Music Podcast and other videos I find. I want this to be an awesome show that people look forward to watching. So far, I'm not disappointed.

You can watch the first three videos on my YouTube channel.

Dragon Con is this weekend. Andrew and I have a bunch of shows planned for the weekend as the Brobdingnagian Bards. Friday, I also have my Firefly Drinking Songs show with Mikey Mason as a very special guest. And every morning, I'm try and record at least a few minutes of Coffee with The Cetlfather. So follow me on Facebook and YouTube so you don't miss a moment. Check out the rest of the schedule on the Bards website.

September 7th I'm a Interstellar Ginger Beer & Exploration Co. The following weekend, I MAY be at Brennan's Irish Pub for a Halfway to St Patrick's Day celebration, but that isn't yet confirmed.

And come October, Kilted Kings will perform at Mid-South Renaissance Festival outside of Memphis, TN.

As for podcasts...

I recorded some good shows this month. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast has a couple Back to School specials. And some amazing new music. If you're not subscribed and you love Celtic music, you should sign up.

While you're there, you can also sign up to get the Celtic Music Magazine. It comes out every Thursday and features 5 cool things I found during the week. One is usually something from my HUGE back catalog of podcasts.

On Celtfather Music & Travel, I recorded an interview with Mikey Mason to talk about his love of Firefly and all things Geek. Mikey is my partner in crime for the Blue Sun Holiday Spectacular Tour that will take place this Winter. We're gonna play Firefly and Christmas music together in December at a few select venues. 

It's a short tour. But we're looking at other options for 2019 to expand it in January and February. It's success depends on you. So Like our Page on Facebook. Then come to one of the shows if you can.

That's the original reason why Mikey and I started talking. But it turned out other reasons cropped up. We talked about doing a new Firefly podcast we're considering and maybe even more Firefly-inspired music. Go Listen to the Interview!

Finally, I have two new blogs on my website. The latest is my attempt to create rules as to when I share things on Facebook Pages or Facebook Groups. 

The second is about What It Means to Be a Musician. I feel it's pretty eye opening about what success means. And some fairly shocking stats from Gen Con.

Speaking of stats...

Stats

YouTube Subscribers = 3711 up 34 from 3677

YouTube Watch Time = 46,133 is down from 46,479

YouTube Views = 13,163 is up from 12,526

The summer slump is up already. I restarted broadcasting halfway through the month. Look for bigger increases in September.

Facebook Likes = 3484 is up from 3469 

Facebook Followers = 3368 is up from 3350

FB Page Views = 243 is down from 332

FB Reach = 7586 is down from 10,211

FB Video Views = 2986 is up from 1760

Once again, Facebook stats are weird. Likes are up. Follows are up. But Page Views and Reach are down. And Video Views are up.

The last makes sense since I relaunched Coffee with The Celtfather. Everything should increase in the next month now that I have a regular schedule on Facebook.

Though it occurs to me that my reach might be decreased. Over the past few months, I started sharing Celtic and Geek memes on my Facebook page. Most of those will be migrated to the Celtic Geeks Facebook Group. 

Spotify Latest Single Stats: "Why Do You Torture Me": 209 up 25 from 186 streams

Spotify Latest Single Stats: "Mingulay Cat Song": 292 streams up 32 from 260 streams

Spotify followers: 1062 is up 33 from 1029

# Number of listens on Spotify: 1753 is up 197 from 1556

Most-popular songs on Spotify: Widow and Devil (647), Doctor of Gallifrey (374), Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster (217), Reavers Malcolm Reavers (215)

My Firefly Drinking Songs playlist now has 66 followers, up 5

Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers has 26 followers, up 3

Top Irish & Celtic Music has 187 up 24 from 163

Celtfather Experience has 9 followers. 

Spotify is definitely up this month. Not by much. But I think this is a good indication of some success at Gen Con. And of course all of the increased social activity this month.

Thanks as always for your kind support of me and my music. I look forward to sharing more with you in the days to come.

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