Celtfather Monthly: December 2018 (Patreon)

Greetings Gunn Runner

We did it! Kenzie's surgery is over. It was a success.

This has been weighing on our minds a lot the past few months. I'm sure you can imagine. But it's over. And Gwen is back home. All is well. Hopefully, once the holidays are over, we can get back to life.

Course, I don't have a lot of time for that. I have a big December planned, outside of normal Christmas events. There's a Christmas Tour... Actually a Firefly Christmas tour!

But first, many thank to my newest Patron in the Gunn Runners Club: Lizzie Newell

I haven't had much progress on the Milestone rewards yet. But I will!

The big plan for December is to go on tour with Mikey Mason for the Blue Sun Holiday Spectacular Tour. We were able to book five dates: Huntsville, Birmingham, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Muncie.

We really need your support. If you can make ANY, SEVERAL or ALL of these dates, we would be thrilled!

Please come join us!

The second season of Coffee with The Celtfather ends on December 12. Then I start planning for the Spring 2019 season. 

I made a big, difficult decision. The show is moving to YouTube. 

For my Facebook Gunn Runners, I'm sure that sucks for you. But the simple fact is I'm reducing my Social Media presence. I'm so burnt out on it. 

There's another reason though. It's because with YouTube, I can create a playlist where these shows will last longer than one week. It's an actual video platform.

You can read about my decision here.

If you're on Facebook, no worries. I will continue to send out live video reminders before the show to let you know it's happening.

If you don't want to miss a show, YouTube has a notification bell. Click it and you'll be notified about ALL my videos released each week. Right now, I only have one. But next Spring, you'll get one or two per week.

On December 1st, I'm back at Pepper Place Farmer's Market.

December 8 is at the Maggie McGuinness Pub house concert in Huntsville, Alabama. This kicks off the Blue Sun Holiday Spectacular Tour

Sunday December 9, I'm at Brennan's Irish Pub in Birmingham.

Friday, December 14 is at Flying Cat House Concert Series in Indianapolis.

Saturday, December 15 is at Gateway Games and More in Cincinnati

Sunday, December 16 is at The Fickle Peach in Muncie, Indiana

Follow the links on the Blue Sun Holiday Spectacular Tour for details.

As for podcasts...

I have three more regular episodes of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast planned. Well, still to be planned. Then comes the Christmas episode and the Best of 2018. If you listen to the podcast, please go vote for your favorite artists in each show. 

I also have new voting rules for 2019. I'm kind of excited about sharing those.

The Celtic Christmas Podcast started back up this month. I shared two episodes in November.

I relaunched the Pub Songs Podcast this month. I'm not sure what CD to feature this month. I ran out of time for the November show. Hopefully, I'll have it done by the time this goes live.

I'm very proud of the Anthems episode of Celtfather Music & Travel. It helped me solidify some thematic ideas on how to better brand and promote my music.

A big thanks to Seth Godin and his new book This Is Marketing. He inspired that episode and a lot of my recent blogs. Yes, I'm getting back to the blogging.

I stopped halfway through the month because of a troll. A troll who also claimed they were a fan. I call B.S. on that because no one who actually likes my music would be so mean and hateful. 

Any case, I'm about to go on a rant that I was avoiding... 

My blogs are more productive and positive and will continue to be so.

Speaking of the blogs, you can now read them on my website. 

Stats

YouTube Subscribers = 3842 is up 43 from 3799

YouTube Watch Time = 49,179 is up from 49,113

YouTube Views = 14,798 is up from 13,659

I hit a milestone on YouTube. I can now post blogs or comments on YouTube. I haven't used it much yet. But it's still pretty cool. I'm hoping for a rise in views in December as I post Christmas videos on Mondays. I'm looking forward to January when I move the Coffee show to YouTube!

Facebook Likes = 3552 is up just 2 from 3550

Facebook Followers = 3442 is up from 3419

FB Page Views = 366 is down from 819

FB Reach = 9719 is down from 30,227

FB Video Views = 7378 is down from 25270

No surprise here. I was too busy to think about advertising this month. But I just put in a bunch of ads for the Blue Sun tour. So there will be an uptick again.

Spotify Latest Single Stats: "Loch Lomond": 68 streams

Spotify Latest Single Stats: "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen": 627 streams

Spotify Latest Single Stats: "Why Do You Torture Me": 315 is up 10 from 305 

Spotify followers: 1124 is up 22 from 1102

# Number of listens on Spotify: 3508 is up from 1953

Most-popular songs on Spotify: Frosty the Irish Snowman (1.1K), Widow and Devil (707), The Scottish King of Christmas (603)

It's Christmas time. Throughout the month of November my Christmas playlist has garnered more listens. I've been fine tuning the list too. I add more songs than usual... for better or worse. But I think it's a good playlist. And look for these Christmas songs to dominate and swamp my top songs.

The other single I released this month was one from the Kilted Kings. It too is getting lots of play.

Fun Christmas Songs for Kids & Families: 1131 up from 971

Firefly Drinking Songs playlist now has 84 followers up from 82

Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers has 32 followers

Top Irish & Celtic Music has 230 up from 217

Celtfather Experience has 15 followers

Geek Pub Fun! has 5 followers

Geek Sleep has 2 followers

I'm excited to track the Christmas playlist this year. I also added a few Celtic tracks by The Selkie Girls and The Gothard Sisters. I'm happy to help my fellow Celts. But ultimately, I'm focused on what I what's best for the playlist.

Thus ends the December edition of Celtfather Monthly. Thank you again for generously supporting my music, listening, watching videos, sharing. You're amazing

Remember. You can help me create and release more music. Join the Gunn Runners Club to step behind-the-scenes with bonus podcasts, new music, and live concerts. I'm certain you will love it! 

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