Celtfather Monthly: May 2019 (Patreon)

Greetings Gunn Runner

I'm getting this out a little early this month. That's because next week is when we officially take everything out of our home and move it into the new one. There's so much to do for our move to Atlanta.

I think I'm gonna spend a bit of today working on my itinerary for the Celtic Invasion of Dingle, Ireland. I'm way far behind on my planning. Fortunately, my second Invasion was there. So I feel really good about creating a plan. The only big challenge is where we're gonna eat. With a bigger than normal group, I'm gonna need reservations for the group.

Season 3 of Coffee with The Celtfather ended on April 17. It was good finale. You can now watch the complete season here.

So what's  the plan for season 4?

For starters, I'm moving the show back to Facebook. That sucks if you prefer watching replays. Attendance was just better on Facebook. I earned more tips. Oddly, I got virtually no Super Chat tips this past season.

Hopefully, I'll have time to post some replays every now and then. Otherwise, plan to watch on Wednesdays starting in August. Time TBA.

Oh! And keep an eye open. Because I may drop in every now and then to sing some songs for ye on both Facebook and YouTube.

I finally posted my 3 1/2 hour episode of the Pub Songs Podcast. It features nearly all of the interviews and audio recordings I made at Sherwood Forest Faire over the past 10 years, plus music as usual. I'd love your thoughts. What did you think of the show? Use #pubsongs to let me know.

One of my big accomplishments recently was a spreadsheet list of all of my upcoming podcasts and videos for the next few months. I now know the theme of the next twelve episodes of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. I also have a 5 or 6 guest hosts.

This editorial calendar sure helps me wrap my brain around stuff.

Mikey Mason and I recorded the 7th episode of In the 'Verse podcast. We're back in Canton. I wrote two songs for the show. The lyrics are done. I just need to finish the music. Now if I can only find time to make rough recordings of my songs for the podcast, we can release this next episode...

The other bonus of the editorial calendar is I now have a list of videos for the upcoming Brobdingnagian Bards Kickstarter. That one also still needs work, but it's started and helping me make sense of the dozen or so videos Andrew and I recorded at Sherwood.

SHOWS PLANNED FOR MARCH 

Sat, May 4: Interstellar Ginger Beer & Exploration Co. This is my farewell to Birmingham and Gwen’s congratulations on graduating, and Inara’s happy birthday celebration. Join us!

May 17-19: California Autoharp Gathering

June 8-15: Celtic Invasion of Star Wars

STATS

Mailing list subscribers = 1034 is up a LOT from 963

YouTube Subscribers = 4103 is up from 4076

YouTube Watch Time = 42.4K is down from 131.1K

YouTube Views = 13.1K is dwon from 33.5K

Facebook Likes = 3592 is up from 3587

FB Page Views = 81 is down from 416

FB Reach = 4891 is down from 47.6K

FB Video Views = 2369 is down from 31583

Spotify Latest Single States: "When She Held Me in Her Arms": 488 is up from 422

Spotify followers: 1215 is up from 1199

# Number of listens on Spotify: 2060 is up from 3525

Most-popular songs on Spotify: The Widow and the Devil (1.1K), Doctor of Gallifrey (710), Reavers, Malcolm Reavers (33)

Patreon Subscribers: 166

Patreon Monthly Income: $1018

Top Irish & Celtic Music: 358 is up from 356

If you'd like to be included in the feedback section of the Pub Songs Podcast, use the hashtag #pubsongs. I would love to make the show more interactive. Look for questions on Facebook. I'm using those too.

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Slainte!

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