Celtfather Monthly: October 2019 (Patreon)

Greetings Gunn Runner

Look. I blinked. It's now three months later since I published Celtfather Monthly. That's okay. It's not like I haven't been swamped with things...

So let's do a quick recap.

Brobdingnagian Bards had a super successful Kickstarter. We raised over $10K for our newest CD. It should be out in either late October or early November.

Gen Con was rockin'! It had some fun moments. And some weird ones. I talked about them in a couple Stories from the Road Podcast. That's exclusively available to my Gunn Runners on Patreon.

I posted my Daily Journal 2019: Celtic Invasion of Dingle, Ireland. That was followed up by Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #419: Celtic Invasion Vacations.

Mikey Mason and I finally sat down and recorded an episode In the ‘Verse #7: Jaynestown.

Coffee with The Celtfather launched on multiple live streaming platforms in August. I had a lot of technical difficulties that I finally smoothed out over the last couple weeks in September.

We are imperfect creatures. That's the lesson of Pub Songs Podcast #182: Out With the Old, In With The New where I confess falling off the anti-social media horse.

There was controversy on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. That led to a slight change in episodes I create.

Pub Songs Podcast #183: Empowering Celtic Women and Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #423: Make A Change in the World.

I learned an Interesting Stat about Streaming recently. I shared it in a blog and on Pub Songs Podcast #184: How to Quickly Stream 6000 Songs on Spotify.

Dragon Con was one of the best for me over the past 10 years as you'll hear in Pub Songs Podcast #186: Dragon Con 2019. Andrew McKee and I shared our own Reflections in another podcast episode.We moved! Again!

I announced on Pub Songs Podcast #188: Firefly Campout. And that happened the week before I flew to Las Vegas for the Browncoat Ball.

You will note I committed to release weekly episodes of the Pub Songs Podcast in August through September. I was pretty successful overall.

Finally, I had a brainstorm idea for Getting Tips with Venmo.

SHOWS PLANNED FOR OCTOBER

Oct 11: Interstellar Ginger Beer & Exploration Co, Alabaster, ALOct 12: Brennan's Irish Pub, Birmingham, ALNov 15: Brennan's Irish Pub, Birmingham, ALNov 16: Pepper Place Farmer's Market, Birmingham, ALNov 29-31: Starbase Indy, Indianapolis, IN

STATS

Mailing list subscribers = 1006 is up from 981

YouTube Subscribers = 4263 is up 99 from 4164

YouTube Watch Time = 30.0K is down from 34.1K

YouTube Views = 11.6K is down from 12.6K

Facebook Likes = 3630 is up from 3395

FB Page Views = 486 is up from 294

FB Reach = 4357 is down from 8717

FB Video Views = 2325 is down from 7129

Spotify Latest Single Stats: "When She Held Me in Her Arms": Can't Tell up from 578

Spotify followers: 1353 is up from 1273

# Number of listens on Spotify: 2061 is down from 2231

Most-popular songs on Spotify: The Widow and the Devil (1.2K), Doctor of Gallifrey (508), Reavers, Malcolm Reavers (344)

Patreon Subscribers: 156 is down from 163

Patreon Monthly Income: $961 is down from $1015

Top Irish & Celtic Music: 394 is up from 375

CD News

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