Cat Music Blog

Please add "marc@thebards.net" to your whitelist or email address book, so that you have no trouble receiving future issues!

Dear Cat Lover,

Tiziano really needs to learn how to use a laptop. All last month, Marc's home computer was down, and he greedily horded the laptop from me. He was so busy with St. Patrick's Day stuff that he didn't give me a chance to highlight the more important holiday--St. Gertrude's Day.

Saint Gertrude was the Patron Saint of Cats and shares March 17th with Saint Patrick. At least, he didn't forget our day and smartly gave us some catnipped presents. But don't worry, it won't happen again. Or I'll pounce all over him while he sleeps next year. See if he gets ANY sleep on the week surrounding his birthday!

I guess since he and that other band, the Brobdingnagian Bards, won the award for best None of the Above Band in the Austin Music Awards, I'll give him a little credit. But next year the awards go to the CATS!

"I picked up your CD @ Things Celtic last weekend & I absolutely LOVE it!! I found myself humming "A Cat Named Rover" at work--what a fun song! One of my favorites is "Catnipping Green". It brought a tear (ok, several tears) to my eye to picture the elderly cat going off on his final voyage. Luckily, my kitties are used to me crying over a good song!"
-- Jennifer C., Dallas, Texas

NEW CD STARRING ME!
Next year, we're gonna sweep the awards because Marc finally finished our new CD "Irish Drinking Songs: The Cat Lover's Companion". Before you get too excited and think this is the long-awaited CD with more songs that continue to glorify cats, please wait. It's not.

This CD is the companion CD to "Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers". Ari Koinuma on guitar backs Marc Gunn on autoharp and vocals as they perform the traditional Irish drinking songs that Marc parodied on our first album. If you ever wondered what the original songs were like before he got ahold of the songs, here's your chance.

The CD won't officially be out until July 1st. However, the MP3 album went on sale last Friday. And don't worry, I wouldn't allow Marc to leave Tiziano and me off the CD. We perk up our ears and tastefully meow on a few different tracks.

Adopt a To Talk Is Human. To Purr Divine T-Shirt!

Adopt the CD Now!

Buy the MP3 CD!

MARC ON MYSPACE AND A CALIFORNIA GIG
Thusfar, I've resisted the urge to join myspace myself. I don't think it's a dignified place for cats to gather. I keep hearing of too many cat predators and dogs on the site.

But Marc joined the lemmings, and he's been on there for over a year now. You can listen and download a couple of our songs while you're there, or do the same at SoundClick. And if you listen to our music, we'll climb the charts on both those websites. So please show other humans how much you love cats by listening.

Marc on SoundClick

Marc on Myspace

Oh! And if you're in Austin this weekend or in California next weekend, Marc is doing a few solo shows playing his cat songs. This is a rare opportunity so go find out how you can hear him live.

Marc's Upcoming Gigs

To love is human. To purr is divine. Mreow!
-Torre Gunn, manager, lead meower of The Dubliners' Tabby Cats

TnT are two tabby cat brothers who own a simple-minded human named Marc Gunn, who plays music, writes poetry, and isn't too shabby a photographer. The main reason they bother to keep him around is because he entertains them now and then and isn't too hard to take care of. They all perform together with The Dubliners' Tabby Cats.