| Love Irish music? Love cats? Curl up in your favorite | | | | an autoharp and I sing about cats."That is the beauty |
| chair - Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers by Marc | | | | of Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers - the songs |
| Gunn & The Dubliners' Tabby Cats will tickle your | | | | are part of the patchwork of American music, a |
| feline fancy.Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers is the | | | | culture with deep Irish roots. Marc Gunn has |
| pet project by Marc Gunn, singer-songwriter and | | | | extensive experience as not only a recording musician |
| one-half of the award-winning duo, the | | | | but as a veteran performer in renaissance fairs and |
| Brobdingnagian Bards. Full of funny feline folk music, | | | | fantasy festivals. The result is a clever collection of |
| Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers gathers popular | | | | music that appeals to not only Irish and cat lovers, |
| drinking tunes and retrofits them with cat-worthy | | | | but anyone who appreciates a lyrical laugh.Japan's Ari |
| lyrics. The result is a warm and wonderful CD that | | | | Koinuma, also a cat lover, produced Irish Drinking |
| sees songs such as "Lord of the Dance" redone as | | | | Songs For Cat Lovers. Participating musicians include |
| "Lord of the Pounce."Why take Irish drinking songs | | | | Hannah Gunn and Cedric the Fiddler of the Bedlam |
| and rewrite them with lyrics about cats? "Well, I was | | | | Bards. Additional musicians include Chris Buckley, Sarah |
| a big fan of Weird Al growing up," confesses Gunn, | | | | Dinan, Hamby, April Porter, Blake McCaig, and Franco |
| himself owned by two cats named Tiziano and Torre | | | | Bordoni. Marc Gunn wrote all the lyrics to the classic |
| plus visiting rights with the tabby Jasper, from a | | | | songs.Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer |
| previous relationship. "When I listen to a song too | | | | with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking |
| often, I typically will change the lyrics. I did that with | | | | songs and cats. He is the lead singer for the |
| 'Wild Rover,' changing the claps to meows. It was all | | | | Brobdingnagian Bards. He is also Celtic music |
| downhill from there.""The CD is also not just Irish | | | | podcaster and Irish music magazine publisher and |
| drinking songs," Gunn points out. "It's more like a | | | | promoter. Last but not least, he is poet, |
| traditional Irish CD with a combination of drinking | | | | photographer and music business educator. |
| songs and Irish tunes, except the chief instrument is | | | | |