Bard Marc Gunn

Bard Marc Gunn's Celtic & Folk music career began in 1997 when quit his punk rock band, borrowed an autoharp from his dad and started teaching himself to play and write music on the autoharp.

"It's a fairly simple instrument to play," says Marc about the autoharp, "but difficult instrument to play well."

Then in 1999, Marc Gunn's Celtic songs attracted the attention of a Renaissance Festival. He contacted longtime friend and recorder-player, Andrew McKee, and they formed the Brobdingnagian Bards, The Original Celtic Renaissance music duo.

Over the next few years, they performed over five hundred performances and released six CDs. They're music earned international acclaim has the dominated the original MP3.com's Celtic music charts and earned an unprecedented five million downloads of their music.

Bard Marc Gunn began recording his first solo album in December 2000 using an old TASCAM 4-Track. After the Brobdingnagian Bards released their self-produced Lord of the Rings tribute album, "Memories of Middle Earth", Marc decided to compile some of his most-popular solo recordings and released his first official solo album, "Soul of a Harper - An autoharper's Spiritual Journey through Celtic Songs".

The Austin Chronicle called the album, "a delightfully homespun collection of instrumentals and songs about dwarves and elves, rebels and Ireland, and trad a capella such as 'My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose.'" Austin radio program, Celtic Storm, selected it as one of the Top 10 Celtic albums for 2003.

Bard Marc Gunn is a poet and author of the Bards Crier Music Marketing and Promotion Ezine, a free guerrilla music marketing newsletter designed to educate musicians on how to promote themselves. He also publishes the Celtic MP3s Music Magazine, a free weekly Celtic music magazine. He continues to write and perform Celtic folk music with the Brobdingnagian Bards.