Mingulay Cat Song, Lost Druid Beer Favorites

Why do cats knock stuff off tables? I think I figured out the answer. I share it with my story and song about the Mingulay Cat Song.

It's Pub Songs & Stories #260.

Marc Gunn "There Are No Pubs in Kirkintilloch" from Scottish Songs of Drinking & Rebellion

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0:56 - UPCOMING SHOWS

• NOV 19: Three Taverns Brewery, Decatur, GA @ 12:00-1:30 PM
• NOV 19: Ironshield Brewing, Lawrenceville, GA @ 7:00-10:00 PM
• DEC 2: The Lost Druid, Avondale Estates, GA @ 6:30-9:30 PM
• JUN 3-10, 2023: Celtic Invasion of County Mayo and Pirate Queen, Ireland

1:34 - CLOSING UP SHOP

I'm doing something different this year. I'm not doing any Black Friday discounts or sales, like all of the marketers encourage musicians to do. I know I've done them in the past. But I've never been comfortable doing that as you might've heard in a past podcast I did about the Ethics of Black Friday.

What it boils down to is that I prefer celebrating the day after Thanksgiving as Buy Nothing Day. A day to fight back against consumerism.

So for that reason, I'm closing down all physical sales on Friday, November 18. If you go to my store on Bandcamp. You will not be able to buy any CDs, shirts, album pins, songbooks or whatever else I have there. You can still buy digital downloads, but everything else will be gone.

I will reopen the story on December 1. But only for a few days. I've been considering my environmental impact. Someone suggested that if you only ship products in a shorter time span, it's better for the environment, which makes sense to me.

2:46 - "Nancy Whiskey" from St Patrick's Day

4:47 - FAVORITE BEERS FROM THE LOST DRUID

Come join me on Friday, Dec 2 at The Lost Druid Brewery.

10:30 - "There's a Bug in Cabin Six" from As Long as I'm Flyin'

12:43 - WHAT'S NEW?

It's been eleven since I last posted an episode of the Cat Lovers Podcast. Seems like only yesterday. That's not true at all. It feels like 11 years. I thought about rebooting it. But I decided instead to do this special feature on Cats and Celtic music.

That's because I released a new album this year. It's called Selcouth. Which means when everything is strange and different yet you find it marvelous anyway. It's also the reason I released a new song on the album which I'll talk about in a bit.

But first, I want to thank a few of my Celtic Cat Fans on Patreon. I sent out a call and these amazing folks responded.

Don Rice is from Moorhead, MN. He writes: "Definitely a cat lover, as we have owned many. Two currently- Chessie and Napoleon, both Grey striped tabbies. I'm a member of Poitin Band and a sci-fi lover as well."

You can find them on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast.

Kelly Melville said: "My 11 year old daughter Lorraine Melville (from Hampton, GA) is the biggest cat and cat song fan in our family. We all are, but she's the one who has a bunch of your cat songs memorized and sings them to our cat. It would be a super fun surprise to hear her name in the podcast.

She recently lost her first cat that she named White Tickle Ninja when she was 4 because as a kitten he would hide around corners and jump out to attack our toes with his tickly little paws. He loved people, and would run meowing up to everyone he saw, even complete strangers, in the hopes of food or pets. I think he thought he was a dog. He would wag his little stub of a tail when we played with him, pant, and even play fetch with balled socks. Ninja was the boss of the house, but our other cat Sherlock is the sneaky one who figured out how to open doors and one day set off our burglar alarm and brought the cops out to the house."

Marie from Centennial, Colorado said, "My kitty is Annie. She will be 18 in July. I rescued her in August 2020, at age 16 and just under 7 pounds. She is the sweetest little thing and has a voracious appetite! They told me that they didn't think she was hungry but rather just liked to eat. (Really??!!) Well, I took her to a vet for a wellness check, naturally, and she had hypothyroidism pretty badly. We put her on medicine and she has been getting better.

She runs to greet me when I get home from work and sleeps beside me every night. When I'm home doing paperwork or watching TV, she sits in my chair beside me and sprawls out with her front legs over my one leg. See you at DragonCon then Kentucky!"

Finally, Carol Baril k