Man, I'm getting psyched. The Texas Renaissance Festival is rapidly approaching. Just three more days, and we're back at faire. It's definitely fueling my desire to play more.

Today, I'm heading back out to the South Mall of UT Austin to practice. Course, most of my solo practicing isn't the funny music that the Brobdingnagian Bards typically play during our live show. A lot of my solo stuff is composed of Irish ballads, Scottish songs, and my own unique folk songs.

When the weather is as great as it is, it all comes together beautifully out on the South Mall. I'll be out ther from 12-1pm during my lunch break. Course, it's always nice to see people out there. So come out if you have the time.

If you've never heard me perform, the Brobdingnagian Bards have a lot of free music downloads on their website. I have my fair share of free folk music downloads as well.

Free music downloads are one of the main reasons we've progressed as rapidly as we have. I've built an entire directory of free music downloads online. And also publish an ezine of free celtic music downloads as well.

Course, none of this has squat to do with the Texas Renaissance Festival...

Wait. That's not entirely true. I've helped promote a lot of Renaissance Festival bands online with free music downloads. And at the Texas Renaissance Festival, you'll see bands like Cantiga, Tartanic, Iris and Rose, and many more who offer free music downloads.

Okay... Time to get back to work, and maybe go listen to some of that free music to get me ready... Oh! Shoot, I need to go to Ren Radio. That'll definitely put me in the mood. Slainte!

Next weekend, we're heading back to one of our favorite faires--the Texas Renaissance Festival. We've the same schedule as last year. Find the Warfside Music Gazebo, and you can see us four times a day. I think our last show of the day will be an all-request show, so get your favorite song requests ready.

Not too long ago, I compiled a list of all the Texas Renaissance Festival journal entries I've made over the years.

• Texas Renaissance Festival 2004 Free Ticket Winner
• And the Eighth Album is Called...
• Great weekend at TRF 2003 with percussion
• Glorious Weekend at the Texas Renaissance Festival 2003!
• For those not going to Texas Ren Fest 2003
• Catch all the action at Texas Ren Fest 2003
• Photo Fixes at Texas Ren Fest
• The Brobdingnagian Bards at Texas Ren Fest 2003 story continues...
• Texas Renaissance Festival 2003 starts this weekend
• Where to find us at Texas Renaissance Festival 2003
• Texas Renaissance Festival 2003 ends with a bang!
• Texas Ren Fest 2002 Comes to Sad Closing
• Texas Ren Fest 2002 and Clan Gunn Ceilidh
• Texas Renaissance Festival 2002 Firework Highlights
• Great First Weekend at TRF 2002
• Texas Renaissance Festivals 2002 Tickets Giveaway
• Places to Stay at Texas Renaissance Festival
• Texas Ren Fest Helpers Needed
• Texas Ren Fest 2002 Confirmed
• College Station Public Radio
• One weekend only at Texas Renaissance Festival 2001
• Texas Renaissance Festival 2000 Wants Bards for Seven Weekends

Oh! There'll be a lot of great bagpipe music as well as a bunch of great Renaissance festival music out there. So I'll see ye at the Texas Renaissance Festival!

I was looking for bagpipe music online. There are a few cool places. My favorite are the free bagpipe music downloads on my Celtic MP3s Music Magazine website.

My favorite Bagpipe music bands and artists:

• The Rogues
• The Willow Band, and
• Tartanic.

I should also mention Mark Saul's electric bagpipe project. Pretty sweet stuff.

A couple years ago, I was driving around the back roads of the Veneto in Italy and took a marvelous photo of some of the trees.

The trees out of the area have a very unique look to them. During WWII, Italians cut off the top limbs to use for firewood. But they left a tall stump. This stump then grow lots of smaller limbs, which the continued to harvest.

This technique created a very unique looking tree that I was able to capture on my camera.

See the Trees of the Veneto.

I was just checking out my Auto Glass Repair in Austin webpage and was disappointed to see it was no longer on the google charts.

Not sure what happened, but quite honestly, Chris Bielstein is the best guy for the job over the spam that's covering the search results. Ah well... that's the way the charts play out.

Mayhaps one day, I'll figure out how I can help him out better by getting that page back to the top. But for now, Austin Auto Glass Repair shall get other referrals.