#Cleveland Concoction 2024

[shannoneichorn]

I talked about space opera on a podcast!

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/bookspeak/2024/03/14/brown-posey-press-show-the-voices-of-cleveland-concoction

[dreamstates-music]

DreamStates is excited to be the featured band at Cleveland ConCoction 2024! There will be music, new merch, a meet and greet... not to mention all the other fun things going on at the con, so be sure to come out and see us! The convention runs this weekend (from March 8th to the 10th), so make your plans soon. See you there! :)

[celtfather]

Live Pub Songs from Dragon Con 2024 #292

Here's a holiday gift. It’s a live concert from Dragon Con 2024.

This is Pub Songs & Stories #292

0:09 - Marc Gunn & Mikey Mason “Hero of Christmas” from Browncoat Christmas

2:26 - WELCOME TO PUB SONGS & STORIES

I am Marc Gunn. I’m a Celtic and Folk musician and host of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. If you’re new to the show, please subscribe. You can do that PubSong.com or Just send me an email to follow@celtfather.

Today, I’m sharing a live concert from Dragon Con 2024.

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3:10 - LATEST NEWS

New Show Title: Folk Songs & Stories

Did you vote for your favorite song on Live at the Cactus Cafe?

See pictures from my Celtic Invasion of Scotland’s Whiskey. Next Celtic Invasion of Wexford, Ireland is on June 21-28, 2025.

Merch: Dancing with Hobbits is on sale. Get the "I Went Dancing With Hobbits" album pin.

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5:33 - TODAY’S SHOW IS BROUGHT TO BY CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS

Every year, I lead a small group of people on a relaxing adventure to one of the Celtic nations. We don’t see everything. Instead we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join me with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts, blogs, videos, and photos.

In 2025, you can join me for a Celtic Invasion of Galicia in Spain. This lesser known Celtic Nation is located in the Northwest corner of the country. It’s secluded in the mountains. So Julius Caesar never invaded this country. It survived with its own unique linguistic dialect and its own unique style of bagpipes.

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7:46 - UPCOMING SHOWS

JAN 11: Maggie McGuinness Pub, Huntsville, AL

MAR 1: The Lost Druid Brewery, Avondale Estates, GA

MAR 7-9: Cleveland Concoction, Cleveland, OH

MAR 21-23: Sherwood Forest Faire, Paige, TX

MAR 29-30: Sherwood Forest Faire, Paige, TX

APR 25-27: Jordan Con, Atlanta, GA

JUL 19: Fiddler's Green Coffeehouse Concert series @ 8 PM, First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta. 470 Candler Park Dr. NE / Atlanta GA 30307. 404-378-5570. Presented by Atlanta Area Friends of Folk Music (AAFFM)

JUN 21-28: Celtic Invasion of Wexford, Ireland

SEP 24-28: ALEP 6, Harrodsburg, KY

8:50 - GUNN RUNNERS ON PATREON

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9:36 - LIVE AT DRAGON CON

1:07:59 - CLOSING

1:08:51 - Marc Gunn “Christmas in the Shire” from Celtic Christmas Greetings

1:12:34 - CREDITS

Thanks for listening to Pub Songs & Stories. This episode was edited by Mitchell Petersen.

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[freehawaii]

KE AUPUNI UPDATE - JANUARY 2024

The Return of Our Nation... One hundred and thirty-one years ago, on January 17, 1893, hiding behind 162 heavily armed U.S. troops, and the cannons of a U.S. warship in Honolulu Harbor, the peaceful, innocent Hawaiian Kingdom was ruthlessly pirated by a gang of greedy white businessmen proclaiming themselves to be the new heads of the government for the Hawaiian Kingdom... THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM By the mid-Nineteenth Century, the Hawaiian Kingdom was a progressive, literate, flourishing, peaceful, independent, Christian nation, conducting lively trade and discourse among the nations of the world. In the 1840s Hawaiʻi’s enlightened leaders transformed Hawaii into a highly literate nation and instituted a constitutional form of government. In 1843 the Hawaiian Kingdom became the first non-Eurocentric nation to be formally recognized by the great colonial powers of Europe as a fellow sovereign, independent nation state. By the 1890s the Hawaiian Kingdom had numerous treaties with foreign nations and more than 130 diplomatic posts around the world. Hawaiian monarchs had traveled the globe, establishing formal relationships with crowns and heads of states in Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific. The Hawaiian Kingdom initiated a confederation of Pacific Island nations. ILLEGAL INTERVENTION In January 1893, without provocation and without warning, a company of fully armed United States Marines suddenly landed in Honolulu to support a coup dʻetat by a cabal of white businessmen to unseat Queen Liliʻuokalani and seize control of the Hawaiian Kingdom government. To avoid escalation into a bloody war, the Queen made a conditional yield — not to the insurgents, but to the United States — diplomatically protesting the United States’ military intervention as an illegal act of aggression (an international wrongful act) and placing the responsibility to repair the illegal act squarely upon the shoulders of the President of the United States. Months later, after conducting an official investigation, U.S. President Grover Cleveland admitted the U.S. committed a wrongful act of aggression and informed the U.S. Congress that the United Statesʻ armed intervention amounted to an illegal “act of war” against a friendly, sovereign nation. Cleveland indicated the U.S. had a moral and legal international obligation to repair the wrong by restoring Queen Liliʻuokalani and the lawful government of the Hawaiian Kingdom. President Cleveland and Queen Lili’uokalani agreed to terms to settle the matter, but the U.S. Congress failed to implement the settlement. It remains unfinished business to this day. WRONGFUL TAKING Instead of honoring that 1893 agreement, the United States, in 1898, did the exact opposite. Under then-President William McKinley, and under cover of the infamous Spanish-American War, the U.S. concocted and staged a quasi “annexation” and took possession of the Hawaiian Islands calling it the “U.S. Territory of Hawaii”. In 1959, that fake “Territory of Hawaii” was converted into the fake “State of Hawaii”. Today, 131 years and 24 U.S. presidents later, there have been decades of dedicated, sacrificial efforts by countless Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiʻi patriots) to bring about a graceful and peaceful end to the belligerent occupation of our homeland. Thankfully, the return of the Hawaiian Kingdom is now in sight. As we take the time on January 17, to attend the Peace March from the Royal Mausoleum at Maunaʻala and the ʻOnipaʻa Rally at ʻIolani Palce, to reflect on the events of the past and advancing our Lāhui into the future, let’s remind ourselves, our ʻohana and our friends, that we are the legacy — the evidence and heirs — of the living Hawaiian Kingdom... Ua Ola Ke Ea! Sovereignty Lives!

“Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani ---------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.

------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. 

------ "And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice-a-month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media." PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to:  

• GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – use account email: info@HawaiianKingdom.net • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: info@HawaiianKingdom.net  “FREE HAWAII” T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c8/free_hawaii_products All proceeds are used to help the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono,

Leon Siu

Hawaiian National