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You may have seen the term Indie scattered throughout the site but you may not really understand what it means. Indies are Independent artists who put out their music themselves without going through a major record company. I am a big proponent of Indies. The more middle men there are between the artist and...

Heads up to all our Aussie readers. The Saw Doctors are heading your way next month. This is a band that is absolutely not to be missed. Be sure to catch one of their shows.  This post has been updated to reflect the addition of the ADELAIDE date. Thursday March 4 PERTH, FLY BY...

Congratulations to Spacerbunny. We have already contacted her so we know we can actually get the cd to her. The cd will be put in the mail asap. When artists send us cds to review they often send an extra for us to share with the public. Sometimes it will be one we already...

A month ago we had a drawing for a free CD. Unfortunately, we could never track down the winner via email. I suspect we are getting caught by a spam filter. To avoid this from happening to you, whitelist fanrealm.com in your email client. The way to do this varies from one to the...

The 6th Annual Guinness Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival will be held Feb 24-28, 2010. 150 songwriters will take part in the event which will feature 20 seminars and 42 concerts. More information about the event can be found at their website http://www.belfastnashville.com/ Tickets may be purchased through the website. I wish I was on...

Since we have added google analytics to fanrealm we can see where our visitors are coming from. This will help us decide which areas are of interest to our readers. We will use this to highlight regional bands and events. The first region we will highlight is Virginia in the US because we get...

We have updated our contact us link. It now leads to a contact form so you won’t need to have default pop mail client to use it. Feel free to ask questions or make suggestions of bands to cover or events to list. Or just contact us to say hello. Just click the link...

Andrew Huggan is a folk singer/songwriter from Central Scotland. He has been playing music ever since he was a small child but it’s only within the last decade that he started to take it more seriously. In 2003, Andrew went to his first ever Runrig gig. He was so amazed by the gig that...

Another direction that Celtic music has gone is into the rock field. Celtic Rock is known by various names. One Celtic rock band calls their music kilt rock, other uses sham-rock. Whatever they call it, Celtic rock is an exciting form of Celtic music. Some bands do more traditional songs just in a rock...

We are starting to have a good number of visitors from the UK so I thought I would post the tour schedule for a Celtic Rock band called Coast. A great Scottish singer called Andrew Huggan will be supporting them on some of the Scottish leg of the tour. More about both Coast and...

Solas is a great Celtic band SláinteSteve put us onto. You can hear samples of their music at their website http://solasmusic.com/site/ or their myspace page http://www.myspace.com/solasmyspacemusic I will add these links to the tour page. They have an extensive tour schedule planned for 2010 starting with the midwest. For a complete schedule please check...

Gaelic Storm is touring again after taking a few months off to recharge and work on a new cd. More info on that as it becomes available. Click on the venue name for tickets and other info. JANUARY * 13 Ft. Lauderdale, FL The Culture Room * 14 Orlando, FL The Plaza Theatre *...

At the first of the year we announced the winner of the first free cd. We have emailed the winner twice but have not heard back. We suspect we are getting snagged by a spam filter. If anyone knows Babydoll2115 please have her get in touch with us a fans @ fanrealm .com so...

I’ve gathered up info on some of our favorite Celtic Music bands. Most of them are very well known but just in case you missed them I will post a bit on each one and links where you can find out more. These are certainly not all of our favorites. This is just a...

Another great singer/songwriter I found on MySpace is Chris Keys. You have to go give him a listen too. We will be reviewing his EP when it comes out and it will be available at ITunes and cdbaby soon also. Chris Keys 27 year old singer/songwriter and multi instrumentalist, had a passion for music...