Patrick O. (Shaun) Young, ... aka "Shaun, That KelticDead Guy"
A native Texan, Shaun is a musician, an audio-visual engineer, and a storyteller who has been creating "folk-based" sheet music arrangements and stories of traditional and made-public Celtic, Folk, Old-Time, and Sea-Faring music for over 40 years.
He has been writing a column in the Southwest Celtic Music Association's CEILI newsletter for over 30 years where he generates arranged sheet music that follows closely with what he presents in the music audios, and he is recognized by the Marquis Who'sWho Publishing (2023-24) for his work with the KelticDead Music initiative.
After retirement as a systems engineer, he began creating the KelticDead Music initiative as a web-based, music-education hobby. It is now widely known throughout the world.
As a "studio" musician he likes to play Celtic whistles, the GDAD-tuned Bouzouki, and the bodhran, and he creates all of the music selections with live audio music support from his studio to enhance the stories that he authors within the web-based, video KelticDead Music Broadsides.
See the "Home" page for the most recent project feature presentation.
KelticDead Music is a WEB-based initiative with a mission to find interesting stories, tunes, and songs that are in the traditions of Celtic, Folk, Old-Time, and Sea-Faring music that are now found throughout the world and in every culture.
The main focus of the KDM is to find and arrange the tunes for easy play with live instruments like Celtic, six-hole whistles and other acoustic folk instruments and to provide stories about those tunes and songs into "BROADSIDES" that give insight about why the tunes and songs may have been created, or to just provide fun facts about the tune or song.
Celtic-Folk Music is the heart and soul of the history in which mankind has lived.
As part of the KelticDead Music initiative other music contributors join in to help create the projects presented in the KDM videos. They will be individually cited in each KDM Video Broadside they help to create.
Special thanks to Earnie Taft for helping me create the KelticDead Music Broadsides.
Earnie Taft , Old-Timey - Folk Musician
Earnie has been playing Old-Time and other Folk music genre since the 70s. He loves Old-Timey music, but is also accomplished playing other genre as well, such as popular, Folk and Celtic tunes and songs.
