Irishman Writes Carnival Song Antigua


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Saturday, 21 July 2012 02:30

By caribarena news

Antigua St. John’s - An Irishman falls head over heels in love with Antigua, marries a local girl and releases a song and video to celebrate Carnival.

A New York-based musician and songwriter, John Munnelly aka Laughjohnlaugh who was born in Ireland, has released an original song titled “Antigua”, which tells of his love for this extraordinary Caribbean paradise.
 
The song captures his longing both for Antigua and his new Antiguan wife and is being released digitally in time for Carnival.
 

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In New York, he looks into the iPhone weather app as the temperatures soar in the hot melting city, John notices similar temperatures on Antigua  the “gem in the Caribbean sea” as the beautiful words of his song describe it. But he would much prefer to be feeling the island’s cool breezes with a rum punch in his hand.
 
As to his inspiration, it was just like his song says: “The beach is just the beginning”. His lyrics continue with “your dream is a moment away ... the tide is turned and you’re winning, it's the start of a perfect day” and then into the magical sing along “ooh ooh Antigua” chorus.


The song “Antigua” is written and sung by an Irish man from a small town called Cavan, on another green island in the Atlantic called Ireland. He came to the USA to study his songwriting craft and promote his music career. While based in New York City he won a prestigious award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Foundation’s (ASCAP) Jay Gorney Award for his song “The Unemployment Blues.”
 
“Antigua” is on Amazon.com
 
John and his new wife visit Antigua every year and spend the time “liming” to de-stress from their then day-jobs at the over-heated desks of an Internet lighting business. This company is where the couple first met and started a discreet romance. John’s early plan for the courtship was to combine scuba diving with a trip to Antigua.
 
His love of a good island woman and her home place have stayed but scuba was side-lined after John realised he can’t breathe under water. John has an ecstatic moment when he recalls his visits: “my heart is filled with emotion, I'm so happy returning to you - Ooh Ooh Antigua”.
 
“Antigua” the video is available on and some of the stills used in the music video come with much thanks to the Ministry of Tourism and especially to Derede Samuel-Whitlock, Director of Tourism for Antigua and Barbuda.
 
John is now a professional self employed musician and hopes to play this song live in Antigua. He also has the perfect Carnival booty shaker called “Does My Bum Look Big in This?” which is a comedic relationship dance masterpiece. The Bum Song is available on iTunes and more info about John is on BigBumSong.com and LaughJohnLaugh.com
 


John’s warm fuzzy feelings for Antigua continue on another song called “Nowhere Without You” (included on the radio disc) and there’s nowhere that John would rather be than in Antigua “lying on the sand”... “drinking Rum Punch by the waters and watching the sunset at night ”
 
See you very soon Antigua!

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