[Bards] New Question

[Siobhan Ni Fearguis]

Hmm...I think I would have to say that what I perform are, to date, all 
original pieces...stories in a poem format for the most part.  I can't sing 
worth a flip!  ;)  However, I've been told I'm a half decent writer, but, 
being new to the whole SCA/bardic thing, I'm still learning what exactly it 
is I'm supposed to do.  Usually, I try to convey some kind of moral or 'deep 
thought' in my stuff (unless it's just for fun) because that's one of the 
things I understood that bards did.  I might be totally off my rocker...it 
wouldn't be the first time.  ;)

I also understand that a bard's purpose was to spread important news and 
details about important events.  Unfortunately, I haven't seen enough 
Ansteorran 'history' to write anything like that.  Hmm...maybe a piece about 
'Waterlord' would be in order.  :D

In the end, though, I think my goal is probably to entertain because it 
strikes me that they didn't have *nearly* the amount of entertainment in the 
middle ages that we do today.  As soon as I can track down some good, 
reliable sources, I'd like to learn some period stuff.  (I'm *horrible* at 
research.)

When mundanes ask me what a bard is, I tell them it's the medieval 
equivalent of a rock star, reporter and spy all rolled into one.  ;)  Sounds 
glamorous to me!  :D


Siobhan Ni Fearguis




willow Taylor <willowjonbardc at juno.com> wrote:
>Dear fellow Bards
>
>I am a new question. What do you perform in the SCA?
>I have been a story teller for most of my life. When I was ten I set up
>a story telling booth next to my girl friend's lemonade booth and made as
>much money as she did. When I started in the SCA I wasn't a performer. I
>was an organizer and an autocrat. I didn't really start to build my
>persona until I was in Ansteorra. When I started to work on my historical
>persona I realized that entertainment is part of the role of a person in
>the middle ages. Everybody did something. The gentle born were suppose
>to do more. People entertained themselves and it would of gotten really
>boring if everybody didn't perform . Who was that Saxon cleric who prayed
>to God to help him out because when the horn was passed to him he could
>not think of anything? As I advanced in the SCA I became a patron of the
>bardic arts. In history you will find many nobles who did things like
>that, Robert of Normandy and Richard the Lionhearted. They usually
>participated in the art form. So my performance are part of my living my
>persona.
>
>Willow de Wisp
>
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