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[willow Taylor]

I don't think you are belittling me. I hope I don't bore people too much
with the history of Ansteorra and period stuff. Having fun is a great
goal. You might not know it but I am a fun Mavin. It is just living my
persona is fun for me. 

 In the Old Queen Bards we use to put entertaining number one and
historical only slightly second,  The idea was to be totally historical
and totally entertaining. I think there were only a couple of bards that
had people shouting for more period stuff. Master Cedric managed to do
it. Master Cafan did it. Sir Harold did it. Master Orm and Master Ragar
both did it. Master Robin, Master Ivar, and Master Frea all performed to
that level. They didn't perform to that level all the time, but they have
met that goal in my memory. I will tell you I never lived the Dream more
than during one of those performances. 

Willow

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:52:12 -0500 iainmacc at juno.com writes:
> 
> On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 08:36:03 -0500 "Siobhan Ni Fearguis"
> <siobhan_ni_fearguis at hotmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > 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.  ;)
> 
>         Please understand, I am NOT belittling what you do. But for 
> me,
> 'just for fun' is what I like best.
>         It seems to me that when bards get together we can turn out 
> any
> amount of what I tend to call "pompous, bombastic, Wagnerian 
> brass-bra"
> stuff, but after a half hour or more of such pieces the audience's
> patience is usually more than a little strained. I consider "The 
> Rhyme of
> the Ancient Mariner" to be an excellent piece, but if the best 
> performer
> in the world chose to actually DO it, I would still think he was 
> abusing
> his listeners' patience.
>         Because of that, I tend to try to keep things fairly short, 
> light
> and fun. True, some of my stuff is "tear-jerkers", but much of it is 
> done
> solely to bring the audience back to life after listening to someone 
> go
> for 10 minutes on the history and deeds of someone they've barely 
> heard
> of.
>         True, I don't win a lot of awards or titles. But I sure do 
> enjoy
> myself a lot.
> 
>                                                                      
>     
>       In Joyful Service,
> 
>                                                                      
>     
>               Iain MacCrimmon
> 
> 
>                     Cave Tyranniam Timorium Suorum
> 
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