[Bards] New Question

[Meggan Cividanes]

I am, primarily, a singer and poet. I have been a writer and singer outside of the SCA for years, but the bardic arena of performance has been the most rewarding and enjoyable. I sing a range of pieces, some historical, and many purely SCA creations that I have heard and loved, but most of the poems I do are those I have written myself. As for why I perform, that's a much more complex question. I've always had absolutely horrendous stage fright, and yet I find myself drawn to expression in the performance arts. So yeah, I'm a bit of a ham too. :) Though I do it more out of personal enjoyment, and a love of sharing songs, poems, and the occasional story, with others. 
 
~Lady Lilas MacGuffin 

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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