[Bards] New Question

[ED Reese]

Sorry to be chiming in on this thread so late, but I've been away from my 
computer for nearly two weeks, and am struggling to catch up.

I perform in the SCA first because it's fun; if I didn't enjoy it, I 
wouldn't do it. Secondly, because people make an active effort to 
participate as an audience. Thirdly, the broad range of material that is 
acceptable in an SCA bardic effort, from "filk" type material, appropriate 
modern material, SCAdian culture based material, to nosebleed authentic 
material is very appealing. Lastly, because I can't sing (yet), or play an 
instrument (yet), but I _can_ tell a story or two, and in the SCA, that 
means I can play, too!

Esther

At 04:42 PM 6/30/2003 -0500, you 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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