[Bards] Bardic forum - and plug for the website

[lyric ui ruairc]

Hi Eleanor,

You have not met me becasue I live in the Kingdom of
the East at the moment.  I played for a few years down
in Ansteorra, but my last even there was over 5 years
ago. :-(  I do miss it there, but most of all I miss
the people!

One thing about every body's favorate pieces,
allthough some can argue on what is better based on
the technical aspects of each piece (like what is
"period" and what has better "structure" and so
on...),I think what truely makes a great piece is when
you can bring the entire audience into the piece, have
them hang on each word and each emotion put forth.
Perhaps I am not seperating the artist from the art as
much as I should.  :-)

Pleased to meet you Eleanor...I will have to look you
up when I make it down to Ansteorra (which will
hopefully be soon).

lyric




--- "Biggs, Truly" <truly.biggs at hp.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I think this is an excellent idea, and the only way
> to do this is to
> just commit to it and do it.
>
> Sign me up for the Bardmoot at GW.
>
> I think that Steppes 12th night is the perfect place
> for a local forum,
> actually, since the Eisteddfod has been there for
> the past several years
> and will not be this year - that should free up a
> lot of our time to sit
> and perform. The only thing I think we will need to
> be wary of is that
> unless we snag the stage, it may be hard for us to
> hear each other (She
> says - with nightmarish visions of trying to do
> bardic in the big hall
> at Warlord - through tons of people and torrential
> rain on the metal
> roof.) If we can snag either the upstairs room or
> the stage, or even a
> corner, I would think that we should be able to
> hear.
>
> So - as to how to turn this into a learning
> situation rather than a
> regular bardic circle. I don't know about the rest
> of you, but I am
> quite chagrined that I do not know even half of
> these favorite pieces. I
> am actually dismayed that I don't know very many of
> you - or not by name
> anyway. I propose that:
>
> We make a list of the pieces that we would like to
> learn - or that we
> would like others to learn, and each bring several
> copies to this forum.
> I also think that I would benefit from this the most
> if we could arrange
> some type of recording system so that we can get the
> tunes down, and
> then copy the tapes/CDs. The only reason that Shea
> and I learned the
> Queen's champion song is that Myfanwy kindly let us
> record her singing
> it so that we could learn it later. I have a pretty
> nice recording setup
> at home - but it is all run by my PC, and I don't
> intend to lug that up
> there. I can, though, provide a decent microphone
> and a stand - but I
> don't know what other equipment we might need in
> order to get it
> recorded. I don't think my mic cord will plug into a
> regular tape
> recorder. I would love to learn more of the music
> that was written
> about/for Ansteorra. I know very little of it.
>
> ALSO -
>
> There is WAY too much mention of original music
> going on here that isn't
> on our website. C'mon guys - C'mon Robin and Finn
> and Gerald (I know -
> they are in the works) and Cat - PLEAAASE CAT - your
> stuff is so good -
> I want a chance to learn it, and ULF - I have barely
> heard you perform
> and you are on so many people's Favorite lists, and
> Lyric - why haven't
> I met you? And Iain - I don't know if I know you
> either, and I think
> that we should remedy this ASAP. Simone - I am not
> sure I have ever
> heard anything that I knew was yours. Please post
> them - you have a good
> ear and I want to see what you have written. Antonia
> - you have no
> excuse whatsoever - please send your wonderful works
> to Bersi so he can
> post them for everyone to enjoy. I think Thomas and
> all the roses would
> love to have a place to go and read your original
> pieces written for
> them. Elanor O'Rourke has a whole heap of good
> pieces that I would love
> to learn - please post them! I have been bugging HRM
> Miguel to get his
> original works on there. You know - I don't care if
> you have NO original
> works you want to post - I would love to see your
> picture up there so
> that I know who you all are. It is meant to be a
> forum for celebrating
> our bards and our works. I am writing new pieces as
> fast as I can - but
> I want to see some of the ones that you have written
> up there too. It is
> the perfect place to collect the music of our
> kingdom - but only if we
> put it there. Send your stuff to Bersi at:
> dseguin at sbcglobal.net
>
>
> I want to ask all of you to visit the bardic website
> of another kingdom
> - and let you see what I think ours could grow into
> - but only if we all
> put our work into it. Please go look at the
> wonderful creations of our
> brothers and sisters up North. http://bards.ca/
>
>
> Tiggy - I signed up for your Bardbook group - and
> for some reason - call
> me blonde - I can't find the files. Help? Can we
> also please put them on
> the Anteorran bard's site? I will personally take a
> picture of you for
> the site if that is what is holding you back :)
>
>
> So - whew. Rant over.
>
>
> Eleanor Fairchild
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