[Bards] What is a bard?
Alden Drake
alden_drake at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 12 07:49:22 PDT 2007
What is a bard? This question has been asked before, and back then, as
now, there are as many different answers as there are people on this
list. Are we talking about the historical definition of bard? Are we
talking about the SCA subset of performing artists? I don't think many
performers in period would call themselves a bard any more than a knight
or man-at-arms would call themselves a "chiv fighter", but in our
society it is a label by which people can relate to us. As far as my
persona goes, I tell people that Alden Drake is an Elizabethan courtier
poet, though I suspect others probably think of me more as a singer. I
also try to compose songs (probably the hardest thing I do in
bardcraft), and I will occasionally try my hand/voice at other bardic
skills.
Alden
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