<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Simone Ui'Dunlaingh</b> <br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<SNIP><br><br>When participation at Canton shire and Barnial bardics are greater and<br>more prestigious than the Kindom Estinfodd. we might want to look ast<br>ourselves and not outside our selves. I have seen Local Bardic
<br>competions sport 30+ participants regularly when we cant get that many<br>to show for kingdom..WHY? What is the diffrence? Why would a bard be<br>willing to compete at a local level and not kingdom? these I think are<br>
the questions we should ask.<br><br><br>Simone<br><br><SNIP></blockquote><div><br> I think it's a valid point. I certainly can think of several local competitions that have more participation than Kingdom Eisteddfod. So what do we do to make Kingdom Bard something that more people want to strive for?
<br> For myself, I haven't entered in several years. At this time in my life I couldn't be the Bard that I think Ansteorra deserves, and I don't believe that I should enter if I can't do justice to the position. Being Kingdom Bard is still one of my unfulfilled goals, but I won't go for it until I feel I can do the job well. I'm not entering local competitions either.
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