<html><div style='background-color:'><P>Your Excellency;</P>
<P>I have tried to send you this apology twice before and it has yet to appear, so will try for a third time. As I said in the other missives, your love for music and arts as well as chiilry is well know in the entire kingdom, as is your skill with weapons, It just happened that when I was not marshalling the rapier bouts, you were surrounded by important personages. I should have just come forward to you after the matches and let you know that i had a song for your elevation. That was indeed my fault and not yours. I just always hesitate to interupt someone of your exalted rank with something so trivial as a song. I should have at least left word with swomeone who had your ear that i wished to play and sing this for you. All I can do now is beg your forgiveness and swear that i will sing the song for you at our next meeting. We have a Baron and Baroness with forward looking ideas and a love f all things SCA. Vivat Baron Donnchadh !!!!<BR><BR></P><BR><BR><BR>
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From: <I>Donnchadh Beag mac Griogair <donnchadh@cornelius.norman.ok.us></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>baron@namron.ansteorra.org,Ansteorran Bardic list <bards@lists.ansteorra.org></I><BR>To: <I>Ansteorran Bardic list <bards@lists.ansteorra.org></I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: [Bards] So let's.. College Statement</I><BR>Date: <I>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:45:06 -0600</I><BR>>Dan Corley wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > I had written a special song for our new baron and never got to<BR>> > perform it because he was too busy congratulating the fighters. If we<BR>> > had a formal college, perhaps we might command a bit more respect.<BR>> ><BR>>Lord Cormac,<BR>><BR>>I'm not sure why you feel that there was not time to perform it. For<BR>>much of the day I was just sitting under the baronial pavilion watching<BR>>the days events. During that time, I had the honor to
be entertained by<BR>>several excellent bards who had also taken the time to write original<BR>>pieces. That would have been the perfect time for you to have performed<BR>>your piece. During feast, there were also bardic performances. I don't<BR>>recall you ever coming forward during the event saying that you would<BR>>like to perform, so can't see how you can say that I was too busy to<BR>>listen to you. Those who know me know that I have a great love and<BR>>respect for the bardic arts, and I would not want others to have the<BR>>impression that it was otherwise.<BR>><BR>>Respectfully,<BR>>Donnchadh Beag mac Griogair<BR>>Baron of Namron<BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>Bards mailing list<BR>>Bards@lists.ansteorra.org<BR>>http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/bards-ansteorra.org<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div></html>