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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2">Gentles,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">As your newly appointed titled Bard I should very much like to add more occasions for artistic and learned pursuits in our Barony, both at planned events and at small local gatherings apart from the events. Therefore,
if you are a bard, a poet, a musician of any sort, please write to me at <a href="mailto:levine@uta.edu">
levine@uta.edu</a> so that I may learn who you are. We can strive for more story-telling, singing, and other entertainment at feasts, and some performances of multi-part vocal and instrumental music. I am also the faculty adviser to the student medieval group
at UTA and have talked with Richard Fairborn who heads that group about trying to obtain rooms on campus for monthly bardic gatherings.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">I know a few other bards in the area but suspect there are others hiding in the woodwork that I have not or barely met, so please come forward and reveal yourselves. May the gentle arts flourish in our lands alongside
the arts of combat.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Yours in service to Elfsea and Ansteorra,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Daniel de Tankard (Dan Levine)</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"><a href="mailto:levine@uta.edu">levine@uta.edu</a></font></div>
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