RF - Bardic Stuff

[elainesj at texas.net]

> Maybe we ( Raven's Fort) could get a small group of singers and work on some
> period stuff. Even non period stuff that is SCA in nature? I remember not to
> long ago a small group of thunder vocalists who fizled out just before the
> Contrade event held by stargate that sounded real good.

I handed off about 150 pages of period music to Kief to pass to Caehill (I'm 
sorry if I'm butchering your name) - the current Ravenskald.  There's a lot of 
good, fun stuff in there.  Most of it's written SATB (Soprano, Alto, Tennor, 
Bass), so you can get some good harmonies going if people are up to that.  "Now 
Is The Month of Maying" should be in there . . . it's fun for a group and 
a fairly easy fa la la piece.  And I can get you more.  Bryn Gwlad was blessed 
for many years with Master Samuel Piper, who researched and reset two 1 1/2" 
notebooks full of music for the Bryn Gwlad Music Guild . . . a lot of it is 
strictly instrumental, but there's a fair bit of vocal stuff in there.  And all 
of his stuff is copywrite Steve Hendricks, but "feel free to copy, distribute, 
and perform in the SCA." 

His webpage is http://www.onr.com/user/steveh/index.htm

The books are well worth the cost . . . very little more than what you pay to 
copy them off at Kinkos.  Of course, now he lives in Washington, D.C., so I 
can't make that 2-3 mile trip up I-35 to pick them up.  :-(

There's also a notebook of SCA stuff and a tape or two I gave Kezia when she 
was either Minister of A&S or trying to get the Bardic Guild going.  That 
should be floating around the barony somewhere.  

For SCA stuff on the web, you can always do a search for Ioseph of Locksley on 
the web.  He has TONS of stuff and links to more.  

Elaine