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About Festival of the Rose
Forgot to Tell You - I got the contract extension!!! :) My company wants me to stay on through the end of March. Yippee!
About Festival of the Rose - This is a public posting of my response to this weekend's event. For those of you who are not SCA members, please bear with me. I believe this post needs to be publically shared from me.
My tuppence:
Thank you True for running an event. Autocrat work is hard in general, harder when there is resistence to new things. Thank you Alais for your assistance. I wanted to finally meet you face to face and say hi, but I never caught you offstage.
Thank you to everyone who got on that stage, whatever your reasoning. I chatted briefly with Mattheus from the Hospitallers after his solo vocal performance, and DAMN that boy can sing. I told him I hope he will sing more often. He actually admitted that singing makes him nervous, but I assured him how MUCH I loved his voice.
I also *adored* the poetry from Secca and from Sechequr—There's nothing like seeing those Heavy Weapons squires hit the stage. And Middle English!? Wow.
Now, Abba's "Dancing Queen" might be modern, but I've never heard an audience roar with laughter that much. Sometimes the modern joke works, regardless of our love for the researched period material.
I hope people enjoyed the pre-1600 Italian madrigal that Lady Magdalene picked out for WhiteStar to sing—and *wuf*, it took a month of rehearsals to put that together with the four of us. My hat is off AGAIN to Cliar cu Buidhe for your continued presentation of multi-part harmonies and period material. You'll notice we had to use the sheet music, we weren't memorized with our repertoire like you were!
And I loved that there were dramatic presentations too, including both the dancing Jinn and the Angels Players. In my opinion, there should be "More theatre (less drama)," to butcher a quote from Baroness Bridget.
I hope people also enjoyed my new Caidan Kids song composition, which I sang for the Queen at Angels Melee, and sang/taught at Festival of the Rose by Royal Command. I also have a new Fighters' marching song to use at Estrella to lead the army out to the field. There's 5 verses now (in army-like call and response) with a chorus... some of you have heard the chorus and the first 2 verses already. If anyone would like to help me sing the fighters on to the field at Estrella, please pipe up. I could use more singers and a drummer or two for the drone and the beat.
I was in the restroom after the event, and I overheard two peers talking in the anteroom. They had nothing but good things to say about Festival of the Rose. Most notably, they were waxing eloquent about how if you never do anything new, you'll always do the same thing over and over again (which usually induces boredom). They said that even though television references weren't their kind of thing, they were amazed at the audience reaction to the entire event—they each said they haven't heard that much laughter and applause at an SCA event in years.
Many people did so much work to present a song, poem, dance, dramatic piece, instrumental piece, choral piece, filk, humor, serious work, period, period-esque, or just plain fun that it truly makes me proud to serve as the Bard of Caid right now.
Of course, now it's time for the constructive criticism debriefing time. What can we do better next time? What should be improved?
There's a thorny debate about the time and place for competition versus showcase. Some people heartily embrace competition as a good thing. Some people run and flee from it with every fiber of their being. I'm not sure my opinion on how to encourage both types of people, and can use some input. I hear all the time from both sides of the argument, and am not sure really where my preferences lie. So, I'm hoping to hear different opinions. I'm fairly certain that I'll never make everyone happy, but I sure hope I can learn to at least *listen* to everyone. Once again, I'm open to public or private discussion on the matter.
One whole month has gone by as your Bard. I have eleven more months and I need all of you, to do this well.
* * * * *
Today's Blessing That I'm Thankful For: An amazing kingdom: Long Live Caid!
About Festival of the Rose - This is a public posting of my response to this weekend's event. For those of you who are not SCA members, please bear with me. I believe this post needs to be publically shared from me.
My tuppence:
Thank you True for running an event. Autocrat work is hard in general, harder when there is resistence to new things. Thank you Alais for your assistance. I wanted to finally meet you face to face and say hi, but I never caught you offstage.
Thank you to everyone who got on that stage, whatever your reasoning. I chatted briefly with Mattheus from the Hospitallers after his solo vocal performance, and DAMN that boy can sing. I told him I hope he will sing more often. He actually admitted that singing makes him nervous, but I assured him how MUCH I loved his voice.
I also *adored* the poetry from Secca and from Sechequr—There's nothing like seeing those Heavy Weapons squires hit the stage. And Middle English!? Wow.
Now, Abba's "Dancing Queen" might be modern, but I've never heard an audience roar with laughter that much. Sometimes the modern joke works, regardless of our love for the researched period material.
I hope people enjoyed the pre-1600 Italian madrigal that Lady Magdalene picked out for WhiteStar to sing—and *wuf*, it took a month of rehearsals to put that together with the four of us. My hat is off AGAIN to Cliar cu Buidhe for your continued presentation of multi-part harmonies and period material. You'll notice we had to use the sheet music, we weren't memorized with our repertoire like you were!
And I loved that there were dramatic presentations too, including both the dancing Jinn and the Angels Players. In my opinion, there should be "More theatre (less drama)," to butcher a quote from Baroness Bridget.
I hope people also enjoyed my new Caidan Kids song composition, which I sang for the Queen at Angels Melee, and sang/taught at Festival of the Rose by Royal Command. I also have a new Fighters' marching song to use at Estrella to lead the army out to the field. There's 5 verses now (in army-like call and response) with a chorus... some of you have heard the chorus and the first 2 verses already. If anyone would like to help me sing the fighters on to the field at Estrella, please pipe up. I could use more singers and a drummer or two for the drone and the beat.
I was in the restroom after the event, and I overheard two peers talking in the anteroom. They had nothing but good things to say about Festival of the Rose. Most notably, they were waxing eloquent about how if you never do anything new, you'll always do the same thing over and over again (which usually induces boredom). They said that even though television references weren't their kind of thing, they were amazed at the audience reaction to the entire event—they each said they haven't heard that much laughter and applause at an SCA event in years.
Many people did so much work to present a song, poem, dance, dramatic piece, instrumental piece, choral piece, filk, humor, serious work, period, period-esque, or just plain fun that it truly makes me proud to serve as the Bard of Caid right now.
Of course, now it's time for the constructive criticism debriefing time. What can we do better next time? What should be improved?
There's a thorny debate about the time and place for competition versus showcase. Some people heartily embrace competition as a good thing. Some people run and flee from it with every fiber of their being. I'm not sure my opinion on how to encourage both types of people, and can use some input. I hear all the time from both sides of the argument, and am not sure really where my preferences lie. So, I'm hoping to hear different opinions. I'm fairly certain that I'll never make everyone happy, but I sure hope I can learn to at least *listen* to everyone. Once again, I'm open to public or private discussion on the matter.
One whole month has gone by as your Bard. I have eleven more months and I need all of you, to do this well.
* * * * *
Today's Blessing That I'm Thankful For: An amazing kingdom: Long Live Caid!
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