Mistress Elashava bas Riva has made an ongoing project of recording bardic performances in the SCA and putting them up on YouTube (with permission from performers and authors, of course). There are lots of good performances there, and a huge range of what goes on in SCA bardic. I stumbled across it just as I was thinking about diving in myself, and it gave me a really good idea of what I was getting into.
Her channel is ShavaSue, and it's worth checking out. At last weekend's Bardic Madness, she got a couple of videos from me, and I thought I'd post them here, just...to have done it. I cringe when I see myself filmed, but I think I'm just one of those people who will never really be happy with a recorded performance of myself. All I can think about is what needs improving. Anyway. She got "Sunufatarungo" and "Aeron's Song" (with lyrics slightly tweaked to include some references from Their Majesties' favorite film). I've put the videos on the songs' respective pages, should you be wondering what they're actually supposed to sound like. :-)
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March 03, 2010
February 25, 2010
Bardic Madness is WHEN?????
This weekend??? In two days??? No, it's all good.
Got my class handouts copied. I recently came into a fistfull of free copy cards, so there will be extras - oh mama, will there be extras. I'll also post the PDF here after the event. I'd like to go through and add some footnotes before I post it, but there wasn't going to be time before the class itself. The class is "Period Songs: Where to find them, how to write them." *froths at the mouth*
Got my songs...set. Mostly. Alternate lyrics to "Aeron's Song" are done and memorized, and it's practiced up. Still hoping to rework the chords on "Sunufatarungo" to something more period. Still hoping to memorize the melody (and perhaps the lyrics as well) to "Oh how I love the Springtime gay." Ensemble pieces practiced. Need to practice everything (including walking through my class in my head) a few more times before I feel really good about it.
Now I just need to cook and pack food so's we don't have to eat at restaurants on the way there and back. Cuz we are broke, broke, broke!
Got my class handouts copied. I recently came into a fistfull of free copy cards, so there will be extras - oh mama, will there be extras. I'll also post the PDF here after the event. I'd like to go through and add some footnotes before I post it, but there wasn't going to be time before the class itself. The class is "Period Songs: Where to find them, how to write them." *froths at the mouth*
Got my songs...set. Mostly. Alternate lyrics to "Aeron's Song" are done and memorized, and it's practiced up. Still hoping to rework the chords on "Sunufatarungo" to something more period. Still hoping to memorize the melody (and perhaps the lyrics as well) to "Oh how I love the Springtime gay." Ensemble pieces practiced. Need to practice everything (including walking through my class in my head) a few more times before I feel really good about it.
Now I just need to cook and pack food so's we don't have to eat at restaurants on the way there and back. Cuz we are broke, broke, broke!
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