Performance

I received my Lux Caidis (Caid's Grant of Arms award for arts and sciences) for Dramatic Interpretation. Truthfully, I haven't done much performance in the SCA as yet, but I am building a body of work. I will be participating in Caid's upcoming Bardic Collegium, and hope to teach a class at Spring Collegium. I want to do more fire circles, but have a 9-year-old who doesn't like being yanked around the war at night and I don't blame him!

Repertoire

You have seen some websites with a bardic repertoire numbering in the hundreds... this isn't one of them! At present, I only have a few things I can present at bardic circles. I want to continually add to my repertoire, both for my personal comfort and enjoyment and to offer a source of period pieces to other bards. If I have composed lyrics or music to a particular piece I will say so. If you wish to perform said piece then I am honored, and please attribute it to me if you will. Otherwise most of my pieces date from our time period, and therefore could not be less copywriteable.

I prefer period pieces first, then original compositions made in a period style. I fear that I firmly dislike filk, and am ambivalent to 19th century ballads sung around an SCA bardic circle. That doesn't mean that I don't enjoy listening to a good singer perform Barbara Allen or The Highwayman, but for myself I prefer to focus my efforts and education on music, poetry, plays and stories from SCA's historical time period. My goal is to be as period as possible while still entertaining what is, after all, a 21st century audience. I will put links to these pieces as I go along. If you spot a thread of supernatural events running through my repertoire,you're absolutely right - I love good ghost stories!

Voluspa
Prophecy of Ragnarok from The Elder Edda.

The Unquiet Grave
I'm not satisfied with the music these words are set to, but I'll get there.

The Sirens Song
Translation of the Siren's Song from The Odyssey

Act IV, Scene 1: The Three Witches from Macbeth
"Boil boil, toil and trouble..." I love this piece, which gives me a chance to act out three different characters in a single scene. More about the Witches in Macbeth.

Herakles meets Virtue and Vice
I did this piece for the "Virtue" segment of the "Bard of Caid" contest. When I was acting out the part of the goddess of Vice, my belt fell off -- given the character I was playing it was an easy save. I'm just grateful it didn't happen when I was acting out the goddess of Virtue!

The Story of Glam -- Poem
A poem written in the Anglo-Saxon style. The story is taken from the medieval Icelandic The Saga of Grettir the Strong. I don't usually perform this since it requires a lot of review memorization and I'm on the lazy side! It's fun though. (You can read the expanded version here -- I haven't tried to memorize this puppy yet.) At bardic circles, I am more inclined to tell the rip-roaring story than present the poem. I don't have the prose story written down, but of course you can look at the poem to see what happened.

The Story of Glam -- Documentation
Written for 2004 Pentathlon about the structure of Anglo Saxon poetry and the story of Glam.