minstrel: Good Fun (WAS RE:Need some critique)

[Baker, Mike]

Constance, you make fun while making music? WONDERFUL!

Yes, I know that you were primarily trying to poke fun at Thomas 
light-heartedly. (And I am certain that Thomas uses fun in his own 
entertainments, when appropriate!)

You made a very good point in poking fun, though: entertainers in the SCA 
are all too often stuffy frumps who have forgotten *how* to make their craft 
approachable and *entertaining*.  This goes back to the ancient debate over 
authenticity and research vs. creativity and "fun".

I for one would rather have fun and entertain my audience than bore them 
with a mini-lecture about the source of my material. There is a time for the 
documentation, there is a time for the song or story.

And I will *swear* that I have heard "The Bear Hunt" performed as a 
participation piece in competition -- and be enthusiastically received. 
(used gonnes or spears instead of shotgun or "crossbow and riding velvets", 
but....)

Kihe Blackeagle (the Dreamsinger Bard)  s.k.a. Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri 
al-Amra
     currently residing in Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mike C. Baker                      mbaker at rapp.com
Any opinions expressed are obviously my own unless explicitly stated 
otherwise!
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From: Katherine Penney
Subject: Re[2]: minstrel: Re: Need some critique
Date: Monday, January 13, 1997 2:24PM

Hehe...
*Constance claps hands....
Let's sing a song!  You repeat what I say!!!

Going on a Boar hunt
Going  on a Boar hunt....

Running and Ducking!
Constance

Thomas said:
(snip)
>I was reading a book that had a spiritual exercise that would have you 
going
>with Queen Medb to a boar hunt.  O.k. fine.  But the Riding velvets, and 
the
>crossbow......hmph.

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