minstrel: Since we're talking a bit...

[Rowen Stuffer]

To the list, all and sundry, hail and well met! -

Thought that I'd respond to several messages all at one time. Sorry if
this bothers anyone 'cause I'm not sticking to one topic. Feel free to
break this into other Subject Lines as necessary.

Mistress Vivien o Caer Blaiddiau wrote:
>
> Is anyone else out there coming to the Known World Arts & Sciences?
> Planning to perform?  If so, I'd like to network to avoid duplication of
> material.  Thanks.

Frankly, milady, I'd love to, but I live on the right coast, and since
I'm taking two weeks for Pennsic in August and two weeks for my
honeymoon in October (Ireland!), I really can't afford the time or money
at the moment.

xsimmons at ti.com wrote:
>
> Its possible you are the first poster in a while, so tell me:  What is your
> field of interest?
> I'm looking for late period Engilsh campfire entertainment, and Arabic and
> Persian stuff from at least near the SCA target.  (Don't want much, do I?  The
> moon, a few stars. . . .)

My particular field of interest is story-telling, with an emphasis on
Russian and Gypsy fairy tales and folk stories. Some of my story
collections have works from Arabia and Persia. Are you looking for
stories? Or instrumentals? Or vocals? Or poems? Or drumbeats, or... My
humble position is that any of these would make good "campfire
entertainment". 

Gregory Blount wrote:
>
>  Late period English is fairly easy: Ravenscroft, Ravenscroft,
>  Ravenscroft. Ballads. See http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/
>  Amusingly enough, someone sang me a modern Welsh "trad" version
>  of "The Marriage of the Frog and Mouse" at Estrella. That's
>  from Ravenscroft.

Uhm, (shuffle, shuffle) I'm not familiar with "Ravenscroft". What or who
are they? What type of performance?

Mikal the Ram wrote:
> Call to the Raven

Thank you, milord, for sharing your work. Very spiff ballad. What's the
beat? Or, is there a song I might ken that paces this work?

So, as I've said, my focus of the moment is story-telling, and that's a
skill that's a bit hard to read about. Still, any pointers one can throw
out to someone who wants to learn, I'd love to hear of them. I actually
find practice watching movies where story-telling is woven into the
plot. Saw a great one recently, "The Secret of Roan Inish", which has
some great Irish-accented actors telling the history of the island of
Roan Inish. It was taken from another work, but at the moment I don't
recall the title of the original. So much for now. Until we meet again,
may the road be soft upon your feet. Dosvidanya.

  Tzigan Volchkovich

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Rowen Stuffer
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turned off until further notice.

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