[RE: minstrel: Complaints of bordedom at feasts]

[barbara at mail.topher.net]

Vivien wrote:

Please pardon the question, but when do you feel it to be appropriate for 
the audience to quiet enough for the performers to be heard? 

Listening to entertainers should be a voluntary occupation, that is 
all that I am saying.  To say that "everyone must be quiet when the 
bard is on stage" is unfair to the audience and the bard.  

There are many venues that can be used for entertaining, and most of 
them have been discussed here.  And I am not even against someone 
performing during feast. What I am against is anyone being forced to 
participate when they are not interested.  

I sing, in a professional venue, classical music.  I lovethe music 
and I love that I am able to do it.  I would rather never sing again 
than to make over a hundred country western fans sit and listen to 
Mahler.  It would be unfair to them, unfair to me, and unfair to 
Mahler.  So now I am going to be accused of saying that no one likes 
the entertainment, and that is not what I am saying.  Just that those 
that are not interested be allowed to do what they would like.

Ulf wrote:

I spend much time at events working.  When feast hits, I'm ready to 
relax with my friends.  I will listen to other bards and performers, 
but too much forced quiet is HARD on me.  And I'm not even a fighter!

I too work very hard at events, and usually after a five to seven 
hour drive the night before.  That is not unusual here.  By the time 
feast comes, if I am sitting down at all, I like to visit with 
the freinds that I have driven so far to see.


Alys
Steppes

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