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Pennsic 52

Ah, yes. Pennsic. It’s been a few weeks, and I’ve been re-integrating with the world. But I want to take some time to reflect on it at least a little.

Overall, my war was less busy than usual. I had been busy finishing the release of the Hold the Door Open album when the signups to teach had been going on, so I just accepted that I wasn’t going to teach classes this year. I still had other responsibilities. Thursday of Peace Week, I emceed our camp’s annual Chocolate Bardic. On Wednesday of War Week, I got to be a panelist in the Bardic Symposium session, “Home Recording and You”, which involved some great conversations. Just for fun, I did make it out to the Sunday afternoon Runestone Bardic for the first time in a few years (a little more on that later). In addition, I had three significant performance opportunities during war.

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“Whaddaya mean, ‘farewell concert’??”

Hi all,

So people have started asking questions. (Yes, the idea that some people will miss me onstage does give me a warm feeling.) So let me take a few minutes to clarify why this year’s Pennsic concert (War Tuesday, 9-10 pm, Performing Arts tent in Pennsic U) is subtitled “Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow”.

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Pennsic 51

So we’ve been home for Pennsic a little over a week, but Herself tested positive for Covid right after we got home, so we’ve been quarantining, and my head wasn’t in the right space to post yet.

Yes, there was a lot of Covid going around at Pennsic, much closer at hand for us than previous years. From opening weekend to middle weekend to packout, it was taking down good friends of ours left and right. Ultimately it got a good chunk of our camp. How it keeps missing me I’ll never know, but I don’t want to jinx it. Current mood:

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Pennsic concert (the beginning of the end)

Sooo, it’s time to talk about something.

This will be the ninth Pennsic where I have the privilege of performing on the Performing Arts stage (aka the Three Crowns). Next year will be the tenth…and my last planned one.

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Summer Plans: Pennsic

Well, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way…let’s talk about this summer. Pennsic is less than a month away (aaaaaaaaa!), and there are a few things going on…but first, you probably wanna know about the concert, right? So let’s talk about the concert.

My “Troubadour Next Door” concert will be happening Wednesday of War Week from 7 to 8 pm (August 7), in the big Performing Arts tent, now known as The Three Crowns. (I learned last year that some people have not been there and don’t know where it is. This is not the PA Rehearsal Tent. This is the giant yellow tent at the heart of Pennsic University, behind Aethelmearc Royal). PLEASE NOTE the 7 pm time slot, earlier than usual. However, I’m okay with it because I am opening for Heather Dale, whose concert is at 8 pm, which means there should be some solid turnout.

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Videos up: Private Pennsic Concert

Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I’ve posted videos from the private concert we did in Artemisia Royal encampment during middle weekend of Pennsic 50.

Yes, a number of these songs were also done in the PA tent concert a few days later, and I’ve shared out those videos. But the private concert space was different. It was a small space, but it was quickly packed as we started performing. We were all looser. And the audience energy was much more like a regular SCA bardic performance than the stage was. And…we mixed in solo performances from my friends Silence, Bird, Colette, Robbin, and Eadaoin, which all were fantastic.

So check it out if you feel like it. My new filk “Putting It Together”, in particular, played completely different in this space, and it makes me really happy.

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Pennsic 50 Concert

So we’re back from Pennsic. I have lots of thoughts, and I will be writing them down and sharing them soon.

But in the meantime…we did get video of the full Performing Arts concert, for those who missed it.

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My Pennsic schedule

Pennsic is less than a month away. We’re planning to go for the full two weeks this year. We camp at McGuire’s Marauders, block N06 (next to Ansteorra Royal).

My plans at a glance:

  • McGuire’s Marauders is proud to announce the return of Chocolate Bardic on Thursday night of Peace Week (August 3), from O Dark-Thirty until we close (usually midnight or a little after). As one of the camp bards, I will be co-hosting (it’s a sign-up sheet, simply because of the heavy attendance).
  • Middle Sunday (August 6), 10:30 am-12:00 pm, I will be teaching Developing Stage Presence in the A&S 9 tend.
  • War Monday (August 7), 12:00-1:30 pm, I am teaching My Guitar’s Persona Is a Lute, in the Performing Arts Rehearsal tent.
  • My Troubadour Next Door concert will be on War Tuesday (August 8) from 7-8 pm, in the big Performing Arts Tent.

If you’re coming to Pennsic, feel free to ping me on FB if you want to try to meet up. It’s going to be hot and very people-y, being Pennsic 50, and there’s no telling a month out what the air quality will be like, so I have no idea how much wandering I’ll be doing.

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The First Bardic War (Upcoming)

On January 23 of this year, there was a wonderful Zoom concert called the Journeyman’s Concert hosted by the Midrealm, where I had the privilege to perform. This is coming to be known as The Concert that Started a War, because the couple dozen or so folks attending or performing in the concert, had a conversation that catalyzed the upcoming First Bardic War.

At the center of that conversation were Hilla Stormbringer of the Midrealm, who was one of hosts of the concert, and Laila al-Sanna al-Andalusiyya, former Queen’s Bard of the East, who had been performing. TLDR: There were a lot of Atlantian bards invited to a Midrealm event. The word “invasion” was used, followed by a discussion of holding the Atlantian bards for “ransom”, and the boast that if the bards of the East and Atlantia banded together, they could take over the known world… Within the hour, Hilla had posted in the SCA Bardic Arts group that she had instigated an “interkingdom incident”, and people were discussing a full-scale War event.

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Video: “Can she excuse”, Journeymen’s Concert

I have a couple of new performance videos to share, from the amazing Journeymen’s Concert held on Saturday January 23 as part of the second Ethereal Bardic Symposium (the same event that included Neurodiversity Panel I shared the other day). Cerian Cantwr is posting the individual performances on his YouTube channel, and ultimately will be sharing out the complete concert (which, rumor has it, will be billed as The Concert that Started a War–but that’s a story for another day, and I promise I will touch on that soon).

The first performance I want to share is of Dowland’s “Can she excuse my wrongs?”, which I have been polishing up for the last several months for public performance, and shared once or twice at circles. (I know the virtual background looks really weird especially when it hides parts of the lute, but my office is full of packing boxes at the moment.) I hope you enjoy.