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Pre-Pennsic bardic warm-up
Tonight I was invited to be a guest storyteller at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jdhobbes' CD launch. This was certainly one of the first times I've done storytelling bardic in front of a non-SCA audience, and perhaps the very first time. The acoustics were horrible (outside with a noisy fan), but we thankfully had a microphone that I was able to use. It took a little while for me to get used to it, but I eventually hit my groove. I told a story I learned from Master Cariadoc of the Bow, about a king who tries to cheat the bards of his kingdom and who eventually gets his comeuppance from a clever poet. The moral is that you should always pay your entertainers what they're worth, which I thought was appropriate for a CD launch.
Anyway, I think it went over well. People laughed in the right places and applauded at the end, and a few people I trust to give me honest feedback said they liked it. So altogether an auspicious warm-up for Pennsic. I spent the rest of today re-memorizing poems that had begun to slip from my mind but that I know are going to be requested (stuff I wrote for specific groups, etc.) and otherwise priming my bardic brain.
Tomorrow, lots of errands to run for Pennsic: last-minute stuff to buy, money to be exchanged, etc. For now, sleep.
jdhobbes' CD launch. This was certainly one of the first times I've done storytelling bardic in front of a non-SCA audience, and perhaps the very first time. The acoustics were horrible (outside with a noisy fan), but we thankfully had a microphone that I was able to use. It took a little while for me to get used to it, but I eventually hit my groove. I told a story I learned from Master Cariadoc of the Bow, about a king who tries to cheat the bards of his kingdom and who eventually gets his comeuppance from a clever poet. The moral is that you should always pay your entertainers what they're worth, which I thought was appropriate for a CD launch.Anyway, I think it went over well. People laughed in the right places and applauded at the end, and a few people I trust to give me honest feedback said they liked it. So altogether an auspicious warm-up for Pennsic. I spent the rest of today re-memorizing poems that had begun to slip from my mind but that I know are going to be requested (stuff I wrote for specific groups, etc.) and otherwise priming my bardic brain.
Tomorrow, lots of errands to run for Pennsic: last-minute stuff to buy, money to be exchanged, etc. For now, sleep.