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While visions of drummer bards dance in my head
This was byfar my most favorite weekend of the Texas Renaissance Festival. Why? We had rhythm!
Umm. That sounds bad for musicians, huh? Rather, we were fortunate to have a guest musician. Two dear friends came down from Kansas this weekend, Michelle and Cynthia. Michelle has played music with us on a number of occasions. She plays the bodhran. She's always a joy to play music with though, cuz the music and interaction on stage... just naturally works IMO. But this weekend it all excelled.
I can't begin to describe how much fun it was to play music with percussion. It's just bloddy well cool! It kinda opened my mind up to a slew of new possibilities in how she can be added to expand to a trio. And I'm really liking the possibilities I see. I just wish she could come down here sooner, but we'll have to wait till the summer if all goes well.
Sure, there are a lot of concerns, but it was so much fun playing music. The traditional Celtic songs, in particular. I love the ocomedy and whatnot, but seems like recently it's been tough getting the Celtic songs out to the audience, particularly at faire. But this weekend it was just all natural. With percussion, I finally felt like the latest t-shirt idea should read, "Bards Rock" instead of "Rule", because there were soooo many times, when we finished a set, and I was pumping and realizing that our music actually can "rock". And well, coming from rock music background, this makes me VERY happy!
I wish I could say it was a solid decision, but a big part of it is up to Andrew. We've got to fill up our schedule next year so we can afford having a third member, cuz I hope to move to a part-time job this summer. We'll see what happens, meantime, I'm pretty psyched about what the future holds in store!
In other news, we got a bunch of photos taken this weekend which we hope to use for press photos. Some by my great friend and fantasy artist Jen Clower-Brown. Keep an eye on my photography and pictures gallery for details.
Posted by Marc Gunn on Monday, November 10, 2003 |
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