Mid-Realm Bardic Madness XXIV: 
Seasons and Cycles

Bardic works: are most commonly presented in song, story, poetry, short prose, as well as others.  With material selected, or recreated, from the wide array of SCA Corpora historical eras and cultures, inspired by historical events, period peoples, legends and heroes.  Encouraging of original creations and arrangements.  As well as drawing inspiration and creating works from the events, experiences, traditions, people, as well as those reinforcing the culture, values, and ideals, from the 'Modern Middle Ages.

Bardic covers multiple performance types and venues (see footnote*):  Using performance styles analogous to descriptions of what/how/where such works were presented in the vast variety of pre 17th C settings.  A few standard examples include:  Spoken and oral historical experiences passed down through the ages.  Use of poetic formats.  Songs may be presented as solo or group pieces, sometimes accompanied with instruments.

Sharing performances with audiences, in venues ranging from highly formal and solemn occasions, all the way to entirely casual; preserving and honoring the 'oral tradition.'  The original and adapted creations of bardic works continues to expand a growing shared repertoire with a chronicle of experiences being passed down through the decades in the SCA.  

Bringing all these elements together, can provide an authentic experience for the performer and audience!

*Footnote: Multiple Bardic Performing Arts Types - including, and not limited to:

Poets, singers, singer-songwriters, storytellers, wordsmiths; minstrels, musicians, instrumentalists; Bards, Fillids, Griots, Jongleurs, Minnesingers, Meistersingers, Olaves, Scops, Skalds, Troubadours, Trouvères...

(...And Welcoming to All Friends of/within the wider Performing Arts Community including:

 Actors, Commedia Arts, Fools, Improvisational Artists, Jesters, Jugglers, Mimes, Movement Arts, Mummers, Musicians and Instrumentalists from other areas of focus, Physical Theater, Players, Stage Magicians, Theatrical Arts, and more!)

(From the SCA Bardic Arts Resource Page: https://sites.google.com/site/scabardic/)