[MR] Well, we could pare down the feast, for one thing.

[Brian Bertrand]

at Stierbach feasts, I usually wait until after the toasts, then catch the
Baron/Baroness' eye to get the okay and start performing.  I will stand up,
sing a song, then stop and let people eat, usually I will do one song or
story per course, usually shortly after high table has been served.  This is
of course if there are no other entertainments pre-planned (commedia
performance, music group, etc)

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gina Shelley <paintedwheel at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Wrong, actually. It's pretty easy to do it if you keep a repetiore of stuff
> ready to go and plan. So my group does. However, we are not so pushy that we
> would jump up and take it upon ourselves to do that without being asked or
> otherwise given permission.
>
>
>
> In fact, we're willing to work up and entire playlist for the occasion,
> schedule other performers, and either entertain or manage the entertainment
> the entire feast through, if that is what the autocrat wants. Not only are
> we willing, but we have in fact done that and were happy to do it.
>
>
>
> Not everyone wants a whole feast full of mostly non period music, though,
> so we don't assume that is what the autocrat wants without asking. We have
> no idea what they have planned. It's not always entirely welcome, and other
> musicians and entertainers we have talked to echo this. So if we don't
> automatically assume everyone in a feast hall is in our fan club, this is
> why.
>
>
>
> If we feel pretty confident our efforts will be welcome, we will often feel
> comfortable just out of the blue jumping up and doing something spontaneous.
> We once wrote a short song at the table and then performed it five minutes
> later in a packed feasthall. Dragging in people at our table who don't
> usually play with us to help, no less. Again, this is something we have
> done, so your suggestion that I don't do this when I should are frankly kind
> of strange.
>
>
>
> Since our whole "mission" at events is to try to encourage people to
> participate in entertainment and to help bring more entertainment type stuff
> to the fore in general, I am wondering why I am being accused of griping
> without offering anything.
>
>
>
> And as an aside, we personally don't care if someone talks through our sets
> or otherwise does'nt pay attention. We consider ourselves more of a pub band
> than a performance band, and as such, expect noise and distraction while we
> are playing. It does not disturb us and we have made a point to learn to
> stay focused, since SCA events are full of distractions. We figure if you
> want to listen or sing along, you will, and if you don't you won't and it's
> all good. People on the other end of the hall can't even hear a lot of the
> entertainers, including us. You fill up a feast hall with bodies and all of
> a sudden you got no acoustics. This is one reason we don't turn our backs on
> the populace when playing, the way a lot of people do. I realize it is
> proper to face high table. It's also pretty excruciating for everyone else
> who can't hear what is going on, but feels an awkward sense of duty to be
> quiet nonetheless. I don't care if someone listens to me or ignores me, but
> I would at lea
>  st like them to have a choice.
>
>
>
> Dulcy
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > As far as entertainment goes, I would say, if you are bored and know
> > how to tell a story or sing, why don't you go ahead and do something?
> > At my last feast, I saw multiple examples of this spontaneous
> > entertainment. Another thing I have seen is to hold a Bardic
> > competition during feast. It's easy to complain about something, but
> > not so easy to do it, right?
> >
> > The only drawback are the gentles who do not care for the person doing
> > the entertaining and feel that their conversation is more important,
> > preventing some of us from listening to the song or tale. It takes a
> > stong performer to cut above conversations and some people don't feel
> > prepared enough to do this.
> >
>
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