From david.a.learmonth at gmail.com Tue Mar 11 20:16:20 2014 From: david.a.learmonth at gmail.com (David Learmonth) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:16:20 -0400 Subject: [SCA-Dance] Heather Dale IndieGogo Campaign - Celtic Avalon - 10 days left! Message-ID: Hi Dancers! Some of you may remember Heather Dale (Marian) performing at KWDS back in 2009. Or you may be familiar with her Music. She started out as a Bard in Ealdormere, provided one of our earlier Dance Music cds, and has gone on to record a lovely Historical Christmas album, as well as many songs of her own creation based on Arthurian and other legends and stories. (many with a modern fusion) Mordred's Lullaby is one of hers. Well, Heather needs help! She and her band have a larger project they want to take on, but it needs funding: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/heather-dale-s-celtic-avalon-touring-show-and-dvd It has about 10 days left, and is 60% funded as of today. Please pardon that it is not dance related. I just felt that many of us know Heather, and appreciate her work, and would like to help it succeed (as well as wanting to see the performance). Anything you can do to just Spread The Word to Anyone you might think would be interested would be Wonderful! Heather truly is an amazing, really nice person. Music is her Passion. She is always on tour, and is down in the US right now, typically performing for small venues, such as house concerts. This is also how her and her band make their living, and she is a perfect example of the power of communities (or Tribes, as she discusses in her TED talk from last year. http://youtu.be/f7tO-8PIR9s ) Thank you everyone for your help! Darius the Dancer / David Learmonth From carolanneperry at gmail.com Wed Mar 12 15:58:37 2014 From: carolanneperry at gmail.com (Carol Perry Lagemann) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:58:37 -0000 Subject: [SCA-Dance] Call for Performers at St. Cecilia (May 9-10) Message-ID: Hi, Musician! St. Cecilia at the Tower III will happen soon (on May 9-10 in the Barony of Cynnabar), and we're looking for performers. The concerts at St. Cecilia offer a rare opportunity for SCA singers and instrumentalists to share what they're working on with other music lovers in a performance-focused setting. Because so many people have asked to perform in previous years, this year there will be two concerts, one on Friday evening (May 9) and one on Saturday evening (May 10). We are looking for groups and individuals to perform at both concerts. Participating in these concerts is incredibly fun and rewarding, so I hope you'll join us. If you would like to perform at St. Cecilia, please see the concerts page on the event website. We'd like to hear from you by March 31 so we can have plenty of time to make the program. I'm very excited about this event, and I hope you are, too. If you have any questions, feel free to email me any time. Yours in service, Kasha Alekseeva Co-Autocrat, St. Cecilia at the Tower From john.white at drexel.edu Fri Mar 7 15:55:06 2014 From: john.white at drexel.edu (White,John) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:55:06 -0000 Subject: [SCA-Dance] Some improvements on my Lovelace/Church web pages Message-ID: <6CEF9498CE7F2A4AB4B8F0CD27CB36D221285E96@MB4.drexel.edu> Thanks to a not-exactly-gentle request by someone (besides me) who actually uses my Lovelace Manuscript pages, I have begun a moderate revamping of the structure of the pages. Previous to this revamp, the transcribed manuscript pages were presented in a handy (or so I always thought) Excel-created web-page-workbook. Since creating this web-page-workbook took a single save action and no hand work, and because I carry around a printed version when I need to, plus the version on my iPad, I never had to think about whether someone would try to view the rather complicated set-up on a smart phone (I'm not a Luddite, but I really don't think smart phones were meant to read document transcriptions ...), and it was plenty good enough for my purposes. Apparently, this was not so universally. So, I have been hand-crafting all 67 pages of the dance portion of the manuscript into a single document with various links to various places. I have also provided a main organizing page that allows jumping into the document at the specific point you want. In addition, I have provided the poetry pages in their own documents (10 pages and 5 pages respectively, hand-coded into their own web pages), so that if people are interested, they can look at those. I find them interesting quite aside from the dance portion of the manuscript, and I'm not even a cavalier poet scholar. I have about half of the main dance manuscript transcriptions copied and massaged into the main document - 30 pages out of 67. I will continue the process, which is not hard but is exceptionally tedious, until they are all in place, at which time I will remove the workbook web page, as it will be obsolete (and out-dated in terms of the information within it). I hope that this revamp makes these pages more accessible, even on a smart phone, and thus more useful to people out there. \\Dafydd Cyhoeddwr, swiftly coming down with carpel tunnel syndrome ... From john.white at drexel.edu Mon Mar 10 16:37:37 2014 From: john.white at drexel.edu (White,John) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:37:37 -0000 Subject: [SCA-Dance] [SCA Dance] The Lovelace/Church project is done Message-ID: <6CEF9498CE7F2A4AB4B8F0CD27CB36D221286B57@MB4.drexel.edu> I've finished the revamp of my Lovelace/Church manuscript pages, and they are fully available here: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~white/dlovelacen.html. Of course, that isn't to say that there might be future changes - that was a lot of cut-and-paste, with some hand-coding in between, so typos and such are very likely. But it is all basically there, if not perfectly presentable or functional. Please enjoy this more html-basic and (with hope) friendly version of the manuscript transcription itself. \\Dafydd C. From margaret.menzies at gmail.com Wed Mar 19 17:30:21 2014 From: margaret.menzies at gmail.com (Margaret Menzies) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:30:21 -0000 Subject: [SCA-Dance] Come for the dancing, stay for the hedgehogs - Flintheath Yule Ball Dec 5-7 2014 Message-ID: In case you want to dance in a great hall in front of an open fire this coming December, this event is for you. I would welcome seeing some SCA dance friends there. From the event announcement: As the land greens, memories of the hardships of winter start to fade as thoughts turn to the planting of fields, the hunting of game and reveling in the Sun. However, the Shire of Flintheath, thinking ahead to the days when the nights shall again draw long and the days short, is pleased to announce that a Yule Ball will once again be held within our borders at Buckden Towers. The theme for this year's Ball is the Bestiary. All the beasts of reality, travellers' tales and legend. The animals we see all around us, such as hares, foxes, deer and the dwindling population of wolves and bears. Those exotic creatures of which merchants and sailors love to tell, such as elephants, crocodiles and parrots. And the creatures that no one claims to have seen themselves, but only heard rumours, like the unicorn, manticore and gryphon. And lest we forget, the Principality's favorite grape stealing hedgehogs. Other Activities TBD but include: Armoured Holly Monarch Tournament Rapier Tournament Archery Competition Brewer's Guild Tasting Competition More info and registration information: http://flintheath.com/Events/YuleBall2014/YuleBall2014.asp Site info: http://www.fobt.org.uk/towers.htm YIS Margaret de Mey