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Feb. 16th, 2009 04:35 pmAnother splendid St. Ethelburga's feast this weekend past.
Sixty attendees! with only a handful of people from outside the shire - OMG where did all these people come from??
Two courses of a fine buffet by Sir Alaric and his happy co-cooks;
An impressive 'scratch' band of musicians sightreading at a stupendous pace minimised the use of the boxed musicians;
An excellent willing group of dancers and learning dancers giving it a hearty effort;
A brief but lovely interlude of sung music;
A couple of 'dance geek' dances (a sexy double-time version of amoroso, and a splendid galliard for the showoffs);
...and a rousing rendition of the Official brawle to wrap up, with a speed competition between Thomas the drummer, Kiriel on the flute and the dancers to see who would collapse first. Not sure who won, but it was awesome fun.
Of our attendees, we must have had a dozen complete newcomers to the SCA attending, almost all by word-of-mouth or old connections w/ our members - many folks dragged out a friend and threw them into an outfit. We gained a couple of attendees by our Skirmish promotion - reenactors looking to do something outside their current circuit. The Viceroy and Vicreine were surprised and delighted to hand out over a dozen newcomer tokens at their court.
We also had a stupendously fast breakdown, because we had only about half an hour to clean up before the hall closed - I'd honestly never seen a hall cleared, cleaned and swept of people and stuff so fast. It was terrific.
We now have another half-dozen dances in our collective shire repetoire, now that we've got the hang of them.
Robert was almost intolerably smug for having worked out the dance tunes for them, on the blartiphone, on the fly. (I hope everyone likes Cecelia's Alman - the snogging dance - because you'll be hearing a lot more of it at our revels!)
I'm hugely proud of our shire - the same folks who were running their first event this time last year (and looking decidedly deer-in-headlinghts-ish!) looked like polished old pros this year. Brilliant stuff.
Looks good for Crown!
Sixty attendees! with only a handful of people from outside the shire - OMG where did all these people come from??
Two courses of a fine buffet by Sir Alaric and his happy co-cooks;
An impressive 'scratch' band of musicians sightreading at a stupendous pace minimised the use of the boxed musicians;
An excellent willing group of dancers and learning dancers giving it a hearty effort;
A brief but lovely interlude of sung music;
A couple of 'dance geek' dances (a sexy double-time version of amoroso, and a splendid galliard for the showoffs);
...and a rousing rendition of the Official brawle to wrap up, with a speed competition between Thomas the drummer, Kiriel on the flute and the dancers to see who would collapse first. Not sure who won, but it was awesome fun.
Of our attendees, we must have had a dozen complete newcomers to the SCA attending, almost all by word-of-mouth or old connections w/ our members - many folks dragged out a friend and threw them into an outfit. We gained a couple of attendees by our Skirmish promotion - reenactors looking to do something outside their current circuit. The Viceroy and Vicreine were surprised and delighted to hand out over a dozen newcomer tokens at their court.
We also had a stupendously fast breakdown, because we had only about half an hour to clean up before the hall closed - I'd honestly never seen a hall cleared, cleaned and swept of people and stuff so fast. It was terrific.
We now have another half-dozen dances in our collective shire repetoire, now that we've got the hang of them.
Robert was almost intolerably smug for having worked out the dance tunes for them, on the blartiphone, on the fly. (I hope everyone likes Cecelia's Alman - the snogging dance - because you'll be hearing a lot more of it at our revels!)
I'm hugely proud of our shire - the same folks who were running their first event this time last year (and looking decidedly deer-in-headlinghts-ish!) looked like polished old pros this year. Brilliant stuff.
Looks good for Crown!
