Notes on A&S 50 Challenge
If you look back in the deep archives of the site, you’ll find that one of the reasons I set the site up was to motivate myself to write songs for the SCA’s A&S 50 Challenge. After seven months, I find I must modify my goals. In my 25+ years in the SCA I have only written about a dozen songs and have nine of those of my repertoire today. Though I have managed to write lyrics to two songs recently there is no way I can write 50 new songs. Therefore, since my oeuvre is really singing other people songs (just like a minstrel would, see Why not a Bard), I have decided I will learn 50 new songs for the A&S 50 Challenge. Now to some people this may be no great feat but it takes me about a month to learn a new song. There is also the problem of finding 50 new songs I like well enough to learn and that fit in with my persona. I got lucky recently in ordering Ken Theriot’s “Human History” from Raven Boy Music. I found four songs on the CD that I liked (including the wonderful The Feast Song) and I am working on the fourth now. Gee, that only leaves 46 more to go.
Not a Bard 