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Ye Olde Faire in Camelot #2: Minstrels/Troubadours

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Ye Olde Faire in Camelot #2: Minstrels/Troubadours
Group:Keepers of Avalon
Swap Coordinator:NaughtyElf (contact)
Swap categories: Themed  Music 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:March 17, 2009
Date items must be sent by:April 17, 2009
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

The faire is coming to town! Come one, come all but don't ignore the call!

Note: Please read over this swap carefully, it's not complicated I just like to explain everything with as much detail as I can, but make sure you read all the criteria before signing up.

This is the second in what will be a series of swaps based on the old traveling faires. Whether gypsies, a troupe of entertainers or players, whatever names they were called by, they would set up tents just on the outskirts of town and sell their wares, read fortunes, play instruments, and entertain! They would also sell things for the children, potions to cure aliments, weapons, jewelry and so much more. Just a simple faire but something new and exciting nonetheless!

Your journey continues here...

Emerging from the fortune teller's tent, your mind still pondering the words that were spoken, you hear the most delightful sound above the chatter and noise of the crowd...music! They've begun this evenings festivities and what a night it will be! Now that you think about it, you begin to notice all sorts of minstrels, bards and even a gypsy or two among the crowd, most likely here to entertain. You get a tankard of honey mead and start walking toward the clearing where people are gathering, and wait...

So, this is a music swap. For this swap you will send 1 CD to 2 partners for a total of 2 CD's. Please include a track listing and a minimum of 12 songs (I would normally say 15, but some of these songs are sometimes longer than the average 2-3 minutes of most pop songs). Cover art would be nice, but not a requirement.

The theme of the music is obviously medieval, think Renaissance Faires and the like. For musicians think of Loreena McKennitt, Heather Dale, Medieval Babes to list a few. The music can have a slight contemporary feel to it as long as it doesn't distract from it sounding "medieval." For example, I have some amazing songs in Latin, but they have a slight techno backbeat to them but they still have that faire or medieval feel to them. Also another example may be the Chieftans CD "Tears of Stone" featuring various females artists singing songs like "He Moved Through the Fair," "Raglan Road" and "The Lowlands of Holland" to name a few, of course instrumental songs are fine too as are some chants. (I hope this helps, if you still have questions, please feel free to pm me or leave them below).

To learn more about minstrels in the middle ages, please click here.

I will give everyone a month to prepare and a little over a week to sign up as I want everyone to have theirs by May Day (May 1st) to celebrate the coming of summer!

This is a group swap so everyone should be trustworthy but I will say this now - if you flake on a group swap you will be dropped from the group. Also, if you are going to be late even by a day please pm your partner to let them know it's just common courtesy. I understand life happens.

Have fun with this and happy listening!!!

Discussion

Ogma 03/ 7/2009 #

Love the swap pic. ;-)

NaughtyElf 03/ 7/2009 #

Thanks! I like it a lot too!

I didn't realise until after I forgot to put an "e" on the end of fair :-( lol! I am a perfectionist, but I am not rewriting the entire swap for an "e." Oh, well I'll get it right next time!

Ogma 03/ 7/2009 #

Just click "edit swap" and change the title only. :-|> I'm a perfectionist, too. geek

bookwyrmm 03/ 7/2009 #

Would Shakespearean music be OK? I know he is later than medieval, but I had to download a bunch of his stuff for a show I just directed, and some reminds me of what you would hear at a RenFaire.

NaughtyElf 03/ 7/2009 #

I think that would be fine, if it sounds medieval or renaissance that's cool too, just something in a style or stylised type music you would hear at a faire. I just don't want rock n' roll or something completely off target, if that makes sense.

NaughtyElf 03/ 7/2009 #

Thanks Ogma, for some reason I thought you couldn't change the title after you created it, yeah I'm with it today!

LadyBathory 03/ 8/2009 #

Uh yay :D

NaughtyElf 03/ 8/2009 #

Hey guys thanks for joining, this should be pretty good! Spread the word if you can or know of anyone in the group that would like this! Yay!

Moominbrooke 03/10/2009 #

Fun stuff! Glad I happened upon this swap. :0)

tinnuwen 03/11/2009 #

I'm SO in... :) I love this type of music - some of my favourite bands do this and I love seeing them live at faires... I even have a live-CD of one of them so you do get a real faire-feel there BUT they talk a lot in German in between...

NaughtyElf 03/11/2009 #

Thanks for joining you two! I am so happy there are so many people interested already!

Ogma 03/16/2009 #

All the music I have does have a contemporary feel to it, but I don't think it detracts from the "feel" we're trying to get here. Is this okay with everyone? I want to make sure before the sign-up date has passed. (It's some Loreena McKennitt and other, local bands and singers. A lot of Celtic stuff, too.)

NaughtyElf 03/21/2009 #

That's fine with me Ogma, as long as I don't hear the Drop Kick Murphy's blasting The Fields of Athenry then I'm cool...(not that that is a bad song, actually it's one of my faves but using it as it example of an old song gone way too punk/rock for this swap)...hope that helps!

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