Ottoman Marching Music

Location: Loud 1 Instructor:Master Osman Description: Marches of the World's first military marching band, the *Janissary Mehter* Band.

Harp for Absolute Beginners I

Location: Duprey Creations Merchant Booth Instructor:Mistress Rebecca da Firenze Description: Come learn the very basics of playing harp! Please bring a harp if you have one and a chair if you need one. Prior...

Bardic Writing Skirmish

University Battlefield

Location: University Battlefield Instructor:THL Cobflaith ingen Sitriucca Description: Come for a writing challenge! I'll give a prompt and we'll each write for an hour (song/story/poem, etc.), then share.

Owain Phyfe’s Music: Songs that Inspired Him, Pt 2

Location: PARC Instructor:THL Siri Toivosdotter Description: Sing and play some of the music that inspired Owain Phyfe. Instrumentalists and vocalists welcome. Sequel to class taught in previous years.

World Music Rhythms

Location: Touch The Earth Instructor:Erica Description: A quick review of over a dozen common world music rhythms for dancers, drummers, and melody players.

Pre-16th-Century Musical Modal Improvisation

Location: Cafe Merhaba Instructor:Master Albrecht Catsprey Description: This is a practical application class for musicians to learn improvisational skills that were practiced in the Middle Ages. **College level.**

The Pennsic Mightier: Improv Workshop

Amphitheater

Location: Amphitheater Instructor:Mistress Aibhilin inghean Daibhidh Description: Improv workshop for experienced performers: address higher level improv skills, create character, build scenes leading to a performance. **Age limit**

Breaking into SCA Bardic

Location: Northshield Royal - E02 Instructor:THL Cobflaith ingen Sitriucca Description: If you're new to SCA bardic, getting into a new area of bardic, or just looking for material or ideas, this workshop is for...

NOT You Billy: Elizabethan Theatre Beyond the Bard

Location: A&S Tent 6 Instructor:THL Katherine Coscombe Description: Shakespeare is not the only playwright to know from the 16th-C English stage. Explore other notable figures of Elizabethan Theatre.