SCA Bardic Fun

The Pennsic Mightier: Improv Workshop
2025-07-29 13:00, 2025-07-30 13:00, 2025-07-31 13:00 (America/New_York) | 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
2025-07-29 16:00
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 you!

NOT You Billy: Elizabethan Theatre Beyond the Bard
2025-07-30 09:00
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.

Storytelling Academy
2025-07-30 10:00
Location: Minerva’s Spindle
Instructor:Gabrielle d’Auvergne Description: Students will participate in a cumulative 9-day class which encompasses the basics of becoming a storyteller.

Ottoman Marching Music
2025-07-30 10:00
Location: Loud 1
Instructor:Master Osman Description: Marches of the World’s first military marching band, the *Janissary Mehter* Band.

Alliterative Verse
2025-07-30 11:00 | Tent 5
Location: A&S Tent 5
Instructor:Justinian Clarus Description: Learn about verse and the difference between free verse, rhyming verse, and alliterative verse.

Here. Play This. Now.
2025-07-30 11:30
Location: PARC
Instructor:THL Siri Toivosdotter Description: Sight-read with us! Bring your recorder, or a C or F instrument. Bring a music stand and a sense of humor.

Norse Poetry Overview
2025-07-30 12:00
A&S Tent 9
Instructor:LÃ¦rifaÃ°ir Grim the Skald Description: Learn about Viking-era poetry. Includes forms, metrics, and alliteration and how to write in Norse verse. We’ll talk about the ways poetry was used.

Beyond the (Cis) Male: Poets and Songwriters
2025-07-30 12:00
Location: A&S Tent 1
Instructor:THL Cobflaith ingen Sitriucca Description: Medieval poets, songwriters, and composers who weren’t (or at least, may not have been) cisgender men (a brief-ish sampling!).

My Ukulele Is a Guitar
2025-07-30 13:00
Location PARC
Instructor:Tommaso Franceschi Description: History of the Renaissance 4-course guitar and its direct descendant the baritone ukulele, plus its surviving music.

Youth Recorder Jam Session
2025-07-30 13:00
Location: A&S Tent 9
Instructor:Pia Maletesta d’Rimini Description: Did you learn to play the recorder in school? Don’t know what to do with it? Let’s figure that out. Ages 8-17

Beginning Recorder
2025-07-30 14:00
Location: PARC
Instructor:Honorable Lady Elizabeth de Spaldyng Description: Learn to play soprano or tenor recorder and, as needed, basics of music reading. Bring a recorder and music stand.

Come Play With Us: *Odhecaton*
2025-07-30 15:00
Location PARC
Instructor:Mistress Rebecca da Firenze Description: The *Odhecaton* is the first printed book of music from 1501. We’ll play various pieces. Bring an instrument plus stand if you have one.

Come Play With Us: *In Nomines*
2025-07-30 16:00
Location PARC
Instructor:Mistress Rebecca da Firenze Description: *In Nomines*: instrumental pieces for players of uneven skill. We’ll play of several fantasia lines and one *cantus firmus*.

Recounting History in Song
2025-07-30 18:00
Location: Northshield Royal – E02
Instructor:THL Cobflaith ingen Sitriucca Description: Demonstration of period examples, then discussion about how to reduce your chosen subject into to a concise, entertaining piece. Then we will write!

Exploring World Rhythms & Melodies with DragonSong
2025-07-30 19:30
Location: Bog U
Instructor:DragonSong Description: Join us lakeside as we play music and dance the sun down.

*Janissary* Band
2025-07-31 10:00
Location Loud 1
Instructor:Master Osman Description: Learn the authentic music and march of the 16th-century Ottoman *Janissary* Band.

Harp for Absolute Beginners I
2025-07-31 10:00
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 experience not necessary. All ages.

Storytelling Academy
2025-07-31 10:00 | Minerva’s Spindle

Known World Choir Rehearsals
2025-07-31 10:00 | PARC
Location: PARC Instructor: THL Siri Toivosdotter Description: Join the oldest Pennsic Choir as we rehearse in preparation for a concert on Thursday of War Week.

Guitars Are Awesome
2025-07-31 11:00
Location: House Raeburn : N16
Instructor:THL Dunstan Bramblette Description: Bring your guitar! We’ll go through the things you wish to learn.

Frame Drumming 101
2025-07-31 11:00
Location: Middle Eastern
Instructor:Tommaso Franceschi Description: *Tar, bendir, lag-na, Patayani thappu* … Frame drums: built and played every where/when we study. A hands-on intro to hand drumming.

Uke Can Do It! Beginner Ukulele Class
2025-07-31 11:00 | Teen U
Location: Teen U
Instructor:Baroness Hugoline the Delicate Description: Bring your uke and/or your singing voice, and learn some fun period songs and songs of the Current Middle Ages.

Children's Choir
2025-07-31 12:00
Location: PARC
Instructor:Pia Maletesta d’Rimini Description: For children 13 and younger. Sing music in a period style. Meets daily. Performance on Thursday of War Week!

Why Poets Should Use the English Style
2025-07-31 12:00 | Tent 1
Location: A&S Tent 1
Instructor:Magistra Fiana of Clare Description: Learn why the poetry of English elegies and epics is superior for composition in our common tongue, and learn its elements and techniques.

Telling Stories as Your Persona
2025-07-31 13:00
Location: A&S Tent 9
Instructor:Master Cariadoc Description: How to tell stories in a way that creates the illusion of a period story being told to a period audience, along with a discussion of sources.

Music to Pass the Time
2025-07-31 13:00
Location: PARC
Instructor:Mistress Deonna von Aachen Description: What could be better than to break into song? Here is a collection of songs that are easy and fun to sing. Music will be provided.

Pre-16th-Century Musical Modal Improvisation
2025-07-31 14:00
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.**
