((Here are the collected songs from the bardic Gathering...
I've left in some of the more amusing actions, or comments, made during the event within them.
---- Allon, the Opening Verses ----
Allon sings, the music background to his voice "Here we are all gathered, Together this day, Come here to listen, To learn, And some to say, "
Allon sings softly "So let us speak out our voices, Share stories to us dear, Or share sweet poetry, Or songs of love or of fear, "
Allon sings softly "Let us be together this day, In union of thought, Quiet as we each preform, That which words we wrought. "
Allon sings softly "So with these words, I'll step down from this stage, To let others be wordsmiths, In our day and age. "
Allon speaks the final verse of it all. "Let all our words be clear, Be heard unto all, For now is the time, For this Bardic Gathering Ball. "
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---- Levity and Trinsic, in a "Spring Duet" ----
Levity says, 'All of you, this is Trinsic Starsinger, who began these Bardics.'
Trinsic bows to the assembled company.
Levity says, 'He has come here tonight to sing with me.'
Levity says, '(( ooc he has given me permission to "puppet" him for this ))'
Frith-Rae smiles glad she wasn't going blind....
They take each other's hands, Levity humming a starting note.
Levity says, 'This is a Spring Duet often sung in my home town at Festivals.'
Frith-Rae gets comfortable and twitches her ear fins forward to the humming
Trinsic says, "What a long cold time it's been"
Trinsic says, "Walls of snow they hemmed us in"
Levity says, 'But soft the winds and warm the sun'
Levity says, 'Our time of ice and snow is done.'
Their voices join for the chorus: "Gone the stark and gone the bare"
"Gone the frost from everywhere"
"here the lush and here the green"
"here are blossoms to be seen"
Trinsic says, "See the stallion with his mare"
Levity smiles widely. "Soon see colts that gambol there."
They join voices: "Nature tells us what to do.
"Age old cycle, ever new."
The chorus begins again, Levity nodding to the audience to join in.
Gone the stark and gone the bare
Gone the frost from everywhere
Here the lush and here the green
Here are blossoms to be seen
The tune is happy, springy ...
Trinsic sings, "Here are you" and Levity responds, "and here am I"
Together, they sing, "Sing our blessings to the sky"
Raise our hands to feel the breeze
Dance amid the droning bees.
And once more the chorus rings out.
Gone the stark and gone the bare
Gone the frost from everywhere
Allon sings "Gone the stark and gone the bare"
Allon sings "Gone the frost from everywhere."
They braid their voices with Allon's. "Here the lush and here the green
Here are flowers to be seen
Allon sings "Here the Lush and here the green"
Allon sings "here are flowers to be seen."
Levity says, 'Feel the joy and feel the love'
Levity says, 'Watch the birds that fly above'
Trinsic's tenor joins Levity's alto again. "With their flight our hearts take wing."
"Feel this gift the Goddess brings."
Levity says, 'Last chorus, all, then one more verse, everyone join'
Gone the stark and gone the bare
Gone the frost from everywhere
Allon sings along "Gone the Stark and Gone the Bare."
Here the lush and here the green
Allon sings "Gone the frost from Everywhere."
Maneso harmonizes the three with a deep bass "Here the lush and here the green"
Here are blossoms to be seen
Allon sings "Here the Lush and here the Green.""
Xerses hums along.
Frith-Rae joins her triple tenored voice to Allons singing the chorus
Allon sings "Here are Flowers to be seen."
Menkure sings "Here the blossoms to be seen"
The singers' voices rise to the end in joyful tones. "Braid the blossoms in our hair
Dance together without care
Allon sings "Braid the blossoms with our scales."
The last line is drawn out sweetly. "Age old cycle, ever new."
Levity and Trinsic bow.
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