Adhela's Bardic Links
Bardic songbooks and resource I have squirreled away, to be organized later (feel free to help organize!)
Events / Calendar
- Virtual Bardic Calendar (google calendar link)
Regional Songbooks
Bard Craft
- SCA Bardic Arts Resource Page
- How to Bard, A Primer
- Research for Bards and Performers
- On the Mechanics of the Bardic Arts within the SCA This is an http site, so you may have to click through some warning links, but it's a great article and worth reading.
- On Bards, and Bardic Circles by Ioseph of Locksley History of bards and at the end, a great reading list.
Groups
- Bards of An Tir (Facebook)
- SCA Bardic Arts (unofficial) (Facebook)
- An Tir Discord #bardic channel
Music Sources
- An Tir Wiki Songs Page
- The Knowne World Bardcast Now defunct, but five seasons worth of content still streamable, including music, music history, and more.
- Ancient FM, historical music
- A Bard's Celtic Lyric Directory The Brobdingnagian Bards present 80 Popular Lyrics, Chords, MP3s, with Background & some Tab
- MidBards & Friends Huge directory of attributed work by SCA bards. Many lyrics have mp3 or Youtube links so that you can hear it performed.
- Adhela's SCA Song Lyrics
- Drake the Bard Bardic List Includes listening links and in many cases sheet music or tabs
- Katriona's Songbook (Calontir Songs). Another http link, click through the warnings to view
Lists of Lists
- MidBards Links Page A fabulous directory of Bardic colleges, music sources, articles, etc. Includes links to many SCA and general interest song collections. A must-visit.
- Kingdom Song Links More from the SCA Bardic Arts Resource Page