From What Master Liam Meant To Say.
I made a playlist on YouTube, here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_AGpqxzmAWrZye0dqMgyPIDVdB15reVS
Thirty Essential SCA songs
Important note: Again, this is a list of personal preference, and I likely could have doubled it. I am always open to suggestions for new ideas.
All-time Favorites
“Born on the Listfield”
Master Ivar Battleskald
“Song of the Shield Wall”
Malkin Gray/Peregrynne Windrider
“The Peasant Knight”
Mistress Rosalind Jehanne’Allen Garretson
“One of Us”
Heather Dale
“Undefeated”
Lucia Elena Braganza
Kingdom
“Flower of the Desert”
Baldwin of Erebor
“Rise”
Hector of the Black Height
“Stand Brother, Stand”
Truly Carmichael
“I Am of the North”
Aneleda Falconbridge
“Sons of the Dragon”
Garraed Gailbraith
“Shield My Kinsman”
Wyndreth Berginsdottir
History
“Hotspur”
Andrew of Wolvenwood
“Song of Roland”
Mistress Rosalind Jehanne
“Band of Brothers”
Ken Theriot
“Crusader Song”
Conn MacNall
Funny
“The Feast Song”
Ken Theriot
“Ban The Fencers”
Thomas Bordeaux
“Death, Doom and Gloom”
Cerian Cantwyr
“I’m a Duke, and You’re Not”
Thomas Bordeaux
“Seven Old Laurels”
Efenwealt Whystle/David Gunther
More Favorites
“InDUCKtion Song”
John Inchingham
“Non Nobis”
Psalm 115:1/ Patrick Doyle
“Burden of the Crown”
Baldwin of Erebor
“Stone Soup”
Heather Dale
“Drums Over Pennsic”
Lorelei Skye
“Fruit of the Yew”
James Treebull The Stubborn
“Compact Between Horse and Man”
Dorcas Whitecastle
“Knight’s Leap”
Charles Kingsley/Leslie Fish
“My Old Man’s A . . .”
Valentine Warner/Efenwealt Whystle
“The Leaving Song”
Andrixos Seljukroctonis
Master Liam’s Favorite SCA Singers
Important note: This is not meant to be a definitive list of singers of the style of SCA folk music (I call it SCA filk, but some of the musicians disagree), It’s not even a definitive list of my favorites. If your favorite artist is not on here, please do not take it the wrong way. There will be time for sharing at the end of class.
Heather Dale: Perhaps the only SCA musician making a living with music, Heather has a wonderful voice and an amazingly dynamic stage presence. She and guitarist Ben Deschamps travel frequently, and they are always looking for house parties. Heather has a couple of SCA-specific CDs, including “Call The Names,” and is also distinguished as a singer of Arthurian lullabies. In fact, Mistress Marion of Heatherdale does not have a Laurel for performing music, but rather for her Arthurian research.
Hector of the Black Height: Chalk up another for Ealdormere Laurels. Hector, who also writes the most exquisite scroll texts, has done what I think of as perhaps the best SCA CD ever – “The Red Album” – which include the Ealdormere anthem “Rise,” the poignant, “Home To Ealdormere,” and some of the funniest songs you have ever heard.
John Inchingham: A Midrealm Laurel, first bard who ever gave me a CD. It was a present. John is also an amazing fencer. His five or so CDs are absolutely hilarious and include a number of other outstanding bards like Master Cerian Cantwyr.
Bryce de Byram: And in this corner, from Atlantia, a triple peer . . . (why is it all these people are peers?). Bryce is the voice of chivalry and honor. IN fact, his CD is called “Songs of Chivalry. “Great stuff from a great guy.
Ken Theriot: Not your average Ansteorran knight. (Is there such a thing?) If Hector’s is the best SCA CD I own, Ken’s “Human History” is a very close second.
Lisa Theriot: Another Ansteorran bard of high renown , her CD based on the Canterbury Tales ought to be in every high school teacher’s library. She also writes some of Ken’s songs.
Efenwealt Whystle: (He gets to write his) Efenwealt is the alter ego of singer/songwriter Scott Vaughan. In his Efenwealt persona, he is a best described as a modern-day minstrel with a comedic bent. He has been writing and recording music since 1989. Most of his original work is SCA, but he also does Harry Potter music with “The Blibbering Humdingers.”
Baldwin of Erebor: One of the old-school SCA bards, his “Welcome to the Current Middle Ages” is a must-own CD.
And more: These are eight folks I listen to a lot. I asked my friends for more, and among those they listed were: Joe Bethancourt, Leslie Fish, Samantha Moore, the Whiskey Bards, Rosalind Jehanne, Mateo de Madris, Rosalnd Jehanne, John ap Wynn, Truly Carmichael, Wyndreth Berginsdottir and Aneleda of Falconbridge. There are many more.
Master Liam St. Liam is gone from us, and I want to be sure that a couple of his posts are available to folks, so I’m putting them here, in case his site ever goes away.
