Yeah, this. We're still getting to Pennsic, and probably two or three other events a year, but Pennsic is the only place where we have time to set up The Stuff (pavilion, trestle tables, candelabra, poor-man's canopy bed, etc.), so what's the point of making and/or buying more Stuff?
Perhaps even more wrenching, we practice shawm, harp, recorder, citole, fiddle, etc. partly so we can play them competently at events (say what you will about the SCA, it's a great source of in-context performing opportunities). But we're getting to fewer events, which leaves us with fewer performing opportunities. We've found more non-SCA opportunities to play with people, but there's the danger of all these instruments becoming purely social, not performing.
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Date: 2019-06-10 11:33 am (UTC)Perhaps even more wrenching, we practice shawm, harp, recorder, citole, fiddle, etc. partly so we can play them competently at events (say what you will about the SCA, it's a great source of in-context performing opportunities). But we're getting to fewer events, which leaves us with fewer performing opportunities. We've found more non-SCA opportunities to play with people, but there's the danger of all these instruments becoming purely social, not performing.