Eh, Corvus Corax. The Ren Faire crowd was there, and the roleplay crowd was there (and I don’t mean I am your teacher and you are my student and you have been very very naughty now get out of that uniform and come her for a spanking) and everyone had a little chin beard, including the chicks. Lots of wench types around, quite a bit of the period costume, especially at first. Local period band opened the show, personally I wasn’t enthralled by them, I had liked them better the first time I saw them a few years ago, when they had seemed rhythmically tighter.
ON THE OTHER HAND the first time they didn’t have dancers. The dancers were alright. In fact, I was quite impressed by the slender, pale, dark-haired one with the back-sized tattoo on her back who breathed fire. Quite impressed.
I’m looking into firebreathing classes for Gamma now but I think you have to be at least nine for those.
Corvus Corax, OTOH, had no dancers. But they didn’t need any. Those boys can put on a show. My ears are still ringing. The crowd seemed to normalize a bit when they came onstage – they have a broader appeal, I think. Not just the knaves and wenches, you know. They have their musicianship down, they have a great stage show, lots of energy, lots of personality. They wear boots the toes of which turn up and come to a point, they wear these long leather loincloth things, and that’s about it. They worked very hard and gave us our money’s worth. We left satisfied after two encores or so, satisfied and deaf. And I want new drums, and bagpipes! Or at least a chanter. And a belly dancer.
When wenches were wenchy
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Can’t help you with the belly-dancer, sorry.
But if you really want fire-breathing lessons, I can help. Gamma might be a bit young, and the problem there is mainly lung pressure, but the rest of you can learn easily and in about 20 Minutes in your back yard.
You are so invited to the barbecue at my house this summer.
Wow, that’s another world out there. Is this a primarily German thing? Or is Corvus Corax just a German exponent. I loved one of the comments at Amazon: “Corvus Corax is the Rolling Stones of the Middle Ages.” From the snippets, though, I didn’t detect a lot of variety. Do you have to be there?
R J, I think it is primarily central european, that is from germany eastwards (and Corvus Corax are east german at that).
It’s connected with the re-enactment sub-culture that was pretty strong even in east bloc times in czechoslovakia and hungary.
The whole thing is a bit different from the renfaire scene in USania, dirtier, earthier and more violent (well, at least they fight with steel instead of rattan here…). The different music fits.
(Or I’m talking nonsense at 1:45 am)
And Mig, I’ll remind you once the dark times of winter are over…
BTW, figured out why I liked the opening act better the first time I saw them: it was a different band, with one of the same guys in it. Apparently he’s in at least two bands. Here is the other band I liked better: http://tuivelsminne.at/