Home Stretch -- to Mid-Season!
Greetings to all, and welcome to our new fans!
We are finally coming down the home stretch of our Spring Renaissance/Medieval Faire season. We've just finished with Excalibur and Norman Medieval Faires, then with two weekends of Scarborough Faire, a performance for Earth Day at the Norman Sierra Club, then four weekends of the Oklahoma Renaissance Faire at the Castle of Muskogee. We capped that all with a busking trip to Scarborough Faire (which shall next year be known as "Scarborough Renaissance Festival!") on our own dime, to work the streets and play with our wonderful friends from Texas for Memorial Day weekend. Now my guitar is at the Luthier's being re-fretted, because all that playing just wore the frets down to nothing!
We got back from Scarborough Tuesday afternoon, just in time to get chores (for me) and sewing (for Rowan) done. Needless to say, we're looking forward to a weekend off, something we've not had since sometime back in February!
This coming weekend, on Sunday, June 5th, we shall be providing the music for Tulsa Chautauqua's "Dinner with da Vinci" fundraiser, sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa. The Tulsa World carried an article on this fundraiser here.
The article features a picture of Queen's Gambit in the beautiful garden of the private home where the event will be held. The fundraiser benefits the actual Chautauqua which starts June 11th on the campus of OSU Tulsa, and features several historical characters, for a "living history" segment, along with music. The article in the Tulsa World describes it much better than I can!
We'd like to encourage anyone who is able to contact the Arts and Humanities Council chairpeople at the number in the article to donate and attend the fundraiser, and of course the general public is invited to the Chautauqua at T-OSU itself at no cost. The fundraiser is $100/plate, which makes me very anxious to provide these folke with some first-class Renaissance and Celtic music!
For those who will be in the Tulsa area on the following Tuesday, June 7th, Queen's Gambit will be in concert at the Tulsa Hardesty Regional Library Auditorium at 93rd and Memorial, just off the Creek Turnpike, from 7 until 8 p.m. to help kick off the Summer Reading Program, which has the Renaissance theme this year of "Joust Read!" This is the gig we'd like to make sure all our Tulsa area fans attend, so we can "pack the house" with folke, in or out of garb, doesn't matter, we'll be happy to see what some of you look like in clothes! ;)
The Hamlet of Mid-Missouri Renaissance Festival will be our next stop after that, in Sedalia, Missouri at the State Fairgrounds, on June 11th and 12th. We're hoping for a good turnout, and anyone who comes that weekend and catches all of our shows will probably get to hear our entire (70+ song) repertoire, as I'm sure we'll be playing at least 4 shows per day, but we haven't got the schedule yet. Ya'll come to that one, those of you who don't mind a lovely drive through
the mountains. Straight North from Springfield Mo., if you're coming from Oklahoma or Arkansas, or straight out I-70 from Kansas City.
We shall also perform at a "Renaissance Faire" partially sponsored by the folke of King Arthur Faire, at the Martin Public Library on July 9th at various times during the day, more info on that as it draws closer.
So it has been a busy Spring, and we hope yours has been busy and productive as well! Thank all of you for your kind support, and we look forward to Summer and the opportunity to entertain you again!
Hope to see you all soon!
"Bruce the Bruce"
We are finally coming down the home stretch of our Spring Renaissance/Medieval Faire season. We've just finished with Excalibur and Norman Medieval Faires, then with two weekends of Scarborough Faire, a performance for Earth Day at the Norman Sierra Club, then four weekends of the Oklahoma Renaissance Faire at the Castle of Muskogee. We capped that all with a busking trip to Scarborough Faire (which shall next year be known as "Scarborough Renaissance Festival!") on our own dime, to work the streets and play with our wonderful friends from Texas for Memorial Day weekend. Now my guitar is at the Luthier's being re-fretted, because all that playing just wore the frets down to nothing!
We got back from Scarborough Tuesday afternoon, just in time to get chores (for me) and sewing (for Rowan) done. Needless to say, we're looking forward to a weekend off, something we've not had since sometime back in February!
This coming weekend, on Sunday, June 5th, we shall be providing the music for Tulsa Chautauqua's "Dinner with da Vinci" fundraiser, sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa. The Tulsa World carried an article on this fundraiser here.
The article features a picture of Queen's Gambit in the beautiful garden of the private home where the event will be held. The fundraiser benefits the actual Chautauqua which starts June 11th on the campus of OSU Tulsa, and features several historical characters, for a "living history" segment, along with music. The article in the Tulsa World describes it much better than I can!
We'd like to encourage anyone who is able to contact the Arts and Humanities Council chairpeople at the number in the article to donate and attend the fundraiser, and of course the general public is invited to the Chautauqua at T-OSU itself at no cost. The fundraiser is $100/plate, which makes me very anxious to provide these folke with some first-class Renaissance and Celtic music!
For those who will be in the Tulsa area on the following Tuesday, June 7th, Queen's Gambit will be in concert at the Tulsa Hardesty Regional Library Auditorium at 93rd and Memorial, just off the Creek Turnpike, from 7 until 8 p.m. to help kick off the Summer Reading Program, which has the Renaissance theme this year of "Joust Read!" This is the gig we'd like to make sure all our Tulsa area fans attend, so we can "pack the house" with folke, in or out of garb, doesn't matter, we'll be happy to see what some of you look like in clothes! ;)
The Hamlet of Mid-Missouri Renaissance Festival will be our next stop after that, in Sedalia, Missouri at the State Fairgrounds, on June 11th and 12th. We're hoping for a good turnout, and anyone who comes that weekend and catches all of our shows will probably get to hear our entire (70+ song) repertoire, as I'm sure we'll be playing at least 4 shows per day, but we haven't got the schedule yet. Ya'll come to that one, those of you who don't mind a lovely drive through
the mountains. Straight North from Springfield Mo., if you're coming from Oklahoma or Arkansas, or straight out I-70 from Kansas City.
We shall also perform at a "Renaissance Faire" partially sponsored by the folke of King Arthur Faire, at the Martin Public Library on July 9th at various times during the day, more info on that as it draws closer.
So it has been a busy Spring, and we hope yours has been busy and productive as well! Thank all of you for your kind support, and we look forward to Summer and the opportunity to entertain you again!
Hope to see you all soon!
"Bruce the Bruce"
