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Original Line Drawing by: Gillian D. Kemper
Digitally Enhanced by: JAB IntraMedia
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Narrative Verse
with an Attitude


Dramatic Recitations
of Venerated Poems
that Stir the Heart,
Fire the Soul and
Pique the Intellect

plus
Original Works
of
Curmudgeonly
Verse


Website last updated: 30-Sep-2023


The LIVE bARD AT UMD 2023

Performance at the campus of the Univ. of Minn., Duluth
July 7, 2023


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Peter on Deck
Peter Thomas as "The Live Bard"
Now in His 18th Year!
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Reciting at Miramar Beach 2019
(Photo 2019 by: JAB IntraMedia)

A somber moment from The Live Bard's performance of:
"Convivial Eccentricity"
at the 2019 Northwest Florida Theatre Festival May 16, 2019

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Click on the link below to View
"Emerald Coast Magazine" Article on the Live Bard
http://www.emeraldcoastmagazine.com/August-September-2018/Live-Bard-Takes-Classic-Verse-to-the-Streets/

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The Li ve Bard
is a wandering performer who renders
dramatic recitations of the venerated
works of celebrated dead poets
including:


Alfred Tennyson     Rudyard Kipling
W. H. Auden          Edgar Allen Poe
Ambrose Bierce           Hilaire Belloc
Charles Baudelaire
Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
Roald Dahl          George R. Sims
Robert W. Service
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Edward Arlington Robinson
Alfred Noyes      Lewis Carroll
Charles Bukowski
H. Antoine D'Arcy
William Shakespeare
& Many Others
as well as
His Own Curmudgeonly Musings
on the Vicissitudes of Contemporary Life


(Click on the hightlighted names above
for sample texts of recitations.
Please note that these host sites may
modify or delete their content
without our knowledge.)

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Available for public or private performances.
Remember,
There is only one Live Bard .
Accept NO substitutes !

the Live Bard at Spring Green

The Live Bard,
Performing at Spring Green, Wisconsin, 2008

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During the span of human existence prior to the advent of the printing press, storytellers wandered Eurasia, recounting the fables of alternately benevolent or vengeful gods, or the heroic sagas and hapless yarns of mortal human beings.

It was through these itinerant performers, or “bards,” that ancient or medieval communities could learn of the legends of their age: The caprice of deities on Mount Olympus, the exploits of the Trojan Wars, or, as the centuries progressed, the epic poems of Beowulf or Siegfried, and the gallantry of King Arthur's knights.

As wandering entertainers, bards had knowledge of cities and lands that rural folk, bound to the soil, could never hope to experience. Accordingly, a bard was welcomed by villagers as a novelty; he was both a provider of news and a purveyor of dreams, and his historical or mythological accounts offered momentary escape from the daily routine of mundane existence.

It is in this spirit that the Live Bard travels about today, reciting dramatic tales that appeal to all ages.  People from all walks of life still enjoy live performances of narrative verse, those chronicles of real or imaginary events that often utilize the prosodic tools of meter and rhyme to convey their captivating tales.

We hope to see you soon.


Reciting to a youthful audience in St Paul MN

The mark of a worthy poet is the ability to appeal
to audiences of all ages and all walks of life.
(Reciting at the St Anthony Park Arts Festival,
St Paul, Minnesota June 3, 2023)

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