2020 is a difficult year. Plague and Injustice stalk the world and while resistance to both is important and we must all remain vigilant people still need moments to of calm to rest and restore themselves for the fight. Thus, Lockdown Bard.
The image we have of Bards and their work in the modern day is a strange and distorted one that would seem very alien to the historical Bards. Poets, historians and geneaologists who primarily used music to maintain a rhythm.
The Historical Bards weren’t just entertainers. They were major political figures whose poetry could lead to the rise or fall of kings and cheiftains. This is a series of readings of real historical Bardic poetry (translated from Old Irish).