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Live Music UT Austin's South MallLooking for something to do Friday's at lunch? Come out to UT's South Mall and listen to live music by The Original Celtic Renaissance, the Brobdingnagian Bards. We will be out every Friday during the semester as long as the weather is decent. Bring your lunch and listen. Or sometimes, we are fortunate enough to have Peanut Butter Fridays with free sandwiches courtesy of the Campus Methodist Church (I think). Date: Fridays,
weather-permitting Past Performances:
Daily, Fall 1998 - Spring 2000; Thursdays and Fridays Fall 2000 - Spring
2002; end of Fall 2002 - present Listen
to the Brobdingnagian Bards now! The History Behind Live Music UT Austin's South MallIn November, 1998, I got a temp job in the Tower at the University of Texas at Austin. My plan was to follow in the footsteps of Austin's college rock phenomena, David Garza. Give students a daily dose of live music. I choose the South Mall of UT. Partially out of shyness, partially because I envisioned a day in the Sixties when fellow autoharpist, Janis Joplin, would be out practicing on her autoharp and carrying it every where she went. So every day, I carried my autoharp with me to work. And every day, I took it down to the South Mall to practice. In January, a student came up to me and asked if I wanted to perform at a Renaissance Festival...something I dreamed of just a few months earlier. Andrew and I started the Brobdingnagian Bards, and in March, we began playing every day on the South Mall at lunch, rain or shine. We attracted photographers and the local TV station. The word spread like rapid-fire, even reaching other campuses in Texas (UT Arlington wrote an article on us). People either loved us or they hated us. And come September we had up to a hundred people out enjoying the sunshine and enjoying the music. Well, by April, 2000, we were burnt out. So it ended. But somehow it just never seems to go away. The longer I work at UT Austin, the more I miss entertaining the students, faculty, and staff. So if you're not busy Fridays at lunch, come on out. Drop by. Say hi. Listen. Relax. Talk to us. Make requests. Sign our guestbook and tell us what you think of us and our music. As always, thank you for all your love and support! |
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