Tommaso Franceschi

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Contents 1 Persona 2 Areas of Study 3 Performing Arts Highlights 4 Achievements and Awards 4.1 Kingdom 4.2 Baronial (Andelcrag) 4.3 Other 5 Offices & Positions 6 Classes and Papers 7 Laurelate Lineage 8 Caught Online 9 Miscellany 10 Interests and SCA-related hobbies

Persona

"Tomi" was born on some channel island or other. He doesn't know which one.

While he was still quite young he was "offered" an entry-level position in a nautical, riparian, and coastal proactive salvage concern. Through a combination of diligence and good fortune, he was able to rise through the ranks to be master of an armed merchantman. Along the way he learned some few useful skills, and many songs and stories from the geographically diverse company of sailors. He eventually settled in Firenze

Areas of Study

• Renaissance Guitar and its Music
• Bread, especially under the English Asize of Bread.
• Period songs, especially those that work for a Tavern crowd
• Stories and their origins. Usually it’s the Mongols. Yes, really

Performing Arts Highlights

• Songs and Stories with Old Tom, (Pennsic L, XLIX, Armistice)
• Zsof and Tommaso go to War, (Pennsic L, XLIX, Armistice)
• East/Middle Bardic Showcase, (Pennsic XLIX)
• European Music Showcase, (Pennsic XLIX)
• Midrealm Court Ensemble, (Various, Music Director for Coronation of Dag VIII)
• Drunken Duck Tavern at Midrealm 50
• Montague, Romeo and Juliet, Known Worlde Players at Penncic L

Achievements and Awards

There is no honor I will ever attain greater than two rings of no great value. The first is from the hand of Dame Lorelei, given to the first ever to perform one of her songs in public. The second from Mistress Morgana at Pennsic XLIX, who despite my protests insists on calling me a Bard. No King could ever give greater honor than these.

Kingdom

• Elevated to the Order of the Laurel by Louis and Sabd at their final Court (2023)
• Royal Augmentation of Arms, a Lyre within a Crescent, by Louis and Sabd (2023)
• Placed on Vigil for the Order of the Laurel by Louis and Sabd at Pennsic L (2023)
• Named to the Queen’s Bard Guard by Queen Sabd (2023)
• Companion of the Evergreen by Queen AnneMarie (2022)
• He was made a Companion of the Willow by Queen AnneMarie (2013)
• Tommaso was awarded Arms by King EikBrandr. (2012)

Baronial (Andelcrag)

• Order of the Guardant Ram (Service) by Their Excellencies Thomasette and Adalesia
• Named Premier Bardic Champion of Andelcrag by Their Excellencies Zubaida and Raymond (2022)
• Diligence of Andelcrag (Service), Pillar of Andelcrag by Their Excellencies Raymond and Zubaida (2021)
• Inspiration of Andelcrag (A&S), Pillar of Andelcrag by Their Excellencies Raymond and Zubaida (2021)
• Made a Companion of the Order of the Salient Hart, Andelcrag Arts and Sciences award, by Logan and Zaynab
• He served as the Dread Pirate of Andelcrag for Her Excellency Zaynab
• Made a Defender of Andelcrag by Logan and Zaynab

Other

• Second Student and Premier Apprentice of Dame Estelle de La Mer
• Licentiate, Graduate, and Adept degrees, Royal University of the Midrealm for The Plague Year.
• He was the Premier apprentice to Dame Estelle de la Mer

Until Tommaso puts stuff on this page, his Laurel inflicts on him this GIF.

Nonsense! Your Apprentice LOVEs that gif!

Offices & Positions

• Middle Kingdom Minister of Arts and Sciences 2024–Present
• Queen’s Bard Guard to Queen Sadb
• MOAS, Region of Pentamere 2023–2024
• Premier Bardic Champion of Andelcrag 2022–2023
• MOAS for the Barony of Andelcrag 2021–2022
• Deputy MOAS for the Barony of Andelcrag 2018–2021
• Pursuivant-at-Large
• Youth Office-at-Large
• Rapier Marshal-of-the-Field
• Dread Pirate of Andelcrag for TEs Logan and Zaynab continuing through Antonia and Colette
• All-round Fetch and Carry Minion and Guy Who Hands Out Waivers to Sign

Classes and Papers

• Propagating Sourdough Cultures
• Bread 101
• Frame Drumming 101
• My Ukulele is a Guitar discussing the Renaissance Four-Course Guitar, its surviving music, and its descendant the Ukulele.
• I host the traveling Hand Drum Petting Zoo with an evolving collection of percussion instruments, skewed to frame drums.
• I also did the Bardic Madness Performance Workshop 2013. Link has the playground rules we used that year.
• You can find other things I write about and my research interests over at Old Tom's Commonplace Boke
• I also have a page over on Midbards

Laurelate Lineage

• Tommaso was the Premier Apprentice of Estelle de la Mer
• Estelle was apprenticed to Dulcinea_Maria_Magdalena_von_Muhlberg_Y_Auguilaro
• Dulcinea was apprenticed to Unknown Peer

• Rosie Dubroc is Tommaso’s premier student.

Caught Online

• Raven Steals the Light at Midrealm Bardic Madness 2011
• Dixit Maria at Midrealm Bardic Madness 2018 with the Mary Rose Lifeboat Quartet
• Bring Us in Good Ale at Bardic Madness 2019, demonstrating how to change keys on the fly. Totally planned that.
• Baucis and Philemon for the challenge Three Gods Walk Into a Bar. As luck would have it, Juliane Bechaumpe did her own delightful version right after mine. I recommend it highly on its own, as well as a being a great example of how two different performers can approach the same text.
• Trudge Away Quickly for the Period Piece challenge. Since this I've rearranged the verses and moved it up a couple of steps.
• Martin Said to his Man, from the MK Madness Online challenges.
• My performance at Armistice
• And my YouTube channel

Miscellany

• Instigator of the Mary Rose Lifeboat Quartet, see us here.
• There's also my Performance Page

Interests and SCA-related hobbies

• Latin Dance, (Salsa, Rumba, Bachata, Casino, Cha-Cha, Cumbia)
• I perform Classic Rock Variety with Lush
• Church musician