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| London.
1/1/97. Two veteran performers, known by the aliases Hawke (Rick Morrow)
and Cedric the Fiddler (James Hazlerig), escaped from the Bethlehem
Home for the Mentally Questionable, referred to by local residents as "Bedlam,"
sometime between midnight and twelve a.m. last Thursday. Informants say they
were seen headed in a north-southerly direction.
"Hawke, well, he's a repeat offender," said Brophy, the big civic guard, when asked to comment on the balladeer's history. "He plays that Celtic music all over the place--Irish Festivals, coffee houses, pubs, you name it. His rap sheet is seven leagues long. He's been heard at Scarborough Faire and the Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival. He's been known to frequent the Texas Renaissance Festival, the Northwest Renaissance Festival and the Hawkwood Medieval Fantasy Faire." Informants only |
recently out of therapy report
that he wowed the crowds at the Bristol Renaissance Festival and the Old
Indiana Renaissance Faire.
"He played the sweetest song for my grandchildren," com- mented Betty Holmzengarten, "then after their mother took them home, he got real bawdy. I've been laughing ever since. He sang this one song . . ." The rest of Ms. Holmzengarten's statement was lost in uncontrolled cackling. Police reports show that Hawke has had a number of accomplices and co-conspirators over the years, but he is believed to have joined forces with his fellow inmate, the nefarious Cedric the Fiddler. Cedric is rumored to have spent over a decade playing in orchestras, quartets, country bands, fiddle contests, and re-enactment events before perfoming acts of music and general mayhem at the Hawkwood Medieval Fantasy Faire and Four |
The Bards going over the wall.. |
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| Winds Renaissance Faire. Police records
indicate that he combined storytelling with music to win a bi-state performance
competition. He has been spotted aiding and abetting Hawke at the Texas
Renaissance Festival .
Authorities fear that the combination of the two performers will be especially dangerous. "I've seen these two in action," said Thomas O. Bedlam, former bartender at the Rambling Ruckus Pub. "Their modus operandi is to start with a hard-driving drinking song. Hawke will provide intoxicating rhythms on guitar, bones, bodhran, or anything else handy. |
The two of 'em will probably switch off
on the lyrics, throwing in some harmony and silly voices here and there.
Then Cedric will let loose with some lightning fast jigs. Just when your
heart's racing, they'll do something so sad and sweet you'll just cry in
your beer. By the time they're done with a set, the audience will have laughed,
cried, danced, sung and clapped. I stock extra beer when I see them
coming."
"They're totally unpredictable," commented Dorian Mode, Bedlam's music therapist. "I've even heard them doing unorthodox things with mandolas, penny whistles and a schnauzer."
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| Police stress that ordinary citizens should not attempt to apprehend the Bedlam Bards but should call (512) 360-5075 so that they can be booked and afforded due process of law. | |||
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