"Live On Stage"
Video Recordings
of
Actual Performances:
(Arrayed in chronological order of the original appearance)
We are receiving increasing levels
of viewer interest in
videos
of previous
performances. Accordingly, we are reviewing
our
library of past shows
and will post additional videos as soon as they have been formated.
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![Performance at St Anthony Park 2023](Photos_illus/Rolicking Requiem photo.jpg)
"Rollicking Requiem" by: Peter J. Thomas
Performed at: "The Saint Anthony Park Arts Festival"
Saint Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2023
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/0w4UCMsTaYk
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![Appearing at Wussow's, Sep 15, 2022](Photos_illus/Wussows Sept 15 2022 cropped .jpg)
(Photo 2022 by: JAB IntraMedia)
Reciting his own edgy tale:
"Method in Mookie's Madness"
at Wussow's Concert Café, Duluth, MN
15 September 2022
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/kFcTGQJa20M
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![Appearig at Wussow's July, 2022](Photos_illus/Wussows July 21 2022 one cropped (1).jpg)
(Photo 2022 by: JAB IntraMedia)
Reciting his real life experience poem
"The Bistro Blues"
at Wussow's Concert Café, Duluth, Minnesota
21 July 2022
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/zJUb0CpCrf4
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![Reciting at the U of M Duluth, 2022](Photos_illus/UMD July 2022 cropped.jpg)
(Photo 2022 by: JAB IntraMedia)
"Even More Poems for People Who Hate Poetry"
From an appearance at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
11 July 2022
Video Number 1:
"On Solitude"
by Alexander Pope
"The Widow Malone"
by Charles Lever
"How Big Was Alexander" by Elijah Jones
"Three Years"
by Wendy Xu
Excerpts from "The Confessions"
by J. J. Rousseau
Video Number 2:
"Alone"
by Edgar Allen Poe
"The Raven"
by Edgar Allen Poe
Excerpts from
Irving Babbitt
Video Number 3:
"Casey at the Bat"
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
"Casey's Revenge"
by James Wilson
"Casey - Twnety Years Later"
by Clarence P. McDonald
Click the following single link to access all three videos from this show:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4liOZqsVIxptnSO9gQZJCQE0TdOjj7zv
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![Live Bard and Lyric Poetry, UMD 2021](Photos_illus/Lyric Poetry UMD 2021 cropped.jpg)
(Photo 2021 by: JAB IntraMedia)
"More Poems for People Who Hate Poetry"
A live show at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
14 July 2021
Video Number 1:
"The Highwayman"
by Alfred Noyes
An Excerpt from "Faust"
by Goethe
Video Number 2:
"Etiquette"
by W. S. Gilbert
Video Number 3:
(The Equivacation of Lyric Poetry)
""When You Are Old"
by Wm. Butler Yates
"The Good Poet" by Elias Giordano
"Some Joy For Morning" by Peter Gizzi
"Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
Video Number 4:
"Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
"Casey's Revenge" by James Wilson
Video Number 5:
(Modern Poetic Perceptions on Human Nature)
"A Children's Story" by Louise Gluck
"Epitasis" by Peter J. Thomas
Video Number 6:
"Rollicking Requiem" by Peter J. Thomas
Video Number 7:
"The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service
Click on the following link for seven videos comprising the entire show:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4liOZqsVIxqvgSuR8UPfxvgi1SmF0voE
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![Performing at Wussow's Cafe 2021](Photos_illus/Wussows June 18 2021.jpg)
(Photo 2021 by: JAB IntraMedia)
Recition of Poems written by Peter J. Thomas:
"Ten Feet High" - "Epitasis" - "The Jello Chronicle"
performed at Wussow's
Concert Cafe Duluth, MN
17 June 2021
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/s-7lWXxH1Dg
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![Casey at the Bat UMD 2019](Photos_illus/Casey at the Bat 2019 pitcher CROP.jpg)
(Photo 2019 by: JAB IntraMedia)
"Poems for People Who Hate Poetry"
Performed at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
30 July 2019
Recording Number 1:
(Video uploaded 24 October 2022)
"Father William"
by: Lewis Carroll
"The Yarn of the Nancy Belle"
by: W. S. Gilbert
"Three Poems"
by: Sarah Plimpton
"Danny Deever"
by: Rudyard Kipling
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Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/i6c-2dRs_90
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Recording Number 2:
(Video uploaded 31 July 2023)
THREE DIDACTIC POEMS:
"It Couldn't Be Done"
by: Edgar Albert Guest
"Invictus"
by: William Earnest Henley
"Ostler Joe" by: George R. Sims
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/miyNAefidr0
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Recording Number 3:
(Video uploaded 31 July 2023)
THE ROMANTIC TEMPERMENT
and Its Consequences:
"Imitation of Walt Whitman" by: _
"Leaves of Grass" (excerpts) by: Walt Whitman
"Four-Legged Family..." by: Kathleen Murphy
"Soap and the Superego" by: Peter J. Thomas
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/OU6wQoXSDcE
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Recording Number 4:
"Casey at the Bat"
by: Earnest Lawrence Thayer
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/fDGGo0Rj8oo
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![New Harmony, IN June 2019](Photos_illus/New Harmony 1 June 2019 audience CROP.jpg)
(Photo 2019 by: JAB IntraMedia)
"The Men Who Don't Fit In" by: Robt. Service
Performed at "The Arts in Harmony"
New Harmony, Indianna, June 1, 2019
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/6LvW9lJyNRE
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![Reciting at Miramar Beach 2019](Photos_illus/Miramar Bch May 16 2019 Full Face Crop.jpg)
(Photo 2019 by: JAB IntraMedia)
Reciting "Etiquette"
by: W. S. Gilbert, 16 May 2019
Northwest Florida Theatre Festival
Miramar Beach, Florida
CLICK ON LINK:
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![Reciting Vets Day 2018](Photos_illus/Vets Day 2018 FWB 1 Crop.jpg)
(Photo 2019 by: JAB IntraMedia)
Excerpts from: Rudyard Kipling's:
"The Drums of the Fore and Aft"
Celebrating the 100th Aniversary
of Veteran's Day
Performed at Enlightened Studios, Ft. Walton Beach, Florida
November 11, 2018
(Posted to this website and YouTube on 16 February 2021)
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/ZbHaMV8Zt3s
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![Reciting Roseville, MN 3028](Photos_illus/Roseville 24 Aug 2018 No 2 pic 892 Crop.jpg)
(Photo 2019 by: JAB IntraMedia)
"Tenets of Romantic Poetry"
(with a Wry Response)
Friday, 24 August 2018
Roseville, Minnesota
CLICK ON LINK:
https://youtu.be/jls6u0RXuQ0
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![Reciting at UMD, July 2018](Photos_illus/UMD 9 July 2018_3 CROP.jpg)
(Photo 2019 by: JAB IntraMedia)
"Transition: Romanticism, Imagism, & Moralism
Performed at the Univ of Minn, Duluth
July 9, 2018
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/iKJuCIjaGdY
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![Reciting from Aristotle's "Poetics" Miramar, FL 2018](Photos_illus/Mirmar No.209 May 19 2018 Crop.jpg)
(Photo 2018 by: JAB IntraMedia)
Reflections on a High School Shooting
Prompts an Excerpt from Aristotle's "Poetics"
Saturday, 19 May 2018
Northwest Florida Theatre Festival
Miramar Beach, Florida
CLICK ON LINK:
https://youtu.be/UQNteQsgu4A
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![Reciting excerpt from Henry V](Photos_illus/Miramar N.271_ May16 2018 crop.jpg)
(Photo 2018 by: JAB IntraMedia)
Reciting an Excerpt from Shakespeare's "Henry V"
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Northwest Florida Theatre Festival
Miramar Beach, Florida
CLICK ON LINK:
https://youtu.be/FHQV40aXHK0
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![Bard Logo](Photos_illus/Bardweaver Logo 2017 Violet Crop small.jpg)
A Live Interview with The Live Bard
April 29, 2018
Click on YouTube video:
https://youtu.be/miR7tFL3hS8
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![Performing in Destin, FL, March 3, 2018](Photos_illus/Bard pic 1 Destin Mar 2018 crop.jpg)
"Poems For People Who Hate Poetry"
Saturday, 3 March 2018
Destin, Florida
Poems That Bear a Message:
"The Old-Timer" by: Arthur Chapman
Click on the following link for video (Poem # 3):
https://youtu.be/KY8qcEiqUJI
The Essence of Romanticism, Part # 1:
"Get Drunk"
by: Charles Baudelaire
Click on the following link for video (Poem # 5):
https://youtu.be/UQ3kaQyLgKY
The Essence of Romanticism, Part # 2
"Leaves of Grass" by: Walt Whitman,
and the Consequences to Others of the Journey Inward
Click on the following link for video (Poems 7, 8, & 9):
https://youtu.be/DT-qFk_hkXs
"Coffeeshop" by: Charles Bukowski
Click on the following link for video (Poem # 13):
https://youtu.be/nxO2-_yarnY
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![Destin 2017 Barroom Recitation](Photos_illus/Bawdy Barroom 12 Small.jpg)
(Photo 2017 by: A. Snyder)
"Bawdy Barroom Ballads"
Saturday, 26 August 2017
Destin, Florida
Recording # 1:
Show Opening with"Danny Deever"
by: Rudyard Kipling
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/jOcpnBAeRcQ
Recording # 2:
"In the Workhouse: Christmas Day"
by: George R. Sims
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/IFl-SkU3Mjc
Recording # 3:
"The Foibles of Modern Poetry"
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/I6OLXaV3ldk
Recording # 6:
"Ode to a Senior Drill Instructor"
composed by: Peter J. Thomas
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/gK1-czlPsog
Concluding Show Recording:
"The Ballad of How MacPhearson Held the Floor"
written by Robert Service
Click on the following link for this new video:
https://youtu.be/rXVNUAovJiI
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Arts, Crafts and Antique Fair
Saturday, October 9, 2016
Bardstown, Kentucky
![Bardstown Portrait](Photos_illus/Bardstown Oct 2016 portrait smirk crop.jpg)
Recitation of:
"Mag"
written by
Carl Sandbuirg, originally published 1916
Click on the following link for video of "Mag" :
https://youtu.be/6SiQkbBNyPU
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Recitation of:
"Fleurette"
(The Wounded Canadian Speaks)
written by
Robert W. Service, originally published 1916
![WWI Hospital Scene](Photos_illus/WWI Hospital Scene Crop.jpg)
This image is from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive,
University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit);
© “Canadian Field Ambulance,” by Unknown.
The Imperial War Museum
accessed November 11, 2016,
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3682.
Click on the following link for video of Fleurette :
https://youtu.be/UZzF974uhpY`
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![Mankato Performance 2014](Photos_illus/Mankato 2014 Sun smirk Crop.JPG)
Arts by the River
Performed at the Riverfront Amphitheater
Mankato, Minndesota
Sunday, 22 June 2014
This was a unique appearance as the Mississippi River was flooding
the town and,
as can be seen,
encroached into the orchestra pit
which required the performance
to be given from the lower seats of the stadium making audio quality a bit spotty.
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/hPwdgtxqY8g
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Performing at Capitol Square, Madison, Wisconsin
Saturday, August 27, 2011
![At Capitol Square Madison 2011](Photos_illus/Capitol Square Madison 2011 w Streamers Crop.jpg)
Show Introduction by the "Live Bard"
with an excerpt
from The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and a recitation of The Yarn of the Nancy Belle
by W. S. Gilbert
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/BUK12VqbirM
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Excerpt from Henry V, Prologue, Act 3
by Wm. Shakespeare
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/h-ElFeyDFtg
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/xQ7lSC9dbfE
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Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/n4q2-D4a498
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Recitation of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/I-p84E6-yw8
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The Shooting of Dan Mc Grew by Robt. Service
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/GDxsOv3c8jU
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Ten Feet High by Peter J. Thomas
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/K_gaPvJAVrM
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The Face Upon the Floor by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/sDyA0EJ9AEc
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Recitation of The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
Click on the following link for video:
https://youtu.be/HnTL5sMxhVE
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Orange Beach, Alabama
March 10 - 11, 2011
![Orange Beach Tent 2011](Photos_illus/OrangeBch2011tent.JPG)
Recitation of,
"Have Some Madera, Ma' Dear"
Original artists: the Limelighters
Click on the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44se3vOzjO0
(Video provided by:VirtualGuideTV)
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To hear audio recitations by
The
Live Bard
Click either the highlighted link, or title below:
"Black"
by: Charles Bukowski
(Link for this audio is temporarily disabled)
"Along the Road"
by: Robert Browning Hamilton
"Eros &Shriveled Abstraction"
by Peter J. Thomas
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