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{{Populace|photo = [[Image:TommasoFace.jpg|300px]]|
photocaption = Estelle making her Premier Apprentice |
pronouns = llama / alpaca |
title = Maestro |
Awards = Order of the [[Laurel]]<br>
Order of the [[Evergreen]]<br>
Order of the [[Willow]]<br>
[[Award of Arms]]|
location = Andelcrag |
status = Current Member |
device = [[Image:Tommaso Arms.jpg|200px]] |
devicecaption = Azure, a llama statant contourny and on a base argent a hurt. | }}

== 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_Skye_of_Sans_Nomen|Lorelei]], given to the first ever to perform one of her songs in public. The second from Mistress [[Morgana_bro_Morganwg|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 [[AnneMarie_de_Garmeaulx|Queen AnneMarie]] (2022)
* He was made a Companion of the [[Willow]] by [[AnneMarie_de_Garmeaulx|Queen AnneMarie]] (2013)
* Tommaso was awarded Arms by [[EikBrandr_Solgyafi|King EikBrandr]]. (2012)

=== Baronial (Andelcrag) ===

* Order of the Guardant Ram (Service) by Their Excellencies Thomasette and Adalesia
* Named Premier [[Andelcrag_Baronial_Champion_(Bardic)|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]]

[[File:EstelleScarab-arms.jpg|100px]]

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

''Nonsense! Your Apprentice LOVEs that gif!''

[[Image:LlamaDuck.gif]]

== Offices & Positions ==
* Queen’s Bard Guard to Queen [[Sadb ingen Donnchadha|Sadb]]
* MOAS, Region of [[Pentamere]] 2023–2024
* Premier [[Andelcrag_Baronial_Champion_(Bardic)|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 ==
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TN6Ha8YcGL2Uhxdo46coU4izZ3iQl0x4KQDkwjfB6Ug Propagating Sourdough Cultures]
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1r49nWzPY3qUOL2dABMyUekvUf_QkOJUXBoJjg1VySso Bread 101]
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-2lyUzFkJTRTJwaPBzK8a0C4v2QBAk0CwaCAQHr7DsM Frame Drumming 101]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PjhCS4PwZ4fyWMScWm_c7GPaxm2XX0quX3Vq6TCwmPM/edit?usp=sharing My Ukulele is a Guitar] discussing the Renaissance Four-Course Guitar, its surviving music, and its descendant the Ukulele.
* I host the traveling [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eiTRwyArBaR4aBwzRSbd5d11sbc-tMJzcK-DudeR22A Hand Drum Petting Zoo] with an evolving collection of percussion instruments, skewed to frame drums.
* I also did the [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IN3vTMGNQbY6o5FtxOcHoLzOfqCqnFayIHkrq8e9BfM 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 [https://sites.google.com/view/old-toms-commonplace-boke/home Old Tom's Commonplace Boke]
* I also have a page over on [https://tilted-windmill.com/midbards/bards.html?fbclid=IwAR0RTDgEH7xIRrVmyJ_Fk3ZKj4xsIXJ0eNBxZtvPTHP3qog7ow4OyiX0h28#64 Midbards]

== Laurelate Lineage ==
* Tommaso was the Premier Apprentice of [[Estelle de la Mer]]
* Estelle was apprenticed to [[Dulcinea_Maria_Magdalena_von_Muhlberg_Y_Auguilar]]o
* Dulcinea was apprenticed to [[Unknown Peer]]

*[[Rosie Dubroc]] is Tommaso’s premier Apoprentice.

== Caught Online ==

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9seUZxUSag Raven Steals the Light] at Midrealm [[Bardic Madness]] 2011
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ3QEZrVWDg&list=PLCT-9Ovwzyj92PlD1OvwTxxfFINrZMgtD&index=19 Dixit Maria] at Midrealm Bardic Madness 2018 with the [[Mary Rose Lifeboat Quartet]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UXHJR8n22A&list=PLCT-9Ovwzyj-VjQa4VBbACF8g37OYJrZW&index=34 Bring Us in Good Ale] at Bardic Madness 2019, demonstrating how to change keys on the fly. Totally planned that.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gy8UCjo9Xo&list=PLCT-9Ovwzyj893jXcX-KL87fdmX5iPZk7&index=4&t=5s Baucis and Philemon] for the challenge Three Gods Walk Into a Bar. As luck would have it, [[Juliane Bechaumpe]] did [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GezAgYn410U&list=PLCT-9Ovwzyj893jXcX-KL87fdmX5iPZk7&index=5&t=1s 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.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjZROdg1D-A&list=PLCT-9Ovwzyj893jXcX-KL87fdmX5iPZk7&index=21 Trudge Away Quickly] for the Period Piece challenge. Since this I've rearranged the verses and moved it up a couple of steps.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i7WWesP_vs&list=PLCT-9Ovwzyj893jXcX-KL87fdmX5iPZk7&index=44&t=27s Martin Said to his Man], from the MK Madness Online challenges.
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P9Qf_fkC4R0v2WOK2laMPWEaBY2RDdVL/view?usp=drivesdk My performance at Armistice]
* And my [https://youtube.com/channel/UCqw4yFQntMj6wuok5cFfUWw YouTube] channel

== Miscellany ==
* Instigator of the [[Mary Rose Lifeboat Quartet]], see us [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ3QEZrVWDg&list=PLCT-9Ovwzyj92PlD1OvwTxxfFINrZMgtD&index=19 here].
* There's also my [https://sites.google.com/view/old-toms-commonplace-boke/home/songs-and-stories-with-old-tom 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
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