The Bard of Avalon

The Bard of Avalon
Biography

The Bard of Avalon started life as a CD and book project by Mythica (Jenny and Pat Selfe - also known as Magical Sounds). Combining narrative, music and song, this is an evocation of the mythical celtic Otherworld - Avalon.

The project was inspired by a chance remark of a friend, following several years of fateful coincidences...

We had been led by fate to buy a house whose previous owners had left behind all their books. These were stacked ready to be sent to the Charity shop when the friend visited.

Seeing a certain book among them he assumed that we had read it. We had not, so he recommended that we should... he thought we would enjoy it. We did.

As a result, not only were we inspired to create the Bard of Avalon, but in the process we realised that we had been visiting this Otherworld for many years, without giving it a name.

In our work as Magical Sounds we use sacred sound to guide our fellow pilgrims to Avalon.

Mythica enters Avalon via the Way of Myth and song.

The Bard explores the Ways of the Storyteller, Pilgrim, Artist and Shaman too.

And so The Bard of Avalon continues to spread it's wings, to embrace the many facets of the Otherworld, and the Ways to reach it...

The Bard of Avalon website is a meeting of the Ways which lead to the Otherworld.
A story leads to a poem. A poem leads to a song. A song leads to a pilgrimage. A pilgrimage leads to a journey. A journey leads to an image. There is music all around.

Recordings
The Bard of Avalon
Like a Bird on the Wing
A Candle for the Heart
The Pearl of Wisdom
Fathom the Deep
Shanta
Aeolian Chimes
Legends
Zither

Book
The Bard of Avalon text
The Bard of Avalon to buy

Art Gallery
The Bard of Avalon
Mist over Avalon
Avalon Solstice
The Mount
Michael's Line