Between the Song and the Silence:  No.3 - The Feathered Cloaks of Poets

The phrase ”the feathered cloaks of poets” is from Irish folklore. These cloaks were known as tugan,  and were usually made from the feathers of songbirds.
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The Celtic poets who would have worn the cloaks were thought of as singers who shared with songbirds the power to lull their audiences into dream-like states - by the way ... I lay claim honestly to the Irish, with that side of the family coming over to Canada during the potato famine in Ireland in the 1850’s.

• I would intend to have 2 professional performers for this part, to represent the 2 elderly men Jack and John ( ​My Muses ) : I would like to recreate the feel of  their conversational bird calls, using the calls of the extinct and threatened birds, and I would have them wearing feathered cloaks
• They would be seated on opposite sides of the amphitheater, in the audience; and would perform from there.
• I am looking into making the two cloaks: in more recent times, they were sometimes made of mallard duck feathers, which would be doable.

The Celtic poets who would have worn the cloaks were thought of as singers who shared with songbirds the power to lull their audiences into dream-like states…​