Bards usually end up gagged and roped to a tree, remember Troubadix... ;-)
I would find them funny, just like the torchbearers.
Some Irish harper sitting at the spawn area and singing the good old songs how we were walking down the hill after the fight, and all were dead or almost dead, and we were very sad, and very heroic, and got terribly drunk.... would crack me up and make me a leecher just to listen.
Oh, btw we already have Bards: the Whistlers of Inspiration... lol...