Filking
I'm heavily involved in producing and am a fan of filk music. I'm also on
a couple of filk concoms.
I also keep a copy of a list of tunes that have been documented to scan to
the Hebrew hymn Adon Olam.
Some Upcoming Filk Cons
- Musicon
January 2-4, 1998
Filking in the Home of Country Music (they're taking a year off).
- Decadence
Feb 6-8, 1998
Gatwick UK. Tenth UK filk convention. Send e-mail to decadence@z9m9z.demon.co.uk
for more information.
- ConChord 13
Sometime in 1999
The Los Angeles area's filk con.
- Consonance
Early March, 1998
The San Francisco Bay Area's filk con. Contact figmo@rahul.net for more information.
- FilkONtario
Sometime in April, 1998
The Canadian filk con, held in or near Toronto, ON. Contact hayman@bserv.com for more information or
to nominate someone for the Filk Hall of Fame.
- The Second ConCerto
June 13-15, 1997
Holiday Inn at Cherry Hill, Cherry Hill, NJ.
This year's incarnation of the east coast's floating filk con.
Contact info@concerto.filk.org
for more information.
- Ohio Valley Filk
Fest XI (aka OVFF)
October, 1997
The biggest filk con of 'em all, held in or near Columbus, OH.
Other Filk Web Pages
The following filkers have web pages:
- Heather Alexander
One of the SF Bay Area's best.
- D. Glenn
Arthur
Friend, filker, medieval musician, transvestite (with great legs!).
- Mary Bertke
Mary has recently completed 6 months of music and culture study in Ireland,
and is a first-rate musician.
- Joe Bethancourt
A really talented musician with lots of really cool instruments (including
a "Martian" banjo).
- Melissa Binde
General filk info, list of filkers' home pages, and various filk collections.
- Roger
Burton-West
A British filker with lots of cool links (including one here! :-) ).
-
Monica Cellio
A member of the Pittsburgh-based group
On The
Mark.
- Solomon Davidoff
My friend who did a thesis on filking.
- Meg Davis
A fine singer and songwriter; perhaps best known for "Captain Jack and the
Mermaid."
- Sherman Dorn
An Associate Professor at University of South Florida and filker with
eclectic tastes in music.
- Jeff
Duntemann
Old-time filker and Gretchen Roper's brother.
- Julia Ecklar
A well-respected author and filk musician.
- "Gorgeous"
Gary Ehrlich
A look at Electro's Hideaway.
- Clif Flynt
A Michigan-based filker. Check out his Brain Dead Boy
Adventures.
- Lee Gold
My "extremely distant long-lost cousin" (no, we're not related), as well
as the publisher of
Xenofilkia, a bimonthly filk fanzine.
- Judith and Dave Hayman
Some of the main culptrits behind FilkONtario.
-
Joseph Kesselman
An east-coast based filker whose page has a list of filk resources and filkers.
- Talis Kimberley
One of Great Britain's premiere filkers.
- Jodi Krangle
One of the members of Urban
Tapestry, a filk trio based near Toronto, ON, Canada.
- Bob "Blars" Larson
A filk fan, all-around cool guy, and "partner in crime" when it comes to
throwing "@!" parties at cons.
- Graham Leathers
Canadian filker, a fellow broadcast worker, outdoorsman, and dog owner.
- Mike
Liebmann
Once described as "the Leo Buscaglia of filk," you could say he GaFIAted.
- Michael P. McDowell
Science-fiction author and member of the Black Book Band.
- Steve Macdonald
One of Michigan's finest.
- Duncan MacGregor
Canadian filker with a brand new web page.
- Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Another of the members of
Urban Tapestry, a filk trio based near Toronto, ON, Canada. Debbie is also
the group's webmaster and has designed pages for many other filk groups.
- Mark Osier
Mark Osier's experimental web page.
- Jim Poltrone
Mini-Moog-toting Ohio-based filker.
- Maggi Rohde
This points to her page of everything she could find on filk and filking.
- Steve
Savitzky
I didn't dare put up this page without mentioning him! An SF Bay area
filker and long-time friend. Check out his page of
interesting places for musicians and music lovers.
- Robert Smith
Another member of the Pittsburgh-based group On The
Mark.
- Tom Smith
Who let him in here???!? :-)
- W. Scott "Cosmo" Snyder
A really cool page by a really cool guy who used to live in the Los Angeles
area but now lives in Champaign, IL.
- Robert Stockton
AKA "Robin the Just," Pittsburgh-based harp and recorder player extraordinaire.
- Rob Sutherland
A Canadian filker and all-around nice guy.
- Mary Ellen Wessels
AKA "MEW," an all-around cool person, first-rate musician, and lead singer of
the Black Book
Band.
- Clark Wierda
One of the folks involved with Musicon and an all-around nice guy.
- Gwen Zak
SO of Michael P. McDowell and member of the Black Book Band.
- Leonard Zubkoff
Leonard Zubkoff and Dandelion Digital's home page.
- INWAP.COM Home Page
A household of really cool filk fen, cool cats, and cool toys.
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Last updated: May 6, 1997
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