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Finally -- Video from Boskone

2008-05-14T20:07:29Z

cadhla was the GOH at Boskone. And she did some concerts, sometimes with friends.

I...took video from a bunch of them, oddly enough. The video even has music. Surprising how good a video from a tiny camera can sound, really. Eventually, I got around to getting permission, and got around to getting them all up on Youtube.

So, only three months later, here are some songs from Boskone!

The Ghost of Lilly Kane:

Mario's Lament:

Maybe It's Crazy:

Oh, Michelle:

Vamping before Calling to the Storm:

Calling to the Storm:

Missing Part:

And from the Lady Mondegreen Children's Concert on Sunday:

Lullabye (Go to Bed!):

Babylon:

And a Monster/Horror Medly:

Third Acorn Music & Verse this Saturday, March 29!

2008-03-26T21:18:22Z

[cross-posted to filkhaven, shadowriderhope, stilyagiaircorp and penguicon]

The Third "Acorn Music and Verse" housefilk will be held this Saturday, March 29, from 1:00 pm into the evening at the Great Oak Cohousing Common House, 500 Little Lake Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48103.

Please park at the side of Little Lake Drive, and not in the parking lot - there is very limited parking available for residents.

This is the direct descendant of the "Fen and Filk" house sings at Glimmerglass house, and they are always a good time. Please let me know ASAP if you need crashspace, so I can make sure there is space is available!

It's a fun, inviting get-together where you will always get a turn to sing, recite a poem, or ...? (and you can pass if you want), and new people are welcome and encouraged. :) You can show up any time during the event, and leave at any time. Our schedule is to arrive at 1:00, get singing by 2:00, break for pizza around 5:00, and then sing till usually 8:00-ish. Often there is a musical jam that continues well after the 'end' of the event, so feel free to stick around if you're interested!

It's a friendy, non-judgemental place to start singing, playing, or reciting in front of people, and a fine spot to test out your new songs. We welcome instrumental musicians and spoken word performance as well. There is a kid-friendly play room next to the dining hall where we play, and kid-friendly play equipment outside if the weather is nice.

The previous Acorns have been great fun with great music and great people.

Hosted by shadowriderhope and nubianamy.
Supported by qnvhrtz & peteralway.

Come prepared to participate - song or word....... ! Bring friends....

Bring a snack, a dish to share, etc.....what food & drink we have is whatever we bring. There is most likely going to be a pizza order.

filkcircle pic

2008-02-20T21:52:06Z

Just thought I'd share this picture of Maya, Faeryn, and my daughter Eva at the memorial filkcircle for Greg, with thanks to Maya and Faeryn for their permission.

Greg McMullan memorial Circle @ Boskone

2008-02-19T18:51:07Z

If you sung something @ Greg's memorial circle (main song), could you please identify which song you sang (and yourself) so we know whom sang what? I don't know all of the voices and I would like to get that information onto Greg's family.

The only things I recall currently (sorry, I have not listened to my recording yet) are Terrance, the mp3 of Greg I provided, Crystal (who identified a song she sang) and the last song sung for the memorial. (I saved a copy of the lyrics which are at home.)

(And yes, they have a recording of the circle.)

Harold S.

Babylon Station - Greg McMullan recording - Now on Filk Archive

2008-02-19T04:53:40Z

With the kind permission of Greg's family and the other co-authors, the recording I made of Greg @ GaFilk 2008 is now on filk archive so he will not be forgotten.

Harold S.

Additional Greg Memorial service

2008-02-09T18:29:17Z

For those who are in the Boston area or are otherwise unable to make it to the other two scheduled memorial services for Greg, there will be one on 15th of March in Burlington:

Presbyterian Church
335 Cambridge Street
Burlington, MA 01803
781-272-9190

Details are in flabosib's LJ

Crossposted

2t0nic Photos posted

2008-02-07T16:41:54Z

Rika and Talis
Originally uploaded by filkerdave.

I've managed to mostly-label 360 photos from 2t0nic, the 20th UK filk convention and uploaded them to my Flickr page. This picture of Rika and Talis was taken after Rika's utterly amazing set, during which she sang Talis' song Paper Worlds. These two beautiful and talented friends inspire each other and me, and I think this captures a lot of why the convention was so good.

The full set of pictures is here.

As always, please put names to any face where I haven't, and if there are any pictures of you or your family that you want, take them with my blessings.

Crossposted to my own LJ and to the filk comms

A Greg update

2008-02-07T04:21:53Z

Maya's posted some of her thoughts and thanks here

Scott posts about plans for two memorial services, one in Charlottesville on Feb 10th and one in Bryn Mawr on February 23rd here. As a reminder, he's still collecting memories of Greg

The donation page at Filknet.org is still up -- while immediate needs are covered, it will still take a long time for things to return to anything resembling normal.

Crossposted.

Whoops

2008-02-03T13:26:29Z

nMC are on at 14:00, not 13:00. My bad!

Streaming of filk concerts

2008-02-03T08:54:15Z

If you're interested in helping out in the technical aspects of streaming audio from filk cons, be it actually running the stream, providing the feed from convention PA, providing bandwidth, or anything like that, please can you reply to this posting :)

It's clear we need to put a little more work into making it useable. :)

2t0nic streams on repeat

2008-02-03T00:23:09Z

The concerts from the 2t0nic are now on rebroadcast until Ecumenifilk tomorrow morning at 10AM uk time and is available at http://dorian.altrion.org:8000/2t0nic.m3u

Martin and Andy GK and the Rutland Rockers
Katy and Ju
Erica Neely
Kathy Sands
Saturday Main Concert (one-shots)
Tom Namson (Fan-tom)
Rika Koerte Saturday GoH slot
Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff GoH slot
Chris Conway

The machine will be unattended until tomorrow AM UK time, although I'll check in from time to time during the evening. I can't answer for the levels on anything until I've had a chance to listen to things.

Sunday 3rd February, the stream will be

10:00 Ecumenifilk
11:00 Performance Workshop
12:00 Steffi Zurek
12:40 - Break
13:20 Kathy Songbird
13:00 n'Early Music Consort
15:00 UK GoH Rika Koerte
16:00 One-shots
17:00 Sams Awards
17:40 Closing Ceremony

All times are in UK time and may be fannishly approximate

Special thanks to fleetfootmike for providing the streaming server and paying for the stupidly expensive WiFi connection.

2t0nic audio streaming

2008-02-02T09:49:16Z

Due to the fact that the hotel's wifi charges are exorbidant (£15 a day), we'll be streamimg from 6pm GMT/1pm EST/10am Pacific tonight.

We'll start with a recorded concert from Friday night (as yet undecided) followed by:

7pm/2pm/11am: UK guest bardling and the Mill House Band.
8pm/3pm/12noon: US guests Jeff and Maya Bonhoff.

more details from the con when we have Wifi.

You'll be able to pick up the stream from http://dorian.altrion.org:8000/

Memorial services for Greg

2008-01-29T21:34:39Z

Scott's posted information about memorial services for Greg here.

Crossposted. Comments on this post disabled.

Latest updates

2008-01-29T01:43:55Z

I've just gotten off the phone with Faeryn and have a few updates to pass on.

rip(dot)filkergem(at)gmail(dot)com.

That's the email address has been set up to keep people informed and people should send questions there as well -- for example, if you want the new address for Maya and Faeryn. Both Faeryn and Scott will be able to answer questions there.

Faeryn's holding together as best as she can, and will try and have a list of what's needed house-stuff-wise. She is incredibly grateful to all of you out there who are being supportive and caring and expressing sympathy and offering help. She's doing what she can to take care of her mother, and she's got a good group of local people from her church and work helping her take care of herself.

Maya is (understandably) distraught but is as stable as could be expected in these horrible circumstances. She was released from the hospital earlier today (28 Jan 2008) and is "home" -- I have the new address and can provide it if needed (as per Faeryn's OK), but the email above should probably be used to get the address directly from Faeryn or Scott. I don't believe she's talking with anyone yet, aside from Faeryn and the family that's in the room with her.

There's currently no email (or computer) access at the new place and I'm not sure how long it will take to get things set up there; if it's really important, get in touch with me and I can relay it to Faeryn via phone.

Things Faeryn says they could use right now:

Wash Cloths
Towels
Pillow cases
Servingware
Tea!
Stuffed Animals (Comfort things)
Cards (personal sentiments that Mom would really like to read and keep near by)
Also any of those little "busy" items would be great!
Soduku
Crosswords
Cards
Any solitaire games
Coloring books and crayons/colored pencils (she even asked for these)

Crossposted.

Support for Greg's family

2008-01-28T17:10:12Z

For those wishing to help provide direct financial support to Maya at this time, PayPal donation buttons have been set up. Please read the page carefully as there are two buttons -- one of which takes credit cards and one of which doesn't.

You can get to them either from Scott's LJ or the FilkNet page.

Crossposted.

Call for memories of Greg

2008-01-28T13:56:54Z

Greg's brother Scott has asked that if anyone has any memories of Greg that they'd like to share to please consider posting them here.

Comments disabled on this post. Crossposted everywhere.

Still more info about Greg

2008-01-28T03:57:42Z

Greg's brother has started an LJ and posts stuff here

Crossposted

More news about Greg

2008-01-27T23:42:55Z

I'm just off the phone with Faeryn. She's posted what she knows in in her LJ and has given permission to link to it.

Maya's only going to be in the hospital 'til tomorrow midday -- once I have further contact info, I'll pass it on

They've gotten some basic necessities right now, clothes and whatnot, and relatives are helping them out with an immediate place to stay -- she says she'll keep in touch with me and let me know what else they need, once they know.

Crossposted everywhere.

Really bad news

2008-01-27T21:03:01Z

I've just had a phone call from Faeryn -- Greg and Maya McMullan's house caught fire last night. Greg didn't make it out.

I have no other details at this time; Maya's apparently physically OK but in the hospital. I'll post more when I get the details.

Crossposted to my own lj and filk comms.

Housefilk in NYC on February 3!

2008-01-23T14:36:50Z

Greetings and solicitations, all!

There will be a housefilk on Sunday, February 3 in Kew Gardens Hills in Queens, New York, at the home of sdelmonte and batyatoon. The festivities will run from 1 pm to approximately 5 pm. The address is 144-32 71st Road, accessible from the LIE and GCP, and by subway and bus.

Interested? Reply to this post and let us know. And spread the word!

Need directions? E-mail me at sdelmonte @ aol.com.

Change in stream schedule

2008-01-13T19:20:44Z

Because my evening flight back to NY was cancelled, I'm already at the airport to fly back to New York -- no more feed from GAFilk 'til next year :(

GaFilk '08 2x10 performer list

2008-01-12T18:52:09Z

They start at 3pm EST. Sorry if I mistyped a name, but I typed in from the photo I took of the sign.

GaFilk 2008

2x10s

Dave Weingart
Perry Burns
Kathy Sa nds
Mark Bernstein
Peter Alway
Rich Helmich
Blind Lemming Chiffon
Joshua Kronengold
Cat Faber
Nancy Freeman
Matt Leger
Charlene Mockey
Bill Roper
Larry Kirby
Joseph Abbot

GAFilk concerts online

2008-01-12T00:03:28Z

GAFILK Audio Stream at http://dorian.altrion.org:8000/gafilk.m3u

Friday, 11 January 2007

19:00 - 19:45 Opening Ceremonies
20:00 - 20:45 "My Filk" Panel Game
21:00 - 21:45 Concom Choice Concert, Tom Smith

Saturday, 12 January 2008

12:00 - 12:45 Peter Beagle
13:00 - 13:45 Brian Richardson
14:00 - 14:45 Brobdingnagian Bards
15:00 - 16:45 2x10 Slots
20:30 - 21:15 Jeff and Maya Bonhoff
21:30 - 22:45 Interfilk Auction

Sunday, 13 January 2008

12:00 - 14:15 Ecumenifilk
14:30 - 15:15 Closing Ceremonies

All times are in East Coast US time (GMT - 5) and may be fannishly approximate

Special thanks to fleetfootmike for providing the streaming server.

I wrote a new filk

2008-01-05T13:15:54Z

Nu, maybe you'll like it.

(posted in filk and filkhaven)

Request for info

2008-01-03T04:22:38Z

A friend of mine is looking for a filk, she tells me it is to the tune of Turn back oh man, from Godspell.

Does anyone here know of such a filk?