Phoenix Filk Circle
Phoenix Arizona

A Fantasy and Science Fiction
Musical Performance Association
Sponsoring Musical Guests at the CopperCon and LepreCon Science Fiction Conventions
And
House Filks in the Phoenix Area

Come Experience Filk Music On July 2nd to 5th at
FiestaCon /Westercon 62

At The Tempe Mission Palms Hotel,
Tempe Arizona

The Filk Schedule will be
Updated on 6-19-09
(all information is subject to change at any time up to, during and even after the convention)
(Click here for a PDF of the schedule grid or here for an Excel spreadsheet)



FILK FILK - all Filk events are in the Dolores Room
FILK ­COURTING OUR MUSES. Filkers talk about the ideas behind theiir songs --how and where the ideas occurred, why the ideas inspired them to create filk songs, and how they used the ideas in their creation.Fri 4p-5p. Bill Laubenheimer, Jennifer Aronson, Lynn Gold
FILK ­FILK AS A PRESSURE VALVE. Songs that unleash frustrations: lliterary,sexual, emotional, intellectual, and social.Sat 4p-5p. Chris Paige, Tom Tuerff, Lynn Gold, Jennifer Aronson
FILK ­FILK SPAWN or One Filk Leads to Another. Like all the variattions on“Dawson’s Christian”, i.e. Nancy Freeman’s “Dawson’s Mizvah”, or the filk war between Rennie Levine and Kanefvsky, or the lovely “Swing on a Star” variations.Fri 2p-3p. Tom Tuerff, Bill Laubenheimer, Darren Reale
FILK ­FILL IN THE BLANK FILK. Remember doing mad-libs as a kid? Whhere you take a story or whatever, take out some of the words, and replace them with words suggested by people who don't know what they're replacing. Well, as Tom Smith proved, you can do them for filk songs, too. Come join our panelists, who have brought ready-to-madlib songs, or bring your own to throw into the fray. Sun 1p-2p. Melissa Trible, Gary Swaty, Jennifer Aronson
FILK/DEMO - HISTORY OF BARDIC MUSIC & STORYTELLING. - Reale Medieval Music. An overview of Bardic arts and storytelling. Demonstrations and Q&A session if time allows. Enjoy the music and improv poetry in traditional bardic style. The melodicand comedic tones of Mr. Darren Reale charm listeners with modern and historicalcontent including love songs, story-filled ballads and delightful filk. Thurs 6p-7p. Presented by R-n-A Productions. Darren Reale, Shelly Kelly
THEMED FILK CIRCLE
      Trek hosted by Gary Swaty                       Thurs 9p-1030p.
      Computers hosted by Bill Laubenheimer     Fri 9p-1030p.
      Animals hosted by Lynn Gold                     Sat 9p-1020p.
FILK JAM
     Sun 2p until Closing
FILK - ONE SHOTS
     Thurs 3p-4p & 8p-9p.
     Fri 10a-11a, 8p-9p
     Sat 10a-11a, 3p-4p, 8p-9p
     Sun 11a-noon
FILK - Open Bardic Filk
     Thurs 1030p, Fri 1030p, Sat 1030p.
FILK - RADIO DRAMA PRODUCTION. Come write and record a short Radio Drama based on an assigned theme or maybe a well-known filksong. The production will be edited with sound effects and music. Friday we'll write the script and on Saturday we'll record it. Should be Fun! Fri 1p-2p & Sat 11am-noon. Jennifer Aronson, Marilyn Miller, Lynn Gold, Mark Horning
FILK ­SEMI-INSTA-FILK CHALLENGE. What are the filk songs attendeess would like to hear? A discussion of topics or characters that deserve to be filked, the mood and rhymes that would best serve, with a challenge to panelists and anybody else who cares to compete to make new filk to be performed at a later concert hour, with a prize for the best new song to bring a request to musical life. A bottle of Tully, perhaps? Thurs 7p-8p. Chris Paige, Melissa Trible, Mark Horning
FILK ­MARK HORNING'S FILK CD RELEASE GATHERING. Sat 6p-7p. Mark Horning
FILK - THE REALE FUTURE OF MUSIC. A unique musical presentation of original and filk music of space plus filk music-composing workshop. Turn off your Ipods, turn up your ears - but not your nose - to the music of Darren Reale, folk guitarist and space poet! Hear the wonderful sounds of futuristic filk music and poetry. Darren Reale's music will entertain and amuse you with comedy, wit, and anti-matter brain antics. A workshop on composing filk music in the folk music style will follow. Fri 6p-7p. Presented by R-n-A Productions. Darren Reale
CONCERTS
Joe Bethancourt      Fri 3p-4p.
Lynn Gold      Thurs 5p-6p.
Moira Greyland    Fri 12:00 Noon
Mark Horning     Sat 1p-2p.
Marilyn Miller & MAC     Sat 3p-4p.
Chris Paige      Fri 5p-6p.
Wyllow Ravenscroft      Sat 5p-6p.
Tom Tuerff     Fri 7p-8p.

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