Orycon Filking

From: Clan of the Four Winds <c4winds at teleport.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 01:13:29 -0800

replyJust some short comments, since I wasn't there much, just MHO, YMMV :)

Pros:
replySpliting up the rooms into chaos and bardic, some people feel very strongly either way. Perhaps next year a small sheet explaining the two styles could be on hand for newbies...

replyThe 1/2 hour mini concerts. We've all heard the complaint that certain people get to play more than others, or that you don't get to hear some really good people as much as you'd like to. I think this was a *really good* idea, and I'd like to see it continue. A sign up sheet would be nice.

replyThe COns (and some of these were passed on to me by other people)

Splitting up the rooms. You had to decide which people you wanted to hear more :)

replyThe set up in the Klamath room. Last year it was one big circle, this year there ended up being a small circle in the front, and the rest of the chairs replywere still in rows. This made several people I know feel like they were still being considered "audience" or not good enough to be in the circle, replyeven though they were being called on, especially when a new peson came in, sat down, and was told she was on the "hot seat", and expected to pick, pass or play right then. It made her very uncomfortable to be put on the spot like that, enough so that she decided not to participate. A grace period is called for.

replyThe Camarilla next door. They made noise when we were being quiet, we made noise when they were being quiet. No one is at fault here, it was just unfortunate.

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replyI didn't get up to the filking much this year, not like last year, because each time I dropped in there seemed to be very few people and not much replyhappening, I caught a few really good performances, and did have a good time when I was there, but it just seemed smaller with less, mmmmm, I don't know, it just felt like it was missing something. As I said YMMV :)

Charlene Received on 11/12/96