Re: More Con Questions

replyOn Fri, 22 Nov 1996, c4winds at teleport.com (Clan of the Four Winds) wrote:
> >I'm envisioning:
> >
> >1) ongoing concerts, with sign-up sheets for the whole weekend.
> >2) several guests of honor (Cecilia Eng, Heather Alexander) doing one or
> >two shows each
> >3) panels on songwriting, performance skills, tuning lyrics, original vs.
> >parody songs, humor in filking, the ose motif, etc. 4) impromptu song
> >circles springing up all over the hotel 5) a small dealer's room with
> >instruments, music, tapes, etc. 6) each night, a bardic circle, a chaos
> >circle, and a performer's circle 7) a "coffee-house", possibly taking over
> >the hotel restaurant during the early morning hours.
>
> Instafilking?

Game shows! Randomly chosen topics, someone in the audience calls out a tune, contestants have five minutes to filk up a suitable song on the topic, to the tune. Judging is (as per the Adept series) by a combination of a judges' panel (technical aspects, rhyme, scansion) and audience voting (volume; the Aye's have it).

I *love* it.

reply> Theme circles?

Yes! I can't believe I didn't think of that one. Children's filking, humorous filks, computer filks, bawdy filks (I get to sing "O Lord Byron"!), replyfilks about star trek, space flight filks...

> Contests?

See above for my design for an instafilking contest.

> The more I look at this the more I *really* want to try and make this work.

Oh, *yes*! I'll be pleased to be the focus person for publicizing it down this way (which will also give me an opportunity to get more in touch with the Bay Area filking scene).

> I asked a few questions on a.m.f. and r.m.f. to see if there was interest
> from people who aren't PNW (Since most of us here are)
> We might (once we have a com,) ask some of the other filk con people how
> they got started, what works/what doesnt etc..

Sounds reasonable.

> But I'm getting ahead of it all...

Not even close. C'mon, guys! Brainstorm!

Excitedly,

Mickey. Received on 11/22/96