Emerald Forest Filk Society: Tentative Norwescon Schedule

From: Mistress of the Blue Shift <quarong at eskimo.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 20:18:12 -0800

Good Day, my lords and ladies,

What follows is the VERY TENTATIVE outline for Filk related programming at Norwescon. I am posting this here with the intent of exciting your interest in attending the convention, but be aware some of the details may change before or during the actual event. (Itineraries for the guests are going out this week and this often prompts some changes, which is why Cons do them: beats having to do 4x the number of changes onsite. :)

Norwescon this year is April 1-4, at the SeaTac Doubletree Hotel (across from the airport). The official theme is Alternative Histories, but there is also going to be a strong space sciences track all kinds of general programming. The deadline for mail-in memberships is today, but you can get them for $50 on the afternoon of 3/20 at the Sneak Preview / Volunteer Recruitment session; or for $55 at the door. Merchants & the Art Show will be open to the public, but the con intends to be more aggressive this year in restricting other areas to those with badges. As of last week, there were still about 50 rooms left for the weekend at a rate of $92 for 1-4 people, but these will go fast. There are also a number of other hotels within a few blocks of the site. For any other information, check out the webpage at <www.webwitch.com/norwescon> or call (206) 270-7850.

Music performers who have said they are coming:

PuzzleBox (Paul Kwinn, Alisa Schaefbauer, Taunya Shiffer) Karen Rall
Darragh Metzger
Jeff Hitchin
Joe Bethancourt
Sunrise Fletcher

PANELS: Thur 8-9, Cascade 5 = Filk 101

Fri 3-4, Cascade 5 = Music and Our Lives
Fri 7-8, Cascade 4 = SongWriting Workshop
Fri 9-11, Cascade 11  =  Drum Circle
Fri 9-11, Evergreen 1-2  =  Regency Dancing (Run by Rachel Holmen.) 

Sat 10-12, Evergreen 3-4  =  Celtic Dance Workshop  
	(Run by Scott MacHaffie)

Sat 12-1, Cascade 13 = Music History

Sat 1-2, Cascade 5  =  Writing Parodies
Sat 2-3, Cascade 11  =  Soundtracks  [More a movie panel than music.] 
Sat 3-4, Evergreen 2  =  Arrangement
Sat 3-5, Evergreen 1  =  Middle Eastern Belly Dancing 
	(Instruction in various forms by Betty Bigelow)

Sat 7-9pm, Ballrooms = Masquerade

SPEAKERS: 340 Soundtracks - Bob Cumbow, Alan Halfhill, J. Spyder Isaacson, Kyle David Jelle, Ryan K. Johnson, Betsy Mott, Brian Oberquell, Randy Lee Prinslow, David Tackett

765 Music and our lives - Jeff Hitchin, Paul Kwinn, Karen Rall, Alisa Schaefbauer (won't be in til Friday eve), Sunrise Fletcher

766 Filk 101 - Jeff Hitchin, Paul Kwinn, Karen Rall, Alisa Schaefbauer (won't be in til Friday eve), Darragh Metzgar

769 Celtic Dance - Scott MacHaffie, Karen Rall (as assistant)

774 Drum Circle - Edward Martin III, Alisa Schaefbauer, Garth Stubbs, David Tackett

1124 Arrangement - Joe Bethancourt, Jeff Hitchin, Paul Kwinn, Alisa Schaefbauer, Taunya Shiffer, Darragh Metzgar

1128 Songwriting Workshop - Joe Bethancourt, Jeff Hitchin, Paul Kwinn, Alisa Schaefbauer, Sunrise Fletcher

1132 Writing Parodies - Joe Bethancourt, Jeff Hitchin, Paul Kwinn, Randy Lee Prinslow

CONCERTS (Very tentative) Evergreen 3 & 4

Friday:

	6-8pm  =  Setup	
	8-10pm = Treks Not Taken   (Humor skit)
	10-11pm  =  Puzzlebox Concert
	11pm on  =  More concerts and Open Filking
Saturday:
	8-9pm  =  Setup
	9-10pm  =  Sunrise Concert
	10pm on =  More Concerts and Open Filking

OPEN CIRCLE:
Thur Filk 9pm on = Cascade 5
Fri Filk 8pm on = Cascade 4 (3 is also open then) Sat Filk 7pm on = Cascade 6 (room 5 available at 11pm)

GENERAL ROOM ASSIGNMENTS:
Cascade 1 = Readings

	 2-6 =  Small panels
	 7-8 =  Green Room & Stage Mgmt
	 9-10 = Gaming
	 11  =  Costuming panels  (Drums Fri night)
	 12  =  Art panels  (Camarilla at night)
	 13  =  Big panels  (movies at night)
Evergreen = Big panels all weekend (including Dragon's Hollywood news
	presentations); concerts & dance.

That's all for now. Write me privately if you have any questions, but be aware my email time is very limited right now and it may take me a few days to reply. I'll see you at the con!

Quarong

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Karen Rall, Folk Music Programming Coordinator for Norwescon 22. If you'd like more information about Celtic music activities in the Greater Seattle area, or about Filking at Cons & SCA Events, please reply to <quarong at eskimo.com>. General Convention info is available at <http://www.webwitch.com/>, and SCA information at <http://www.sca.org/>. Received on 03/04/99