RE: OryCon music [harmony & more]

Hi

I would infinitely prefer that it not be on Sunday afternoon. I usually do not stay past Sunday morning at Ory because I have to get home, see my husband, get my act together and otherwise re-group for another exciting week in the lab, starting at 0700 Monday morning. I also have no **safe* place to leave musical instruments (safe meaning someplace locked up, inside, to which I have the key, and where the instruments won't be moved around) after hotel check-out. So I usually wind up leaving about noon.

The problem with the ballroom is that it's already confusing for people trying to sing harmony for the first time without adding extraneous noise to it. I think the workshop will work better in an autonomous room or at least one that's quiet. I doubt seriously whether we will bother anyone else.

I will correspond by e-mail with willing participants (as in helpers, etc) but I see no reason for a sign-up just to be in the "audience' (audience as in the "audience" at the sing-along Mesiah, where participation is encouraged).

My main concern is having a programming room big enough. I seem to have the knack of attracting more people to my panels than expected (I truly do not understand why) and while I don't for one minute think I would fill up a whole ballroom, I suspect that we may have 30 people in the "audience" as well as the "participants". If anyone else has any thoughts about numbers, I'd love to know. Also if there is a room with a piano, that would be most excellent.

Anyway, that's my thoughts for today.

Aislinn

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John C. Bunnell wrote:

>
> Okay, that's one way to get the attention of the filk coordinator....
>
> Let me see if I have the list of willing participants right up to this
> point. I'm listing full/real names to the extent I know them because I'm
> going to cc: this to Megaera (Jarvis, my boss in Programming), so that she
> will also have the head count as "proof of interest".
>
> Ann Prather
> Cat Faber
> Callie Hills
> Michelle Hansard
> Andrew Ross
> Titania Baildon
> Jonnalyhn Hall
> Steve Dixon
> (?) Rick Bagnall
>
> This is more than enough to constitute a "panel". May I assume that the
> core group would also be open to limited on-site signup at the con? What I
> am thinking right now is that this may work well as one of the "small group
> workshops" that we have usually run Saturday afternoons, although those are
> usually placed in quarters of the Riverview Room and that location may be a
> Bad Idea for a singing event. (The other thought might be Sunday afternoon
> as the con is winding down, but after folks have awakened from Saturday
> night song and carousing.)
>
> I am still working out mini-concert scheduling logistics; current thinking
> is running toward non-evening slots for those, but exactly where they will
> turn up I am not yet certain. I *will* keep an eye on those as regards
> conflicting with other events so as to avoid double-scheduling.
>
> Good to see everyone making plans. I can make one other announcement as to
> OryCon music programming: in addition to Larry Warner as music GoH, we will
> have Crooked Mile from Seattle back for a featured concert!
>
> -- reply
> = John C. Bunnell
> = JCBunnell at sff.net
> = http://www.sff.net/people/jcbunnell/
>
> "You'll never grow old, and you'll never grow poor,
> If you look to the rainbow beyond the next moor."
> -- F. McLonergan
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Received on 09/18/00