[filk] Re: filk and v-con

From: Juliana McCorison <the_pondside at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:54:02 -0700 (PDT)

Well, funny you should ask that...
Douglas and I were planning on attending (assuming I'm not in Ottawa that week by some evil plot).

There used to be filk at V-Con - I remember huddling in lobbies and assigned rooms bashing balrogs til the wee hours at Gage Towers.

Organize and we will come...

J

• Shaddyr <shaddyr at telus.net> wrote:
  >
  > Hey. I just got a very cool e-mail from Palle, the
  > guy who is running V-con
  > this year. I told him that I was interested in
  > seeing some filk at V-con and
  > could they give us a room, etc. So he wrote back and
  > asked whay I needed and
  > i told him a room not too near the noise where we
  > could put people and
  > instruments - and perferably permission to remain
  > open to the wee hours of
  > the night.
  >
  > So, he told me that there WILL be filk space at
  > V-con. Isn't that cool?
  >
  > I also told him they should think about actually
  > inviting a filk GoH since
  > it would likely be a draw for V-con. And he said
  > that they've asked Heather
  > Alexander in the past, but Anglicon is always around
  > the same time, so it
  > doesn't work out. And this year, when they went and
  > changed the con to
  > October - so did Anglicon. So, this is actually a
  > *good* thing - they
  > *thought* about it. Huh. And here I thought that
  > Filk was DEAD in BC. So I
  > told him they should ask Echo's Children, but it's
  > kinda late in the game
  > for that. But mebbe I planted a seed for the future,
  > who knows?
  >
  > Just for curiosity's sake, how many people would be
  > willing to come up for
  > V-con if there was a filk GoH? Would it be
  > worthwhile? I mean, your money is
  > worth more up here, so I'm thinking that's a plus.
  > Any thoughts?
  >
  >
  > Shaddyr
  > "I am a filker...
  > I have inside me blood of Bards..."
  >
  >
  

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Eliza Juliana McCorison

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