So I actually made some music on Saturday, for once, with a 25-minute concert in the Festival of the Living Rooms (you can find FotLR via FB or any filk-related discord server -- send me an email if you can't find it and want to).
N wanted to be part of it, so she came up to Whidbey with me for the ( Read more... )

So I have a half-hour concert coming up in a few weeks, at the next FotLR. So far, the only definite things on the setlist are "Eyes Like the Morning" and "The River". Probably "Wheelin'", and possibly "Riverheart", which was one of Colleen's favorites. (Probably not "Lily ( Read more... )

It will come as no surprise to anyone who's been following this blog for a while that I have a weakness for rabbit holes. These often involve either a series of YouTube videos or a Wikipedia dive, and the deepest usually include both. So when the the 1998 movie version of "Cats" was streamed last Sunday to mark the musical's 40th ( Read more... )

Welcome to May, 2021!
It's Saturday, so the only appropriate song for the day is ( 'First of May' by Jonathan Coulton. Do I need to mention that it's NSFW? )

The obvious Songs for today are taking place on the Zoom version of Consonance - The SF Bay Area Filk Convention, otherwise known as Nonsonance. (That link points to the program page.) You can find the Zoom links on either the Book of Faces in the consonance group, or on the #filkhaven discord server.
I should have posted ( Read more... )

Happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate it -- I hope it was a good one. (If you don't, I hope it was just a good day for you, and you have my sympathy if it wasn't.) Since I neglected to do a proper s4s post yesterday, and because I've already written about some of my love songs, I'm just going to cheat and make links.
The ( Read more... )

Today's S4S, by way of the Filkhaven #media-room channel, is Evolution of Star Trek Series Music Theme (1966-2020), performed by VioDance on YouTube. VioDance is a violinist/DJ duo, based in Spain -- they play at weddings, parties, and various other events. Their YouTube channel shows off their use of projected backgrounds, LEDs, ( Read more... )

At first I had no idea what today's s4s would be about. Then Steve Macdonald released The WorlDream Project : worldream.filk.de. Problem solved.
Back in 2001, Steve decided to attend every filk convention (plus Worldcon), gather together as many filkers as possible at each one, and record them singing one song: "Many Hearts, One ( Read more... )

Colleen and I were married forty five years ago today. So there's really only one song that will do: Here's Stan Rogers singing "Forty-Five Years".
Here's a live performance. from Home in Halifax, and the lyrics.
( lyrics, if you don't want to click through: )

Not only is today Boxing Day, it's also the birthday of Charles Babbage: December 26, 1791. He invented the stored-program digital computer, which he called the Analytical Engine. That also makes the Analytical Engine the first unfinished computer project (unless you count Babbage's Difference Engine, but that wasn't a general- ( Read more... )