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[mamadeb]

Deep breath.

I said I left Conterpoint with a lot to think about. I didn't want to say why then because there were people I needed to contact first. I've contacted them.

I am chairing next year's Contata (which is the New York edition of the East Coast Floating Filk Convention. Conterpoint is the Baltimore/DC edition and Concertino is the Boston one.)

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[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Filk is subject to dispute, but one definition is "The folk music of the science fiction community."

It's song parodies, usually on subjects of interest to science fiction fans - books, cats, movies, tv series, cats, science, politics, cats. It's original songs on the same subjects. It's parodies of the original filk songs.

(To filk: to parodize a song along those lines or to sing those songs. We filk filked filk songs. - We sing parodies of other filk songs.)

It's also real folk music that happens to speak to sf fans for one reason or another.

At general SF cons, there are often concerts of well-known (big name) filkers, but the real stuff happens late at night in a conference room, where we sit in rough closed curves of chairs and take it in turns to sing or to ask others to sing, or to just listen.

I listen.