House Filk
Feb. 2nd, 2014 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crazychicknladyM and I hosted a house filk last night. It was the first house filk I had been at in over a year, possibly the only house filk in our area in over a year, as well. The couple that used to be the most reliable at hosting them have been unable to, and M and I are trying to build enough momentum to get things going again. I may even be up to being an every other month host.
We had a new person show up last night. She has a beautiful singing voice and she sang a very nice mix of songs: some pretty ones I'd never heard of before (most were written by her Mom), and some from old books like Minus Ten and Counting (out of print book of Space Songs) and Dreamer (Julia Ecklar songs). She grew up with filk, and moved here from far away about 8 months back. She was very excited to have found some filkers in the area. I hope our incredibly pathetic turnout - just us (M, Me, and the girls - C came up sick that morning and spent the whole filk in his room), her, and two other regular faces - doesn't discourage her from participating in the future. She left with the happy glow of a night of singing and promises to host the next filk. That's the key, I expect, if we can really get her to follow through with that offer. She said she has friends interested in filking, and if she can get even one or two of those on a regular basis, we might reach critical mass and get to do these house filk things once a month again.
It was a fun night. It was neat to sing to a new person, who hadn't heard all my songs before. She had never heard of Echo's Children, and I do a lot of their stuff. S started the night with us and sang two songs (TNT, a minecraft parody, and Gypsy Bard, a MLP fan song), then she retreated to her room. H participated the whole time. She started with Cost of the Crown by Mercedes Lackey*, and eventually sang some of her own filk.
*H found this song on her own while looking at MLP stuff on YouTube. She had memorized about half of it, before she showed it to me, and I realized it was a Mercedes Lackey song (a bona fide filk artist, found independently by my kiddo).
We had a new person show up last night. She has a beautiful singing voice and she sang a very nice mix of songs: some pretty ones I'd never heard of before (most were written by her Mom), and some from old books like Minus Ten and Counting (out of print book of Space Songs) and Dreamer (Julia Ecklar songs). She grew up with filk, and moved here from far away about 8 months back. She was very excited to have found some filkers in the area. I hope our incredibly pathetic turnout - just us (M, Me, and the girls - C came up sick that morning and spent the whole filk in his room), her, and two other regular faces - doesn't discourage her from participating in the future. She left with the happy glow of a night of singing and promises to host the next filk. That's the key, I expect, if we can really get her to follow through with that offer. She said she has friends interested in filking, and if she can get even one or two of those on a regular basis, we might reach critical mass and get to do these house filk things once a month again.
It was a fun night. It was neat to sing to a new person, who hadn't heard all my songs before. She had never heard of Echo's Children, and I do a lot of their stuff. S started the night with us and sang two songs (TNT, a minecraft parody, and Gypsy Bard, a MLP fan song), then she retreated to her room. H participated the whole time. She started with Cost of the Crown by Mercedes Lackey*, and eventually sang some of her own filk.
*H found this song on her own while looking at MLP stuff on YouTube. She had memorized about half of it, before she showed it to me, and I realized it was a Mercedes Lackey song (a bona fide filk artist, found independently by my kiddo).
