Welcome to my little corner of cyberspace!

Filk is the music of science fiction fandom. Originally it started out as homage to our favorite books, movies and TV shows, but these days it covers a wider range, from cats to computers to humor and parody and everything in between.

I first get started in filk back in about 1980 or so but dropped out after a few years for a number of reasons. In 2003 I bought a banjo, something I had wanted to do for a long time, and taught myself to play. Four years later I brought the banjo to a filk circle at Norwescon, and things haven't been the same since.

These days I go to conventions up and down the West Coast, playing my banjo, singing my songs and having a good time, whoever I'm with, wherever I am. Check the bottom of the page for a list of the cons I would like to attend during the 2013/14 con season after taking most of 2012-2013 off due to lack of funds.

I will ~~soon~~ someday have some chord sheets for my songs to put up here, and hopefully a few MP3s; in the meantime, here's a recording of my song Dark Lullaby from the Conflikt 4 commemorative CD. That's the lovely and talented C. D. Woodbury on guitar, who was Conflikt VI's toastmaster. Enjoy.

Conventions I am likely to attend in the next year or so, or it's more likely that I would attend these cons than others:

Spocon	Spokane, WA	August 9-11	I haven't yet been to Spocon but hey, maybe this year. My friend Mark Osier is this year's filk guest.
VCon 38	Richmond (Vancouver), BC	October 4-6	I always have a good time when I go to VCon.
Conchord 25/Conjecture 2013	San Diego, CA	October 18-20	OK, it's not likely I'll be able to go again this year, but I was the Interfilk guest at Conchord in 2012 and had such a good time I wanted to plug them here. Filk is a small place: Tom Smith, who was the Conflikt GoH in 2010, will be doing the same for Conchord this year, and Tim Griffin, who will be this year's Conflikt Interfilk guest, is Conchord's toastmaster.
Orycon 35	Portland, OR	November 8-10, 2013	A gencon with a great filk track built out of Wotto and potrzebie by Daniel Reitman and Andrew Ross. Debs & Errol, a Toronto-based duo with a podcast and webcomic (check it out: debsanderrol.com)
Conflikt VII	Seatac, WA	January 25-27, 2013	Good heavens, have we already done six of these? Amy McNally is the GoH, with Interfilk guest Tim Griffin and Toastmaster Sunnie Larsen.
Norwescon 37	Seatac, WA	April 17-20	Hoping to be back this year because this is where all my geeky friends hang out and Dara Korra'ti always does a bang-up geek music track.