FilKONtario: Saturday

[mdlbear]

Still being on West Coast time, getting up at my usual 6am meant that it was nearly 10am local by the time we got downstairs for breakfast; still, I managed to connect with ohiblather, who had spotted a good hole in the program for us to rehearse in. We'd originally planned to do it during the one-shots, except that they had the one-shots split up into 15-minute segments. But there was a break after one of those segments...

Got to Bill Roper's concert, the one-shots afterward, and Marilyn Miller's Interfilk concert. Idiot that I am, I hadn't set up to record; I'd forgotten that Marilyn likes my songs -- she sang "Paper Wings" and "World Inside the Crystal". The former gave me a perfect excuse to sing "Paper Pings" later on in a circle...

Marilyn has a fantastic voice, and performs with her "music partner" Mac (running Band-in-a-Box) for backup. Performing with a computer requires being able to get through every song in your set without making any mistakes that throw off your timing. No false starts, no repeated lines, no vamping. I sure as heck couldn't do it.

Immediately after Marilyn's concert, Debbie and I went up to my room to run through "World Inside the Crystal" for Sunday's Hall of Fame concert. It was my first time playing with Debbie -- definitely not the last. We also did "Ship of Stone" just for the heck of it. We need to get together and just jam for a while.

Missed about half of the Bedlam Bards concert. It was followed by vixy and Tony's GoH concert -- fantastic fun. Especially the part where, after singing "Re: Your Brains" in French (with Urban Tapestry holding the subtitles on posters), she segued seamlessly into asking the audience to sing "Happy Birthday" for Tony. Who had picked that moment to tune for the next song... And I'm always a sucker for "Six String Love"; she looks in my direction when she sings the line about Ovations. I have this weakness for red-haired sopranos...

After that, it was time to go upstairs and change for the Filk Hall of Fame banquet. Tasty, and some good conversation, but I was a little preoccupied.

I'd been thinking worrying about my acceptance speech all week, but hadn't gotten very far with it beyond the first few phrases. Should have just crawled into a corner for a couple of hours and worked on it, but in the end just got up there and winged it. Managed to hit most of the high points, though I'm sure I left out a few. Colleen came in at a couple of critical points, especially at the end where I referred to filk as our community, and she corrected it to "family". Yes.

Came down from the con suite early enough to get decent seats for the open filk in Hawthorn. Seemed smaller than Friday's, probably because the other rooms were warm enough for people to stay in them. Sang "Ship of Stone", hoping Debbie would join in, but she just wanted to listen. And "The River" -- it's my newest and one of my two or three best, and hardly anyone's heard it yet.

Got to bed somewhere around 2:30.

Comments

[ohiblather.livejournal.com]

I had so much fun making music with you! Hope we get to do it again.

*hugs*

[mdlbear]

*hugs* Thanks!

Let's plan on it! I'll be at Baycon, ConChord (where I'll be Toastmaster), and probably OVFF. And hopefully between now and the end of the month I'll have something set up for remote collaboration.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I don't know about anyone else, but *I* couldn't tell that you were winging it. :) (On the other hand, I was still busy going "omgomgomg!")

[mdlbear]

Glad it seemed to come off OK. I'm especially glad Colleen was up there with me to correct my omissions.

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

I have this weakness for red-haired sopranos

Funny, Barney has the same problem... ;-D

[mdlbear]

*grin*

[gorgeousgary]

Congrats again and great seeing, hearing, singing with, and dining with you and Colleen! 8-)

[mdlbear]

Thanks! We need to do that more often.