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Convention reports
2Tonic UK Filk Convention - Feb 08 - Grantham, UK Great time had at this convention where Christo played a 40minute set on Sat night folloing both guests of honour. Christo won a Sam Award for Best Silly Song for The Fish Song. Lifespell was nominated in Best Serious Song catagory. Full report here listen to Christo's Sam Award Winning Silly Song The Fish Song - mp3 2mb - 2Tonic Filk Convention set version from back of hall (thanks to Dave Weingart for recording) The Fish Song - mp3 2mb - Convention award ceremony concert	2Tonic Setlist Andromeda Bound The Fish Song Monkeys on the Moon Lifespell (joined by Tim Walker on talking drum) theremin spot (Cry Me A River) Circle of One Oses Again (new song) 3 Headed Girl (with Mich, Katie & Marilisa) theremin (improv) Alien Salad Abduction Alien Jellyfish Song songs sung in circles Empty House Time Machine, Carousell, Unicorn Girl
Dezenove UK Filk Convention - Feb 07 - Basingstoke, UK Christo took things easy at this con and CC didnlt have a set but sang in the 2shots and the circles and as guest on others setd. Full report here	FKO 06 setlist Killing Friends is Fun Homecoming songs sung in circles Burn the Heretic Fen, Alt. Universe Tomorrow (spoof Beatles Yesterday), 3 Headed Girl
FilkOntario Filk Convention - April 06 - Toronto, Canada Christo had a fab time at Filkontario Filk Convention in Toronto despite getting a throat infection just before the con. However he... 1. played a 60minute set with the assistance of Urban Tapestry (Jodi Krangle, Debbie Ridpath Ohi & Allison Durno) , & Georgina Sear all signed by signer Judy Miller including many pieces he had not played on stage before. Concert was filmed again by the filmcrew making the Filk film. 2. gave a theremin workshop 3. sat in on a juried song workshop 4. played 2 songs in circles - Monkeys on the Moon and Green Clothes 5. Played a new song The Fish Song (very silly) in Judy Miller's request set. 6. had fun Full report here Video of Christo playing twin whistles - mov - 8mb! Needs the Quicktime player 7 to play video. click on icon.	FKO 06 setlist Alien Salad Abduction, Circle of One, Lifespell (kalimba) Bobby Caseys (low whistle), The Lady (theremin instrumental with Allison on guitar), Wonder (with Jodi), Andromeda Bound (with Georgina & Jodi), Carousell (with Georgina) Alien Voices (keyboard) Rainbow Real (twin whistles), 3 Headed Girl (with Urban Tapestry & 3 others) Alien Jellyfish Song (with UT again). songs sung in circles Monkeys on the Moon, Green Clothes song sung in Judi Miller concert The Fish Song
Consonance Filk Convention - March 06 - Milpitas, California, USA 1. played 60 minute set 2. ran a theremin workshop 3. joined in on sets with Puzzlebox, Lyn Gold & Callie Hills 4. was interviewed by film crew, who filmed my entire set and I sang Alien Jellyfish Song for them after the interview. 5. sang 6 songs in circles plus accompanied Callie Hills, Seanan/Merav/Alisa and jammed with Margaret Davis & Kristoph Klover. 6. had fun... Full report here Tony Fabris' great report with photos and videos here Photos soon Videos Links to video files by Tony Fabris taken at Consonance - click on icons - big files! They need the Quicktime player to view the videos Christo playing theremin - mov - 144Mb!!! kalimba snippet - mov - 74Mb Christo in a circle - mov - 124Mb	Consonance 06 setlist Andromeda Bound Sci-fi Eyes Long Days Waiting - kalimba & flute Alien Salad Abduction Circle of One Over the Rainbow - theremin Burn the Heretic Fen - shaker Virtual Girl - elec piano Wonder Star Trek - theremin Rainbow Real - twin whistles 3 Headed Girl (with Erin, Taunya & Alisa) Alien Jellyfish Song - piano + guest spots with Puzzlebox (twice), Lynn Gold, Callie Hills, Seanan McGuire - in circles Carousell, Nobody Loves Me (Like I Do), Lifespell, Monkeys on the Moon, Age of Miracles, Green Clothes
1812 UK Filk Convention - Feb 06 - Grantham, UK 1. played 30minute set 2. won a Sam Award for his new song Circle of One 3. ran a theremin workshop 4. joined in a Celtic workshop 5. ran the sound desk for several hours. 6. played song with an instant band - an Unstaband 7. sang 1 song in circle and fooled around with Bill Sutton initiating new filkers 9. played guest spot on guitar with Brenda Sutton 10. had fun... Full report here Photos here	1812 setlist Alien Salad Abduction Scence Fiction Eyes Burn the Heretic Fen (shaker) Circle of One theremin section (Star Trek theme, Boy in Room, Sams Song & improv) Alien Jellyfish Song (piano) + guest spot with Brenda Sutton - in circle Life is an Intermittant Fault (CC/Rob Wynne song)
Dixseption Filk Convention - Feb 05 - Portsmouth, UK so filkcon came and went. Fun was had. I was taking it easy this year combining a w/e holiday and a filkcon. Hotel was fun in it's faded glory - lobby was nice meeting point. Music - I just sang 2 songs at thr main concert Science Fiction Eyes and Monkeys on the Moon dedicated to autographedcat and kitanzi who gave me a game they found with the same name. I did guest spots on whistles with Dave Weingart and Mich & Marlisia's s sets. And that was it. Also nice walks had by the sea and very good chinese restaurant on Sat night. filcolaire and telynor 's wedding on Sunday was simply beautiful - my 1st pagan wedding. - presided over by Brenda & Bill Sutton with the perfect blend ofv passion, clarity and levity that they bring to their music and Con running.	Dixseption Setlist Science Fiction Eyes Monkeys on the Moon + 2 guest spots with Mich & Marilisa & Dave Weingart
July 2004 Confluence Convention - Pittsburgh PA, USA bad stuff 1. 11 hour flight delay 2. on flight sat next to man who coughed every 30secs for 7hrs 3. having to spend the night in Newark Airport 4. getting sick on day 1 of the Confluence convention 5. getting post-viral exhaustion in New York for 3 days 6. didn't get to spend much quality time with friends at Con 7. suitcase broke on arrival 8. friend Merav didn't make it to con due to flight cancellation 9. only well enough to catch 1 act at con right thru - missed Urban Tapestry's set :-( good stuff 1. met Andrea Dale after 4 years corresponding 2. got just well enough to play 1hour set at the Con and sit/play in the Sat night late filk circle 3. sold 21 CDs 4. met/remet lots of great folks 5. met wonderful oboeist Natalie Twigg in flight-delay hotel and jammed 6. in NY went to Times Sq, Gugenheim Gallery & Greenwich Village and spent time with filker friends Merav & Jon and met up with Renee Spizz after 4 years. 7. saw Bo Diddley in airport 8. caught Dave Rood's great set - clever stuff 9. Juanita Coulson showed me her kalimba tuned in whole tone scale 10. UT singing with me on my set - esp hot on 3 Headed Girl All in all a great Con with a great filk track organised by Randy Hoffman who showed me round Pittsburgh and was a great host. The trip itself was pretty much ruined due to illness which was hugely frustrating at times. Here's to better travelling luck in future...	Confluence setlist 1. Alien Salad Abduction 2. Andromeda Bound - with Jodi Krangle 3. Long Days Waiting - kalimba 4. Science Fiction Eyes 5. Star Trek Theme - jazz piano version 5. Monkeys on the Moon - piano 6. Age of Miracles 7. Rainbow Real - twin whistles 8. Green Clothes 9. Wonder - with Jodi Krangle 10. Three Headed Girl - with Urban Tapestry, Mary Bertke, Andrea Dale, & ? 11. The Alien Jellyfish Song - with Urban Tapestry encore 11. Islands in the circle Orbital Filk Recording Studio - USA version
16Tones UK Filk Con report - as UK Guest of Honour Great Con - more fun than a bag of cats. Lots of lovely people, some great music - easy-going con. photos below Cool things that happened from a playing perspective were... 1. CC played a 90 minute concert 2. CC won a Sam Award for his song Orbital Filk Recording Studio. (a Sam is the UK filk Oscar) in the silly song catagory 3. he played 7 songs new to most UK filkers - in circleshe performed 2 songs by Country Joe McDonald he has never sung before. 4. he performed Skyrider from the Alien Salad Abduction CD which has neve rbeen performed before. 5. Katy Dröge sang lead vocal on Islands ! 6. on Three Headed Girl he was accompanied by Mich Sampson, Katy Dröge & Marilisa Valtazanou who were awesome in the title role 7. CC ran his first theremin workshop 8. a CC song was filked for the 1st time - by Brain Biddle who filked Alien Salad Abduction as Alien Salad Invasion - very funny! 9. CC sold 24 CDs at the con, and a further 35 to the Tales from the White Hart stall to sell in the USA The gig All went pretty well - only annoyances were me switching off my guitar on Take Me Away - what a fool! And forgetting some lines on Wonder (doh!) - Stilll the rest worked fine and it was lovely having Katy sing Islands, my VERY new song Orbital Recording Engineer I had to read but it went down well and in the end won a SAM Award for silly song. blush - I really enjoyed 3 Headed Girl with the 3 girls singing and being the 3 headed girl. - and 3 other being my 3 headed daughter of the song ! Melusine had given me a fun pink alien jellyfish which came in very handy on one song! Finished around 12.30 - whoosh !. I wasn't much use for much else that night? it went as well as it coulda and the audience were wonderful :-) All in all? Not very relaxing for me but a great con. Sold some CDs thanks to the Whittakers and especially to the Sands who bought many up front to sell in the states. Nice for me to catch up with Sibylle who I hadn't seen in ages. Also Jana arrived Sat - it was nice to catch up. Also cool to see Alexa and meet her man Soenke & son Juri. Also Shaya & Pug. Katy & Ju of course - always such a delight to chat with them - got their new CD too - go get yours!!! I didn't have much time for quality chats chatting to many others unfortunately - I wish I'd had a bit more energy - the mild bug, the air conditioning and nervousness effected me more than I'dve liked. Sorry to those to whome I appeared vacant. Well done to the Con Com - a seamless mellow con, and I'm thrilled to bits to've been the UK Guest of Honour, to be filked for the 1st time, and with my Sam Award !	16Tones Setlist 1 Alien Salad Abduction 2 Science Fiction Eyes 3 Long Days Waiting - kalimba 4 Monkeys on the moon - pno 5 Take me away 6 Stormy Point 7 Islands - lead sung by Katy Dröge 8 Orbital Filk Recording Studio 1 Skyrider - vocals & harmonizer 2 Andromeda Bound - gtr & vocals & harmonizer 3 Green Clothes - pno 4 The Answer - piano 5 Star Trek theme - theremin 6 Deep in the Bowels of the Ship - theremin & fx improv 7 Wonder 8 Three Headed Girl - with Mich, Marilisa , & Katy 9 Alien Jellyfish Song - keyboards - songs sung in filk circles UFO - gtr - Country Joe McDonald song Space Patrol - gtr Country Joe McDonald song The Age of Aquarius - kbd Nobody Loves Me (Like I Do) Forget About You
January 04 Atlanta - GaFilk Report ! Christo played at - GaFilk - the Georgia Filk Convention in January 2004 Cool things that happened were... 1. seeing so many old pals - CC hadn't seen Jodi Krangle & Debbie Ridpath Ohi for 4 years 2. meeting so many new ones - Mary Crowell & CC had been in email contact for quite a while but met for the 1st tiem at GaFilk - also a thrill to meet and hear the Three Weird Sisters and Echoes Children, & Ookla The Mok guys Rand & Adam, and Bill Roper. And countless others... 3. Christo played a 30min concert slot on the Friday - see photos 4. CC was joined by Jodi Krangle on Wonder and by Jodi & Debbie also from Urban Tapestry on The Alien Jellyfish Song 5. The Alien Jellyfish Song was included the GaFilk Songbook thanks to notation of the song by Mary Crowell. 6. Jodi , Mary Crowell & jazz band performed The Alien Jellyfish Song at the big banquet on Sat night - everyone danced ! 7. CC played low whistle on 1 song on Guest of Honour, Mich Sampson's set 8. Keyboard Thing item - Christo, Mary Crowell, Mich Sampson, Dave Ruud, Blake Hodgetts - all on keyboards - CC sang 2 songs and accompanied others and jammed. 9. CC sold 48 CDs	Gafilk Setlist 1. Alien Salad Abduction 2. Long Days Waiting - kalimba 3. Monkeys on the Moon 4. Wonder - with Jodi Krangle 5. Star Trek theme - piano instrumental 6. Green Clothes - piano 7. Rainbow Real - twin whistles instrumental 8. The Alien Jellyfish Song - keyboards - with Jodi Krangle & Debbie Ridpath Ohi songs sung in filk circles Science Fiction Eyes Nobody Loves Me (Like I Do) I Want Something (kalimba) Carousell Andromeda Bound (with Jodi Krangle) songs sung in "Keyboard Thing" item Sun Song (Leon Thomas song) Replicator Malfunction Blues with Christo, Mary Crowell, Mich Sampson, Dave Ruud, Blake Hodgetts - all on keyboards

love & peace & outer space

Filk Songs
CD		filk songs
	Alien Salad Abduction	Homeworld Andromeda Bound Hold On Deep Space Phone Alien Salad Abduction Unicorn Girl Skyrider Alien Jellyfish Song Fly High Echoes Take Me Away Space Temple Virtual Girl Wonder Planet Theremin So Long Blue	- opening theme for multi-vocals and piano - the children of space are going home - hold on to your wildest dreams - Andrea Dale calls in - extra-terrestrials are abducting all the vegetables! - kind of inspired by Michael Kurland book of the same title - multi vocal interlude about flying featuring Kate Easton - funky version with Urban Tapestry - space travellers return, from a loved ones point of view. - post apocalyptic words by Nicky Retallick - encounter with a mysterious space lady - chanting interlude - a vitual date with a virtual girl - a spacey love song featuring Jodi Krangle - interlude for 5 theremins - final broadcast by the last inhabitant on Earth before departure
	Live!	Call of the Wild Long Day's Waiting Green Clothes The Furies Age of Miracles Replicator Malfunction Blues Secret Garden Life, Magic & Love Nobody Loves Me- Like I Do The Alien Jellyfish Song	- solo version - solo kalimba & vocal version - my baby only wears green clothes - a silly colour rhyming song - song by Andrea Dale - solo version - a Deep Space 9 dilemma - stunning ballad by Talis Kimberley - solo version - another silly classic - solo version of Christo's filk hit.
	Just Be Real	The Alien Jellyfish Song Call of the Wild Carousel Long Day's Waiting	- Christo's best known filk song - now sung by Urban Tapestry - the Grey Lady makes an appearance once again - a dead friend says hello though a childs eyes - more folk than filk but popular in filk circles
	Earth Rising	Life, Magic & Love Age of Miracles Before I Go	- the Grey Lady in a environmental tale - title from a Brunner novel, idea from Bertram Chandler book - a tale of flight - now we can read eachother's minds. ------------- tho there are few actual filk songs on this CD, there is an overall filk concept to the album.
	Storming	Long Day's Waiting Carousel The Autumn Land	- more electronic version - about awaiting return of a loved one - bluesier version of reincarnation song - instrumental inspired by Simak short story of the same name
	Flying Home	Coming In To Land Storyteller Lighthouse in a Storm Always Flying Home	- slightly inspired by Lem's Return From The Stars - a story of an eternal storyteller - atmospheric strange song - dreamers are always flying home
	Sounds Like Rain	Earth Child Stormy Point	- encounter with strange woman/hawk earth child - legend of the wizard of Alderley Edge.
not recorded yet		I Have Seen The Future Oses Again Death to the Immortals The Fish Song Circle of One Burn the Heretic Fen The End of the World The Storm The Great Escapist Relive Out of this World Monkeys On The Moon Science Fiction Eyes Three Headed Girl Orbital Recording Engineer	- and it's beige - about compulsion to write oses -aka Killing Friends is Fun - a song about fish - or hatstands - about not being at the con - an alternate view of intolerant of fandom - an love song set in the apocalypse - post apocalytic cleansing storm - when the going gets tough - I wont be there - live your life over - doomed relationship with an Alien comes to an end - it's about monkeys....on the moon - about somone who sees the world as if it was sci-fi - its about a girl ... with 3 heads... - I'm the engineer on the 1st orbital filk recording studio
recorded instrumental music with sci-fi references		Contact Light CD The Planet Scanners - Live & Scanning Scanning Planet 3 The Third Expedition from Re-Orient CD Seven Steps to the Sun Rendezvous With Rama from Breathtaking CD Think Blue, Count Two Golden Steps Ritual of the Sky People CD	.- spacey theremin music - spacey electronic music - lots of space sounds including sample of Sputnik . art from Mars rovers, titles from Bradburys Martian Chronicles - title taken from Fred Hoyle book - title taken from Arthur C Clarke book - title from Cordwainer Smith short story - idea of title from Hannes Bok book Beyond the Golden Stair - album by The Rain Garden which has a space concept

Filk Links
some filker friends Urban Tapestry Talis Kimberley Zander Nyrond Andrea Dale Katy & Ju Elaine Samuels	some filk info What is filk? Filk.co.uk Filk Resources on the Web Filk 101	some filk online stores Filklore Music Store Random Factors Catalogue Editions Pegasus

Photos
2Tonic Filk Convention - with "Three Headed Girl" Mich, Katie & Marilisa - photo by Hitch
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Christo at D'Zenove UK Filk Convention, Basingstoke - thanks to Sib & Dave Weingart for the photos - Feb 2007 top - with the Crooklets singing the Alien Salad Abduction Song - with Brenda Sutton bottom - singing 3 Headed Girl with Katy, Rika & Marilisa - twin whistling in the circle
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Filkontario Filk Convention, April 06 - Toronto, Canada - photos CC, Tony Fabris, Debbie Ridpath Ohi, John Hall, Sybille Machat, Allison Durno Full report here video of Christo playing twin whistles - mov - 8mb! Needs the Quicktime player 7 to play video
kicking off with Alien Salad Abduction	the whole set was signed by Judi Miller
playing kalimba singing Lifespell	singing Circle of One
Andromededa Bound with Georgina Sear, Jodi Krangle & Judi Miller signing	3 Headed Girl with Urban Tapestry
playing Theremin on The Lady	pals - with Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Consonance Filk Convention, Mar 06 - Milpitas California - photos CC & Tony Fabris my Con report here Why not check out Tony Fabris' great report with photos and videos here
before singing "Science Fiction Eyes"	"3 Headed Girl" with Alisa/Taunya/Erin in title roll plus Lynn/Kathleen/? as the child
half the audience at the end of CCs set	singing Monkeys on the Moon in a circle
rehearsing overlooking Silicon Valley	dead dog final circle singing Nobody Loves Me (Like I Do)
1812 UK Filk Convention - Feb 06 - Grantham - many thanks for photos by Marion Beet, Sibylle Machat, Hitch, Terence Chua
The Set - singing "Science Fiction Eyes"	who said that?
Sam Award - accepting a Sam Award for new song Circle of One	accepting a Sam Award from Melusine
Theremin workshop - 2 theremins at once for the 1st time	Showing Alexa the theremin volume antennae
Unstaband - l-r - Andy G-K, Mike Whitiker, Valerie Housden, Tim Walker, CC & Sam Baardman

with Dave Weingart and solo at Dixseption Filk Convention - Feb 05 - Portsmouth - photos by Rob Wynne . showing the Monkeys On The Moon game given to CC by Rob & Larissa, before playing his song of that name .
Christo at Confluence, Pittburgh USA - with Urban Tapestry on The Alien Jellyfish Song - - Pete Grubb engineer - photos Debbie Ridpath Ohi/Rand Ballavia with Jodi Krangle on Wonder - Debbie Ridpath Ohi's amazing T-shirt . meeting Andrea Dale for the 1st time in 4 years correspondance - Conway's store on Broadway, New York . circle . with Merav in NY - weird pic with Renee - Gugenhem Gallery on my well day . .
CC Guest of Honor at 16Tones UK Filk Convention, Bromsgrove Electronic Music Night at the Musician - Jan 04 - photos many thanks to Hitch, Rick, Dave Weingart, Dan & Kim Parkes CC solo - CC with special effect alien jellyfish - can ya see how it's done? . "Three Headed Girl" with Marilissa Marilisa Valtazanou, Mich Sampson, Katy Droege- & 3 headed daughter Kate Soley-Barton, Emily Raftery, Lynn Gold . with Katy Droege singing "Islands" - in the 2fer concert with Seanan McGuire . theremin workshop demonstration - Tim Walker gives CC a lift at the opening ceremony . with The Split Level Band at the theremin workshop "Don't Play The There Theremin" . closing ceremony - commemorative Guest of Honor plaque (made by Sue Mason) and CC's Sam Award (made by Omega) for CC's song Orbiting Filk Recording Studio . .
Atlanta Georgia, USA - Jan 04 - photos Dave Weingart Debbie Ridpath Ohi, CC* CC with Jodi Krangle & Debbie Ridpath Ohi singing The Alien Jellyfish Song /twin whistling* . * Alien Salad Abduction on guitar / Long Day's Waiting on kalimba / Rainbow Real on twin whistles . . . . with Jodi on Wonder / introduced by dancing Toastmistress Mary Crowell . Star Trek Theme on piano / crooning Green Clothes . chillin with Jodi & Debbie / alien CC in a waffle house* /CC & Jodi in the lobby .* . us 3 in colour** and b&w* . *

Eastercon - Seacon 03 - Hinckley 2003 - photos Hitch

Quinze Filk Festival - Ipswich 2003 - Christo guest twin whistling with Brenda Sutton with Tim Walker on drums - photo by Rob Wynne -
solo set - photos Anja
the audience - photo by Christo on stage

Contabile Fortean, Basingstoke 2002 - photo Daniel Glasser - thanks Dan	the big finish !

Eboracon, York 2001 photo thanks to Kirstin Tanger from Editions Pegasus	CC as audient

Didgeridouze, Milton Keynes 2000 Christo with Urban Tapestry and Decadent Dave Clement
solo Thanks to Kirstin for use of the photos)
Crowd at Didgeridouze after Christo's set

Some especially filkish CDs
	Alien Salad Abduction CD - Electrofilkadelic album - for more about it go here So what's in it for filk fen? 1. Guests on The Alien Jellyfish Song - Urban Taprestry 2. Jodi Krangle guests on 2 other songs 3. Andrea Dale makes a brief appearance on interstellar telephone 4. Echoes has lyrics by Nicky Retallick 5. Christo's theremin appears on 7 tracks 6. Christo's first dedicated filk album 7. and seventhly 8. 16 tracks of cosmic songs 9. did I mention the theremin? Oh yes, so I did
	Chris Conway - Live ! CD - for more about it go here So what's in it for filk fen? 1. Recorded live at 2 UK Filk conventions - Didgeridouze and Conthirteena 2. CC sings 2 songs by famous filkers - one by Talis Kimberley and 1 by Andrea Dale 3. Replicator Malfunction Blues - a DS9 filk not aavailable on any other album. 4. Fab live sound and lively filker audience 5. and fifthly 6. 4 bonus studio tracks

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