Kirstin's photos

Photo to the right: A button I designed to help raise funds to fly The N'Early Music Consort to FilKONtario in 2007, printed up by Raoul Benefiche (aka "Blind Lemming Chiffon"). Valerie Housden was selling them at Filkcontinental, so I bought one since I hadn't seen it in button form yet. For those curious: FKO = FilKONtario, IF = Interfilk (partnering with FKO for this endeavour), nMC = n'Early Music Consort.

At Filkcontinental, I chatted with Thesilée of Lord Landless about impressive-sounding foreign phrases to throw into casual conversation; she knew a lot more than I did and promised to send me some. Here are a few:

"Il seno e grande." [Il SAYnoh ay grranday] ("These breasts are huge")

"Il letto e sofice." [Ill letto ay sofeechay] ("This bed is soft")

"Sono stufo di andare a piedi." [Sonno stoofoh dee anDAHrreh ah
pee-AY-dee] ("I am fed up with walking")

And a very, very brief Welsh version of Cyrano:
"Mae trwyn da chi." (You have got a nose)

Thanks for these helpful phrases, Thesilée! :-D

And for those who didn't see my LJ posting, I got very briefly mentioned in a Newsweek article while I was in Germany. To clarify: I don't believe the Internet can easily replace a good literary agent. I love mine (Virginia Knowlton at Curtis Brown Ltd.) and wouldn't give her up for anything.



(Above photo: I took this during a hike up at the cottage.)

Just a reminder that the online ballot for the 2005 Pegasus Awards will be closing next Monday. The Pegasus Awards were founded to recognize and honor excellence in filking. These awards are given annually at the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (or OVFF). Anyone with an interest in filk can nominate songs or individuals for the awards, and anyone can vote. You do not need to be a member of the convention to be involved in the nomination and voting process.

No, I'm not on the ballot...which is why I feel more comfortable encouraging people to vote this year. :-) In fact, even if you don't plan to vote but are curious about filk, I encourage you to check out this year's nominees as well as past winners. All recent nominees/winners have MP3 clips; I've found this a great way to hear at least a sample of songs and musicians I haven't had the opportunity to come across in person.

Anyway, here is a list of this year's nominees.



The rest of the photos on this page were taken by Kirstin Tanger (see Kirstin on the left in the photo above, husband Volker is on the right), reprinted here with permission. Kirstin was on the Filkcontinental concom and is also one of the Webmasters of the Let's Filk About Homepage.

Like most other avid trip photographers out there, I tend to get left out of most of my own photo collections because I'm always the one with the camera. That's why I was grateful that both Allison and Kirstin were taking photos as well, especially after the convention when a technical glitch caused the loss of some of my Hamburg pictures. And since Allison and I take a lot photos, we very rarely get photos of all three of us together. So thank you, Kirstin!

Allison and I during "Neurotic Love Song":

Allison and Jodi look at Beckett's and Paul's birthday message at the surprise party:

Me, on the flute. I'm wearing a top I bought in Frankfurt:

Gary performs the German version of the Hockey Monkey song in our concert:

Jodi, Allison and me, in Hamburg:

I love this picture that Kirstin took of Katy and Steve:

During the Hockey Monkey song:

Dozing in Hamburg:

The answer to Urban Tapestry's question, "Wo ist der Bahnhof?!":

Thanks so much for letting me reprint some of your photos, Kirstin!

You can find the rest of Kirstin's trip photos here. Allison's are here and mine are here.

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