boskone

Jodi, me, Allison. We're wearing garlic necklaces, gifts from the Boskone concom (part of the Saturday Night Dead theme). Photo by Paul Estin.

Back from Boskone in Boston! Allison, Jodi and I had a wonderful time.

Not sure when I'm going to be able to post a full con report since things are a bit nuts here re: catching up, work, househunting, doing more babysitting Wed, Thu and Fri, sorting through the 1300+ spam e-mails that made it into my inbox during the weekend and making it nearly impossible to pick out the real mail (grrr), so I'll post a link to my Boskone 2005 Flickr Photo set instead for now. You can also see photos from our children's concert in Kathryn Cramer's blog and Allison's Boskone photos.

Sheryl, Gary, Allison and Jodi.

Our regular concert on Saturday afternoon went well, and we got positive feedback from a number of people afterward who said they don't normally attend the filking track at Boskone but checked out our concert out of curiosity. Sadly, our CDs never made it to the convention but happily (and more importantly), everyone seemed to be having fun. :-)

In case any of you are curious, our concert playlist was as follows: Hockey Monkey, Another Story, My Jalapeno Man, Two Voices, The Question, Into The West (by Howard Shore and Fran Walsh), Silmarillion (by Tim and Annie Walker), Sex and Chocolate, Tin Soldier (by Julia Ecklar), The Lady, Starsoul, Battle On, Neurotic Love Song.

I enjoyed the concerts by Odd Numbers (Virginia Taylor, Patricia Rubin, Gary McGath), Robin Holly and Jonathan Turner, Paul Estin, Gary Ehrlich, and hearing the other performers in the "Life, the Universe and Everything" concert. Great to finally get to hang out with Julie Cochin, to sightsee a bit with her and Allison, hear her songs. Enjoyed getting to know Paul Estin, whom I met for the first time at GAfilk...and he's coming to FKO, yay! Loved hearing all his Canadian content songs. :-D

Also enjoyed chatting with Keith DeCandido, who did the novelisation of Serenity as well as many other books; unfortunately we were unable to get much scoop out of him about the new Firefly movie (darn NDAs). We've agreed that if we're ever performing at a con he's also attending, he'll play percussion for us. :-)

Jodi, Keith and Allison.

I saw Jane Yolen in person for the first time! Yep, I'm a fangirl :-) I interviewed Jane for Inklings a long while back, but had never met her in person. Other authors at the convention whose work I've read included Orson Scott Card (guest of honour), Frederich Pohl, George R.R. Martin.

Paul Estin.

Urban Tapestry got interviewed by Michael MacDonald and his film crew for "Vision From The Edge: The art of Science Fiction", a documentary airing on the Space Channel and Bravo next summer. They also filmed part of our concert. It will be interesting to see what clips (if any) end up in the show, which is due to wrap in June/July.

Many thanks to Priscilla Olson, Gary McGath and the rest of the Boskone concom for inviting us to Boston this year! Also thanks to Scott and Amanda Snyder for writing a highly entertaining bio for Urban Tapestry for the program book. :-) Steve Macdonald is the Featured Filker at next year's Boskone.

Be sure to check Allison's Livejournal, where she'll be posting more about our Boston experience.

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