Dave's gone on to Port Dover but he's left behind chocolate, chili and some wonderful memories.
Allison and John came over on Wednesday night to join Dave and me for dinner; we had chili and Dave's garlic-cheese bread. Allison brought dessert: a key lime pie and melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies. Yum! Walter and Jeff showed up later in the evening, and there was much music. I love
this photo that John took of me, Allison and Dave and also
this photo of Walter and me in front of the fireplace.
My friend Walter has some
new pics up with selected stills of the
video footage he took of our concert with Franklin, including the
moment when I realized that Jeff was in the audience (sitting beside Walter).
Here are Walter's other FKO photos.
I forgot to mention that I discovered on the weekend that my
Lord of the Rings Musical review was mentioned in the Toronto Sun as well as an Ottawa paper recently. If anyone still has the clippings, I'd very much appreciate a copy, thanks.
FKO highlights continued from Parts
1,
2,
3, and
2b (Davevisit)...
(Warning: way too many exclamation marks in the text below)
Eloise has a great list of other
FilKONtario reports and photos online, for those interested (check bottom of that linked page). Hey, and I just found out that
Sibylle has her photos online, a collection which includes some of the
silliest moments from our concert with Franklin and an
even sillier photo of Sibylle with Urban Tapestry. :-)
John Hall has also posted his photos from FKO
in his gallery, including a
photo of our concert with Franklin and
the last song in our concert where Wolfram, Walter and Sibylle helped out with props.
And
here are my photos from the weekend.
Meanwhile, here are a few more of my personal highlights from FKO, in no particular order:
Above: Performing "Starsoul" (Photo by Walter). Note that I'm wearing my Chris Conway fangirl t-shirt! Allison took a
great photo of Chris and me, if you want to see the t-shirt design more clearly.
- Commiserating with Judith on Sunday afternoon about some recent frustrations. It was funny...neither of us had to say anything, we just grabbed hands and yelled together. Highly satisfying and also fun.
- The cover that Daniel Glasser made for the DVD/CD recording of the Stan Rogers Tribute concert that Dandelion Wine (I was one of their special guests) did for Sue Posteraro at GAfilk. Sue won the package at an Interfilk auction, and Daniel donated the recordings to this year's FKO Interfilk auction.
- Thanks to Walter for buying the Urban Tapestry Songbook (now out of print) that we donated to the auction.
- Coming back from open filk at around 4 a.m. early Sunday morning to find the entrance to our hotel room blocked with strips of masking tape (!). :-D :-D We have yet to find the culprit!!!
- Seeing Franklin again. Many thanks to Sue Posteraro and the rest of the FKO concom for inviting us to do a concert with him...we had SO MUCH FUN. Our concert playlist, for those interested: Another Round (by Juliane Honisch), Three Ravens (by Franklin), Wo Ist Der Bahnhof (by me), New Horizons (by Franklin, I believe), Save Ginny Weasley (by Harry and the Potters), I'm Going To Make A Rocketship (by me), Dwarves (lyrics by Franklin), The Question (by me), King's Yodel (by Franklin, I think), Still Beautiful (by Aryana), Maiden and the Knight (by Franklin, I believe), 'Cuz He's A Guy (by me), Unforgotten (by Laurence Dean), Hockey Monkey Song (by James Kochalka). Both Urban Tapestry and Franklin used a ton of silly props for several of the songs. Thanks to Amy McNally for adding violin to "Still Beautiful" and thanks to Walter, Wolfram and Sibylle for helping us out with props in the German version of the "Hockey Monkey Song".
- Hot tubbing with Franklin, Katy and Sibylle on Friday morning at the hotel.
- Seeing how the
n'MC t-shirt turned out. Many thanks to Judith for doing such a great design with my drawings.
- The fabulous con suite, courtesy
Elizabeth Wrigley.
- Joey Shoji's reaction to my friend Walter. :-D
- Thanks to Maya for these gorgeous handmade bookmarks for my collection:
- Chocolate from Joey! I'll be writing a more detailed Blathering about some of the gourmet chocolate bars he gave me for my birthday. I felt incredibly spoiled.
- The giant Hershey bar that Walter donated to the Interfilk auction.
- Hearing Cat Faber sing
They Spoke With Their Hands while Judi signed it.
- Seeing Chris Conway again. Not only is this guy an incredibly professional musician, but he's darned nice and fun to hang out with. I love this picture of Chris and Allison joking around during a pre-concert practice:
Allison also took a
fun photo of Walter and me with Chris peering out between us.
- Tom Jeffers surprising everyone (or nearly everyone ;-) by attending FilKONtario when he said he wasn't going to be able to attend:
- My friend Walter's reaction when he heard Daniel Glasser doing "Close Your Eyes" for the first time. :-D
-
Playing my new tin whistle with Urban Tapestry for the first time!
- Seeing Katy and Steve together. I never get tired of this. :-) I was surprised and happy when I found out they were both coming to FKO!
Above:
Jim Hanks (brother of Tom Hanks!) and Chris Conway chat in the hallway. Jim was a film crew member of an independent movie company filming a documentary at FKO this year.
Here is some info about The Filk Film Project (working title).
- Getting
Honourable Mention in this year's FKO Hugging Contest; other HMs were Dave Weingart and Greg McMullan, with Ingrid de Buda winning top prize. I didn't even realize there was a hugging contest with actual anonymous judges. :-) When people registered, they were asked to wear a green sticker (hugs are ok), red sticker (hugs not ok) or yellow sticker (hugs ok with permission). I wore green.
- Carolyn Brown's Canadian song, eh?
- Seeing Sibylle get such a great audience response to her Evil Eyeball Song:
- Singing
Home To FilKONtario at the end of the convention and seeing most of the people sing along.
- Chris Conway's "Circle of One" song, which made me all teary-eyed. Chris has certainly done a great job at capturing the bittersweet experience of being left behind while everyone else seems to be having fun at a convention.
- Late night ice cream break with Sibylle, Katy, Allison, Walter, Jodi, Rand and Erin.
Here's a photo that Allison took.
-
Robert Cook's song about how he wants to be immortalized. One of the verses mentioned my comic strips. :-)
Above: Rand during the Ookla the Mok concert; I like the look that Joe and Wolfram are exchanging here.
- Getting my Lord Landless CD! As I
mentioned in a previous Blatherings, I had ordered it at Filkcontinental and had been kindly given a promo copy to keep me happy until the CD was officially released.
- Finding out what a nice voice Greg McMullan has.
- Seeing Judi Miller sign during Judith's "Yuck" song. Also during Ookla's "Number One" song. Aw heck, I just loved seeing her sign in general. :-)
- Seeing Rand and Erin again:
Everyone knew Erin as "Rand's girlfriend" in the beginning, but now it's wonderful to see how she's become a part of the filk community on her own, whether or not Rand is around. :-)
- The wonderful sound crew at FKO! Ken Lalonde, Chris Croughton and Dave Weingart!! (if I'm missing anyone, please do let me know)
- Congrats to the new Hall of Fame inductees: Lois Mangan, Gretchen Roper, Steve Macdonald, and Franklin Gunkelmann.
- Phil Mills doing his "Universal Follower" in front of an audience and getting a great response. What a wonderful song. :-D
- Getting my copy of Mich Sampson's new CD:
Dear lord, I've been listening to this a TON since I came home, at least 2-3 times a day. Dave, Allison, John and I listened the CD during dinner the other night. The songs are gorgeous, the harmonies amazing. My favourite on the CD: Sholem. I really, really want to hear Divine Strumpet live someday. I've heard rumours that at least three of the four members of the group will be attending FilKONtario next year, which makes me very happy.
- Thanks to Tony Fabris for the introduction to home recording conversation during
dinner on Sunday night with Michelle, Walter, Jodi, John and Allison.
Here's a great photo that Allison took of Tony explaining "clipping" to me.
- Thanks to Bill Roper for the microphone advice!
- I'm a sucker for guys in tuxes:
Above: John Hall during the Interfilk auction. Thanks very much to John, by the way, for the
Woodchuck Cider, which I love.
- Chocolates from Franklin. He gave me a box of Feodora chocolates for my birthday as well as presenting all of us with a giant Toblerone bar which we devoured on the weekend, and mini Ritter sport bars each morning. He also gave me a wonderfully obnoxious furry flower that played "Happy Birthday" twice if you pressed the leaf. I pressed the leaf a lot. Allison eventually tried hiding the flower but failed HAHA.
- Peggi and Ken performing "Kiss at the end of the rainbow" during Peggi's concert. SO sweet. :-)
- Seeing my drawings for the n'MC fundraising t-shirt turned into buttons, and being kindly given the whole set, yay! I'll be posting pics of some of these buttons in the months leading up to next year's FKO.
- Allison's reaction during our interview with the documentary film crew when Jodi and I both said "what she said!" after she gave her thoughtful and well-considered answer to their question "So how would YOU define filk?" My defence: she gave SUCH a great answer that I couldn't POSSIBLY hope to add anything to it. Plus cameras make me way nervous. :-)
-
Sibylle's entry in the Tie and Tails contest.
-
Eavesdropping on tuning tips between Bill Roper and Dave Clement. I have SO much to learn as a guitarist.
- Thanks to Tom Jeffers for the birthday gift: a classy giraffe purse filled with candy! What more does a girl need, really?
- Getting a chance to spend a bit of time with Erica at the end of the convention, and to sing her the song that Dave and I co-wrote....
DR. ERICA
By Debbie Ridpath Ohi & Dave Clement
(Dave's notes: Overall in Key of C, Capo 3 in A chord shapes)
A D C
We see her standing in the line,
E
dressed all in blue
A D
The Interfilk auction's slowing down
E
and we don't know what to do!
D E
Then Dr. Erica, she steps forward,
A D
the lights are shining in her hair
D E
Suddenly cash and credit cards are
D E
flying through the air!
CHORUS:
A E
Dr. Erica
C D
You have a way about you
A E
Dr. Erica
C D E
And are those rumours true?
Like the rumour about the way she
can control a room
with a voice so pure and sweet as she
sings of death and doom.
When she sings a song for you
don't look in her eyes
Don't be sucked in when she says
Not Everybody Dies!
CHORUS
Like the one that says she's
moving to Toronto
Or maybe Winnipeg, come on,
you know you really want to!
Or the rumour that she censored
this line of the song
You know, I think that one is true...
...but hey, just sing along...
CHORUS:
A E
Dr. Erica
C D
You have a way about you
A E
Dr. Erica
C D
And are those rumours
A E
Dr. Erica
C D
You have a way about you
A E
Dr. Erica
C D E
And are those rumours true?
Again...many, many thanks to the FKO concom for doing such a wonderful job at making FilKONtario such a wonderful event this year!
Sunday, July 9, 2006 at 11:50AM 
