FilkCast Episode 25 Oct 9 2019
Music
Best Classic Filk Song
Arden - Zanda Nyrond / Chris O'Shea
https://zandernyrond.bandcamp.com/
The Dark Man - Paul Kwinn
Regrets - Andrew Eigel
Ship of Stone - Don Simpson
Storm Dancing - Tom Smith
https://tomsmith.bandcamp.com/
Best Filk Song
I Am I - Eva Van Daele-Hunt
http://www.summerandfall.de
One correction to the show, the song is performed by Pair 'O Dice.
Lucy on the Line - Tim Griffin
http://www.griffined.org/
Nine hundred and ninety nine - Mich Sampson /Marilisa Valtazanou
https://playingrapunzel.com/
Vor - Bill Sutton
http://bsutton.com/
Water - Cathy McManamon
https://cathymcmanamon.bandcamp.com/
Conventions
OVFF - Oct 25-27 - Worthington OH
http://ovff.org/
Orycon - Nov 8 - 10 - Portland OR
https://orycon.org/41/
Philcon - Nov 8 - 10 - Philadelphia
https://philcon.org/
Windycon - Nov 15 - 17 - Lombard, IL
http://windycon.org/
Chambanacon - Nov 29 - Dec 1 - Normal IL
https://chambanacon.org/
LosCon - Nov 29 - Dec 1 - Los Angeles
https://loscon.org/46/
House Concerts and House Filks
MassFilc
https://www.massfilc.org/meetings.shtml
Phoenix Filk Circle
https://phoenixfilkcircle.wordpress.com
Los Angeles Filk Circle
https://www.conchord.org/lafaad.html
Des Moines First Friday Filk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/548389495176195
Milwaukee Housefilk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/533294056830869/
Provo Filk Group
https://www.facebook.com/Provo-Filk-Group-713192665748714/
Minneapolis House 4th Weekend House Filks
http://freemars.org/mailman/listinfo/housefilk_freemars.org
Links to the Podcast
http://filkcast.blogspot.com
http://facebook.com/groups/FilkCast
https://twitter.com/FilkCast
Intro Music - Hope Eyrie by Leslie Fish - Julia Ecklar - Guitar Kristoph Klover
Lucy's name was Louise Gipe. (I had to look it up.) It's a very touching song about a brave woman.
ReplyDeleteThere were several, Reicel Jones is the only other I have seen named. I found an article once that said there were 4 or 5 operators who stayed at their jobs. They got something like a $25 bonus for it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for mentioning Louise Gipe and Reicel Jones here. When I googled, I found nothing, because what I was googling had "Lucy" in it. Now that I know to google "Louise Gipe" "Reicel Jones", I also find Althea Marks.
ReplyDeleteTim Griffin writes:
"Lucy" is a composite character representing the Hello Girls (telephone switchboard operators) of Santa Paula who worked at their switchboards through the night to reach as many people as possible up and down the river and get them out of harm’s way, though they knew they too were in the path of the oncoming flood. When the flood reached Santa Paula it rose within a few feet of the switchboard office but left the Hello Girls unharmed; they continued making calls to warn the towns downstream even as chunks of concrete the size of houses rolled by.