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Dear Seanan – Erin & Rand Bellavia

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This is “Dear Seanan” (a parody of Seanan McGuire’s song “Dear Gina,” based on Seanan’s October Daye series), performed at FilKONtario 23 by Erin and Rand Bellavia. Lyrics by Erin Bellavia and Merav Hoffman.
(submitted by @mysecretorigin)

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Moon Rabbits – Cassie G.

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magicalballerinaprincess:

I wrote a song! It’s about moon rabbits, wars, and cake. There’s a story behind this one: My parents and their siblings were making my grandmother a birthday cake. She told them, “Oh, you can decorate it however,” so they did: The cake was decorated with rabbits, fighting a war, on the moon. With laser guns. The rabbits had laser guns. My grandmother wasn’t amused.

Lyrics:

Moon rabbits, Moon rabbits, they’re coming to invade the Earth.
Moon rabbits, Moon rabbits, we’ll defend ourselves with all our worth.
They used to fight an eternal war, over which cake was best.
Now at peace, they attack our world, laser guns to the test!
Moon rabbits, Moon rabbits, they don’t know how to cook or bake
Moon rabbits, Moon rabbits, that’s why they’re coming, for cake!

The Library Bards

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Hey there!

I wanted to reach out to you because my band, The Library Bards are babies in the filking community, but would love to get more involved! We do nerdy parody songs, and you can hear one of them (about our favorite wizard) here: https://youtu.be/R7i-Cg5DiWo

We have other songs as well, and more music videos to come!

Thanks,

Xander

(A Library Bard :D)

Submitted by xanderiffic!  The video is definitely worth watching, if only to see Gandalf dance.  I mean, there are other reasons, but that should be sufficient.

2015 Pegasus Nominations closing soon!

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Just to remind you that Nominations for the 2015 Pegasus Awards will close on Friday, July 31, which is just under two weeks away!

(What are the Pegasus Awards, you ask?  Take a look here!)

To help with the Nominating ballot, you can check out the results of the annual Brainstorming Poll at http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/opinions.html. The ballot itself is at http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/2015nomballot.html.

(Addition by mod: this is a reminder that ANYONE who considers themselves involved with the filk community can vote, so you are all eligible.  I hereby give you this power.)

Signal boost: new Sassafrass kickstarter for new albums!

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From the Kickstarter page:

We are raising money to release two new collections of close harmony a cappella story and myth music, composed by Ada Palmer and performed by Sassafrass. 

“Stories and Stone” is a companion album to our Norse Myth song cycle “Sundown: Whispers of Ragnarok” which was funded by an earlier Kickstarter and released on CD and DVD in Spring 2015. “Stories and Stone” contains alternate arrangements of most of the music from the Sundown project, plus our encore Space exploration anthem “Somebody Will”. The music is finished, and the goal of this campaign is to raise the funds to produce the CD by the end of this summer. If we make our first stretch goal we will also release a second CD during the next year, “Friend in the Dark,” collecting experimental arrangements of our Norse music and many of Ada’s earlier songs, which have been out of print while we concentrated on the Sundown project, performed by Ada and Lauren Schiller, performing as the duo “Sassafrass: Trickster & King.”

Music tracks from both “Stories and Stone” and the in-progress “Friend in the Dark” are already available digitally on Sassafrass’s Bandcamp page, and very worth a listen.  As is everything else there – especially, if you have any interest at all in space exploration,  "Somebody Will".