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[hms42]

It was a good convention.  I had a good time and I got to meet a few people i have only emailed in the past.

Concerts were good and all seem to have a common theme.  (Added sweetmusic_27).   Amy seemed to be on stage in just about every concert.   (Did she miss any besides the 2x10s?)    Adding fiddle seems to add a wonderful layer to the music for everyones concerts and really makes them worth it.

I got to finally meet Kristoph and Margaret on Friday.   (Along with Dr. Jamys and a few other west coast filkers over the weekend.)  After emailing with them for years, it was good to put a face to the names I know of.   (including meeting another Harold in the filk community I have been mistakenly called a few times.)

One fun memory I have from the weekend was seeing Tim Griffin perform a song of his that I saw him do @ OVFF.  (http://www.timgriffinmusic.com/music/product-category/too-cruel-for-school-mr-g-publishes-a-song-a-week-for-36-weeks/#    - See Birds, I am unable to directly link to it.)   Watching the audience on that one was a bit of fun once people got the source on it.  (I had listened to his OVFF concert recently, so I knew the song.)

Seanan put on a kick ass concert and was a wonderful toastmistress for the convention. 

The interfilk GOHs - Partners in K'Rhyme were wonderful and their concert was off the standard for them.  More serious songs than usual, but still was good.  (It also gives me a few songs I can look at for the Concertino CD.)

Three (4) Weird Sisters was amazing and it was nice to get to meet Gwen.  They went for about 1 1/2 hours and performed songs from both of their published albums and from the upcoming Three Weird Sisters album that Brenda was taking pre-orders for.

A nice surprise announced on the schedule was Bill Roper being out at Consonance.  (I did not know he was attending till I saw the schedule.)  His concert with Amy was great.  (As were all of the concerts over the weekend.)  A copy was donated to interfilk and raised one of the highest amounts I have seen generated for a future (at con) concert CD-Rs I have ever gotten.  (I have had a couple of others match it at that level, but they tend to not go that high.)

It looks like that I will be back out next year for Consonance since I both had a good time and interfilk is sending a NYC filker to Consonance 2013.  2013 GOHS (except for international) were announced at the con.

Since I have a late flight home to NYC tonight, I spent the day playing tourist in San Francisco.  BART (round trip) was inexpensive and about 45 minutes to the only mobile historic site.  (The San Francisco cable cars,  I do recommend seeing them if you ever get the chance.)  They offered a $6 one way trip (no transfers) or $14 all day pass.  I took the pass so I could transfer and take it a few times.)  One of the few places I did get to was the Cable car museum.  (Worth it!)  It was free plus you can see some history on the cars and the system.  Allow about 30 minutes to see the museum.  I hopped back on the cable car to continue a ride to the Giardelli square area and to see a pier I was recommended.  I never did find the pier, but I did find a national park/maritime museum that I did not allow enough time to go thru.  (new exhibit that I walked thru quickly and unfortunately will not be here next year.)  Hopefully next year the martime store will be open too.  One thing that happens opposite Consonance is shanty sings at the pier (1st saturday of every month).

You can see the golden gate bridge from the car turn around.  Speaking of the turn around, its 100% manual and they push it around by hand. (2-3 people pushing and pulling to turn the cars around.)

Giradelli square was interesting and appears to have a walking tour that I missed due to being tight on time.

I took a different cable car route back to the BART and some of the hills it goes over are VERY steep.  The cable cars are completely mechanical and worth the ride plus looking at how they are controlled.  (According to the museum, by feel.)

Ok..  Its time for me to pack up for the trip to the airport.

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[sweetmusic-27.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I wasn't on Tim Griffin's, or Partners in K'Rhyme, or Steve Savitsky's, or Tell Your Ma. I also almost wasn't on Bill's, because I didn't know he was going to Consonance either! But then he sent me an email that said, "...I see you're on the program. Any chance you want to play on Sunday?" And it worked out! I was pleasantly surprised at how well it worked out - for us, and for Interfilk. 8D

[hms42]

You did add a lot to the concerts you did perform with. I am glad to hear you did get a chance to just be audience for a few concerts.

[hms42]

As for interfilk, yes, I agree that was great for interfilk. (I know the concerts generate $$$ for interfilk, but I think that Bill's concert with you tied (or was just under) the highest I have had paid for a future concert. (I can only think of one other future concert that went that high and that was at Conflikt 4 for Mary Crowell's concert there.)

[billroper]

And I was happy that it worked out too. :)

Thanks!

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Birds MP3 is here. I'm impressed by these and am gonna buy & d/l some. Thanks for the pointer.

[hms42]

If you make it to Lunacon, I have his first two CDs to sell for him. (I am agenting them on the east coast and other conventions I do make it to.)

[hms42]

Thank you for the link. I was not able to copy it at the time. (I ended up viewing the page source so that I could email it to someone earlier tonight.)