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Here's the liner notes that got printed on the CD that everyone who had a membership to Contata got.

I was keeping the title a secret because I wanted to see Deb's reaction when she found out that she had the title song on the CD.

Also on this list are the guests for the 2012 NEFilk convention, Concertino who contributed recordings to the CD. Thank you to everyone for your permission to include your recordings on this CD and to ladymontegreenLadyMontegreen for her assistance on finding a a recording at practically the last minute.

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Contata 2011 GOH: Judi Miller
01 Cookie Song - We're Not Koi (Judi Miller)
02 Oregon Trail - We're Not Koi (KW Todd)
Contata 2011 Toastmaster: Tom Smith
03 307 Ale - Tom Smith (Tom Smith)
04 Lazyboy - Tom Smith (Tom Smith/Julia Ecklar)
05 Operation: Desert Storm - TomBoat (Tom Smith)
Contata 2011 Interfilk: Lord Landless/Pavlov's Duck
06 Mein Tod - Lord Landless (Thesilée)
07 Daffodil the Highway Fairy - Lord Landless (Thesilée)
08 Garden Of The Ghosts - Lord Landless (Thesilée)
Songs chosen by Contata 2011's Listener Guest: Deb Wunder
09 Gabriel Grey's Song - Batya Wittenberg (Batya Wittenberg)
10 Windwalker - Dave Weingart (Dave Weingart)
11 Fanac - Batya Wittenberg and Marc Glasser (Deb Wunder/Frank Hayes)

Concertino 2012 Guests:
GOH: Playing Rapunzel
12 Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine - Playing Rapunzel (Playing Rapunzel)
Toastmasters: Partners in K'Rhyme
13 Barrayaran Roses - Partners in K'Rhyme (Maureen O'Brien)
Interfilk: Peggi Warner-Lalonde
14 Flowers for Algernon - Peggi Warner-Lalonde (Kathy Mar)
Songwriter: Ariel Cinii
15 Come Fly Free - Ariel Cinii (Ariel Cinii)
Bonus Track:
16 Will We Still Have Country Music Out In Space? - Joe Bethancourt (Joe Bethancourt)

Title - Performer (writer/Composer)

Tracks 1&2 Recorded by Mark Peters at OVFF 2010 and Marcon 2010. Track 3 Recorded by Lois Welling/Lila Holbrook at OVFF 5
Track 4 Recorded by Cync Brantley in 1987/88. Location unknown. Track 5 Provided by Tom Smith and Toyboat. Recorded live @ Windycon 2010
Tracks 6-8 Recorded live @ Confluence 2008 by Jerrie Adkins. Track 9 Recorded @ Contata 2008, song writing contest.
Track 10 Recorded by Mark Peters at OVFF 2010. Track 11 Recording provided by Dave Weingart.
Track 12 Recorded by Playing Rapunzel, recorded for this CD. Track 13 Recorded by Partners in K'Rhyme, recorded for this CD.
Track 14 Recorded by Ken LaLonde, recorded for this CD. Track 15 Recorded by Harold Stein @ Lunacon 2011
Track 16 Recording from Joe's CD, "That Great Big Way Out There" published by Random Factors. http://www.random-factors.com

We're Not Koi is: Judi Miller, Juliana and Douglas McCorison.
Partners in K'Rhyme is: W, Randy Hoffman and Kira Heston.
TomBoat is: Tom Smith, Eric Coleman, Gundo, Mike Nixon, Jason Neerenberg.
Playing Rapunzel is: Mich Sampson and Marilisa Valtazanou.
Lord Landless/Pavlov's Duck is: Thesilée, Peredar, Kjenjo, and Silva.

All recordings used with permission. Cover art by Ariel Cinii. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this CD.

This compilation compiled and engineered by Harold Stein for the members of NEFilk 21/Contata 6.

http://www.nefilk.us http://www.contata.org http://www.concertino.net

http://www.floatingfilk.com
FFS-012

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If you have a supporting membership, your copy will be sent out with your songbook. Also, if you did not get an insert with the CD, please let me know. I had a number of misprinted ones that slipped thru (2am Thursday morning printing does not help) and the options of a PDF version or a paper version is available to you.

If you by chance got a bad CD, please contact me via email. It will be replaced.

7-7 Update. The cover art is now online on my web page at http://www.floatingfilk.com/fanac.jpg (now if I just get the time to update the web page itself...)

I just finished duplicating (but not labeling) 300 CDs for Contata over the past few days...

Tonight's project was the big one. 150 CDs for all of the members of Contata 2011. With a membership, you are gettting a CD.

What's on there?

Songs from this year's guests - Judi Miller, Tom Smith, Lord Landless/Pavlov's Duck and Deb Wunder PLUS 1 song each from next year's NEFilk convention. Sorry, I am not allowed to reveal those names till Friday.

If you wish to get a copy of this CD, you can easily get one by either attending Contata THIS WEEKEND or by getting a supporting membership to the convention, if you can't attend the con. (IE - You are going to Westercon instead of visiting us on the east coast.)

http://www.contata.org

Just got in from I-CON 30 a little while ago, where I am the Filk TL. It was a good con and the GOH I had out to I-CON, Heather Dale, was really wonderful to listen to. This is the first time I have actually had time to sit down and listen to her sing without being either tied to a sound system somehow (most conventions I see Heather at) or running between rooms to change a recording device (OVFF). It was really interesting to watch Ben playing guitar and Mandolin on some of the songs. (Sedna was one song I really enjoyed seeing live. Watching Ben play on it was interesting from a sound tech point of view.) Heather's way of telling a tale and then going into a song that was introduced by that story works so well in a live environment and really needs to be seen. Heather's web page (http://www.heatherdale.com)


The other scheduled filkers who were at the convention (THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING TO I-CON!!!!) were Ariel Cinii, Roberta Rogow (I-CON 29 Filk GOH), and Erwin "Filthy Pierre" Strauss. Everyone's concerts were fun. I have to make the call for filkers earlier next year. Also, Captain Zorikh attended some of the filk circles and shared a few songs with us in addition to his concerts.

We had 1-2 people who did show up with instruments at various point and a good time appeared to had by all. I hope they will attend again next year. I plan to keep using the same source of theme circle ideas (Pegasus Floating Categories) next year.

I went to boskone this weekend. It was a fun con and a last minute (last few weeks) decision to go. It was fun to hear Erica Neely perform a concert vs being the toastmistress.

I finally listened to the recording I had made of walk in the day at conflikt on Friday and then saw the east coast debut on sunday. Both casts were very good and Ben has written a great musical. Now if we can only get the last act. He did mention that this was a beta release. :). I look forward to hearing the finished product. Only two people we in both casts and one person changed rolls. If you get to see "walk in the day" during on of the other performances scheduled in 2011,it's worth it. There are at least 2 other chances to see it.

I also took an extra day in Mass. to do an offsite backup of recordings at the big blue house (Spencer's) and gasp, start converting some tapes to hard disk. I unfortunately only have time to convert 2maybe 3 tapes today, but I do plan to get back here again soon to convert more tapes to hd. Free weekends being the problem, but this will happen soon!)

Update... (besides finding the update button on here finally) - 2 tapes have been moved to hard drive from OVFF 10. 1 concert, a singalong and 3 hours of open filking were transfered.)

I finally broke down and joined another time sink... Facebook. I sent out a few friend requests and am looking for that new filk group that someone mentioned that formed recently. I don't plan to be on that web page very often. (Mostly joined for that filk group.)

The con has been a lot of fun. Lots of good concerts from all of the guests (except the Super Secret guest who had to cancel last minute due to a family emergency), the circles that formed were good and lots of fun. (I actually got to hear them for a while this convention.)

We got a bonus concert from Dave Clement who donated a concert to interfilk and the winners from the voice auction decided to share the concert with the con. (Thank you, Terri, Mel & Dave!) They are getting a CD as soon as I burn it out of the computer. (During closing ceremonies, I hope.)

Howard Scrimgeour was a wonderful interfilk choice. He introduced us to a lot of older songs that are no longer being sung just due to age.

Matt Leger did a great concert with a couple of debuts to the wider filk community. He was also backed by Gary Ehrlich on guitar.

Seanan's concert was excellent and she was backed by a great insta band when her regular stunt guitarist and vocalists had to cancel their GaFilk trip.

Antithesis (Teri and Linda) did a fun concert on Friday night. (The minor sound gear (mic stand) problems got us started on a humors note.)


Dave just ended the concert. :( Dead dog soon.

I just saw the 2010 Pegasus awards presented earlier this evening. Congratulations to the winners which included both a first time winner for a long time filker plus the first non-English speaking native winner.

The winners are -

Best Filk Song
A Thousand Ships - Juliane Honisch and Kerstin Droege-Macdonald

Best Classic Filk Song
Fire in the Sky - Jordin Kare

Best Writer/Composer
Heather Dale

Best Performer
S.J. Tucker

Best Magic Song
Where the Magic is Real - Paul Kwinn

Best Mad Science Song
What a Woman's For - Seanan McGuire

Congratulations to all the winners.

Just signal boosting this one....

The 2010 Pegasus Ballot is live.

http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/2010finalballot.html

Congratulations to all who are nominated for a pegasus award!

Well... N.E. Filk 20 /Conterpoint 7 (2010) is just about over. :(

The convention was a lot of fun and I had a good time. I got to see a few people I didn't expect to see here at the con (from out of the Northeast area) and a lot of the regulars from the Northeast.

I got in late Thursday night and was on hand to assist with the setup of the sound system (mostly assisted Kludge on carrying stuff into the main room).

Happyfunpaul opened the music portion of the convention with a concert. (I had a good time.) The 2x10s were lightly signed up for (this problem occurred all weekend, the signups were light for all sign up opportunities. Those who did sign up were good.) The memorial concert was a nice rotation of performances of songs from those who are unfortunately no longer with us. Its was a nice sampler of some of their songs. Open filk turned out to only form one circle which went a good chunk of the night.

On Saturday, we had a lightly attended one shot opening up the music, followed by a fun song SequiChair.... The 4 performers taking turns happened (in order) to be the previous (including Conterpoint 2010) 4 NE Filk con chairs.

Sassafrass was postponed due to a reaction with lunch (they did perform later in the evening and did a good concert for the members we had present. (Sassafrass had 2 3pm concerts in 2 states, 400 miles apart on Saturday.) Juanita's Toastmistress concert was excellent and she covered some songs including one I had not heard before I started on the CD for the con. She did a cover of Richter scale where she added a verse at the end to cover the 2004 Indonesia earthquake.

After the dinner break, we got to hear Sassafrass and then interfilk guest, Char MacKay. Char was wonderful. (Sorry, after a weekend at the con, I am forgetting what people did sing, but I plan to listen to the recordings I made sometime in the near future.)

Then we got to hear the GOHs - Ed Stauff and Mary Ellen Wessels. Mew and Ed were nice to the soundman this time. They were not backed by 12 people this time. (Just Char on a song or two.) They did a great concert for about an hour plus an encore song. The introduced more people to David Massengill's "The Return" during their concert and it was a great cover.

The interfilk auction this year seemed smaller than others I have seen in the past. I had donated a bunch of stuff to interfilk and much of it ended up selling, but 1-2 items are being sent over to the next interfilk auction.

Open filk became two strong circles for the evening, with the later of the two ending about 5-6am. Its entertaining to sit in circle with this crowd. There are a number of good songs that you never hear otherwise.

On Sunday, after I crawled out of bed, I made it to the listener's choice concert where a number of songs chosen by the Baker's were played by others by various members of the convention and they did send a recording to be played during the concert. (Sorry, I don't remember who sang what or what was sung, other than the conchair, Joshua Kronengold, Lisa Pardol, and others performed.) I do recall Gary E. covering Jonathan's Lunacon song contest Entry - Valancy's Home.

Among the fun of the dead dog circle, is Ben Newman and MEW and Ed singing "Are We There Yet" for Char who has not heard it before.

Thank you to the concom and chair Gary Ehrlich for a great convention.

Next year's convention is Contata 2011, in Parsippany, NJ where I have not learned my lesson and I am running sound again.

Contata's guest list is -
GOH - Judi Miller
Toastmaster - Tom Smith
Listener Guest - Deb Wunder
Interfilk Guests - Lord Landless (from Germany!)

http://www.contata.org for more information.

Just posting the liner notes of the premium member filk CD that I did for Conterpoint 2010. http://www.conterpoint.org

Thank you again to everyone for your permission and to MEW for a hand on getting many of the permissions.

The CD title is "Northeastern Travels".

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1 “Who Sings For The Engineer” ” Mary Ellen Wessels & Ed Stauff (Ed Stauff)1
2 “Hairy Larry” Juanita Coulson (Juanita Coulson)2
3 “Techno Goblins” Char MacKay (Char MacKay)3
4 “Valancy’s Home” Jonathan Baker (Jonathan Baker/Trad)4
5 "Dick Eney’s Fu Manchu Song" Dick Eney & Tamar Lindsay (Dick Eney/Trad)5
6 "Lightsailor" ” Mary Ellen Wessels & Ed Stauff with Barry Childs-Helton (Barry Childs-Helton)1
7 “Lesser Light” Char MacKay and Robin Baylor (Char MacKay)3
8 "Joke Chretien" Mike Rubin (Mike Rubin/Trad)6
9 “Daddy’s Little Boy” Gary Ehrlich (Debbie Baker/Julia Ecklar)7
10 “The Reno Brothers” Juanita Coulson (Robert Coulson/Trad)2
11 “Babylon Station” Greg McMullan (Greg McMullan/Steven Foster)8
12 “Northeastern Travels” Gary Ehrlich (Gary Ehrlich)7
13 “The Return” ” Mary Ellen Wessels & Ed Stauff (David Massengill)1
14 Bonus Track - "When Giants Walked" ” Mary Ellen Wessels & Ed Stauff (Kathy Mar)1

Title Performer (Writer/Composer)

Recorded at:
1 - OVFF 2009, 2 - Musicon 1995, 3 - Denvention 3 (Worldcon 2008), 4 - Lunacon 2010,
5 - Conterpoint 1993, 6 - Contata 1994, 7 - GaFilk 2010, recorded for this CD, 8 - Conterpont 2007,

MEW and Ed's band @ OVFF 2009 were: Mary Ellen Wessels, Ed Stauff, Heather Dale, Ben Deschamps,
Sally Childs-Helton, Barry Childs-Helton, Kathy Mar, Kathleen Sloan, Amy McNally, Jason Neerenberg,
Eric Coleman, Gundo (ToyBoat), Brooke Lunderville, Debbie Gates, and Mary Bertke.

Juanita appears courtesy of "Firebird Arts & Music" http://www.firebirdarts.com
Tracks 1,6,13,14 recorded at OVFF 2009 and engineered by Mark Peters
“The Return” ©1995 David Massengill Music (ASCAP) http://www.davidmassengill.com

The following people assisted with providing recordings for this album:
Jerrie Adkins, Gary Ehrlich, Marc Grossman, Merav Hoffman, Spencer Love, Mark Peters, Harold Stein

Thank you for everyone for your help and permission on this CD!

Cover art and NEFilk logo by Matt Leger
Additional artwork by Leah Moller
CD compiled and engineered by Harold Stein (except where noted) for Conterpoint 2010

http://www.floatingfilk.com http://www.nefilk.us http://www.conterpoint.org FFS-010