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ConCertino 2009 Draft Program

 
  Consuite hours:
Fri 6:00pm-midnight*
Sat 9:00am-midnight*
Sun 9:00am-3:00pm
*later if people volunteer to staff it
  Where "open filking" is listed on the schedule, it means only that a room is available, not that filking will necessarily be taking place in that room at that time.

Friday:
6pm




Encore
Room: Consuite
Moderator: Kate Farb-Johnson
Open the con suite with a game of Encore, in which teams compete to think of as many songs as possible with a given topic.

6pm to late

Open Filking
Room: RI/CT

7pm Opening Ceremony
Room: Ampitheater
Participants: Gary McGath, Kathleen Sloan, Bill Roper, Gretchen Roper, Brooke Lunderville, Harold Stein, Paul Mangan
The con officially begins with some remarks from our chair and performances by or on behalf of each of our guests.
7:30pm Sing-Along Concert
Room: Ampitheater
Participants: Bill Roper, Gretchen Roper, Kathleen Sloan, Brooke Lunderville, Ben Newman
Sing along to a selection of filk favorites, with the aid of lyrics projected on a screen.
8:30pm

Memorial Circle
Room: MA/ME
Moderator: Kathleen Sloan
Remember and celebrate the lives of our departed guests, Lois Mangan and John Caspell, along with other agents of wonder within and without the filk community whom we've lost in the past year.

9:30 to late Open Filking
Room: MA/ME
Saturday:  
10am
Building a Song From the Chords Up
Room: MA/ME
Moderator: Bill
Start with a chord progression and work your way up to a whole song (melody, lyrics, and all) piece by piece, using a variety of improvisational techniques.
10am Theme Filk Circle
Room: RI/CT
Whoever signs up
11am Kids' Concert
Room: MA/ME
Participants: Lady Bear, Mary Ellen Wessels, Paul Estin
A concert for the kid in all of us
11am Theme Filk Circle
Room: RI/CT
Whoever signs up
Noon LUNCH BREAK
Noon Open Filking
Room: RI/CT
1pm

Concert: Kathy Mar
Room: Ampitheater

1:30pm

2x8s
Room: Ampitheater
Sign up for one or two slots to perform one or two songs, or up to 8 minutes.

2pm Toastmaster Concert: Kathleen Sloan
Room: Ampitheater
3pm Song Sequitur
Room: Ampitheater
Participants: Brooke Lunderville, Gary Ehrlich, Mark Mandel, Roberta Rogow
A performers' circle in which each song must follow the previous song... somehow.
4pm Concert: Judith Hayman
Room: Ampitheater
4:30pm 2x8s
Room: Ampitheater
Sign up for one or two slots to perform one or two songs, or up to 8 minutes
5pm Guests of Honor Concert: Bill & Gretchen Roper
Room: Ampitheater
6pm

DINNER BREAK

8pm Interfilk Concert: Brooke Lunderville
Room: MA/ME
9pm 15 minute break
9:15pm Interfilk Auction
Room: MA/ME
10:30pm Open Filking
Room: MA/ME
Sunday:

 

10am Banter, Repartee, and Emoting
Room: MA/ME
Moderator: Gretchen
You can connect with your audience and sell your song. You don't have to have a flawless voice to be an engaging performer.
10am Theme Filk Circle
Room: RI/CT
Whoever signs up
11am Recording Workshop
Room: MA/ME
Participants: Harold Stein, Jack Carroll
Learn and share recording techniques with our technical guest as we take a song (or two) through the process of recording, mixing, and editing.
11am Rounds Circle
Room: RI/CT
Moderator: Kathleen
Noon LUNCH BREAK
1pm Open Filking
Room: MA/ME
1pm Open Filking
Room: RI/CT
1pm Concert: Sassafrass
Room: Ampitheater
1:30 2x8s
Room: Ampitheater
Sign up for one or two slots to perform one or two songs, or up to 8 minutes
2pm Song Contest: Take It Back!
Room: Ampitheater
3pm Closing Ceremony
Room: Ampitheater
3:15pm Jam with Chords
Room: RI/CT
Moderator: Ben Newman
An experimental form of jam session in which chords will be projected on a screen. Please sign up and provide chords if you want to lead a song. A regular unmoderated jam and dead dog open filk will follow.
4pm Dead Dog Filking
Room: RI/CT
4pm Feedback Session
Room: MA/ME
Your chance to let the committee know what did and didn't work about this instance of Concertino.
4:30pm MASSFILC business meeting
Room: MA/ME

 

 


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