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    Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom and a type of fan labor. The genre has existed...
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    fiction fan community, he was a composer, performer and recording artist of filk music. Kare grew up in the Philadelphia area and attended Harriton High School...
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    filk music and is annually hosted at the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF). The Pegasus Awards were founded to recognize and honor excellence in filking....
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  • Lee Gold (section Filk)
    science fiction fandom and a writer and editor in the role-playing game and filk music communities. Gold became prominent after 1975 as the editor of Alarums...
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    publishing work in science fiction fanzines and then discovered filk and had some filk lyrics published by Off Centaur Publications. Lackey submitted a...
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  • Technical Difficulties was a Filk group composed of Sheila Willis, Linda Melnick and T.J. Burnside (now T.J. Burnside Clapp). They won The Pegasus Award...
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    activist. Along with The DeHorn Crew, Fish created the first commercial filk recording in 1976, Folk Songs for Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet. Her second...
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    A Bug's Land (redirect from Filk's Flyers)
    "A Bug's Land" (stylized "a bug's land") was an area of Disney California Adventure themed after the 1998 Pixar film A Bug's Life. The land consisted of...
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  • Dr. James Robinson (born 1948, Maine) is an American filk music songwriter and performer (known as Dr. Jane Robinson prior to 2004 sex reassignment surgery)...
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  • in a cameo in their "Drunken Sailor" Sing Along A-Go-Go video. Michigan filk musician Tom Smith wrote the original "Talk Like a Pirate Day" song in 2003...
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