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Con-Dor has had a tradition of having a music concert on Friday night for many years. The music ranges from Medieval folk to music our descendants may someday perform.

Concert

The Friday Night Concert will be in the Club Room starting at 8:00pm. The concert will be folk music from yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We will also take a side trip to Ireland with Steelin’ Tin. Come and enjoy the show.

8:00 – 830 Karen Rodgers
8:30 - 9:00 Timothy Griffin
9:00 - 9:40 Steelin' Tin
9:40 - 10:10 Lynn Maudlin
10:10 - 10:40 Greg Gross

Special Concert by Professional Harpist Moira Stern. Moira is an award-winning Gaelic singer with a nearly five octave range. She performs folk music of Britain and Ireland as well as music from Middle Earth, and other fantasy works.

Friday Night Concert Report

Our concert went well despite two musicians being sick and unable to perform. (February seems to be a bad month for performers.) By shifting some acts and giving everyone a longer set, we still managed to have a good show. Thanks to Greg Gross for all his help with sound and performing. Steelen' Tin gets better each year, and Lynn Maudlin is always puts on a good show. We will be keeping the tradition alive for Condor XVI.

Our filk circle had to compete with the Wizard Rock Concert, but we still got in some good material. We will be having a Saturday night filk circle in 2009.

Filk Circle

Filk music is not some thing that can be easily defined, but basically it
is the folk music of science fiction fandom. It dates to the early 40s,
though the term comes from a typo that was made in the 50s. It often
is new words put to existing music, sometimes as a parody, other
times quite serious. It can be about space, science, books, movies, tv
shows, cats, computers, fan history, (never upset a bard, you just might end
up in verse and chorus), SCA, or anything else filkers choose to sing.

It is usually performed on guitars, harps, kazoos, drums and keyboards.
At ConDor we do a Bardic Circle so every one gets a chance to
sing, request a song, or just pass and let the next person choose to
"pick, pass, or play.”

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