Boy, it has been a wild two months since Apollocon.  Nearly everything I've wanted to post in here has had to be postponed because of the performance that was given at Fencon this past weekend.
  Now that I have anyone reading this wondering if I'm crazy (well, more crazy than they thought) I will start at Apollocon....Saturday night filk circle.
      I sang Arlen Andrews'  "Requiem: The Day SF Died"  to commemorate Robert Heinlein's 100th birthday.  while I was singing it, the lady sitting to my left in the circle (who I had never seen before) was reading the words over my shoulder and singing along.  She had a very pleasant voice  and it seemed to me to blend well with mine.   During the course of the evening, several of the songs I sang were ones she knew the tune for, and she sang along on also.   When the circle finally wound down, I found myself walking to the elevators with her and some other people, talking about music and stuff...and to make a long story short, I asked her if she would be interested in singing together with me in performances at the cons.  ....And she said yes!  a week or so later we got together and started figuring out what we could sing together that we both already knew, and even made lists of stuff we would like to work up.   My goal was a concert at fencon IV...  but we actually have gone to an SCA bardic event and peformed a set at a coffeehouse in Clear Lake City.   The reason for keeping it secret was the song "The Leslac Version" by Misty Lackey and Leslie Fish.   Sundara had the idea to "act out" the song (which is a duet between a bard and the swordswoman he is singing about ...she's correcting his exagerations)  She would start singing in the audience (like a heckler)  and eventually work her way up to the stage.  ...but in order to do this, no one should know that she and i were singing together!!!   after practicing for the two months between cons, we were ready...and the group
 "Ghost of a Rose" made its debut.   I had actually talked with April Porter  about playing flute with me on a couple songs  back before i met Sundara, and we planned our music to include those songs...and i even sent April another song that would work well with the flute (but was much better on the penny whistle she used in the concert)  We did have to cut on-the-fly a couple of numbers since we had more music than time, but I felt that it went really well...and enough people complimented us to make me sure of it.    :)

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