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Kathy Mar
Kathy Mar (; from Chinese ' by analogy with non-rhotic accents) is an American filk singer. Career Mar worked as a professional folk singer and street performer in Denver, Colorado for many years before discovering filk. Her first recordings were for Off Centaur Publications (''Songbird, On a Bright Wind, Bamboo Wind'') and she went on to record two albums with Thor Records (''Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose'') which have recently been re-released as a double CD. She also recorded an album for Dandelion Digital (''Made by Magic'') with British songwriter Zander Nyrond, one of the first filk CDs ever produced. Her album of filk and folk covers on Prometheus (''My Favorite Sings'') was her most successful release. She was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in its second year of existence.Filk Hall of Fame With Lindy Sears, she instigated the 'Dandelion Conspiracy' to promote filk to general science-fiction conventions. She was Filk Guest of Honor at Denvention 3, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
66th World Science Fiction Convention
The 66th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Denvention 3, was held on 6–10 August 2008 at the Colorado Convention Center and the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in Denver, Colorado, United States. The organizing committee was chaired by Kent Bloom. Participants Attendance was 3,751. Guests of Honor * Lois McMaster Bujold * Rick Sternbach (artist) * Tom Whitmore (fan) * Kathy Mar (music) * Robert A. Heinlein (ghost of honor) * Wil McCarthy (toastmaster) Other participants In addition to the Guests of Honor, the convention has announced thnamesof the people participating in the convention program. Awards 2008 Hugo Awards * Best Novel: '' The Yiddish Policemen's Union ''by Michael Chabon * Best Novella: " All Seated on the Ground" by Connie Willis * Best Novelette: "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang * Best Short Story: " Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear * Best Related Book: '' Brave New Words ''by Jeff Prucher * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Street Performers
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Musicians From Denver
While Denver may not be as recognized for historical musical prominence like such cities as Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago or New York City, it still manages to have a very active popular, jazz, and classical music scene, which has nurtured many artists and genres to regional, national, and even international attention. Though nearby Boulder, Colorado has its own very distinct music scene, they are intertwined and often artists based there also play in Denver. History Jazz The "King of Jazz", bandleader Paul Whiteman, was born in Denver, Colorado on March 28, 1890. From the 1920s-50s, Welton Street in Five Points was home to over fifty bars and clubs, where some of the greatest jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Nat King Cole, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and others performed. Folk music As folk music gained popularity in the 1960s, a number of Denver's old folk clubs began to fill with then-unknown stars such as Judy Collins. Along with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From San Leandro, California
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Filkers
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 since the early 1950s and been played primarily since the mid-1970s. Etymology and definitions The term "filk" (originally a typographical error) predates 1955. (See also below.) As Interfilk's "What is it?" page demonstrates, there is no consensus on the definition of filk. Filk has been defined as what is sung or performed by the network of people who originally gathered to sing at science fiction or fantasy conventions. Another definition focuses on filking as a community of those who are interested in filk music and who form part of the social network self-identified with filking. As described later in this article, the origins of filk in science fiction conventions and its current organization emphasizes the social-network aspect of filking. The social aspect of filk as contrasted with the "performer vs. audience" di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moratorium To End The War In Vietnam
The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was a massive demonstration and teach-in across the United States against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It took place on October 15, 1969, followed a month later, on November 15, 1969, by a large Moratorium March in Washington, D.C. Fred Halstead writes that it was "the first time he anti-war movementreached the level of a full-fledged mass movement." First Moratorium Background When the new Republican president, Richard Nixon, took office on January 20, 1969, about 34,000 Americans had been killed fighting in Vietnam by that point.Karnow, Stanley ''Vietnam: A History'', New York: Viking Press, 1983 p.601. During Nixon's first year in office, from January 1969 to January 1970, about another 10,000 Americans were killed fighting in Vietnam. Though Nixon talked much in 1969 of his plans for "peace with honor" and Vietnamization, the general feeling at the time was that Nixon's policies were essentially the same as Lynd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Leandro, California
San Leandro ( Spanish for " St. Leander") is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area; between Oakland to the northwest, and Ashland, Castro Valley, and Hayward to the southeast. The population was 91,008 as of the 2020 census. History Prehistory The first inhabitants of the geographic region that would eventually become San Leandro were the ancestors of the Ohlone people, who arrived sometime between 3500 and 2500 BC. Spanish and Mexican eras The Spanish settlers called these natives ''Costeños'', or 'coast people,' and the English-speaking settlers called them Costanoans. San Leandro was first visited by Europeans on March 20, 1772, by Spanish soldier Captain Pedro Fages and the Spanish Catholic priest Father Crespi. San Leandro is located on the Rancho San Leandro and Rancho San Antonio Mexican land grants. Its name refers to Leander of Seville, a sixth-century Spanish bishop. Both land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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