Joshua Kronengold

*hugs her icons* *needs to go check if she has free spaces again*

Getting in to filk:

On the one hand, my father loves Stan Freeburg and that combined with making up new words to existing songs was something we've done since childhood, so I was kind of primed for filk. Plus, music has pretty much been a major part of my life since I was 6 or so.

But the first filk-qua-filk I encountered were Mercedes Lackey tapes at a book signing of hers. And then I saw Windbourne in concert at ComiCon. And then I found Uncle Hugo's in Minneapolis which actually has a decent stock of filk tapes and CDs (or did while I was in college, can't really speak to now.) And I ended up spending a bunch of time in the concert rooms at Minicon and going to other filk-ish, though they often didn't quite call themselves filk, concerts other places around the twin cities.

All of that said, the first time I really ended up joining the community was when Seanan encouraged me to come to a house filk in L.A. because she was going to be there. And then encouraged me to come up to Consonance and to ConChord. And then I started going sometimes whether she was going to be there or not. So, it's probably safe to blame Seanan.