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Here are some different categories of links you can follow. You'll find a list of the conventions I'm attending this year, links to some reviews of past conventions, links to my friends' web pages, links to folk resources in the Washington DC area, and links to a few of my favorite folksingers.

Con Tour 2003

Here's where you can catch me in action:

GAFilk 2003, Atlanta, GA, January 10-12. Better pack a couple extra bottles of Tully for all the Dorsai.
Boskone 40, Boston, MA, February 14-16. Musical Guests Clam Chowder (The musical group, not the northeastern delicacy). Follow the sound of the screaming vegetables.
Consonance 2003, Milpitas, CA, March 7-9.
FilkONtario 13, Mississauga, ON, Canada, March 28-30. Featuring Mynthia CcQuillan, Rane Jobinson, Bark Mernstein, and Cobert Rooke.
Balticon 37, Baltimore, MD, May 23-26. This year, my good sense has returned and I'm only doing one con Memorial Day weekend!
CastleCon 15 Reston, VA, July 4-6.
ConCertino 2003 Worcester, MA, July 18-20. GOHs Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff continue with their fiendish plan to ruin classic rock for me...
TorCon III, The 61st World Science Fiction Convention. Aug. 28-Sept. 1, Toronto, ON, Canada. This time for sure..
OVFF 19, October 24-26, Dublin, OH
Philcon 2003, December 12-14, Philadelphia, PA. When I grow up, I wanna be Peter David.

And some annual folk events I usually attend and highly recommend

World Folk Music Association Annual Benefit, January 17- 18, Birchmere, Arlington, VA
FSGW Mini-Fest, February 15, Silver Spring, MD. OK, conflicts with Boskone this year, but I'll leave the link.
23rd Annual Washington Folk Festival, June 2002, Glen Echo, MD.
Potomac Celtic Festival, June 8-9, Leesburg, VA
Maryland Rennaissance Festival, August-October, Crownsville, MD
FSGW Getaway, October 18-20, Darlington, MD

Review of LoneStarCon2, the 55th Annual World Science Fiction Convention
Review of LAConIII, the 54th Annual World Science Fiction Convention
Review of Conterpoint, Too!, 1996's incarnation of the Permanent Floating East Coast Filk Convention.

Friends' Web Pages

Visit some of my friends' star systems. Tell 'em Gorgeous (or Electro) sent 'ya!

Lynn Gold. Conterpoint Three's Interfilk GOH.
Eli Goldberg Home of the Virtual Filksing
Hotel Hayman Watch out for the penguins! (and the kangaroos!)
David Honigsberg TKB! TKB!
Grig "Punk Walrus" Larson "Here he is--the Punk Walrus now-ow-ow!!!"
Puzzlebox Way cool filk trio and fellow members of the Urban Tapestry Fan Club.
Steve MacDonald
Urban Tapestry Way cool filk trio and fellow members of the Puzzlebox Fan Club.
Mary Ellen Wessels, aka MEW Not a Pokemon!
Kiona Zukoski Fellow RUSH nut and former co-worker

Adventures In Folk Music

Here are some links to folk resources in the Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD area:

Baltimore Folk Music Society (BFMS)
The Birchmere NEW and IMPROVED!!!
Coffehouse at Mays Chapel - Really cool concert series in Timonium, MD
Detour - WTMD 89.7's folk show, hosted by Tony Sica, 5-7pm Sundays.
The Folkal Point Columbia, MD coffeehouse
Folklore Society of Greater Washington (FSGW) Local folk fans I'm trying to corrupt ;-)
Folk Project - New Jersey folk org; check out their retreats
House of Musical Traditions - A good place to spend lots of $$$
Wolf Trap Farm Park, Vienna, VA - Filene Center and Barns schedules

Some links to favorite folkies:

Artisan A wonderful a-capella trio from Yorkshire, England
Capitol Steps..Making it easier for politicians to leave office
The Chromatics. A- capella singers and rocket scientists too!
DaVinci's Notebook. D.C.-area a-capella quartet featuring great rock-n-roll covers and hilarious original material.
The Foremen They make Tom Lehrer look dry
HOT SOUP! Sue Trainor, Sue Ribaudo, and Christina Muir making music and mayhem
Pete and Maura Kennedy Great DC area guitarists and songwriters
Christine Lavin What was she thinking?
The Poor Clares. Excellent Celtic Band from New Orleans.
The Pyrates Royale Those Penzance dudes ain't got nothin' on this crew! ARRRR!!

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