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Filk Guest of Honor:
| Clam Chowder - Filk Guest of Honor |
Guests:
We are pleased to welcome back Aviva! Aviva! and her students will once again be performing at ICON.
From Northport, Long Island, Aviva! has been studying and performing dance since 1988. She has a degree in Theater Art with a foundation in ballet, modern, jazz and African dance as well as stagecraft and costuming. Aviva! opened her dance studio in 1996.
Her numerous dance appearances include 3 annual television appearances for Fox TV's "Good Day New York!"
She co-founded & directed Troupe Fantazeya and is the founder of the Pennsic Theater for the Society of Creative Anachronism, Inc.
Aviva! is also co-owner of Halawa Designs & Imports. She credits her inspiration to her wonderful teachers, notably the late Ibrahim Farrah, Jajouka and Morocco.
The
Brobdingnagian Bards (pronounced brAHb'ding-näg-EE-en) are The
Original Celtic Renaissance duo combining unique instrumentation
(autoharp, recorder & mandolin) that'll leave you hungry for more:
Celtic drinking songs for breakfast; fantasy, filk and dragon
sandwiches for lunch; and an extra helping of JRR Tolkien-esque
instrumentals for dinner.
Clam
Chowder...the group, not the soup!
Photo by Lenny J. Provenzano
Clam Chowder (the group) is a small musical group in Maryland which plays an eclectic collection of British and American folk songs, sea shanties, unusual songs from all sources, original material, filk and anything else that has opportunities for close harmony. In fact, they specialize in brilliant five-part harmonies.
The group originally formed at the Maryland Renaissance Festival in 1977 and has played in venues ranging from the Washington DC Folk Festival to the World Science Fiction Convention (like Bucconeer in Baltimore in 1998).
In 1988 they mutually decided to go their separate ways. In recent times, fortunately, their separate ways have reunited (at least occasionally), and Clam Chowder can still be heard at various cons with a repertoire that includes everything from filk to folk, from early Steeleye Span to cowboy ballads, from comic to profound .
Clam Chowder contains the following all natural ingredients: Bob Esty, John Huff, Kathy Sobansky, Don Stallone, Sam Van Wyck, Carl Zwanzig, Cliff Lauer
Coribant Compaigney is a diverse performance art troupe. Coribant Compaigney has been working together since early 2000. Since then, they have performed at local cultural festivals, and historical reenactment events. Coribant Compaigney never fails to impress and entertain their audience with their eclectic mix of renaissance and modern music, comedy, story telling and performance art.
Lady Jenna is a Generic Wench (tm) (14th century, England) who took over the family pottery after the Plagues and makes tableware, which she merchants. She can also be found singing for her supper as the leader of Hell's Belles, the East Kingdom's worst bardic group. Hell's Belles makes up in volume, enthusiasm, and cleavage what they are lacking in ability. Tunes are traditionally carried in a bucket. She also has a most unladylike interest in archery (mmmm.. venison....), and occasionally affects Japanese attire when associating with her favorite Squire's family. As a headstrong wench, she does _not_ affect Japanese mannerisms other than politeness and respect for others, which comes naturally anyway.
KENNY YOUNG and THE EGGPLANTS are an oddball semi-acoustic trio who play idiosyncratic songs about giant squirrels, scary bits of cheese, and finding Elvis in a pizza, among other important rock and roll concerns. Various attempts to describe their music have been made, but perhaps the most entertaining quote comes from the New York Times, which said that the Eggplants give eloquent voice to the multifaceted neurosis of prolonged adolescence.
The band members are: Eddie Logue, who plays various pieces of hand percussion and the electronic drum machine, Gil Shuster, who plays bass and occasionally screams and breaks things and generally misbehaves, and Kenny Young, who plays acoustic guitar and sings. All three live in New York City and, when at home, they rehearse in Kenny's apartment in Brooklyn. The songs are written by Kenny and arranged by the band.
What is beauty? This is the eternal question. Like a perfect shade of blue before the sun rises beyond the horizon, Kirei paints a picture of the darkness before the dawn. In our music we question the conventions of traditional beauty.
They are the natural obscurity in a universe of artificial light. They are the feeling of sadness that accompanies the beholding of a distant unattainable dream. They are Kirei.
Kirei is a visual kei inspired band based in Setauket, Long Island. They have gothic rock, anime soundtrack, industrial, and progressive influences. The members of Kirei are Triste Endymion, Ines Ai, Odi Um, Divine Wright, and Dan.
Debra Margolin has been reading professionally for almost 20 years, but it's been a part of her life since she was a little girl. She is considered clairvoyant and clairaudient because she hears the information and she gets pictures of things as well. She does readings in person as well as for people over the phone. Among her clients are people from other states, including Richard Hatch of Battlestar Galactica fame. She is proud to say that she has been able to help people become pregnant and prevent it. She has also helped them prevent various car accidents, illnesses and the like. She finds it very gratifying to know that she was able to help many people get on the right path. She is also proud to say that she doesn’t need to be edited, like some others who shall remain nameless.
The phenomenon that we all refer to as *RHPS floorshows* got its start right here in the Empire State! The people on cast today are proud to carry on the legacy that Sal Piro and Dori Hartley originated during the seventies at the Waverly Theater. Every Friday and Saturday at the witching hour, they gather at the Village East (their new home), strut their stuff for a wide-range audience-and love every minute of it! The theater is located at 12th Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan's East Village.
The cast is composed of many different types of people. As a unit, they all differ from one another greatly, but they manage to mesh well in spite of it. We have cast members of all shapes, sizes, colors, sexual orientations, ages, economic backgrounds, and nationalities. The cast is composed of computer programmers and theater ushers, office executives and video clerks, professional female impersonators to professional actors to those who simply enjoy the stage a few nights a month and otherwise lead very ordinary lives. In other words, just like everything else in Manhattan, this cast represents all types of people!
Sudden Death formed on April 23, 1986. It was the bright idea of Tom Rockwell who thought it would be a good idea to form a rap group and write some funny songs. His friends Joe Flanagan and Scott Usilton agreed to help out with the project, against their better judgement. Backed with no instruments and no real talent the group recorded their first song in 1987- "Infection", a parody of "Perfection" by Run-DMC.
In 1990 the band was introduced to the world by Dr. Demento who played "I'm Bored" on his nationally syndicated radio show of funny music. 1990 was a big turning point for the band as Scott came to his senses and left the group. Tom decided that since he was doing most of the work anyway that he should become the "lead" rapper and just call on the other guys as needed. Opening up the format of the group like this freed up Tom to work on songs himself, or invite, bribe, and blackmail other people to appear on songs. This lead to Jeff Cots, Steve Fernino, and Thom Uliasz joining the crew and helping out on many different songs.
In 1992 Sudden Death finally had enough "good" songs recorded that Tom decided to release a home-produced casette album. "Dead Things Can Rap Too" was released in January of that year and was sold on the internet. "Noise Pollution" (1993), "Brain Dead" (1995) and "Unplugged" (1998) followed. It was in 1998 that the band finally broke out of obscurity as their song "South Park Junkie" (a parody of "South Bronx" by Boogie Down Productions which ironically enough was a hit in 1986 when the band formed) became the 4th most requested song of the year on The Dr. Demento Show. The song ended up on Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes Volume 7.
Voltaire was born in Havana, Cuba in 1967. He emigrated with his family to the U.S. as a child and settled in New Jersey (a fact he never stops complaining about!).
"Voltaire is a singer/songwriter whose music has its roots deeply imbedded in European folk music. His songs speak of love and, most often, the loss thereof with the added twist of how best to seek revenge on the ones who have hurt you. Lyrically, he explores and reveals those moments of vulnerability most would rather not discuss and exploits with childish abandon those fleeting streaks of cruelty we all feel but choose not to act upon or even mention.
Voltaire's live shows, whether solo or with his skeletal orchestra, are highly theatrical -full of props and stories. The visual quality of his performances is not surprising; Voltaire has been directing commercials and animating short films for the last ten years. He's best known for his Hieronymous Bosch inspired station ID's for MTV.
Inspired by the films of Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad), Voltaire began animating at the age of ten on a super8 camera. At that time, he says, "no three dimensional object was safe. My brother's action figures, my sister's dolls, silverware, etc . . . If it was missing, chances were that it was in the basement in front of my camera."
Eventually, piecing together snippets of information from fanzines, he was able to teach himself how to make foam rubber animation models and animate them with fluidity and realism. The films of his childhood landed him his first directing job in 1988. That project was the classic MTV ID called "MTV-Bosch." The stop-motion tour of the hellish "Garden of Earthly Delights" went on to win several awards including a Broadcast Design Award and helped to establish Voltaire's style of animation.
His strange stew of gothic darkness, baroque lushness and whimsical surrealism has been seen in a score of television commercials for clients such as Cartoon Network, USA and The Sci-Fi Channel.
His short films which he describes as being "an opportunity for me to be as strange and demented as I care to be," have been seen at animation festivals around the world, including the sinister "Rakthavira" which toured as part of Expanded Entertainment's Too Outrageous Animation."
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