Conterpoint 2016
NEFilk 26: The
Twenty-Sixth Northeast Filk Convention
July
1-3, 2016
Guests of Honor
Bill and
Brenda Sutton
Toastmaster
Callie Hills
Interfilk Guest
Kip McMurray
Conterpoint 2016 will be at the Radisson
Hotel North Baltimore. See our Hotel Information and Directions
page for hotel room rates and details and driving directions.
A day or two before the con, you may want to check the local
weather forecasts from The
Weather Channel.
Pre-registration is $50 until May 31,
2016. Registration at the door will be $60 for the weekend.
Small children (up to age 6) in the keeping of their parents
are admitted free of charge, and do not get copies of
convention publications. Junior memberships for children aged
7-12 are $10 for the weekend. Single day rates will be
available at the door. But of course, we want you to come for
the whole weekend and experience all the fun and festivities
we have planned!
Conterpoint is also offering a
Premier Membership. In addition to a listing in the program
book, Premier Memberships include a convention T-shirt (please
let us know your size) and a package of other goodies (to be
determined, but may include a bottle of water, buttons,
bookmarks and shaker eggs). The Premier Membership costs $100
and will be offered up through May 31, 2016 (the standard pre-reg deadline). If you have already
pre-registered for Conterpoint,
you can upgrade for an additional $50 to the Premier
Membership.
Supporting Memberships are available for $20. Supporting
Members will get a copy of the convention songbook and program
book.
In addition to the convention program book/songbook, all
full adult members (including at-the-door), premiere members,
and supporting members will get a copy of a CD produced by
Harold Stein featuring tracks from Conterpoint's
guests and next year's Contata guests.
Registration Form: PDF
Bill and Brenda Sutton: He’s an expert guitarist and mandolinist,
beer connoisseur, and master of shtick. She’s a Woman with
Drums, a fine songwriter, and lover of tea. Together, they
fight crime! Well OK, maybe not, but they do make fine music
together, spanning the gamut from filk to Celtic to folk.
Callie Hills: Since
it worked out so well last time, Conterpoint
again raids the Pacific Northwest for a Toastmaster. Callie
is one-half of filk duo Echo’s Children and makes magic with
woodwinds, most notably on bass flute.
Kip McMurray: Kip used to be a regular at cons
in the Baltimore/Washington area and points north before
following his heart to Oklahoma. In addition to making music,
Kip is a long-time member and former executive vice president
of the National Space Society.
Our programming will feature the usual
array of concerts, workshops, one-shots and theme filks, plus the fabulous Interfilk
auction.
The schedule will be posted shortly before the convention. In
the meantime, watch the NEFilk LiveJournal community for
details.
Conterpoint will
again feature a combined program book and songbook. All
attending and supporting members (with the exception of
children under 6) will receive a copy, and contributors will
receive a complimentary copy.
The songbook portion is being produced by Gary McGath. Songs
can be originals or parodies. Parodies should credit the
source tune and songwriter. Chords are preferred if
available, whether as a lead sheet, a text file in Chordpro
format, or similar presentations. Sheet music for original
tunes is welcome if available, sound files should be
provided if you would like a tune transcribed.
Submissions can be sent to conterpointbook atsymbol mcgath
DOT com. The deadline for songbook submissions is May 16th.
Our song contest topic will be "The Final
Frontier", in honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the
premiere of Star Trek. Entries must be new songs written since
the end of last year’s Northeast Filk Conventions (i.e. after
June 23rd, 2015). Songs set to original tunes and parodies of
existing tunes are both acceptable.
All entries must be performed at the convention. If you cannot
attend (or prefer not to perform) someone else may present
your entry.
A copy of the lyrics should be provided for the use of our
judges. Songs are judged on the quality of the lyrics and
appropriateness to the topic, not on the quality of the
performance.
Conterpoint will have a dealer’s room. Contact the
convention chair or hotel liaison (see below) for more
information.
Running a convention takes all the help we
can get. Anyone willing to work a shift at the registration
table, con suite, etc. should contact the appropriate member
of the committee (see below). Volunteers to help with the
late-night hours in the con suite would be particularly
welcomed. We also need people interested in helping with child
care and children’s programming.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Conspiracy donations to the con suite
are enthusiastically welcomed. We will also be keeping a
kosher table. Con suite staff will direct you where to place
contributions. Of course, kosher food only should be placed on
the table marked for that purpose -- if you're not sure, err
on the side of caution and don't put it on the kosher table.
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Con Chair: Steve Brinich
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Hotel and GOH Liaison: Crystal Paul (malachite atsimbol verizon
DOT net)
Pre-Registration and Treasurer: Steve Brinich
(sm_brinich atsimbol
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Publications: Gary Ehrlich (gorgeousgary
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Publicity: Peter Ellis (mav.weirdo
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DOT net)
Programming: Sheryl Ehrlich (the_sheryl
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Con Suite: Catherine Birzer (cbirzer atsimbol
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Sound/Recording: Scott Dorsey (kludge atsimbol
panix DOT com)
Please see the NEFilk LiveJournal
community, NEFilk,
for the latest updates and discussion and to post any
questions you may have.
Updated April 14, 2016