Friday|Saturday|Sunday
Friday
19:00 Opening Ceremony
In which we introduce the guests, and tell you everything we forgot to put in the Programme Book and the Read Me
19.20 Bill & Brenda Sutton
Back on these shores for another sampling of Proper Beer, we should be able to prise these two Filk Hall Of Fame inductees out of the bar for long enough to show off their solo and duo talents.
20:00 Songbird
Kathy Sterry with a couple of songs and a tale. When asked, she suggested we call it "Trains, Rings and Trousers". Who are we to argue?
20:40 Music Has A Strong Magic
An hour with our UK guest, in which he talks about and introduces some of his favourite songs from past and present.
21:40 Two Flew Over The Mixing Desk
Andy & Martin GK escape from behind the tech desk this year to play a set of their own songs inspired by such authors as David Gemmel, Peter F Hamilton and Mary Doria Russell
22:40 Open Filking
"Sleep is for the weak and sickly." [Kathy Mar]
Saturday
10:00 Guerilla Guitar Tips [Andover Room]
It's your turn next, and you haven't practiced. GoH's Kristoph Klover and Joe Bethancourt give you some coping strategies.
Aural Music Theory Workshop [Main Programme Room]
Simon Fairbourn provides a chance to experiment with harmony, and what it feels like to sing it, aimed at the less experienced audience. Sounds a lot scarier than it is.
11:00 Alien Invasion
They're here. Most of the committee don't know who they are. But they used their orbital mind-control lasers to make us give them a set.
11:40 Philip Allcock
One of the UK's filk stalwarts, with his usual mix of serious songs of his own and versions of others' with the serial numbers carefully filed off...
12:20 Erica Neely
Another chance for Erica to inflict death and despair on everyone... run while you can, or you may find yourself under her spell.
13:00 Lunch
14:00 The N'Early Music Consort
...promise a heady mixture of songs, from idealistic and romantic to silly and busy. So remember to take your motion sickness tablets beforehand.
15:00 Eva Wiest
Anyone who's been to FilkContinental will have heard this lady sing, if nothing else, the haunting Stimmen im Wind. Not to be missed.
15:40 Bid Session
Folks who want to run next year's con explain why you should let them.
16:00 Main Concert
A chance for you to show off your latest masterpiece, as long as you sign up beforehand. Slots limited to 2 songs or 10 minutes, whichever is less.
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Filk Fund Auction
Our UK GoH, Roger Robinson, finds more ways to part you from your money for items both rare and silly.
20:00 GoH: Margaret Davis & Kristoph Klover
...present their own inimitable blend of Celtic, Mediaeval, original and fantasy music
21:00 Break
...for the last bits of tech setup, and a chance to go and put your party outfit and dancing shoes on for...
21:20 Phoenix
UK Filk's longest running rock band celebrate their 10th year of filk cons as Phoenix, with a set of their and your favourites.
22:20 Open Filking
A little shy of ten hours of quality filking time before breakfast...
Sunday
10:00 Letting Your Voice Be Heard
...in more than one way. A half-hour voice workshop, followed by half an hour on recording, designing, promoting and selling your own CD. With GoH's Margaret Davis and Kristoph Klover
11:00 GoH: Joe Bethancourt
A genuine hillbilly disassembling the Universe with just hand tools. [That's what it says here: we're as intrigued as you are.]
12:00 Kate Soley Barton
Fun on the high C's with Kate.
12:40 Sam Award Ceremony
Philip Allcock reveals what won.
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Mich Sampson
Having enjoyed herself so much in her first ever set at HarmUni, she had to come back for more. Mich Sampson performs original fantasy songs, accompanying herself on the keyboard.
14:40 Filk Fund Business Meeting
In which the Fund administrators tell us how it's doing, and we tell them if we want them to carry on doing it.
15:00 GoH: Kristoph Klover & Margaret Davis
Yet another spellbinding set of Celtic, Fantasy and Mediaeval music
16:00 Kip McMurray
...and his guitar, and his shadow. Filk with a folkish tinge from an American currently over in Germany.
16:40 Sam Winners Concert
A chance to hear the winners.
17:00 Closing Ceremony
...followed by...
Dinner
...followed by...
Dead Frog Filk
Last chance to filk through till dawn until HarmUni 2...
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