Urban Tapestry performs "I Am Stardust" (by Lloyd Landa) at FilKONtario

Thanks to Phil Mills for this video, and to Karen Linsley for permission for posting this video. The song, "I Am Stardust" was written by our friend Lloyd Landa, who died in late 2000. You can read the lyrics to "I Am Stardust" on the Pegasus Awards site; it was nominated for Best Classic Filk Song in 2010.

Lloyd, we miss you.

From a moving tribute to Lloyd Landa by Norm Hacking

On her blog post about the video, Allison writes:

This is a video taken by Phil Mills of Urban Tapestry singing "I Am StarDust" by Lloyd Landa at our 20th anniversary concert at FilKONtario last weekend. Debbie, Jodi and I love this song dearly and once Lloyd was gone from us too soon, it's always been an honour that his music partner Karen Linsley, who first sang the song with Lloyd, has encouraged us to continue singing it. I'm glad the filk community has taken "I Am Stardust" to their hearts and one of my favorite things about the video is listening to the audience singing along in the background.

Allison, Jodi and I had a wonderful time at FilKONtario. Kudos to the concom and guests! Allison has posted a series of con reports with photos on her blog:

Allison's FKO report, Part 1

Allison's FKO report, Part 2

Allison's FKO report, Part 3

Allison's FKO report, Part 4

For those who have arrived at this post from elsewhere and aren't familiar with filk, here's my own take on the topic: What Is Filk?

-- Debbie

Home To FilKONtario

Photo: Walter K.Thanks to John Durno for the video below (additional footage from Tom Jeffers), who filmed us performing the song at Urban Tapestry's FilKONtario concert in 2013:

For those who have arrived at this post from elsewhere and aren't familiar with filk, here's my own take on the topic: What Is Filk?

From Debbie: I wrote a song about how I felt about FKO years ago, and was honoured when the convention began using it as its closing song. You can read the lyrics to "Home To FilKONtario" here...

HOME TO FILKONTARIO
===================
by Debbie Ridpath Ohi (1999)

G          F              C                D
I used to feel the lyrics slide inside my head
C                             D
The music filled me up, and I felt I would explode in a
G                 F               C           D
burst of coloured static, and the people all around, their eyes
F                G
on the ground.

CHORUS:
   C        Am      F      G
   Bring me home to FilKONtario
   C  Am  F        G
   Stay, sing with me - we'll
   C               Am
   be all right, sing all night
   F                   G        C    C
   with my friends at Filkontario.

G             F                 C            D
One fateful weekend, my friend took me to a filk, "What's a
C                        D
filk", I said, and she laughed and took my hand, led me
G             F              C               D
to a room of people with guitars and easy smiles, and I
F               G
stayed a while.

CHORUS:
   C        Am      F      G
   Bring me home to FilKONtario
   C  Am  F        G
   Stay, sing with me - we'll
   C               Am
   be all right, sing all night
   F                   G        C    C
   with my friends at Filkontario.

    (plus counterpoint #1)
    Bring me home to FilKONtario
    Bring me home to FilKONtario
    I want to go to FilKONtario
    
    (plus counterpoint #2)
    Filk FilkOntario...Filk FilkONtario
    I want to go to FilkONtario  
   
G           F               C               D   
So now I'm hooked, I go to filk cons every year, never
C                    D
get much sleep, why sleep? I could be filking...
G             F                C                 D
The circle changes but the smiles are still the same, and the
F              G
song remains.    

BRIDGE:
                     C       D                 
(but each time, I) find it harder to say 
     G                 C
good-bye at the end of day, 
G                     Em
may our paths cross again,
     D         G    F    G    F
my friend.

G           F               C            D   
Our voices may not be all perfectly on key, but we
C                          D
lift each other up, and share the melody as we
G                    F            C               D
fill the room with music, and I know I'll be all right as we
F                     G
sing into the night.

CHORUS (twice):

   C        Am      F      G
   Bring me home to FilKONtario
   C  Am  F        G
   Stay, sing with me - we'll
   C               Am
   be all right, sing all night
   F                   G        C    C
   with my friends at Filkontario.

    (plus counterpoint #1)
    Bring me home to FilKONtario
    Bring me home to FilKONtario
    I want to go to FilKONtario
    
    (plus counterpoint #2)
    Filk FilkOntario...Filk FilkONtario
    I want to go to FilkONtario

Only a few days until FilKONtario!

Check out the cool hand-stitched bag that local filker Carolyn Brown made for me last year! Allison and Jodi also got personalized bags.

 -- Debbie