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Urban Tapestry was inducted into the Filk Hall Of Fame in 2011! We are deeply appreciative of this honour. If you're not familiar with the term "filk", please see Debbie's Filk FAQ entry: What is filk?
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 2:32PM Apologies for the hiatus. So much has been going on Allison's, Jodi's and my life since I last posted, and we'll be posting more about that later.
Jodi's voiceover career has really been taking off, for example! Here's one of her recent projects, doing the voice narration for a Hood Sour Cream commercial:
Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 9:58PM Friday:http://allisona.livejournal.com/486091.html
Saturday:http://allisona.livejournal.com/486257.html
Getting inducted into the Hall Of Fame:http://allisona.livejournal.com/486575.html
Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 11:44AM We had some DVDs left over from our FilKONtario launch, and will be making them available online soon. :-)
In this trailer: Photo stills courtesy Phil Mills, John Hall, Walter Korynkiewicz.
Monday, April 4, 2011 at 9:47PM 
Allison will be posting more in her Livejournal, but here's my personal perspective on the honour.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 11:19AM (Update April 9, 2011: now for sale in our new Urban Tapestry online shop!)
Photo by Allison Durno
We're delighted to announce the launch of our very first filk DVD to be available commercially:
URBAN TAPESTRY: BEHIND THE MUSIC (A MOCKUMENTARY)
We have printed 100 copies. 25 are already spoken for, going to our contributors and our own copies, but we'll have 75 for sale at FilKONtario this weekend. Our joint launch party with Talis Kimberly, who is debuting her Duckon concert CD, will be in the con suite at 11:15 pm on Friday.
From Debbie...
John, Allison, Jodi and I worked very hard on this project, which has been in progress for about a year. Mega thanks to the brilliant Mark Bernstein, who did the narration.
Huge thanks also to John Durno, who was our producer, director and editor. Do check out John's other video projects and "Like" his page at B.O.T. (Brains On Toast Productions) and visit the Brains On Toast YouTube Channel.
We're also incredibly grateful to our mock video interview contributors, whom we will gradually be interviewing (about themselves, not about us!) for the Urban Tapestry website over the course of the year:
Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff as themselves
Gary Ehrlich as UT's Publicity Manager
Errol Elumir as a UT Fanboy
Beckett Gladney as UT's Costume Designer
Dave Hayman as UT's Business Advisor
Judith Hayman as Allison's Next Door Neighbour
Tom Jeffers as TJ the DJ (Squirrel 104.1FM)
Sue Jeffers as Constance Bowers
Walter Korynkiewicz as Larry Korak
Brooke Lunderville as Jodi's Counsellor at Empty Promises
Sibylle Machat as Hilda Hütchen. Unfortunately Sib's name got mangled in the final credits of the Mockumentary-- humble apologies!
Mark Osier as himself
Mich Sampson as Persephone Finch
Taunya Gren as herself
Amanda Snyder as UT's Personal Assistant
Marilisa Valtazanou as herself
I saw the whole thing for the first time last week, when Allison, Jodi, John and I got together, and was SO SOOOOOOO tickled at how wonderfully it turned out.
Not only did Mark and the contributors do a fantastic job, but John did some brilliant work editing and putting the whole thing together. There are video clips of pseudo-interviews, photo stills and video clips from our very early days as Urban Tapestry (as far back as 1994) and through the years up to the present.
Also included, courtesy Tom Jeffers, John Durno and FilKONtario:
THREE FULL PERFORMANCE BONUS VIDEOS...
1. Our performance of The Seventies Song in 2008 at FKO, with Walter Korynkiewicz as The Seventies Guy. Video courtesy Walter.
2. Our performance of The Neurotic Love Song in 2009 at FKO, with Walter as Jean-Luc. Each time we perform this, I always swear it's going to be THE LAST TIME. If you haven't ever seen us perform this song live, then watch this video to see why. Video courtesy Walter.
3. Our performance of The Question (a Lord of The Rings song) in 2003 when we performed it at a Tolkien convention at the Medieval Times. This song has NEVER BEFORE BEEN RECORDED. I especially like this video because the three of us are dressed up in our medieval costumes, and the backdrop is pretty cool. Filmed & edited by John Durno.
(Above: John filming Walter for a scene in the Mockumentary; John added a backdrop later)
When I was watching the mockumentary for the first time, I was struck by how well John has integrated both our pseudo history and our real history as well as capturing the fun and friendship throughout. And whoa -- he pulled out some reeeeally old concert footage that I hadn't seen in a very long time.
Anyway, please do consider buying this DVD. Price: Cdn $20.
If any are left over after FilKONtario, we'll make some available once we figure out how much to charge for shipping & handling.