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Revision as of 06:38, 31 December 2019

(1) A Kind of Convention[edit]

A convention focused around filking.

(2) The First of Them[edit]

The first FilkCon was held in 1979 near Chicago, probably at the Arlington Park Hilton. It was the first filk convention and was organized by Margaret Middleton and Curt Clemmer with help from the Passovoys.

For a time, filk conventions were so rare that they were all listed as "FilkCon N" even though they were under entirely different managements. Several of the FilkCons became the first convention of a major series of filk conventions.

Convention Date GoHs Notes
FilkCon I July 1979
FilkCon II August 1980 Marty Burke
FilkCon III June 5-7, 1981 Buck Coulson, Juanita Coulson
FilkCon 4.1 March 1982 This was the first Bay Filk
FilkCon 4.2 May 1983 Held in parallel with ConQuesT 3
FilkCon 5.1 March 11-13, 1983 Bob Passovoy, Ann Passovoy This was the first ConChord
FilkCon 5.2 July 1983 Held in parallel with OKON '83
March 2-4, 1984 Bay Filk II
1984 Julia Ecklar, Gordy Dickson, Murray Porath OVFF 1
FilkCon 7.1 March 1-3, 1985 Clif Flynt Held in parallel with ConChord 2
FilkCon 9.2 1986 Bill Sutton This is better known as OVFF 2

The N.1 and N.2 numbering system was invented by Margaret Middleton and was meant to reflect the Western and Estern filk conventions, but this rapidly broke down, with the "eastern" convention being in Kansas City and then Tulsa. The numbering scheme continued for a few more years, with 9.2 probably being the last.


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