stardust

Went to Richmond Hill yesterday for a practice with Allison and Jodi. We have one more practice before Conchord.

During our practice, we also ran through more songs, including our contribution to the Totally Tasteless and Tacky Revue at Conchord, which will likely be a...er...unique performance of Library Boy :-). Nick Smith and Paul Kwinn have kindly agreed to help us with this song, the poor things.


We're putting together a donation package for the Interfilk auction which will consist of:

- a one-of-a-kind Urban Tapestry t-shirt (made by me), XL

- small framed cross-stitch with music theme, handmade by Allison (the cross-stitch, not the frame)

- CD with two sample tracks from our upcoming album! Songs on this CD: I Am Stardust (song by Lloyd Landa; Karen has given us permission to cover this song on our album) and Friendship Song (three-part a capella song written and arranged by me). The songs were mastered by Chris Conway at Oblong Studios in Leicester, UK. The recording engineer for "I Am Stardust" was Gerry Tyra, who recorded our concert at Consonance in California last year (Mar/2001). "The Friendship Song" was recorded by Keristor Systems at our concert at Didgeri-Douze in Milton Keynes, England (Feb/2000). The recording and mixing engineer at that convention was Chris Croughton. Thanks to Jodi for getting this sample CD together.

I love "I Am Stardust"; it's such a gorgeous song. I can't focus too much on it when we perform it, though, because I feel like crying, thinking about Lloyd. Full of wry humour and generosity, Lloyd was a tremendously talented songwriter and musician; the filk community suffered such a tremendous loss when he died.


I'm every mote of dust
In a ray of summer sun
Every shining point of light
In the winter night above
I'm inside the very heart of you
Yet galaxies away
I am stardust, stardust
Looking for a home.

(Excerpt from I Am Stardust, by Lloyd Landa)

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Today's Blatherpics:

Karen and Lloyd, at Toronto Trek two years ago.