Eric's House Of Ego

About our weekend

2018-10-28T03:10:54Z

Those who know me know that I suffer from a bad case of imposter syndrome. Apparently fandom is ganging up on that syndrome and doing it's best to kick it's butt. Damn thing shouldn't have worn a cape.

OVFF was a marvel. We met new people, saw new people play. Hung out with dear friends. Made new dear friends. I feel that I missed out talking to a lot of people I wanted to talk to, and for that I apologize. I was in kind of a blur all weekend.

Some highlights for me. And I will forget some.

Xap wrote our bio. She left one, very important thing, out.

SHE NAMED THE BAND !!! This thing about friends helping ... that was her!

Traveling to and from with the amazing Fallon. New friend #1!

A trip to music stores, and coming home with a nifty box cello for Lizzie!

Random Fractions tearing the roof off during the Pegasus Awards Concert.

Lauren Cox showing us how ... it's ... done at the Pegasus Awards Concert. One of the best moments of music at a con, ever, for me.

Heather, Nathan and Will at the Other Worldly filk. Oh I am looking for great things from all of you.

Bill Laubenheimer at the Other Worldly filk for totally blindsiding me ... with a song that I knew ... I will have my revenge.

Kat Sharp utterly destroying me not once, but twice with that amazing choral piece!

The oddest Getting Ready For Your First Show workshop we have done. Focus was ... odd ...

Now that I have seen Rob Wynne's concert ... Rob Wynne's concert! Killer stuff.

I didn't get to see enough of Julia West's concert, but what I saw was wonderful.

Wreck The System wrecking the crowd! I warned several people, that they were about to have themselves rocked right down to the floor. When I'm right, I'm right!

And our set. We got to do something I have wanted to do for years now, play with a full band. In the moment, it was really difficult. I felt kinda terrible right after the show. I got better quickly. I think it worked really well. I have now skimmed through some video, and I think that even more now. That pesky imposter syndrome again.

Thank you Barry, Sally, Leslie, Betsey, and Dr Mary. You made it possible for us to realize a dream. We want that full band now, more than ever. Maybe someday.

The Pegasus Awards. I had several strong preferences this year, some of whom won. In the cases where someone else won, I was all for it. It was a rough year, so much talent. And so much talent whose day will come. I am so proud to be a part of this community, surrounded by so many amazing musicians and songwriters and performers. And the food was pretty good too.

I got to be a judge for the Song Writing Contest. Wow was that fun! Rob & Ally and me! We agreed on nearly everything. We agreed there were no bad songs. A couple of them didn't fit the parameters of the contest, but they were all still great songs. I'm happy that the three I liked best won, but a couple others could have slipped in there easily.

Then the Interfilk auction, where I wasn't really bidding on anything, then a song in the circle, then I coyoted the wall.

Sunday, I got to mostly hang out and watch stuff.

Beth Kinderman & The Player Characters put on what may be the best show I have seen them do ... and I have seen them a lot.

Andrea Dale was stunning, absolutely stunning.

The Farewell Jam I felt a little lost in, I need to get some more stuff drumwise, I feel better at the jam if I am doing something with drums.

The Dead Dog was wonderful. We played some songs. We heard some songs. Robin June Nakula showed me a nifty instrument with the most difficult tuning pegs I have ever seen.

And then we went back up to the room. And it was, for all practical purposes, over. It's hard going back to real life after a weekend like this. It makes me want to be playing music a lot more. I wish we could.

Now the thanks, and I will forget people.

Gabrielle Gold for all her attention before the con.
Doug Cottrill for the same.
The two of you made it so easy getting ready for our weekend.

Mark Peters and the rest of the OVFF sound crew! I know we are in good hands when I see this crew. I want to be that good at running sound someday.

Mary Bertke for a simple email last year.

Linn, for such a marvelous con. Too much of the time the con chair gets the blame, and not the well deserved credit. You put on an amazing con!

And finally, everyone at the con. The feeling of family is so important, to us, to all of us.

Before, we were amazed that it was going to happen, now we're amazed that it did happen.

Thank you for making us a part of this. We can never express how much it meant to us.

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We're tired.

2018-04-23T17:11:13Z

It's been such a manic few years, and we never seem to get caught up. We didn't realize how the pressure of writing so many songs last year affected us until January, when we had a month to write a song. It was weird.

We're only booking a few more shows this year. Something up in Minneapolis. Another Chicago show, a Champaign show and probably a Des Moines show in the fall. And I think that may be it for this year, unless something really nifty pops up. I look at what we have done, and what we have planned, and it looks like 12 shows this year. This will be our least busy year since our first year as a band, when we played 7 times.

We're still working on the new rehearsal space and the new demo studio. Sales from the new CD will help with that, and we're still looking for more pre-sales for the new CD. We're only about halfway there.

We'll be at Demicon in two weeks and that is all we have at the moment until Phoenix, Labor Day weekend.

And starting Labor Day weekend ...

3 GOH slots in 6 months. We're both still amazed, and mildly terrified. We have so much to do. So many older songs to get comfortable in again, so many new songs that we need to learn to relax in. We need to have the OVFF set list planned out soon, so we can present it to the folks who are playing with us, so they can learn the songs.

And we need rest. We need time to not be burned out. Work has been hard, health has been a problem. Money is always tricky, but it is for everyone.

So, some quiet time. And let's see how I deal with not playing as much. It's kind of necessary for my existence. We'll see ...

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CoKoCon

2018-02-09T02:00:27Z

Much to our amazement, we have another announcement to make.

Cheshire Moon will be the Filk Guests Of Honor at CoKoCon this coming Labor Day weekend Aug 31 - Sept 1 in Phoenix AZ.

This is the first year for the con, so we are doubly honored!

http://cokocon.org/index.html

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The UK Filk Con

2018-02-03T21:13:16Z

We are thrilled beyond all belief to be able to say that the UK GOH for next years British Filk Con is Chantelle Smith!

It's going to be lovely to meet her!

Yeah ... we're the overseas GOHs.

We're overwhelmed.

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wow

2017-10-22T01:48:46Z

OVFF is in full swing, others have started to talk about it. I think that it is safe to say now.

We are thrilled beyond all capacity for rational thought to finally be able to say;

Cheshire Moon will be the Guests Of Honor at OVFF 34, Oct 19-21, 2018 along with Toastmaster Rob Wynne, Honored Listener Harold Stein and Interfilk Guest Julia West.

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Consonance

2016-03-14T13:45:37Z

( There is so much to write about, so many people to thank. )

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We are honored and amazed.

2015-03-08T05:18:55Z

So, we got this email a week ago ...

I'm writing as the chair of Consonance, the SF Bay Area filk convention, to ask if Cheshire Moon would be our Guests of Honor in 2016. The provisional dates are March 4-6, 2016. We really hope you can come!

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