On December 31, 2021 Julia Hanna and I hosted an online gathering that included a talk given by handwriting expert Kate Gladstone, and that was followed by a filksing featuring filk legend Leslie Fish and Katrina Joyner. Kate Gladstone also contributed to the filking, with original songs of her own, as well as by performing the songs of others.
There is a list of the contents of the video embedded below. Because the video is five and a half hours long, it is divided into chapters for your convenience.
You can watch it all, or you can choose which part of the gathering you would like to view.
CONTENT 00:00:00 We go live and chaos ensues 00:12:27 Katrina sings “Fill the Cup & Drink It Down” by Heather Rose Jones 00:16:48 Kate’s talk about “Doctor Handwriting” begins 00:27:19 Kate sings “The Day We Learned to Write: The Doctors’ Handwriting Song” 00:37:32 Leslie sings “The Day It Fell Apart” 01:26:32 Kate sings “Doctor or Druggist I Don’t Care” 01:37:47 Leslie sing “Jobson’s Amen” — lyrics by Kipling 01:48:01 Katrina sings “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” by Anonymous 01:50:47 Kate sings “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” by Ogden Nash 01:53:14 Leslie sings “Fundies” 02:06:22 Leslie sings “Avalon is Risen” 02:16:59 Katrina sings “Loki” by Mikhail Graham 02:27:00 Leslie sings “Do Not Seek To Know What Lies” 02:33:07 Leslie sings “Wanderer” 02:39:16 Katrina sings “An Army of Crows” 02:47:42 Leslie sings filk on “Banned from Argo” by Mark Mandel 02:52:57 Kate sings “Banned from Aleph” by Kevin Wald 03:03:23 Leslie sings “The Word of God” by Cat Faber 03:09:58 Katrina sings “Hot Mess” 03:13:42 Leslie sings “Bella Ciao” by Italian Partisans 03:19:58 Kate sings “The Devil Went Down to Georgia, A Calvinist Exegesis” 03:30:38 Leslie sings “Disbelief” or “The Devil Went Down to Phoenix” 03:37:06 Katrina sings “Everybody Hates Elves” by Kari Morris 03:45:45 Leslie sings “Gremlins” 03:51:14 Leslie sings “The End of the Raven (by Edgar Allen Poe’s Cat)” by Kyle Phillips 03:58:38 Katrina sings “I am Groot” 03:59:45 Kate sings “Hymn of Leslie’s Night Cats” 04:02:30 Katrina sings “Molly Malone from the Cat Perspective” by Emily Rush 04:07:25 Leslie sings “Filking and Gaming Bands” (to Leslie’s tune for Jubal &Tubal Cain) 04:11:20 Leslie sings “An Owner Whose Name is Fish” — based on Horsetamer’s Daughter 04:20:40 Leslie sings “They Were Having a Sale at the Gun Store” 04:44:00 Leslie sings “The White Man’s Recant” By Joe Abbot
