The NorthEast Filk Convention

Formerly the official tumblr for Contata, the NY-area branch of the NorthEast Floating Filk Convention -- now the official tumblr for the combined NEFilk. Currently running the virtual convention NEWhere (July 3-5, 2020)!

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Song Contest Winner

And the winner of the NEWh3re 2022 song contest is ...

Heather Estelme, with "This Night is Three"!

Congratulations to Heather and many thanks to all who submitted entries and all who voted!

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NEWh3re is almost here!

Please join us for NEWh3re (pronounced “Anywhere Three!”), June 10-12, 2022, with Guests of Honor Astrisoni (Nate Wulver and Heather Estelme).

Our preliminary schedule grid and song contest announcement have both been posted. And as in previous years, please come join us on the NEFilk Discord server.

Hoping to see you soon at the con!

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Our schedule has been updated! Same link as above, new grid.

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NEWh3re is almost here!

Please join us for NEWh3re (pronounced “Anywhere Three!”), June 10-12, 2022, with Guests of Honor Astrisoni (Nate Wulver and Heather Estelme).

Our preliminary schedule grid and song contest announcement have both been posted. And as in previous years, please come join us on the NEFilk Discord server.

Hoping to see you soon at the con!

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Announcing: NEWh3re 2022!

Yes, folks, we are once more holding NEFilk as an online event in June 2022.

Please join us for NEWh3re (pronounced “Anywhere Three!”), June 10-12, 2022, with Guests of Honor Astrisoni. Check out their bandcamp, and stay tuned for more announcements!

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The updated schedule for NEWhere Too 2021, now with zoom links, is now available on our website along with a link to our Discord server.

The convention starts tomorrow, Friday, June 18 at 12:00 noon Eastern, but please feel free to come join us on Discord as early as Right Now!

Hope to see you there!

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NEWhere Too Song Contest

The NEWhere Too concom is delighted to announce our 2021 Song Contest!

This year, once again the winner will be determined by popular vote. We will be collecting submissions to the song contest before the con, and voting will take place Friday (June 18) and Saturday (June 19) during the con. The winner will be announced at the Closing Ceremonies.

The theme for this year’s contest is: “Keep Circling!”

Complete song contest rules can be found here on our website. 

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Don’t forget -- the deadline for submitting a song to the NEWhere Too song contest is this coming Friday, June 18, at 5:00 PM Eastern time! (That’s five hours after the beginning of the con with our Virtual Con Suite at noon -- watch this space for a preliminary schedule!)

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NEWhere Too Song Contest

The NEWhere Too concom is delighted to announce our 2021 Song Contest!

This year, once again the winner will be determined by popular vote. We will be collecting submissions to the song contest before the con, and voting will take place Friday (June 18) and Saturday (June 19) during the con. The winner will be announced at the Closing Ceremonies.

The theme for this year’s contest is: “Keep Circling!”

Complete song contest rules can be found here on our website. 

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NEWhere Too - A Message From the Con Chair

Greetings all!  With June busting out all over, I am pleased to announce our slate of talented performers! (Please note that the schedule is still subject to change.)

Our Guest of Honor concert, of course, will feature the fabulous Dave Weingart.

Other anticipated performers include Morva Bowman and Alan Pollard, Kathy Sands, Bob Leigh and Mabel Liang, Amy Fass, Ellen Kranzer, Daphne Arthur, Deborah and Basil, Zorikh Lequidre, Piers Cawley, Michael McAfee and Robert Rosenfeld.

PLUS Bring Your Own Ice Cream Social on Friday, “What I Discovered During the Pandemic” on Sunday, virtual con suite every day at noon, and lots and lots of open filk!

Feel free to spread the word, and hope to see you at the con!

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NEWhere Too will take place June 18-20, 2021. Visit our homepage for more information, or subscribe to our mailing list!

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2021 Update from NEFilk's Convention Committee

Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, we are regretfully altering our plans to hold an NEFilk Relaxacon in June 2021. Instead, we will once more host NEWhere, an online event from June 18-20, 2021, with virtual Guest of Honor Dave Weingart.  

And (with the agreement of our hotel, the Crowne Plaza in Danbury, CT) the in-person NEFilk Relaxacon has been rescheduled to July 1-3, 2022, with Guest of Honor Gary @gorgeousgary​ Ehrlich.

Follow this blog or subscribe to our announcement list for more news about NEWhere 2021!

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NEWhere 2020: That’s (Not Quite) All, Folks …

Many thanks to everyone who attended our virtual convention. But wait, there’s more …!

Since we didn’t have a song contest at the convention, we’re going to have a post-con contest! Our theme is: “No Contest.”

SONG CONTEST RULES:

Deadline for submission is 11:59 EDT July 20.

Submissions should be sent to nefilk.tech(at)gmail(dot)com. Each submission must include a lyrics sheet and may be accompanied by a video or audio recording. If a recording is included, it does not need to be performed by the same person who wrote the lyrics.

To be submitted for this contest, a song must be newly written (i.e., completed since Friday, July 3, 2020), and must be either written or co-written by an NEWhere 2020 attendee. (Partial attendance counts.)

Only one submission per person is permitted.

Winners will be determined by popular vote. Links to all submissions and the method of voting will be posted on the NEfilk Discord server and on the nefilk.us website. If you have any questions, please email them to the address above.

Keep safe, and keep singing!

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The NEWhere 2020 contest entries are in, and voting is open!

Please head over to our website at nefilk.us to find out how to see, hear (as available), and vote on the entries! The deadline is 12:00 noon EDT, Friday, July 24.

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NEWhere 2020: That’s (Not Quite) All, Folks …

Many thanks to everyone who attended our virtual convention. But wait, there’s more …!

Since we didn’t have a song contest at the convention, we’re going to have a post-con contest! Our theme is: “No Contest.”

SONG CONTEST RULES:

Deadline for submission is 11:59 EDT July 20.

Submissions should be sent to nefilk.tech(at)gmail(dot)com. Each submission must include a lyrics sheet and may be accompanied by a video or audio recording. If a recording is included, it does not need to be performed by the same person who wrote the lyrics.

To be submitted for this contest, a song must be newly written (i.e., completed since Friday, July 3, 2020), and must be either written or co-written by an NEWhere 2020 attendee. (Partial attendance counts.)

Only one submission per person is permitted.

Winners will be determined by popular vote. Links to all submissions and the method of voting will be posted on the NEfilk Discord server and on the nefilk.us website. If you have any questions, please email them to the address above.

Keep safe, and keep singing!

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The final version of the schedule, with links to the associated Zoom rooms, is now live on the nefilk.us homepage! Along with links to our Discord server, an informational slideshow, and contact information for our tech crew just in case.

See you Friday, everybody!

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Hey folks! Are you planning on attending NEFilk’s virtual convention NEWhere this weekend (July 3-5, 2020)? If so, you may wish to join our new Discord server! Think of it as the hotel space -- there’s no programming going on here, but it’s a good place to hang out and talk to everybody else who’s at the con.

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Where are the links to the virtual event?

The links to the virtual event will be part of the final schedule grid, which will be posted to this blog and elsewhere sometime early this week -- most likely Monday.

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Correction, and apologies for the error: the final schedule grid with links will be posted late this week, most likely Thursday. To get the update, watch this blog, check the NEFilk website, or subscribe to the announcement list.

Hope to see you there!

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Where are the links to the virtual event?

The links to the virtual event will be part of the final schedule grid, which will be posted to this blog and elsewhere sometime early this week -- most likely Monday.

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One week to go!

It’s seven days until NEWhere! In anticipation, we would like to present a concert video from Mattie Brahen, who unfortunately cannot be in attendance next week but was happy to pre-record this for us. The concert includes tributes to our dearly departed NEfilkers Ariel “Abby” Cinii and Harold Stein.

Watch this space over the next several days for the updated final version of the schedule, which will include access information for the virtual con!

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NEWhere 2020 Program Grid

The full schedule program grid for NEWhere 2020 is live! Click through to view or download.