Windycon 50

Court and Country is an acappella vocal ensemble that brings a wide variety of medieval and renaissance choral music to popular audiences. In addition, they have a growing repertoire of filk pieces to share with fellow fans.

You find yourself with ideas for some songs or an audiobook. You would love to make that idea become a full-fledged production. But how?

In this panel we'll talk about music production, how songs go from rough demo to full-fledged tracks and what role engineers and producers play. We'll talk about the current state of the music business and the risks and rewards of putting out music and audio tracks in the age of streaming. We'll also discuss what to expect and how to prepare for working with a studio and/or a producer to make your project come to life.

Dan the Bard writes and performs original songs about D&D, Star Wars, Star Trek, Steampunk, Anime, and general culture. He's performed at the Bristol Ren Faire for 30 years, GenCon for 18 years, and plays numerous ren faires and conventions around the Midwest. 14 albums available at www.danthebard.com. Follow on Facebook! www.facebook.com/danthebard

Come enjoy a digital concert by returning Windycon favorite, Tom Smith, the world's fastest filker. Tom is always funny and always entertaining. This concert will be streaming digitally due to an unforeseen conflict.

Enjoy our musical guests, The Faithful Sidekicks, in concert. We're delighted to have Eric and Jen Distad as our guests this year as they bring us their original approach to (mostly) humorous geek comedy rock, If you haven't seen them before, you're in for a treat.

Above all else, Lauren Oxford wants to let you in and make you feel things. Since being Windycon's Music GoH in 2022, the East Tennessee-based singer-songwriter has won a Pegasus Award for Best Writer/Composer (2023), contributed music and art to three albums (Summer Russell's Courage Dear Heart, Jen Midkiff's Finding My Balance, and Eric Distad's The Other Side), and leaned into writing even more about mental health and trauma. If you missed her at Windycon in 2022, or if your idea of a good time is musical group therapy that is also gay and features friends who play harp, violin, and sing harmony, now you know where to be at 7 p.m. on Saturday! Crying and hugs will follow.

Beth Kinderman and the Player Characters are a progressive filk-rock band based in Minneapolis. This year at Windycon, they're celebrating the recent release of their seventh album, "Sisyphus: Ten Songs About Hope". Come hear songs from the new record as well as all the classics about myth, transformation, and video game characters who won't sleep with you.

The Klingon Pop Warrior will host our foray into Klingon Karaoke. Come on down and sing!