The 2011 Pegasus Awards!: seanan

The 2011 Pegasus Awards!

Hooray hooray, the 2011 Pegasus ballot is live at last! And this is a good, good year.

The ballot for the 2011 Pegasus Awards for Excellence in Filking is now live for voting, and holy cheese, there are some awesome nominees this year! The ballot...

Best Filk Song

"Die Puppen (The Dolls)" by Eva Van Daele-Hunt.
"Joan" by Heather Dale and Ben Deschamps.
"Paper Worlds" by Talis Kimberley.
"Somebody Will" by Ada Palmer.
"Wicked Girls" by Seanan McGuire.

Best Classic Filk Song

"Gone Filkin'" by Tom Jeffers.
"Little Fuzzy Animals" by Frank Hayes.
"Nessie Come Up" by Dr. Jane Robinson.
"The Phoenix" by Julia Ecklar.
"Storm Dancing" by Tom Smith.

Best Performer

Amy McNally.
Playing Rapunzel.
Stone Dragons.
Toyboat.
Tricky Pixie.

Best Writer/Composer

Barry Childs-Helton.
Dr. Mary Crowell.
Phil Mills.
Ben Newman.
S. J. Tucker.

Best Badass Song

"Crispy Danish" by Andrew Ross.
"Evil Eyeball" by Sibylle Machat.
"Evil Laugh" by Seanan McGuire.
"My Brother, My Enemy" by Ada Palmer.
"Tough Titty Cupcakes" by Betsy Tinney.

Best Romantic Song

"As I Am" by Heather Dale.
"One Small Boat" by Marilisa Valtazanou.
"Rain On Berlin" by Eva Van Daele-Hunt.
"Starlight & Saxophone" by Tom Smith.
"Too Many Years" by Bill Roper.

I mean, just look at all that awesomesauce. The Best Song Category alone contains representatives from four nations (America, Canada, England, and Germany), and so many of my favorite people are on this ballot that it boggles the mind. It's like a big delicious biscuit of amazing, and I am overjoyed and honored to be on it. (Also, "Wicked Girls" is up against two of my favorite songs, "Paper Worlds" and "Joan." It's a good year to be a filker.)

The Pegasus homepage has all the song samples and lyrics you could need to educate yourself on some totally amazing music, and some totally amazing people. Check it out for fantastic!

hms42

September 2 2011, 02:30:07 UTC 5 years ago

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Congratulations on your nominations.

seanan_mcguire

September 2 2011, 02:37:01 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

notalwaysweak

September 2 2011, 03:25:01 UTC 5 years ago

Seanan, you're the one who got me into Talis's music and now I have to choose between you? It's not fair! I may seriously have to let Lady Luck decide this one for me ~~or vote twice under different email addresses~~.

I'm heading for the awesome SF&F bookshop after work to order One Salt Sea, though, and when I was at my local library last week I saw Rosemary and Rue, looking well-read, on the shelf, so I had a little squee to myself.

September 2 2011, 17:27:07 UTC 5 years ago

Choices are hard. This whole ballot has no easy choices. (Well, except for Best Performer, for me; I'm dating one of the nominees, and she's amazing.)

September 3 2011, 03:56:00 UTC 5 years ago

That does make it a lot easier to choose!

kirk1701

September 2 2011, 05:49:14 UTC 5 years ago

Congrats and good luck! :)

September 2 2011, 17:27:14 UTC 5 years ago

dave_ifversen

September 2 2011, 08:14:49 UTC 5 years ago

I'm going to have to re-listen to everything here. I like it all, and the amount of talent represented by this list is going to make it very difficult to select one clear winner in any of these categories. Every single person, group, and song on this list are just fantastic.

September 2 2011, 17:27:26 UTC 5 years ago

It's an incredible ballot this year.

wcg

September 2 2011, 12:42:03 UTC 5 years ago

First, congrats on having Wicked Girls nominated. I've known since I first heard it that it is one of the great filk anthems of all time. Even if it doesn't win this year, it *will* win.

Second, I have to observe there are no easy choices here.