Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: artistic
  • Music: Annwn, "Matty Groves."

In which the original members of Lady Mondegreen have a reunion.

Many people don't realize this, because it hasn't come up much lately, but I am part of an acapella group. I am, in fact, one of the three founding members of Lady Mondegreen, an all-female filk acapella group with members all over the world (or at least, all over North America and Europe). Because I live on the West Coast and the other two founding members live on the East Coast, we have not actually performed together since 2007. So when ChessieCon asked us to do a concert, we said sure. Why the hell not?

Batya, Merav, and I rehearsed as much as we could while I was in New York, and made our way to the con, where we took the stage for a surprisingly (dauntingly) large crowd. Our set list was as follows:

Sound check:

Theme from Banana In Pajamas
The shunning of Josh (ala Charlie the Unicorn)
Theme from Disney's The Gummi Bears
Theme from Disney's Rescue Rangers

Actual concert:

"The Three Fine Daughters of Farmer Brown" (Eddie From Ohio)
"Bottom of the River" (Delta Rae)
"Lorelei" (The Pogues)
"Flu Pandemic" (The Flying Fish Sailors)
"If I Had a Boat" (Lyle Lovett)
"Mordred's Lullaby" (Heather Dale)
"Lilo" (parody)
"All In Green" (e.e. cummings, music by Batya Wittenberg)
"Anything For You" (Ludo)
"Bedroom Eyes" (Uncle Bonsai)
"Reunion Hill" (Richard Shindell)
"This Side of the Knife" (Talis Kimberley)
"Don't Go Down to the Quarry" (Peter, Paul, and Mary)
"Leaving On a Jet Plane" (John Denver)

Post-concert:

"We are Wyld Stallions!"
"We are Sex B-Bomb!" (Quoth Batya: "I don't want to be Sex B-Bomb.")
"We are Mouse Rat!" (Cue me bouncing up and down singing "Sex Hair/Sex Bears.")

...all in all, not bad for our first show in years.
Tags: filk, friends rock, good things, i make music, post-con
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archangelbeth

December 15 2015, 04:21:01 UTC 1 year ago

1: All In Green is one of my favorite e.e. cummings poems. (The other being the one that has "Up so floating many bells down.")

2: I had to go digging around to see if I could find a Lady Mondegreen version. I did. Well, a sample, anyway.

3: I think I like it better than the Joan Baez version. And much better than my own pathetic attempts, years and years ago.

4: ...FAQ sez no CD yet. Darn.

seanan_mcguire

December 15 2015, 16:20:12 UTC 1 year ago

There isn't likely to be one any time soon, alas.

archangelbeth

December 16 2015, 01:15:44 UTC 1 year ago

Understood. Alas.