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Filk in Poland
Jul. 25th, 2017 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kjnLast year I met Polish fan Marcin Klak (Alqua) at Fantastika (Swecon 2016). He was interested in forging bridges between Polish and international fandom, and also appreciative of and interested in filk. Thanks to his blog Fandom Rover I've gotten a look into Polish fandom, Polish con culture, and Polish filking. Especially the con report from Medalikon gives some insight.
From what I can tell, Polish filk (for very wide values of filk) is small, but they have a core of performers that do concerts at their various cons, and they seem inhabit the intersection between LARP, fandom, reenactment, and folk music (though that might be based on the limited stuff I've found).
Some links on Polish filk that I've found so far:
From what I can tell, Polish filk (for very wide values of filk) is small, but they have a core of performers that do concerts at their various cons, and they seem inhabit the intersection between LARP, fandom, reenactment, and folk music (though that might be based on the limited stuff I've found).
Some links on Polish filk that I've found so far:
- Barbara Karlik (in English), harpist, singer, and songwriter. She has songs by thnidu, Gwen Knighton, and Alexander James Adams in her repertoire. I can recommend "The siege of Hedgehogfurt".
- Polish filk wiki, has a small collection of Polish and some American filk.
- Liz Katrin (Soundcloud), Interview (in English)
- Kruffachi (Facebook), who seems to be the most "filkish" within Polish fannish music that I have found so far
