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I went to the final Darkover convention this weekend. There'll be another convention in the same place on the same weekend starting next year, but this chapter is ended. (The founder and consistent organizer of the con died this past year.)
It seemed like there were more people there this year, some for the memorial and some because it's the last one, I assume. I hadn't been there in several years, but they asked if On the Mark would be interested in doing a concert, so we came out of retirement to do that. One of our members lives four hours away now, so rehearsals were challenging (and alas, Google Hangouts didn't work out for us), but we made it work and had a good time. I think it was a good concert and they seemed to like us.
This was also the final Clam Chowder concert. They've been a fixture at this convention for ages, and they were my inspiration when thinking about building On the Mark. They, too, have geographic problems, which are about to get worse, so I believe them when they say they're done this time. (They retired once before, but it didn't stick.)
I enjoyed the Homespun Celeidh Band concert. They have some fine individual musicians and their group really holds together. They're fun to watch. There were also some fun informal music sessions (jam session, choral singing, etc). Darkover is unusual among SF cons in having this much folk and instrumental music. It's a big part of why I went to the con for so many years. (I'm not actually a fan of the Darkover books -- but Darkover is such a small part of the programming lately that that doesn't matter.)
It was nice to be able to reconnect with some folks I haven't seen in a while, including![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
osewalrus (who I missed at Pennsic), dglenn, and starmalachite and many folks who are not on LJ. I know that hrj was at the con but I missed seeing her -- bummer.
Note for the future: while the drive to the convention is 4.5 hours (maybe less, but when is there not traffic on I695?), the drive home from the convention is way longer. Two hours to get through the Breezewood interchange today -- ugh!
Oh, and I've been away, so I'm not caught up on various online doings (LJ, DW, etc). I'll try to catch up over the next couple days; if I missed something important, feel free to clue me in. :-)
It seemed like there were more people there this year, some for the memorial and some because it's the last one, I assume. I hadn't been there in several years, but they asked if On the Mark would be interested in doing a concert, so we came out of retirement to do that. One of our members lives four hours away now, so rehearsals were challenging (and alas, Google Hangouts didn't work out for us), but we made it work and had a good time. I think it was a good concert and they seemed to like us.
This was also the final Clam Chowder concert. They've been a fixture at this convention for ages, and they were my inspiration when thinking about building On the Mark. They, too, have geographic problems, which are about to get worse, so I believe them when they say they're done this time. (They retired once before, but it didn't stick.)
I enjoyed the Homespun Celeidh Band concert. They have some fine individual musicians and their group really holds together. They're fun to watch. There were also some fun informal music sessions (jam session, choral singing, etc). Darkover is unusual among SF cons in having this much folk and instrumental music. It's a big part of why I went to the con for so many years. (I'm not actually a fan of the Darkover books -- but Darkover is such a small part of the programming lately that that doesn't matter.)
It was nice to be able to reconnect with some folks I haven't seen in a while, including
osewalrus (who I missed at Pennsic), dglenn, and starmalachite and many folks who are not on LJ. I know that hrj was at the con but I missed seeing her -- bummer.Note for the future: while the drive to the convention is 4.5 hours (maybe less, but when is there not traffic on I695?), the drive home from the convention is way longer. Two hours to get through the Breezewood interchange today -- ugh!
Oh, and I've been away, so I'm not caught up on various online doings (LJ, DW, etc). I'll try to catch up over the next couple days; if I missed something important, feel free to clue me in. :-)
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Interesting idea. The audio latency seems like it would be pretty tough to play together across -- was that something you found?
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