This archive and its contents are field recordings and are not for sale, or for redistribution. While the recordings and documents contained here may have only personal value, we would prefer that they not be taken out of context. Thank you for respecting the rights of the people who made these recordings and wrote the songs, instrumentals, spoken word pieces and articles collected here. This archive is dedicated to all the people who preserve the experience of live filk music, but most of all to Harold Stein and Chris "Keris" Croughton.
This project has been built using the Zooniverse Project Builder but is not yet an official Zooniverse project. Queries and issues relating to this project directed at the Zooniverse Team may not receive any response.
A crowd-sourced effort to identify thousands of hours of audio footage and documents from a niche singing community called "Filk". Please choose your geographic region below. If you have recordings from a region that we don't have listed, please get in touch at filkarchive@gmail.com
Learn moreWork consists of identifying audio footage and publications from filk music conventions and the filk tracks from general purpose science fiction conventions. The document section contains songs and publications from individuals that were collected in private hands. We are briefly publishing them to identify and preserve them. Please do not take advantage of these resources. If you need a song, please email us at filkarchive@gmail.com and we'll be happy to help you.
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About Filk Archive
Volunteers will listen to clips sourced from a variety of regional filk archives to identify and classify different performances by type and create a set of meta data necessary for identifying specific performances against future needs.
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