The Southern California Filk Convention August 26-28, 2005 (last weekend in August) Warner Center Marriott (Woodland Hills, California)

Hotel:  The Warner Center Marriott (Topanga Canyon exit off the 101)
21850 Oxnard Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Phone: 1 818-887-4800        Fax: 1 818-340-5893
$105/room (plus $8/day to park a car)

Here are two alternate links to the hotel: this one, or this one.

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Guest of Honor: Three Weird Sisters.

Some fine, complex harmonies. See their webpage at
http://www.threeweirdsisters.com/ or http://www.threeweirdsisters.com/whoarethey.htm

Difficult to Describe Poet Guest of Honor: Les Barker.

I'm not even going to try to describe Les Barker. Instead, I'd suggest that you read
A short biography from the Age of three until nearly teatime.
and then visit his homepage. or maybe it's really what it claims to be: his dog's kennelpage: Mrs. Ackroyd Enterprises

Toastmaster: Larry Niven.

See http://www.larryniven.org/biography.htm for Larry's biography and the Known Space future history.
Or Google for more webpages about Larry Niven.

Interfilk Guests: Martin and Andrea Gordon-Kerr

Andrea plays piano, keyboards, and flute, Martin plays bass guitar, sax, drums, and clarinet, and both sing.
More details at http://www.starsky.demon.co.uk/filk/index.htm.
Or visit their song archive.

Folk Guest of Honor: Joe Bethancourt.

Joe plays over 50 different instruments, and if you haven't heard him play the banjo you have missed a treat.
Joe's biography is online, he also has a webpage with the words to his songs.

Special Guest: James Lee Stanley.

Stanley is a singer-songwriter with over 15 CDs, spanning the Pop, Rock, Acoustic, and Jazz genres.
For more information, see his webpage.

We also have guides to Restaurants Within Walking Distance of the Hotel
and Transportation To/From the Hotel

Pre-registration is

Through Consonance	$30.00
Through July 31	$35.00
At the Door	$40.00
Daily rates	Friday $20.00 Saturday $20.00 Sunday $10.00
supporting rates       (including songbook)	to be determined.

Send checks to:

Zen Nine Productions
P.O. Box 61172
Pasadena, CA, 91116

Or contact John & Mary Creasey for information on how to pay by credit card.
Or buy a membership face-to-face from Nick Smith, John & Mary Creasey, or Lee Gold