Kathy Mar Live!
Kathy Mar (IPA: /ˈkæθɪ ˈmɑːr/, from Chinese Ma) worked as a professional fo… Read Full Bio ↴Kathy Mar (IPA: /ˈkæθɪ ˈmɑːr/, from Chinese Ma) worked as a professional folksinger and street performer in Denver, Colorado for many years before she discovered filk. Her first recordings were for Off-Centaur Productions (Songbird, On a Bright Wind, Bamboo Wind) and she went on to do two albums with Thor Records (Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est Les Meme Chose) which have recently been re-released as a CD double. She also did an album for Dandelion Digital (Made by Magic) with British songwriter Zander Nyrond which was one of the first filk CDs ever produced. Her cover album of her favorite filk and folk songs on Prometheus (My Favorite Sings) has been her most successful to date. She was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in only the second year of its existence. With Lindy Sears, she instigated the Dandelion Conspiracy to promote filk to general SF conventions.

Kathy lives in San Leandro, CA in a commune and is the mother of Michael (1970-1982), Melanie (1972) and twins Nicolas and Cassandra (1985). Her primary life partner Dean Dierschow (familiar as her most devoted roadie) lives there with her in a wonderful ongoing courtship. She was very involved in the antiwar movement in the sixties and sang in Kansas City for the first Moratorium. She has appeared as filk GOH at almost every filk convention and many regular SF conventions as well.

Pegasus Awards

* 1989 - Best Filk Song - Arafel's Song (Tree of Swords & Jewels) (With Mercedes Lackey)
* 1989 - Best Writer/Composer
* 1991 - Best Love Song - Velveteen
* 1993 - Best Writer/Composer
* 1994 - Best Filk Song - Drink Up the River
* 1996 - Best Filk Song - When Giants Walked
* 2004 - Best Writer/Composer

Albums

* Songbird - Off Centaur (cassette OCP-??) 1982
* On a Bright Wind - Off Centaur (cassette OCP-??) 1984
* Bamboo Wind - Off Centaur (cassette OCP-54) 1985
* Plus Ca Change - Thor Records (cassette FK1003) 1988
* Plus C'est La Mme Chose - Thor Records (cassette FK1006) 1990
* Made By Magic - with Zander Nyrond, Dandelion Digital CD DD-005CD, 1994
* My Favorite Sings - Prometheus Music CD, 1999
* Plus Ca Change / Plus C'est La Mme Chose - DragonsGate Music CD 2000
ALBUMS TRACK LIST SIMILAR ARTISTS
Genre not found
Artist not found
Album not found
Search results not found
Song not found

Kathy Mar Live!
Kathy Mar Lyrics


Calm Down The Techies have invaded they're everywhere you look And ev…
Chick Joke It was the regular Tuesday luncheon The ladies had raised a…
Edward (based on the movie Edward Scissorhands) Cthing …
Flowers for Algernon If you remember, put some flowers on his grave He was…
I Am Lord Lyrics © 19?? Gwen Zak Melody © 19?? Leslie Fish I'm the…
Look Away Chorus: Look away, look away, I can't bear To be…
Merlin It's not so dark in the cave tonight Just over here…
Remembrance We gather in a quiet room To sing our hopeful tunes And…
Shoulda I should have been poor white trash, But I had too…
Songbird 1982 Kathy Mar Chorus: I dwell in the Songhouse And song…
Starship And Haiku I am the flaw in the tea-bowl I will not dance…
The Word of God From desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide design, …
When Giants Walked Chorus: Oh, take me in a dream or real To that…
Wings Grissom, White and Chaffee were the first to pay the…
World Inside the Crystal © 1985 Steve Savitsky Am …


More Versions