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

Hope Eyrie
Kathy Mar Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Hope Eyrie' by these artists:

Julia Ecklar Worlds grow old and suns grow cold And death we never…
Leslie Fish Worlds grow old and suns grow cold And death we never…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Kathy Mar:

Behold As in the tribal ritual passed down from ancient days Take…
Between Grass Shores 1982 Kathy Mar Tides of mountains crash on the shores of…
Brownies Chorus: Where are the Brownies when you need them How come…
Call Him Lord 1984 Kathy Mar Call him Lord Call him Lord Hide his tit…
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…
Circle Song 1982 Kathy Mar With neo-traditional Pagan circle chants by …
Crystal Singer © 1988 Kathy Mar Reference: 'Crystal Singer', Anne McCaff…
Cup of Tea Chorus: And honey I feed you when you're hungry Love you…
Dreaming I stood in the spaceport, my hands full of papers And…
Drink Up the River © 1988 Kathy Mar I was sitting by a river when…
Edward (based on the movie Edward Scissorhands) Cthing …
Everybody Here The music has been sweet and fine but no matter…
Flowers for Algernon If you remember, put some flowers on his grave He was…
Give My Children Wings Give my children wings, but not the ghosts of wings I…
Goodbye to Sol and Terra I've been to the rim and the galaxy's core And planets…
Grendel Lyrics © 1988 Kathy Mar Melody © 1988 Leslie Fish Refere…
Heartwarming 1984 Kathy Mar I'm falling in love with all of you…
Howling Mountain Up on Howling Mountain Underneath the sky They are forging…
I Am Lord Lyrics © 19?? Gwen Zak Melody © 19?? Leslie Fish I'm the…
I Am the Locust I am the locust and I tell the quiet lies To…
I See You Everywhere I feel your touch upon my hand You are my breath…
Ice Oh, my friend, I must admit I understand too well How…
Ivory Rose © 19?? Kathy Mar Chorus: Ivory Rose, I see your eyes…
Joy Oh joy love you bring Oh joy make my heart sing And…
Lady Ellen Lady Ellen wandered in the quiet wood Pondering the suitors…
Legend The unicorn to the dragon said, "Our time is nearly done, …
Look Away Chorus: Look away, look away, I can't bear To be…
Lucky Charm I was living in a dream That I mostly still believe…
Man of War I am a Dorsai and I've learned a grisly skill They've…
Marching in the Streets So they've stopped making speeches and they've started makin…
Merlin It's not so dark in the cave tonight Just over here…
Mr. Right 1982 Kathy Mar When the conversation turns, always has th…
No Heroes © 19?? Kathy Mar Chorus: We are not the heroes, all…
No Such Thing On a day of wind and rain my daughter said to…
Nobody's Moggy Now 1982 Eric Bogle Somebody's Moggy by the side of the road …
Quetzalcoatl Time Winds Tavern (1985) Quetzalcoatl had a skin all gree…
Remembrance We gather in a quiet room To sing our hopeful tunes And…
Saddest © 1988 Kathy Mar And the very saddest part is that…
Sea Cradle 1982 Kathy Mar You stared into the ocean as I stared…
Shai Hulud © 19?? Kathy Mar Reference: 'Dune', Frank Herbert Choru…
Ship of Stone © 1983 Don Simpson Once there was a Ship of Stone That…
Shoulda I should have been poor white trash, But I had too…
Songbird 1982 Kathy Mar Chorus: I dwell in the Songhouse And song…
Spoon A cover for your back, a hand across your heart A…
Star Hearken I am Starhearken and lost Learning only now the quiet cost D…
Starship And Haiku I am the flaw in the tea-bowl I will not dance…
Starship and Halku I am the flaw in the tea-bowl I will not dance…
Television Lovers 1984 Kathy Mar Television lovers never cry When the scen…
The Sheep Look Up Once the world was a wind-up toy, we watched it…
The Word of God From desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide design, …
Vapor Angels 1985 Kathy Mar You and I see derelicts and winos passing…
Velveteen Reference: If you don't figure this one out, you're hopeless…
When Giants Walked Chorus: Oh, take me in a dream or real To that…
White Water White-water star currents ride me wild from sun to sorrow W…
Wings Grissom, White and Chaffee were the first to pay the…
Winter Rose Chorus: I am the rose The rose I am the rose The rose…

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Lightship

3y↑5

Worlds grow old and suns grow cold
And death we never can doubt.
Time's cold wind, wailing down the past,
Reminds us that all flesh is grass
And history's lamps blow out.

But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.

Cycles turn while the far stars burn,
And people and planets age.
Life's crown passes to younger lands,
Time sweeps dust of hope from his hands
And turns another page.

But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.

But we who feel the weight of the wheel
When winter falls over our world
Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes
To a silver moon in the open skies
and a single flag unfurled.

But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.

We know well what Life can tell:
If you would not perish, then grow.
And today our fragile flesh and steel
Have laid their hands on a vaster wheel
With all of the stars to know

That the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.

From all who tried out of history's tide,
Salute for the team that won.
And the old Earth smiles at her children's reach,
The wave that carried us up the beach
To reach for the shining sun.

For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.

Dannan Tavona

5y↑41

July 20, 2019 is the 50th anniversary.

On September 12, 1962, a warm and sunny day, President Kennedy delivered his speech before a crowd of 40,000 people in the Rice University football stadium, many of them school children. The middle portion of the speech has been widely quoted, and reads as follows:
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We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say that we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the Moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.

All comments from YouTube:

puffin51

9y↑66

I come back to this only every year or so. I can't watch it without tears.

Thu Vu Trong

8y↑14

+puffin51 Thank you, I have the same feeling...

puffin51

8y↑16

And outrage. They can build 20 billion dollar aircraft carriers, they can spend 1.3 trillion dollars on a fighter jet, but they can''t do this. Or even give everyone clean water.

John Burt

8y↑9

Yes. And we talk about an Apollo Project to address the melting ice, but global warming isn't even our Sputnik -- it's our Pearl Harbor, our Fort Sumter, our Boston Massacre.
Alas, we look thus far in vain for our FDR, our Lincoln, our Washington....

RedBloodCat

Still as good as ever

Mary Gallagher

5y↑18

Listening to this beautiful song again today - the 50th Anniversary of the day humans first walked on the Moon.

Andrey Starov

4y↑7

Thank you very much, this is one of the best space songs I've heard. Greetings from Russia.

Thu Vu Trong

3y↑1

Thank you too!

Castleclear1

9y↑18

Thank you for posting this incredibly uplifting song by Leslie Fish, but Thank You also for the your artistry in combining music with images and lyrics! Thank you for this youtube masterpiece. =D

Mel S

6y↑43

While this song was indeed written by Leslie Fish, it's actually being sung by Julia Ecklar in this video.

VulpisFoxfire

12y↑2

RIP Neild Armstrong. Even though NASA and the US Government apparently thought your efforts were worthless, some of us will listen to this song and those like it and honor your deeds.

seticat

11y↑8

Beautiful. Just beautiful. The song always brings tears to me, but coupled with the graphics you have chosen, ..... beautiful. I remember that day and hope we see another soon.

Lightship

3y↑5

komamura007

12y↑5

Damn. I keep crying every time I listen to this.

Colin Wood

Same

Spencer Timm

12y↑13

May the eagle land on many other places in the years to come...

Dannan Tavona

5y↑41

Julian Silden Langlo

Ahh, shit. Now I was born closer to the moon-landing than today.

Pyramear

This song is distilled liquid wholesome and I love it.

Anna Wing

7y↑10

First to the moon, and next to Mars, and someday soon, we'll reach the stars.

Orange Mike Lowrey

5y↑13

Remembering again on the 50th anniversary. It's sad that Leslie herself has deteriorated to the extent that she's been cut off from most of her old contacts.

Local Scissors

3y↑1

Does she have Alzheimer’s?

Orange Mike Lowrey

3y↑6

@Local Scissors : no, but she's buying into some really vile stuff - Sandy Hook "truther" was the one that made me walk away.

Quinn G

3y↑1

@Orange Mike Lowrey Yikes, I knew she had a few fringe opinions but Yikes.

Orange Mike Lowrey

3y↑2

@Quinn G: she was pure anarchist, not anarcho-communist or anything, just plain black flag anarchist (one of her songs compares Marx and Lenin to corporation management as equal evils).

MrMickio1

1y↑1

@Orange Mike Lowrey How did you learn this stuff about her? As far as i gathered she basicly disappeared off the face of the world.

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Mad

10y↑4

Righteous tune. The graphics make it grand. Thankx for this.

kitty9tales

13y

I never knew a video was made to this! This is my all-time favorite album ever! Where videos made to any other songs on To Touch the Stars?

Francis Campagna

4y↑5

Decades later, we struggle to do something we accomplished decades ago. I hope it isn't the forlorn hope of a nation bled white by the greedy.

Tirzah2012

11y

Beautiful and powerful.

John L

Chills............. I love this

knfstarfire

15y↑26

Sooner or later we'll get the drive to claim the solar system, be it 10 or 100 years, I just hope I can live long enough to see manned FTL travel, then I can die happy.

Bearcat Ben

4y↑8

Well I'm sorry to say it wasn't 10 years

J Steckle

3y↑3

@Bearcat Ben just thinking the same thing

Pyramear

2y↑1

We're making progress. Its ever so slow, but it is progress. In the 12 years since this was posted, feasible re-usable rocket technology has not only been demonstrated, but utilized to commercial effect. The once monolithic monopolies that tied space development down for decades with gross overpricing have been overturned, with the leading forces in space development now being fresh faces. It may seem insane now, but it used to be that space companies didn't post their pricing data at all so they could get away with massive jipping of the taxpayer. Now they are required to post pricing, a significant leap in transparency. Launching an entire constellation of satellites in a single launch was once an absurd prospect, now it is the norm for many satellite launches; allowing access to space to no longer be a thing only large governments can achieve, but also that of universities and impoverished nations.

So while great landmarks such as another moon landing or a mars landing have not been achieved, public access to space and a massive reduction in launch costs started a space renaissance that has resulted in much leaner, sustainable, and efficient technologies.

Amy Bradley

Nicely put together video to go with this favorite song.

3 AM

That is beautiful.

Longshot

9y↑25

Posting on the 46th anniversary of mankind's greatest achievement.

LilFox

ý nghĩa và hay quá !!

SoloPilot6

11y↑9

Actually, this song first came out on "Folk Songs For Folk Who Ain't Been Yet" (aka FSFFWABY).

Asuran1701

This is just wonderful! Do you happen to have "Nightmare Launch"?

Bob Toy

12y↑21

This is most assuredly Julia Ecklar singing.

VulcanFleet

13y↑7

I'd like to be immortal. I've got a lot I want to do with my life, and I'm not going to get it done in 80 years. If I ever decided that I had seen everything in the universe worth seeing and done everything worth doing, then I'd kill myself. But I don't want to die of old age with no choice in the matter, and never get to do a million worthwhile things. That's why I'm signed up for cryonics.

Clostridium Tetani

1y↑1

Well the good news is your clone's gonna see space.

siquod

6y↑2

This should become the anthem of the Terran Confederation or whatever. But I doubt we'll get there.

Cybrludite

16y

Happy Apollo Day, everyone!

n o

44w

Straight banger yo

kitty9tales

13y

@OmegaSeekerr being a big sci-fi reader, I know all of those that you mentioned. I always felt that the biblical diety was just an alien overlord. Now I know you do too.

cindy viada

10y↑3

i love this song i am looking for the song that had go with throttle up from the challenger memorial

DLM108

12y↑1

@kitty9tales Not the Nautilus specifically, but nuclear submarines in general are the equivalent of the Nautilus. Many things that have been invented recently have appeared in sci-fi long beforehand. (By recently I mean the last 30 years or so).

John Doe

9y↑16

Filk. Science fiction minstrel status.

nehopsa

14y

wow...if only they went on

boggo

12y↑9

I think this is Julia Ecklar singing.

Susan Stenson

3y↑1

Yes, it is. She has a powerful, expressive voice.

personzorz

12y↑2

But time *will* drive us down to dust again...

Amperzand

7y↑3

Not without a fight, if I have anything to do with it.

Daniel Twedt

5y↑1

Thanks for stirring the DNA strings...

Luong Nguyen

hay lắm :)

rational observer

8y↑2

where do I find other songs like this?

Thu Vu Trong

8y↑5

+Slam Nine you can find them here http://www.prometheus-music.com/thestars.html

AlbredaWelde

5y↑5

SF & Fantasy conventions! Usually it is a fixture. Typically a filk sing is held in the evening in a conference/meeting room of the hotel. The people who write and perform the songs are fans like you and I. The circle goes round with you picking (ask someone to sing a song), perform (your song or someone else's) or passing (you're just there to listen). It is called "FILK", a twist on FOLK music. It spans everything "fannish" and space related, books, movies, tv shows, stories, fables, science/computer/engineering related. You can join in! Get to a convention in your area, or one of the conventions like Ohio Valley Filk Fest which is based solely on filk itself! You don't have to be great, it helps to be clever, but all are welcome and they are typically a great group of folks.

Davidkevin

15y

Wow.

kitty9tales

13y↑1

@OmegaSeekerr When was Nautilus built? It was fiction from Vernes' work. I guess some can't tell fiction from reality

Azrael the Black

dragonkingofthestars By remote from the camera on the Lunar Rover.

The13Inquisitor

3y↑1

Per aspera ad astra.

One day. One day.

doctorpsycho1960

14y↑4

@MrYougotjohn We did it then. We could do it today -- if we dared. Our flesh and our steel are as frail as they were then. It's our guts that have withered.

gilesderoet

13y↑1

@OmegaSeekerr Next stop Mars. Second stop, the stars.

Starliner1701

11y↑1

Not this time.

dragonkingofthestars

12y

4:00 not saying we didn't land on the moon. but how the hell did they get that shot?

Coleson Adams

7y↑10

They left the rover, and they had a remote controlled camera strapped onto it, so they just used the camera to record their ascent

kitty9tales

13y↑2

@OmegaSeekerr I don't see that Jesus deserves his Kingdom at all. and immortality can suck. think Chiron, a Greek diety who was accidentally injured by Hercules during a battle. His leg would never heal and he suffered a broken leg for all eternity until Hercules gave him the fire of mortality so he could finally die and be out of suffering. Just because you're immortal doesn't mean you can't get your butt kicked. WHo'd want to be immortal?

Dreamcatcher Ben

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Eric Bowersox

13y↑5

"From now on, we live in a world where men have walked on the moon. But it wasn't a miracle. We just decided to go." And where are we "deciding to go" today? With a man in the White House that feels one of NASA's goals should be to "promote Muslim self-esteem"? (WTF?) We've lost much since those days of REAL heroes. "I look up at the moon, and I wonder: When will we be going back? And who will that be?" I pray the answer to those questions are not null.