About: Kathy Mar   Goto Sponge  NotDistinct  Permalink

An Entity of Type : wsb:Artist_Person, within Data Space : wasabi.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
type
label
  • Kathy Mar
sameAs
name
  • Kathy Mar
gender
  • Female
dbo:genre
subject
  • Living people
  • 1951 births
  • Filkers
dbo:abstract
  • Kathy Mar (/ˈmɑr/; from Chinese Ma by analogy with non-rhotic accents) 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 Publications (Songbird, On a Bright Wind, Bamboo Wind) and she went on to do two albums with Thor Records (Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même 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 %22Dandelion Conspiracy%22 to promote filk to general SF conventions.She was Filk Guest of Honor at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention.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 what she refers to as %22a wonderful ongoing courtship.%22 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.
homepage
musicbrainz
Musicbrainz GUID
  • 9f253379-1a4e-433a-a2e9-4e5aea68763e
universally unique identifier
  • 56d8512553a7ddfc01f97fcc
wikipedia
schema:birthDate
  • 1951-01-07
wsb:allMusic_page
wsb:amazon_page
wsb:deezer_artist_id
  • 5161296
wsb:deezer_fans
wsb:deezer_page
wsb:iTunes_page
wsb:name_without_accent
  • Kathy Mar
wsb:spotify_page
wsb:wikia_page
wsb:wikidata_page
is mo:performer of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.13.91 as of Mar 24 2020


Alternative Linked Data Documents: Sponger | ODE     Content Formats:       RDF       ODATA       Microdata      About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data]
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3229 as of Jul 10 2020, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Single-Server Edition (94 GB total memory)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software