Tag: Filk

Chuck Parker

February 27, 2025 / ravenchair

A performer for more than 35 years, Chuck Parker has filled many musical roles: heavy metal guitarist, singer/songwriter, jazz sideman, open mic host, filk circle regular, session player, and World’s Okayest Bassist™.

Chuck has been a regular on the con circuit for more than a decade, and he’s played ballrooms, biergartens and backyards all over the country, both as a solo performer and as the bassist for wizard rock icons The Blibbering Humdingers. He plays slice of life, confessional geek tunes that are often kind of funny, and his lyrics have been called “sensitive”, “literate”, and “hard to sing…”

His music may be found at chuckparker.bandcamp.com, and his musings at chuck-parker.net.

His most recent release is Warmest Regards… released in August 2024.

The Platypus Princess (Alexandra Higgins)

February 27, 2025 / ravenchair

Alexandra Higgins (aka the Platypus Princess) is a self-taught singer/songwriter whose folk-indie sound evokes the spirit of Joan Baez (a direct quote heard randomly and unprompted at every performance!). Her voice, often described as angelic, carries melodies that mix ethereal beauty with sharp wit and compassionate wisdom. Inspired by video games, movies, comic books, and disability advocacy, she blends cosplay, wordplay, and colorful guitar play—with a pinch of sass.

Angela Pritchett

February 26, 2025 / ravenchair

Angela is an award-winning, master-level cosplayer and educator. She started sewing from a very young age when her sense of style and love of dressing up like movie and TV show characters made her father and grandmother realize that “this child needs to learn how to sew.”

With over twenty years of experience in the world of cosplay, special FX makeup, and film, Angela has focused on introducing new people to costuming/cosplay and FX makeup, helping create a fun and safe environment for all. When not working on cosplays, she has designed and created costumes and makeups for stage and screen. She loves the process of bringing a thought on a piece of paper to life. Angela also enjoys writing (several short stories and two cookbooks), directing (she has won numerous awards for her short film directing, as well as for her acting), and dressing up her two pugs—Jimmy and Dezzy.

Angela can be seen in a plethora of films and on TV, including Plan 9, The Porkchop Trillogy, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and the JG Wentworth commercial.

She has been a cosplay guest, judge, contest runner, and instructor at many conventions across the US. Her costumes have been featured in The Washington Post, CosMode, and multiple coffee table costuming/cosplay books. You can find her online on Instagram @Angalese or on TikTok @AngelaPlaysUkulele.

Gray Rinehart

February 26, 2025 / ravenchair

Gray Rinehart is a writer, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr. Demento Show. He is currently a contributing editor (the “Slushmaster General”) for Baen Books.

Gray writes science fiction and fantasy stories, among which is the lunar colonization novel Walking on the Sea of Clouds. His short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and multiple anthologies. He has also written an eclectic mix of nonfiction books: A Church More Like Christ; Elements of War; and, Quality Education. In addition, he has written and released three albums which feature science-fiction-and-fantasy-inspired music; the most recent is Taking You Out to See the Stars.

During his unusual Air Force career, Gray fought rocket propellant fires, refurbished space launch facilities, “flew” Milstar communications satellites, drove trucks, encrypted nuclear command and control orders, commanded the largest remote tracking station in the Air Force Satellite Control Network, and did other interesting space-related things.

Gray’s alter ego is the Gray Man, one of several famed ghosts of South Carolina’s Grand Strand. His website is graymanwrites.com.

The Salacious Crumbles

February 25, 2025 / ravenchair

Leigh Tyberg & Madison Metricula Roberts

The Salacious Crumbles is the nerdy duo of Leigh Tyberg and Madison Metricula Roberts, featuring songs that range from the goofy, the heartfelt, and good ol’ fashioned cantina songs. We may not have a kloo horn, but even Figrin D’an would jizz to these sing-alongs and good times! Find our music on streaming services and download our first EP, Carbonite, for free on Bandcamp!