{"id":2007,"date":"2015-08-27T08:35:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T12:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2015-08-27T08:35:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T12:35:40","slug":"next-weekend-dragon-con-heres-my-concert-event-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/next-weekend-dragon-con-heres-my-concert-event-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Weekend: Dragon Con! Here&#8217;s My Concert &#038; Event Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost Labor Day weekend, and that means I&#8217;ll be heading to Atlanta for another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragoncon.org\/\">Dragon Con<\/a>! I look forward to a nice, quiet, relaxing time &#8230; with about 60 or 70 <strong>thousand<\/strong> of my closest friends!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mediarelations.dragoncon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1024x744.png\" width=\"717\" height=\"521\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actually, since Dragon Con is (so far as I know) the largest general science fiction and fantasy convention in the Southeast, I&#8217;m sure it will be its typical exciting, exhausting but ultimately rewarding time. I&#8217;m particularly grateful to my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aletheakontis.com\/\">Alethea Kontis<\/a> and the folks\u00a0on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/filk.dragoncon.org\/\">Dragon Con Filk Track<\/a>\u00a0who have invited me to perform at various times through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the convention is shaping up for me:<\/p>\n<p>Friday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2:30 p.m. &#8212; Meet, Greet, Filk &#8212; Baker Room, Hyatt <em>(tentative)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>5:30 p.m. &#8212; Filk &amp; Cookies &#8212; Baker Room, Hyatt <em>(tentative)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>7:00 p.m. &#8212; <strong>Princess Alethea&#8217;s Traveling Sideshow<\/strong> with Alethea Kontis, Leanna Renee Hieber, Lisa Mantchev, Delilah S. Dawson, Zac Brewer, and David B. Coe (D.B. Jackson) &#8212; A707, Marriott<\/li>\n<li>11:30 p.m. &#8212; Open Filking &#8212; Baker Room, Hyatt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Saturday,\u00a0I should get to be a &#8220;fan&#8221; for part of the time &#8212; go to concerts or panels or the Art Show &#8212; and maybe even watch some football when I&#8217;m not in the Dealer&#8217;s Room (where our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen Books<\/a> authors will be signing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themissingvolume.com\/\">Missing Volume<\/a> bookstore); and if possible I&#8217;ll make an appearance at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2:30 p.m. &#8212; InstaFilk &#8212; Baker Room, Hyatt <em>(tentative)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>11:30 p.m. &#8212; Open Filking &#8212; Baker Room, Hyatt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunday is my busiest day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1:00 p.m. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen Books<\/a> Traveling Road Show and Prize Patrol! &#8212; art, previews, and free books! &#8212; Regency Ballroom V, Hyatt<\/li>\n<li>4:00 p.m. &#8212; <strong>Solo Concert!<\/strong> &#8212; Baker Room, Hyatt<\/li>\n<li>5:30 p.m. &#8212; Match Game, a fannish version of the TV game show, with Van Allen Plexico, Melinda M. Snodgrass, and Teresa Patterson &#8212; Embassy Ballroom A-B, Hyatt<\/li>\n<li>11:30 p.m. &#8212; Open Filking &#8212; Baker Room, Hyatt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s right: as soon as the Baen Road Show is over, I&#8217;ll be giving a concert featuring music from my new CD, <a href=\"https:\/\/grayrinehart.bandcamp.com\/album\/distorted-vision\">Distorted Vision<\/a>, as well as favorites from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grayrinehart.bandcamp.com\/album\/truths-and-lies-and-make-believe\">Truths and Lies and Make-Believe<\/a> &#8212; and more! I plan to have CDs with me wherever I go, as well as &#8220;Anti-Candidate,&#8221; &#8220;Another Romulan Ale&#8221; and &#8220;Tauntauns to Glory&#8221; bumper stickers, so flag me down if you want one!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going, I hope we&#8217;ll get a chance to chat. 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means I&#8217;ll be heading to Atlanta for another Dragon Con! I look forward to a nice, quiet, relaxing time &#8230; with about 60 or 70 thousand of my closest friends! Actually, since Dragon Con is (so far as I know) the largest general \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/next-weekend-dragon-con-heres-my-concert-event-schedule\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432,4],"tags":[57,164,277,21,386],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-2","category-science-fiction","tag-convention","tag-fantasy","tag-filk","tag-music","tag-science-fiction-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}