Steve Macdonald

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Name = Steve Macdonald

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Steve Macdonald is a filk musician (singer/songwriter) from Michigan, who also appears at Renaissance Faires as "Gallamor the Bard". He served for several years as the Pegasus Award Evangelista, and was responsible for many changes in the award process that led to much greater participation among the voting base. He was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2006. [cite web
url = http://www.filkontario.ca/2006.htm#smac
title = Hall of Fame Inductees & Citations - 2006
work = Filk Hall of Fame
publisher = FilKONtario
date = 2006]

In September 2006 he emigrated to Germany.

WorlDream

WorlDream was a project that organized hundreds of filkers in North America and Europe to sing one song together, in celebration of the new millennium [cite web
url = http://www.electricpenguin.com/filking/articles/worlddream.html
title = Steve Macdonald's WorlDream
publisher = Debbie Ridpath-Ohi, The Dandelion Report
date = 2001] . Steve Macdonald, the project's instigator, attended ten conventions during 2001, and recorded filkers singing "Many Hearts, One Voice", a song he composed for the project. The tracks were then merged electronically. A number of one-off CDs of raw mixes were sold as Interfilk auction items, but there has been no public release yet as of May 2008.

Singers were taped at all nine filk conventions held that year, in the United States, in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany, as well as the 2001 World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia. Altogether 436 singers were recorded, many at more than one convention.

Discography

* "Songspinner", 1994, Dodeka Records
* "Journey's Done", 1995, Dodeka Records
* "Reap The Wind", 1999, Dodeka Records
* "Crossroads", 2002, Dodeka Records
* "Gather Day", 2004, Thin Ice Studios
* "Drive By Barding", 2006, Thin Ice Studios

= Pegasus Awards [cite web
url = http://ovff.org/pegasus/people/steve-macdonald.html
title = Steve Macdonald. Pegasus Awards.
publisher = Ohio Valley Filk Fest] =

* Best Filk Song 1995, "Journey's Done"
* Best Writer/Composer 1995
* Best Myth Song 1998, "Cold Butcher"
* Best Performer 1998
* Best Dorsai Song 2007, "Shai!" (with Steve Simmons)
* Best Guy Ever Award 2008

External links

* [http://www.stevemacdonald.org/ Official Web Page]
* [http://worldream.filk.org.uk/ WorlDream home page] (not updated recently)
* [http://www.filkontario.ca/2006.htm#smac Filk Hall of Fame Citation]

References