Frank Hayes (musician)

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Name = Frank Hayes

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Frank Hayes is an American musician prominent within the science fiction/fantasy genre and culture known as filk. He is also an authority on information technology and, as senior news columnist for "Computerworld" magazine, has contributed numerous writings on the subject for more than two decades.

Frank Hayes began recording and performing in the early 1980s and is best known for his humorous songs. "Never Set the Cat on Fire", "Little Fuzzy Animals", "S-100", "Cosmos" (which was played for the astronauts during a shuttle mission) and "The Grandfather Clock" have become standards of the genre. His most prominent studio album "Don't Ask" included these tracks—other tracks on that album had to be withdrawn due to licensing issues, resulting in the release of another album, "Never Set the Cat on Fire". He has won the OVFF's (Ohio Valley Filk Fest) Pegasus Award four times, with nine additional nominations. [cite web
url= http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/people/frank-hayes.html
accessdate= 2007-10-24
title= Frank Hayes
work= Pegasus Awards
publisher= Ohio Valley Filk Fest]

In a March 2006 "Wired" magazine review of his performance at the October 2005 OVFF, he was described as a "50-year-old singer with thick glasses and a salt-and-pepper goatee". The article also mentions that the term "Frank Hayes Disease" is frequently used among filkers to describe the tendency to forget the tune or lyrics of what you are performing while you are in the process of performing it — even though you wrote the song in question. [cite web
url= http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/posts.html?pg=6
accessdate= 2007-10-24
title= Misfit Minstrels
publisher= Wired Magazine
month= March | year= 2003
first= Alanna
last= Nash
quote= Hayes is beloved despite his everyman singing voice and a tendency to forget the melodies and lyrics of his own songs (a condition that fans have affectionately dubbed Frank Hayes disease).]

In his other career, Frank Hayes is a highly-regarded expert on computer-based information systems and the myriad aspects of processing and managing technology. His column in "Computerworld" magazine has focused on these and associated topics for over twenty years. [cite web
url= http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=297225
accessdate= 2007-10-24
title= -30-
date= June 25, 2007
publisher= Computerworld
first= Frank
last= Hayes
authorlink= Frank Hayes (musician)
quote= Frank Hayes, Computerworld’s senior news columnist, has covered IT for more than 20 years.]

Frank Hayes is married to Firebird Arts and Music founder Teri Lee and lives in city|Portland|Oregon.

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* [http://www.computerworld.com/action/columnist.do?command=viewAllColumnists All "Computerworld" columnists]