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(NOTE: All events are subject to last minute changes. Please check back often.)
Laser the Boy: Gay music and Trans History
Time: Friday - 9:15 PM to 10:45 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Riverview Ballroom
Panelists: L. Webber (M)
Description: Do you like learning about history (through song), coming out stories (through song), and meditations
on creativity (through comedy?). Then come see this (not safe for kids – there will be Adult Words)
concert/comedy show with award-winning singer-songwriter Laser Webber from the Doubleclicks!
Court and Country
Time: Saturday - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Oak Brook Ballroom 3 & 4
Description: Court and Country is an a capella vocal ensemble with a focus on bringing well-researched performances of early choral music to popular audiences. Their repertoire includes a wide variety of pieces from the medieval and Renaissance eras, as well as some filk songs.
Klingon Pop Warrior
Time: Saturday - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Oak Brook Ballroom 3 & 4
Description: he Klingon Pop Warrior, Commander jenbom, sings pop & rock songs you thought you knew in their "original" Klingon! Her Terran alter-ego, Jen Usellis, is the Klingon language consultant for Star Trek Prodigy.
Dan The Bard
Time: Saturday - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Oak Brook Ballroom 3 & 4
Description: Dan the Bard sings original songs about Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars, Star Trek, Anime, Steampunk and general nerd culture. He’s been performing at the Bristol Ren Faire for nearly 30 years and GenCon for the last 17. He has 13 albums and takes song commissions! www.danthebard.com. Facebook.com/danthebard
All Dan’s music, $200 worth of cds, are available for Patreon subscribers!
Patreon.com/danthebard
Beth Kinderman
Time: Saturday - 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Oak Brook Ballroom 3 & 4
Description: Beth Kinderman is a progressive filk-rock singer-songwriter from
Minneapolis who makes music about myth, transformation, and video game
characters who won’t sleep with you. This year at Windycon she will appear as a part of a trio with her musical collaborators Dave Stagner and Justin Hartley.
Laser from The Doubleclicks In Concert
Time: Saturday - 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Riverview Ballroom
Panelists: L. Webber (M)
Description: Songs about breakfast, cats, dinosaurs, and love by Billboard-charting, internationally touring artist Laser Webber (of the Doubleclicks!). This concert will include the Doubleclicks’ greatest hits – which include jokes, feelings, and guitar. Although this isn’t “made for kids”, it is a family-friendly show.
Travis Clemmons
Time: Saturday - 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Oak Brook Ballroom 3 & 4
Description: Travis Clemmons: To Cheap To Hire A Band
A Concert of Poetry, Story Telling and some Acapella Singing.
Travis has been a featured Author, Singer and Panelist at numerous SF & F Cons in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. He has also won more than half a dozen costuming and talent awards.
Dave Stagner
Time: Saturday - 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Oak Brook Ballroom 3 & 4
Description: As clumsy and random as a Stormtrooper's blaster, Dave Stagner will be playing music. Or something similar. Probably. You do not want to miss an hour of Dave. Just bring shielding.
Tom Smith Concert
Time: Saturday - 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Riverview Ballroom
Concert: T. Smith (M)
Description: Tom Smith, the world’s fastest filker, is one of Windycon’s favorite performers. Never copied, always funny (except when he’s serious and also darned good at that too), we’ve been looking forward to
seeing Tom again for some time now. You’ll want to be sure to be there!
Jim Turner
Time: Sunday - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Riverview Ballroom
Description: Jim Turner plays a variety of stringed instruments including the banjo and guitar. His unique finger picking style and his voice, which he claims he lost at the age of 60 will surely entertain.
Dr. Mary Crowell
Time: Sunday - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Riverview Ballroom
Description: Dr. Mary C Crowell writes geeky songs about gaming and mythology. She also teaches music theory, piano, and composition in her home studio.
She loves participating in creative challenges like Soulwriters (for songs) and Start With This (for podcasting/recording.) Mary creates quirky MIDI compositions and arranges instrumental music. She also makes silly music videos with a host of creative people for her patrons on Patreon. htttp://patreon.com/drmaryccrowell. Two of Mary’s short music videos: “I Put My Low Stat” and “M is for Magic Missile” were selected for Origins Game Fair’s film festival in 2021.
Dr. Crowell performs with Play It With Moxie and Three Weird Sisters, releasing respectively Play It With Moxie, Live! (2012) and, Third Thyme’s the Charm (2012). Both bands formed in Atlanta, Georgia through the GAFIA filk community.
Mary has released four studio albums: Scattering Seeds on the Pomegranate Tour (2017); Acolytes of the Machine & Other Gaming Stories (2012), and the most recent: I Have Missed You at My Table (2022)—all recorded at Mystic Fig Studio; and an earlier album, Courting My Muse (2007).
Open Music/Dead Dog
Time: Sunday - 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Category: Concerts
Location: Oak Brook Ballroom 3 & 4
Description: Immediately after Closing Ceremonies