Filk covers a wide range of musical genres. Pretty much any known style of music can be heard in a filk circle. Below are a few samples.
Folk
Original filk songs written in a traditional folk style.
Banned From Argo (Leslie Fish)
Storyteller (Anne Harlan Prather)
Parody
Parody involves taking a well-known song and rewriting the lyrics.
Come to Mordor (Jeff & Maya Bohnhoff), based on Come Together (The Beatles)
TIE After TIE (Debs & Errol), based on Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)
Celtic/Renaissance
Original music in the Celtic or British ballad style, often about folk or fairy tales.
Black Davie’s Ride (Margaret Davis & Kristoph Klover)
Mordred’s Lullaby (Heather Dale)
Geek/Nerd
Often witty, fun music about topics like science fiction and fantasy movies or TV series, computer tech, and other popular fandom topics. Can be parodies or original music.
Crossing the Streams (Copy Red Leader)
The Lego Song (The PDX Broadsides)
Steampunk
Music related to the steampunk genre, a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.
The Mechanical Girl (Aurelio Voltaire)
The Last Steampunk Waltz (Ghostfire)
Mythpunk
Music related to the mythpunk genre, a subversive subgenre of mythic fiction which uses aspects of folklore to subvert or question dominant societal norms. It often brings in a feminist and/or multicultural approach.
City of Marrow (S.J. Tucker)
Snow White, Red Road (Cheshire Moon)
Found Filk
Popular music that has science fiction and fantasy or technological themes.