Filk Genres

Filk covers a wide range of musical genres.  Pretty much any known music style can be heard in a filk circle.  Below are a few samples.

Found Filk * Parody

 

 

Parody

Parody involves taking a well-known song and rewriting the lyrics.

  • Come to Mordor (Jeff and Maya Bonhoff) based on Come Together (Beatles)
  • Tie After Tie (Debs & Errol) based on Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)

Found Filk

Popular music that has Science Fiction & Fantasy or technology themes

  • 39 (Queen)
  • Witch of the Westmoreland (Archie Fisher)

Folk

Original filk songs written in a traditional folk style

  • Banned From Argo (Leslie Fish)
  • Storyteller (Anne Harlan Prather)

Celtic/Renaissance

Original music in the Irish/British ballad style often about folk or fairy tales

  • Black Davies Ride (Margaret Davis & Kristoph Klover)
  • Mordred’s Lullaby (Heather Dale)

Geek/Nerd

Generally witty, fun music about geeky topics like SF and Fantasy movies and TV series, computer tech and other popular millennial topics.  Can be parodies or original music

  • Crossing the Streams (Copy Red Leader)
  • The Lego Song (PDX Broadsides)

Wizard Rock

Geek music specific to the world of Harry Potter

  • Time Turner (Ministry of Magic)
  • We R Slytherins (Not Literally Productions)

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, often bringing in a feminist and/or multicultural approach.

  • City of Marrow (S.J. Tucker)
  • Snow White, Red Road (Cheshire Moon)