This is a selected subset of people and groups who not only have not been inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame, but have also never even been nominated for it.
The criteria used to select the people and groups shown here are:
The individuals have engaged in notable filk activity (songwriting, performing, recording, running sound, huckstering, publishing zines or websites, running cons, organizing house filks, etc.) but:
- are deceased;
- have left the filk community voluntarily (“gafiated”) or because they felt they had to (“fafiated”);
- made their most significant contributions to the community years ago;
- do not participate in filk conventions, online filks, or other communal filk activities to the degree they once did; and/or
- do not (or did not) travel much or participate in communal filk activities outside their home region.
The groups are defunct, inactive, or do not perform regularly or frequently.
Important Notes
- Just because a person or group doesn’t appear on this list or on the list of Not-Yet-Inducted Nominees does not mean that anyone considers them unworthy of induction to the Filk Hall of Fame. For this list, we have chosen to focus on “not yet nominated” people and groups whose contributions to the filk community might not be as currently or consistently visible as those of others, and which we therefore consider more susceptible to slipping from the community’s collective memory.
- To reiterate, this is by no means an exhaustive list of those not yet nominated for the Filk Hall of Fame. If a person, group, or organization doesn’t appear here, on the list of Not-Yet-Inducted Nominees, or on the list of Inductees by Name, they have never been nominated. We invite and welcome nominations for new Filk Hall of Fame candidates and hope that you will submit nominations using the nomination form!
- Although we’re sure there are others who meet the criteria above and thus should be on this list, our memory is fallible and our knowledge of filk fandom outside North America is incomplete. We apologize to anyone we might have inadvertently left out. Such omissions are not intentional, and we welcome suggestions.
Potential Nominees
Individuals and groups appear in alphabetical order.
- Brooke (Lunderville) Abbey
- Bruce Adelsohn and Maya Amis
- Annwn
- Avalon Is Rising
- Peter S. Beagle
- D. Christine “Krissy” Benders
- The Black Book Band
- James Blish and Robert W. Lowndes
- Clam Chowder
- Ernest Clark
- JoEllyn Davidoff
- Linn and Les Davis
- Meg Davis
- Mike and Marsha Diggs
- Steve Dixon
- The Duras Sisters
- Andrew Eigel
- Joe Ellis
- Bob and Sue Esty
- Marty Coady Fabish
- Randy Farrar
- Bernd Felsberger
- Nancy Louise Freeman
- Pete Grubbs
- Joe Haldeman
- John “Bear” Hall, DI
- Jeff Hitchin
- Mary Jean Holmes
- Heather Rose Jones
- Mary Kay Kare
- Josh Kronengold and Lisa Padol
- Mercedes Lackey
- Creede Lambard
- Becca and Graham Leathers
- Michael Liebmann
- David “Ted Johnstone” McDaniel
- Mark Mandel
- Don Neill
- Mary “Folly” Neuhaus (Smith)
- Benjamin Newman
- Maureen O’Brien
- John O’Halloran
- The Omicron Ceti III
- On the Mark
- Naomi Pardue
- Jim Poltrone
- Puzzlebox
- Joe Raftery and Gwen Knighton Raftery
- Bill Rintz
- W. Scott Snyder
- Stone Dragons
- Tempest
- Three Weird Sisters
- Toyboat
- Susan Urban
- Vixy and Tony
- Art Warneke
- Larry Warner
- Windbourne