Frank Parker

Originally a New England native transported to South Carolina in 2002, Frank is a self taught musician who plays a combination of folk and filk music. He has been writing and performing at science fiction conventions and house filks as FilkFerret since 1998, though he has been fiddling with music since the ‘great trombone disaster’ many years (and that is many) ago in third grade.

He has several awards in the filk community and has been a finalist 2 years in a row for songs composed for the Mars Society's Rouget d' Lisle contest for songs celebrating the cause of the human exploration and settlement of space. These were ‘The Green Hills of Terra’ and ‘Spreading Our Wings’ (co authored with Utah filker Dawnya Thill). His signature song ‘Take it One Step and One day at a Time’ shared first place at Conterpoint 3 in 2000 for best serious filk and ‘Inherit the Heavens’ took third place at the Ohio Valley Filk Festival OVFF in 2002 for the theme ‘for our children’.

Recently he has taken on performing at and hosting an open mic night in West Columbia, South Carolina. His goal is to promote and supply a venue where entertainers, no matter what their skill level, are welcomed and made to feel at home.

FilkFerret's major purpose in life (musically) is to spread the genre' Filk (like the seeds of a dandelion). For a long time Frank had no genre' for his music. His major purpose in life in general is to ‘Take it One Step and One day at a Time’ as a recovering alcoholic and never forget where he was and where he could be now if he had continued the path of alcohol. Today he knows he has been and always will be a filker and has more to offer.

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