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Leslie Fish is a filk musician.

Along sustaining a DeHorn crew, she created the 1st commercial filk recording (''Folk ballad for Folk That Ain't Potentially Been However, 1976). Her 2nd recording, Solar Sailors (1977) included a song Prohibited From either Argo, the laughable song which has since spawned complete Fourscore variants & parodies. She has likewise recorded a mirthful song Carmen Miranda's Ghost, which was a source for the book Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three, edited by Don Sakers.

Fish typically weaves pagan & syndicalist themes into her music. She has has too placed to music numerous verse form by Rudyard Kipling.

Additionally to her function as a filk creative person, Fish is too easily-known inside a Star Trek fan community for her works of fan fiction, which include one of the 1st Kirk/Spock stories ever published ("Shelter", 1976) & a fan-published Star Trek novel The Weight.

Albums
Cold Iron Chickasaw Mountain Firestorm - Songs of the Third Globe War, 1989 Folksong For Folk That Ain't Potentially Been Eventually, 1976 (sustaining DeHorn) My Fathers of Old (by having Joe Bethancourt) Good Steel (using Joe Bethancourt) Skybound Smoke-cured Fish & Friends, 1996 (using numbers of others) Solar Sailors, 1977 (by owning DeHorn) Non Canned or even Frozen, 1996

Books
Lament for Sabis (with C. J. Cherryh) Wizard Spawn (by owning C. J. Cherryh, Mercedes Lackey, and Nancy Asire) Reap a Whirlwind (by owning C. J. Cherryh, Mercedes Lackey, & Nancy Asire)

Pegasus Awards
A Pegasus Awards are the virtually all prestigious award within filk fandom. Leslie Fish has won a as a result Pegasus awards:

1984 - Right Original Filk Song - Hope Eyrie 1986 - Right Original Filk Song - Witnesses' Waltz 1986 - Right Female Filker 1987 - Right Writer/Composer 1989 - Right Fantasy Song - Wind's 4 Quarters (using Mercedes Lackey) 1999 - Right Hero Song - The Toast For Unknown Heroes 2002 - Right Song That Tells The Story - Horsetamer's Daughter 2003 - Right Classic Filk Song - Banned From either Argo''

Leslie Fish's Filksongs
Lyrics and sheet music to some of her songs.

Fish Tales
Her reports about her cats.

Random Factors
CDs and songbooks for sale.


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