Peter Alway is an Adjunct Professor (that's Latin for part-time burger-flipping professor) of astronomy living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, teaching a couple 'burbs over at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, and is an amateur astronomer at heart. He's also the author of four books on rocketry for modelers, and even holds half a patent (shared with his brother Bob) on a clever model rocket glide recovery system. But he's best known in fandom for being incapable of playing a musical instrument with more than four strings, and he is frequently seen in filk circles strumming dulcimers, ukuleles, and the unfortunate progeny of those instruments with rogue banjoes. His long-term goal is to master the banjukedulcikazoodion to woo the woman of his dreams.

Eric has a degree in sarcasm from the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. He has proved repeatedly on stage that he is an expert on gerbil manipulation (except for the Osmond and Sugar Incidents, he doesn't like to talk about those, so make sure to ask him). He is the voice of reason in Toyboat, and if that doesn't frighten you, you have watched too many Wes Craven films. Or maybe too many Doris Day movies, not the ones made before she was a virgin, the later ones. For more accurate information, good luck, but you might want to try eric-coleman.com

Travis Clemmons is a well known author and storyteller who occasionally masquerades as a filker. During the past decade, he has been a featured guest at many conventions in the Midwest. In 2009, he was the Masquerade MC at Marcon and the Toastmaster at Context. His edgy erotic short story "The Senator's Perfect Wife" was recently published in the anthology "Surprise" which is for sale on Amazon.com. (www.racypages.com) Travis's web page is www.pup-stc.com

Born in Southern Missouri in the 60's, Teresa learned to love music of all varieties and nurtured a very friendly jealousy of a friend who played standup bass in a bluegrass band. The only dream Teresa has carried with her from childhood is a desire to sing and make music, and she waited until she was past 40 to try to make that dream come true. Luckily she is surrounded by music and supportive musicians, especially her husband, gundo.

Betsey has been participating in music for most of her life, including school, college, and community choruses (including the Case Men's Glee Club). Although primarily a vocalist, she plays recorder and has dabbled in guitar, flute, and keyboard. She currently performs as a member of the Naperville Chorus. Betsey discovered filk over a decade ago (my, how time flies!), and has been enjoying it whole-heartedly ever since, attending local and regional housefilks, as well as filking at conventions. She has been involved, at one time or another, with the running of filk at Duckon, Windycon, and Capricon. Although she performs (sometimes) in circles, and on stage as a member of Howlin' Beagle, this is her first solo appearance.

Elliott Mason has been filking for over a decade, and making things with his hands for three times that long. He's a student, a craftsman, a parent, and a harmony slut who'll sing anywhere, anytime, with anyone ... for free! He blogs at livejournal as 'almeda'.

Alyse started playing "music" when she tried to reach the keys on her grandmother's piano. When she finally got tall enough to reach both the peddles and keys at the same time she actually started producing something that other people might term music. Since then she has played flute, bounced off three types of saxaphone and settled on guitar because its easier to sing along with than a flute, and easier to take on the train than a piano. Alyse divides her time between music and the 450,000 different kinds of crafts that she does including knitting, spinning and dyeing yarn.

He slices, he dices, he chops... All this and he reads too! Jason has been a science fiction addict since the 3rd grade, and a computer game addict for nearly as long. Add to that a love of post-apocalyptic world-building and you have the bright spot of cheeriness that Jason always brings to the filk room. Jason plays guitar, sings, and plays bass for a filk-rock band named Toyboat. Additionally, he teaches high school math, practices martial arts, and lives in a tiny apartment with his wife, several guitars, and more books than he would like to count.

Rumored to be related to the Buddha, Mike Nixon has insisted that he doesn't play guitar for years. As far as we can figure, this is more of Mike's attempt to spread the sound of one guitar clapping. Not only does he play a mean guitar, but he has some wicked parodies that he'll be performing here at Musecon.

Michael Pereckas, also known as "Beige Alert" on the Internet, discovered filk in 1991 at Chambanacon. He bought a guitar in early 2002 and by the end of the year was terrifying audiences and most of all himself. It was around that time he also resumed playing flute, having previously played it in high school and college bands. Michael likes to bring the unusual to the filk circle, and particularly enjoys bringing songs from far away to new places. He is also an avid photographer and has many photos, including many from cons, up on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/beigephotos/

Bill Roper discovered filking at the 1976 Worldcon and has been busy writing songs ever since. Capable of being either serious or silly as the mood strikes him, the result is that you're never quite sure what he's going to pull out next -- although he'll usually try to make it fit the mood of the room! And if you detect a chorus, you're welcome -- encouraged! -- to sing along.

Toyboat was created when Eric Coleman said to gundo "I want to do a punk version of Banned from Argo." The punk version never materialized, but even worse horrors have come forth. They recruited Jason Neerenberg that very con, and then found Mike Nixon six months later. Together they have terrorized cons all across the Midwest.