FilKONtario

FilKONtario (AKA FKO) is a filk convention held in the Mississauga/Toronto area each spring since 1991. It is sponsored by the Filk Society of Upper Canada.

The first FilKONtario was held in April 1991. Since 1995 it has sponsored the Filk Hall of Fame, and new inductees are announced at the convention banquet.

Filk Waif is a term honoring the first waif, Mary Ellen Wessels, whom two of the concom members brought to FilKONtario at their expense because she couldn't afford it. Having been done once, it became a Tradition to bring someone to the convention each year.

The Board and Committee had announced that the August 2022 FilKONtario, called "FilKONtario: The Lost Years," would be the last unless people are found to form a new Board. However, a 2024 convention was subsequently scheduled.

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Convention	Dates	GoHs, Notes
FilKONtario 1	April 12-14, 1991	Bill Sutton & Brenda Sutton
FilKONtario 2	April 10-12, 1992	Tom Smith
FilKONtario 3	May 7-9, 1993	Michael Longcor, Mary Ellen Wessels
FilKONtario 4	April 15-17, 1994	Kathy Mar, Mary Ellen Wessels Heather Rose Jones
FilKONtario 5	March 31-April 2, 1995	"Decadent" Dave Clement, Steve Macdonald
FilKONtario 6	April 19-21, 1996	Mary Ellen Wessels, Barry Childs-Helton, Sally Childs-Helton, Steve Dixon
FilKONtario 7	April 11-13, 1997	Talis Kimberley, Clif Flynt, Carol Flynt, Doug Wu
FilKONtario 8	April 17-19, 1998	Heather Alexander, John Hall, Juliane Honisch, Kerstin Droege
FilKONtario 9	March 26-28,1999	Urban Tapestry, Don Neill, Harold Groot
FilKONtario 10	March 31-April 2, 2000	Larry Warner, Diana Huey, Scott Snyder
FilKONtario 11	April 5-7, 2001	Bill Sutton, Brenda Sutton, Steve Simmons, Erica Neely
FilKONtario 12	March 29-31, 2002	Joey Shoji, Dave Weingart, Anke Teschke, Tanya Huff
FilKONtario 13	March 28-30, 2003	Jane Robinson, Cynthia McQuillin, Mark Bernstein, Robert Cooke
FilKONtario 14	March 26-28, 2004	Michael Longcor, Kathleen Sloan, Blind Lemming Chiffon, Karen Anderson
FilKONtario 15	April 1-3, 2005	Steve Macdonald, Judith Hayman, Carla Ulbrich, Michelle Sagara
FilKONtario 16	March 31-April 2, 2006	Chris Conway, Tanya Huff, Judi Miller
FilKONtario 17	March 23-25, 2007	N'Early Music Consort
FilKONtario 18	April 4-6, 2008	Vixy and Tony, Bill Roper, Marilyn Miller, Heather Bruton
FilKONtario 19	April 3-5, 2009	Heather Dale, Urban Tapestry, Gary Tyra, Sandy Tyra, Rob Sawyer
FilKONtario 20	April 9-11, 2010	Jeff Bohnhoff, Maya Bohnhoff, Erica Neely, William Mark Simmons
FilKONtario 21	April 1-3, 2011	Wild Mercy, Karen Linsley, Ghost of a Rose
FilKONtario 22	April 19-21, 2012	Kathy Mar, Paul Estin, Steve Biernesser, Dorotha Biernesser
FilKONtario 23	April 19-21, 2013	Tim Walker, Annie Walker
FilKONtario 24	April 25-27, 2014	S. J. Tucker, the Heather Dale Band
FilKONtario 25	April 16-19, 2015	Bill Sutton, Brenda Sutton, Talis Kimberley
FilKONtario 26	April 8-10, 2016	Cecilia Eng, Peggi Warner-Lalonde, Batya Wittenberg
FilKONtario 27	April 21-23, 2017	Mike Whitaker, Cat Faber, Shawna Jacques
FilKONtario 28	April 20-22, 2018	Leslie Hudson, Tim Griffin, Sabine Kinder, Michael Kinder
FilKONtario 29	April 12-14, 2019	Juanita Coulson, Margaret Davis & Kristoph Klover, Summer Russell
FilKONtario 30 / FilKONtari-NO (virtual)	April 26-29, 2020	Stone Dragons, Blibbering Humdingers, PDX Broadsides
FilKONtario 31 FilKONtari-NO 2 (virtual)	March 19–21, 2021 April 9-11, 2021	Vanessa Cardui, W. Randy Hoffman, Eli Bar-Yahalom
FilKONtario 2022 (aka FK-nO 3) (virtual)	April 1-3, 2022	??
FilKONtario, The Lost Years	August 12-14, 2022	Stone Dragons, Vanessa Cardui, W. Randy Hoffman
FK-nO 4 (virtual)	March 24–26, 2023	Schedule.

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Convention
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