British Filk Convention

The series of British Filk Conventions don't have a unifying name, and each one is started with a new committee (though they are mostly drawn from a larger continuing group of people), but they have continued regularly each February since 1989.

The names of the conventions have, except for the first (Contabile), involved a play on words on the convention's ordinal number. The convention has retained contabile.org as its domain name in spite of the changing names.

The convention's main concert presents short performances by many different participants. There is a fund which is administered by a continuing group to bring an overseas filker to the British Filk Convention each year. The Sams Awards are issued at the convention, but are administered by a different group of people than either the convention committee or the overseas guest fund.

Footloose Filker has been category of guest starting with #20 in 2008. Exactly what the criteria are is not clear.

#	Convention	Dates	Venue	Location	GoHs
1	Contabile	February 2-5, 1989	The Chequers Hotel	Newbury, UK	Leslie Fish, Gytha North
2	Con2bile	February 2-4, 1990	Great Northern Hotel	Peterborough, UK	Meg Davis, Mike Whitaker
3	Treble	February 1-3, 1991	Burlington Hotel	Eastbourne, UK	Bill Sutton, Zander Nyrond
4	Fourplay	January 31-February 2, 1992	Victoria Park Hotel	Wolverhampton, UK	Jane Robinson, Cynthia McQuillin, Colin Fine
5	Pentatonic	February 5-7, 1993	Rozel Hotel	Weston-super-Mare, UK	Kathy Mar, Rhodri James
6	VIbraphone	February 4-6, 1994	Oak Hotel	Brighton, UK	Tom Smith, Talis Kimberley
7	Transept	February 3-5, 1995	Royal Cambridge Hotel	Cambridge, UK	Joey Shoji, Phil Allcock
8	Obliter-8	February 2-4, 1996	Forte Crest Hotel	Milton Keynes, UK	Julia Ecklar, Chris Malme
9	HarmonIX	January 31-February 2, 1997	Rozel Hotel	Weston-super-Mare, UK	Mary Ellen Wessels, Sue Mason
10	Decadence	February 6-8, 1998	Albany Trust Hotel	Eastbourne, UK	Mitchell Burnside-Clapp, Valerie Housden
11	XIlophone	February 5-7, 1999	Hilton National Hotel	Basingstoke, UK	Dave Clement, Lawrence Dean
12	Didgeri-Douze	February 4-6, 2000	Forte Posthouse	Milton Keynes, UK	Urban Tapestry, Brian Biddle
13	Conthirteena	February 2-4, 2001	Albany Hotel	Eastbourne, UK	Barry Childs-Helton, Sally Childs-Helton, Tim Walker, Annie Walker, Scott Snyder
14	Contabile Fortean	February 1-3, 2002	Hilton International Hotel	Basingstoke, UK	Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, Roger Robinson, Joe Bethancourt
15	Quinze Filk Festival	February 7-9, 2003	Holiday Inn	Ipswich, Suffolk	Teri Wachowiak, Simon Fairbourn
16	Sixteen Tones	February 6-8, 2004	Hanover International	Bromsgrove, UK	Bill Roper, Chris Conway
17	Dixseption	February 4-6, 2005	The Queens Hotel,	Southsea Portsmouth, UK	Terence Chua, Andy Gordon-Kerr, Martin Gordon-Kerr
18	1812Tone	February 3-5, 2006	Grantham Marriot Hotel	Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK	Sam Baardman, Mich Sampson
19	D'Zenove Convention	February 2-4, 2007	Hilton International Hotel	Basingstoke, UK	Lady Mondegreen, Merav Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, Batya Wittenberg, Mike Richards
20	2t0nic	February 1-3, 2008	Grantham Ramada Hotel	Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK	Jeff Bohnhoff, Maya Bohnhoff, Rika Körte, Steffi Zurek
21	aXXIdental	February 6-8, 2009	Grantham Ramada Hotel	Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK	Rand Bellavia, Adam English, (of Ookla the Mok), Richard "Hitch" Wheatley, Trudy Wenzel
22	Van der Filk	February 5-7, 2010	Grantham Ramada Hotel	Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK	Vixy & Tony, Gwen Knighton Raftery, Lastalda
23	Cre2c3ndo	February 4-6, 2011	Grantham Ramada Hotel	Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK	Heather Dale, Ben Deschamps, Marilisa Valtazanou, Kamen
24	Duple Time	February 3-5, 2012	Grantham Ramada Hotel	Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK	Mary Crowell, Lissa Allcock, Sebastian Kinder
25	Quarter Tone	February 1-3, 2013	Ramada Grantham Hotel	Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK	Tom Nanson, Cat Faber
26	Semibreve	February 7-9, 2014	Ramada Grantham Hotel	Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK	Puzzlebox, Deborah Crook
27	Con27ilkin	February 6-8, 2015	Marks Tey Best Western Hotel	Colchester, Essex, UK	Graham Leathers, Becca Leathers, Clare Goodall
28	Con2bil8	February 5-7, 2016	Best Western Hotel	Marks Tey, Colchester, UK	??
29	Quoi De Neuf	February 3-5, 2017	Best Western Hotel	Marks Tey, Colchester, UK	Cecilia Eng, Jackie Mitchell
30	Enharmonicon	February 2-4, 2018	Best Western Hotel	Marks Tey, Colchester, UK	The Crooklets, Betsy Tinney, Omega
31	31-ET	February 1-3, 2019	Best Western Hotel	Marks Tey, Colchester, UK	Chantelle Smith, Cheshire Moon
32	DemiSemiQuaver	February 7-9, 2020	Best Western Hotel	Marks Tey, Colchester, UK	Annie Griffith, Sunnie Larsen
33	Long Play	February 5-7 2021	Union Hotel	Grantham, UK	Chris O'Shea, Leslie Hudson
34	Contabile 3/4: Triple Time!	2024 February 2-4, 2024	Palace Hotel	Buxton, UK	Robert Beckwith, Lauren Oxford, Mike Whitaker
35	Contabile 35	February 7-9, 2025	Wensum Valley Hotel	Norwich, UK	Michael "Moonwulf" Longcor, Edwin Brady, Valerie Housden

• British Filk conreps

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