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- Echo's Children (Callie Hills and Cat Faber) is an acoustic duo
- that performs mostly at science fiction conventions. We write,
- arrange, and perform original songs about subjects that range from
- science fiction through science and technology to out-and-out
- fantasy.
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- Our first gig was to entertain a dozen princesses; we naturally
- joined forces in the face of so much royalty, and decamped from
- the area, winding up serenading some bemused peddlers instead. We
- have since travelled over much of the country, changing costumes
- and instruments frequently to throw off pursuit, while writing,
- arranging and performing songs about subjects ranging from fairies
- and gypsies to computers and spaceships. Many of these performances,
- until now only seen in the wild, have been captured on digital
- media, and are displayed in lifelike settings and attitudes on
- _Under the Gripping Beast_, our first CD (released at OVFF in
- 1997), _As Good As Any_, released at BaltiCon in 1999, and
- _A Dancing World_, released at LepreCon in 2001.
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- Many of our song lyrics, and audio samples from our CDs, are
- available via our website, http://www.echoschildren.org . Please stop
- by and visit sometime!
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- Since moving to Oregon in 1985, Arlene 'Callie' Hills has performed
- in a variety of amateur and semi-professional ensembles. In addition
- to performing regularly with Cat Faber as "Echo's Children", she
- has founded two Renaissance consorts (one of which, Belles-Anges,
- she is still active in) and two madrigal groups. Callie's formal
- musical education includes two years each of piano and flute lessons,
- two years study in music theory, history and performance at the
- University of Oregon School of Music, and two years of voice lessons,
- still ongoing. She is self-taught on recorders, pennywhistles, and
- guitar (in descending order of skill...). When not rehearsing or
- performing, she pursues a myriad of interests including Renaissance
- costuming, both as costume designer and creator for Echo's Children
- and Belles-Anges, and as one of her areas of study in the Society
- for Creative Anachronism (SCA).
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- Cat Faber began writing filk before she knew what it was. She claims
- her first filk was written at the age of six or seven, but steadfastly
- refuses to say what it was or what it was about. When she took up
- the guitar at the age of 15, she suddenly had a way to write melodies
- down, and a simple way to stay in key while composing. Her main
- forum was the Society for Creative Anachronism, in which she gained
- the beginnings of her performing experience. She attended her first
- con (an Orycon, she thinks) at about this time, but owing to the
- expense did not become a regular con-goer for many years more. She
- has performed in several choirs and madrigal groups in various
- states, and founded and helped run one in Amarillo Texas, where
- she also got her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. She joined up with
- Arlene "Callie" Hills in 1996, when they discovered their vocal
- ranges, musical instruments, and lyrical and compositional talents
- to be complementary. Their first engagement really was to play for
- a dozen (or so) Princesses. Ask them about it sometime.
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