The 2020 Pegasus Award finalists were announced on August 27. The Pegasus Award is presented by the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF) for excellence in filking. The convention has been cancelled due to the pandemic, but the awards will still be given.

Anyone in the filk community can vote on the winners, and community is broadly defined — check out the rules here.

Whether or not you vote, enjoy the sound clips of the nominees here.

Best Filk Song
Apology	Bill & Gretchen Roper
Child of the Library	Piers & Gill Cawley
Mordred’s Lullaby	Heather Dale
Nine hundred and ninety nine	Mich Sampson /Marilisa Valtazanou
Water	Cathy McManamon

Best Classic Filk Song
Annie’s Luck	Cat Faber
Die Puppen (The Dolls)	Eva Van Daele-Hunt
Small Mended Corners	Talis Kimberley
Somebody Will	Ada Palmer
Storm Dancing	Tom Smith

Best Performer

The Blibbering Humdingers

Lauren Cox

Margaret & Kristoph

Rhiannon’s Lark

Wreck the System

Best Writer/Composer

Cecilia Eng

Kari Maaren

John McDaid

Cathy McManamon

Andrew Ross

Best Media Song
Barrayaran Roses	Maureen O’Brien
Cliffs of Insanity	Erin & Rand Bellavia
Do You Want to Build an Iron Man?	Lawrence Dean
Goodnight, Sarah Jane	Talis Kimberley
Han Solo for President	Eric Distad

Best Space Song
Colin	Steve Macdonald
The Face on Mars	Tom Jeffers / Dave Clement
Following in Valentina’s Footsteps	Valerie Housden
Not All Who Wander Are Lost in Space	Ben Newman
The Wreck of the Martian Observer	Sunnie Larsen / Aron Wolf