The 2024 Pegasus Award finalists were announced on August 26. The Pegasus Award is presented by the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF) for excellence in filking.

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 (where there are also links to the lyrics and information about the artists).

BEST FILK SONG

• Fight Like A Girl – Erin & Rand Bellavia
• I am I – Eva Van Daele-Hunt
• My Dandelion Friend – Summer Russell
• Our Kind of Strange – Jen & Eric Distad
• Phoebe the Fierce – Cat Faber

BEST CLASSIC FILK SONG

• Being Watson – Kari Maaren
• Flowers for Algernon – Kathy Mar
• Merry Meet – Steve Macdonald
• One Small Boat – Marilisa Valtazanou
• Vor – Bill Sutton

BEST PERFORMER

• The Blibbering Humdingers
• Vanessa Cardui
• Dave Clement
• Sunnie Larsen
• Pair ‘O Dice

BEST WRITER/COMPOSER

• Peter Alway
• Eric Distad
• Beth Kinderman
• John McDaid
• Cathy McManamon

BEST MAGIC SONG

• Like Their Feet Have Wings – Gwen Knighton-Raftery
• Necronomicon – Zander Nyrond
• The Prophecy Hotline – Kari Maaren
• Water – Cathy McManamon
• Wings – Cat Faber

BEST RISQUE SONG

• When I Was A Boy (The Dirty Version) – Michael Longcor
• Legolas – Dr. Mary Crowell
• Nathan Fillion (Please Take Off Your Pants) – The PDX Broadsides
• Passion Flower – Cecilia Eng
• Sex and Chocolate – Jodi Krangle & Debbie Ridpath Ohi

The 2022 Pegasus Award finalists were announced on August 26. The Pegasus Award is presented by the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF) for excellence in filking.

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 (where there are also links to the lyrics and information about the artists).

BEST FILK SONG

• “The Entwife” – Summer Russell
• “Following Our Dreams” – Lawrence Dean
• “I Am I” – Eva Van Daele-Hunt
• “Poisoned Apples” – Don Neill
• “Spirals In Your Eyes” – Peter Alway

BEST CLASSIC FILK SONG

• “Come Ye Knights” – Sheila Willis
• “Crimson & Crystal” – Cynthia McQuillin
• “Helva’s Song” – Cecilia Eng
• “I Am Stardust” – Lloyd Landa
• “Storm Dancing” – Tom Smith

BEST PERFORMER (Artist & Representative Song)

• Tim Griffin – “Prepare to Die”
• Daniel Kelly – “God Made Cats”
• Jen Midkiff – “Lucy on the Line”
• Madison “Metricula” Roberts – “All the Pretty Horses (Drowning Song)”
• Via Bella – “Fighting the Black Thing”

BEST WRITER/COMPOSER (Artist & Representative Song)

• Cecilia Eng – “I Still Love You ‘Til the End”
• Kari Maaren – “Being Watson”
• Cathy McManamon – “Into the Sea”
• Ben Newman – “The Secret Festival of Sandcastles”
• Summer Russell – “Voices”

BEST FURRY FRIEND SONG (Song & Artist)

• “A Habitrail Named Klein” – Blake Hodgetts
• “Job the Armored Donkey” – Rhiannon’s Lark
• “Meownir” – Madison “Metricula” Roberts
• “Nobody’s Moggy Lands” – Bob Kanefsky
• “Underfoot” – Jen Midkiff

BEST SONG THAT TELLS A STORY (Song & Artist)

• “The Alien Jellyfish Song” – Chris Conway
• “Before the Dawn” – Mike Whitaker
• “Colin” – Steve Macdonald
• “Nine hundred and ninety-nine” – Mich Sampson / Marilisa Valtazanou
• “Scarlet Town” – Cathy McManamon

The 2021 Pegasus Awards were announced on October 30. The Pegasus Award is presented by the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF) for excellence in filking.

Enjoy the sound clips of the nominees here.

BEST FILK SONG

• Second-Hand Heaven – Lawrence Dean

BEST CLASSIC FILK SONG

• Nessie, Come Up – Dr. Jane Robinson *

BEST PERFORMER

[Tie]

• Rhiannon’s Lark
• The Faithful Sidekicks

BEST WRITER/COMPOSER

• Lawrence Dean

BEST MAD SCIENCE SONG

• I Built A Time Machine – Eric Distad

BEST CHEERY-OSE SONG

• Tiny Kraken — Rhiannon’s Lark

(*) Name usage confirmed by Dr. James Robinson.

The 2021 Pegasus Award finalists were announced on August 27. The Pegasus Award is presented by the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF) for excellence in filking.

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

• Courage Dear Heart – Summer Russell
• Earth That Was – Cecilia Eng
• Fighting the Black Thing – Erin & Rand Bellavia
• Pure of Heart – Heather Estelme
• Second-Hand Heaven – Lawrence Dean

BEST CLASSIC FILK SONG

• Annie’s Luck – Cat Faber
• Before the Dawn – Mike Whitaker
• Crimson & Crystal – Cynthia McQuillin
• Die Puppen (The Dolls) – Eva Van Daele-Hunt
• Nessie, Come Up – Dr. Jane Robinson

BEST PERFORMER

• Lauren Cox
• Cecilia Eng
• Rhiannon’s Lark
• Madison “Metricula” Roberts
• The Faithful Sidekicks

BEST WRITER/COMPOSER

• Lawrence Dean
• John McDaid
• Ben Newman
• Summer Russell
• Batya Wittenberg

BEST MAD SCIENCE SONG

• I Built A Time Machine – Eric Distad
• Mad Science Café – Brooke Abbey
• Mad Scientist’s Love Song – Gary McGath
• Maybe It’s Crazy – Seanan McGuire
• Watchmaker Hill – Eva Van Daele-Hunt

BEST CHEERY-OSE SONG

• Chuck the Corpse – Fred Capp
• Dear Seanan – Erin Bellavia / Merav Hoffman / Seanan McGuire
• Everybody Dies – The PDX Broadsides
• Not Everybody Dies – Erica Neely
• Tiny Kraken — Rhiannon’s Lark

The winners of the 2020 Pegasus Awards for excellence in filking were announced on October 25 during the virtual Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF).

Enjoy the sound clips of all the nominees here.

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.

The 2019 Pegasus Award finalists were announced on August 24. The Pegasus Award is given by the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF) for excellence in filking.

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. The ballot is here.

The last full day to vote if you are not attending OVFF is October 21. Balloting will re-open on the evening of Friday, October 25 during and immediately after the Pegasus Nominees Concert, for those who are attending OVFF and wish to submit their ballot at the con.

The winners of the 2018 Pegasus Awards for excellence in filking were announced at the Ohio Valley Filk Fest on October 20.

Best Filk Song

• Pageant Legend by Katy Dröge-Macdonald /Ju Honisch

Best Classic Filk Song

• Creature of the Wood by Heather Alexander / Philip Obermarck

Best Performer

(tie)

• Random Fractions
• Twotonic

Best Writer/Composer

• Leslie Hudson

Best Roadtrip Song

(tie)

• Oregon Trail by Tim Griffin
• Road to Santiago by Heather Dale

Best Song About Community

• Many Hearts, One Voice by Steve Macdonald

There are six Pegasus award categories, two of them different each year (in 2018, the last two shown here).