Michael Longcor is a folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 and filk singer. His songs span a range of topics including military history

Military history

Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....

, Indiana

Indiana

Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

 history, and humor. He has won six Pegasus Awards and has been nominated for six others. His music has appeared on Dr. Demento

Dr. Demento

Barret Eugene Hansen , better known as Dr. Demento, is a radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present....

 and on NPR

NPR

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's "Folksong Festival," and his music has provided the background for a BBC

BBC

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 documentary on Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

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He is a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism

Society for Creative Anachronism

The Society for Creative Anachronism is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly Medieval European cultures and their histories before the 17th century...

, in which he is known as Moonwulf Starkaaderson. As a member of the SCA, he has been king of the Middle Kingdom twice and has served as baron of the Barony of Rivenstar since it was founded. He is also a member of the Dorsai Irregulars, having been inducted in 1976.

Awards

• 1992 Pegasus Award for best performer
• 1993 Pegasus Award for best humorous song ("Rhinotillexomania")
• 1995 Pegasus Award for best performer
• 1995 Pegasus Award for best military song ("When Tenskwatawa Sings")
• 1996 Pegasus Award for best eerie song ("Monster in My Head")
• 2003 Pegasus Award for best filk song ("Shooting Star")

Discography

• Storm, Wind and Flame

Songs from this album appear in Ann C. Crispin

Ann C. Crispin

Ann Carol Crispin is an American science fiction writer, the author of twenty-three published novels. She has been writing since 1983...

's novel Storms of Destiny

• Boarding Party
• Lovers, Heroes and Rogues
• Heartburn
• Kitchen Junk Drawer
• Dangerous Heroes
• Norman & Saxon
• Drunken Angel
• Field of Fire
• What's a Hoosier?
• Owlflight

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