Bill Roper (born May 23, 1956) is a filker and member of

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. Roper co-founded Dodeka Records with his wife, Gretchen, received the

Pegasus Award The Pegasus Award is the premier award for filk music and is annually hosted at the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF). Awards The Pegasus Awards were founded to recognize and honor excellence in filking. As science fiction (sci-fi) became better kn ...

three times, and was inducted into the

Filk Hall of Fame Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom and a type of fan labor. The genre has existed since the early 1950s and been played primarily since the mid-1970s. Etymology and defin ...

in 2000. He has chaired the

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science fiction convention twice as well as Whatcon and worked on Chicon IV, Chicon V, and Chicon 2000, the last as the head of the Exhibits Division. Roper is a longtime board member of

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and since 2004, he has been the business manager for

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Pegasus Awards

*Best Schtick 1987: Unreality Warp/Kinda Mediocre, Actually (with Clif Flynt) *Best Filk Song 1988: "Wind from Rainbow's End" *Best Original Humorous Song 2003: "My Husband the Filker" (with Gretchen Roper)

External links

Filk Hall of Fame citation

Bill Roper's filk website
Filkers Science fiction fans Living people 1956 births {{singer-songwriter-stub