This weekend the il Troubadore Klingon Music Project will be making an appearance at the Sci-Fi convention, Capricon 32.  We'll be performing at the big Saturday Night show, and then jamming with the filkers on Sunday around 11am.... read more...

il Troubadore Klingon Music Project will make a special guest appearance at the closing night of "A Klingon Christmas Carol!!"


A Klingon Christmas Carol
By Christopher O. Kidder and Sasha Walloch
Translated by Laura Thurston, Bill Hedrick, and Christopher O. Kidder
Additional Content and Translation by Chris Lipscombe
Lyrics to qu'wI' by Terrence Donnelly
Music composed by Jon Silpayamanant/il Troubadore

Directed by Christopher O. Kidder

Featuring Kevin Alves and Zach Livingston

Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? Performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles, and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology.

"The show honors the true meaning of Christmas" - Conan O'Brien
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This morning we appeared on Fox 59 morning news. 

See the video here. 

And tonight (and this weekend) we will be at Starbase Indy. 

Photo of us with Jim O'Brien of Fox 59 to the left.









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il Troubadore Klingon Music Project will make a special guest appearance at the opening night of "A Klingon Christmas Carol!!"


A Klingon Christmas Carol
By Christopher O. Kidder and Sasha Walloch
Translated by Laura Thurston, Bill Hedrick, and Christopher O. Kidder
Additional Content and Translation by Chris Lipscombe
Lyrics to qu'wI' by Terrence Donnelly
Music composed by Jon Silpayamanant/il Troubadore

Directed by Christopher O. Kidder

Featuring Kevin Alves and Zach Livingston

Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? Performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles, and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology.
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A podcast about 'A Klingon Christmas Carol' by Nerd Lunch!

"Cast member and official tweeter for A Klingon Christmas Carol, Jen Usellis Mackay, joins us at the lunch table this week. Jen gives us the inside scoop on what it's like to work on the first play performed in the Klingon language, how to get in on this year's performances in Chicago, and Yo-Yo Ma's Romulan music project (not really). Later the Nerds get a mini language lesson from Jen and we all play a few rounds of "our favorite Klingon things". Listen and find out why tlhutlhlu'meH QaQ jajvam!"


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