Eva Van Daele-Hunt IF

Eva Van Daele-Hunt (née Wiest) is a criminal judge by day and a roleplayer, musician and songwriter by night. She joined the filk scene via Star Trek fandom in 1995 and has been an active member of the German filk community ever since. Her music mixes elements of folk and lieder; her lyrics are ballads, sometimes mysterious, sometimes eerie and almost always sad. After having spent her childhood making noise, she enjoyed a thorough education in classical music and today plays recorder, guitar, piano and church organ, although she loves to dabble with every instrument she can get her hands on (bodhran, flute, saxophone, cello, glockenspiel and others). In late 2001, she joined Christine ('Crystal') Blum to form the filk duo 'Summer & Fall' (www.summerandfall.de); the two redheads were Interfilk Guests at GaFilk 2007 and International Guests at Consonance 2008, have released one CD ('Last Sunny Day') and are currently working on their second album ('Into the Blue'). Furthermore, since 2007, Eva/Summer performs with the filk-barbershop quartet 'Barbership', which also includes Katy Dröge-Macdonald (alto), Steve Macdonald (tenor) and Eva's Canadian husband Rafael Van Daele-Hunt (bass).

Rafael and Eva live in Mannheim, Germany. At present, they are looking forward to forming a family trio - a little Van Daele is expected in January 2009.