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'; the two redheads were Interfilk Guests at GaFilk 2007, International Guests at Consonance 2008 and Guests of Honour at 2010's DFDF (Das Frühlingsfest der Filksmusik), have released two CDs ('Last Sunny Day' in 2006, 'Into the Blue' in 2012) and one songbook ('Harvest'). 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 Schifferstadt, Southern Germany. Their latest project is the formation of a family trio – their daughter Talea was born on the 30th of December 2008.