Katy Dröge-Macdonald IF HoF SAM

Katy was born and raised in North Germany, where people are supposed to be cool, quiet and reasonable just like the weather - but who ever believes a weather report? The beginning of her fannish life in 1989 had been dominated by Star Trek fandom - in 1990 she discovered filk which invaded her life and never let her go again (she even *married* a filker ;-)). Her musical career before filking included choir singing and playing the accordion in an orchestra. This particular skill enables her to play organs, synthesizers or pianos while lying down underneath it and reaching up, a very filkish thing to do. Her main instrument now, however, is her Takamine guitar "Gracey" which she tends to play standing up.

Since 2007, Katy has also been performing with the filk-barbershop quartet 'Barbership', which also includes Steve Macdonald (tenor), Eva Van Daele-Hunt (soprano), and Rafael Van Daele-Hunt (bass).

Apart from her main hobby music she's interested in travelling (nnaaahhh, it doesn't show at all *g*) and computers, loves dogs, likes reading and going out to the movies or to pubs with friends. She also loves walks along the sea shore and is usually happy when she can be near the water. She lives in Hamburg (Germany's most wonderful city, of course *g*) together with her husband Steve who she stole away from the Americans (*evil laugh*) and works for a Japanese company in the field of microelectronics.

And there's more. All the things you never wanted to know about Katy can be found at katy.filk.de.

Or, you can visit Yooh's and Katy's joint filk site at jukaty.filk.de.