Ashleigh Ball is a voice over actress and singer for Canadian indie pop band Hey Ocean! who played at my nightclub in Cambridge, MA last year. Another performer to grace the same stage last year was the twenty-one year-old Silva Hound, an Atlanta, GA DJ that spins Brony remixes on a tour with Brony musicians as Musiquestria.
A Brony Tale tells the story of Ashleigh going to her first BronyCon as the voice of Applejack and Rainbow Dash, main characters on the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic animated TV show.
This is the second documentary about the Brony subculture to cross my desk, and the second to make me visit the show again as we see fandom’s most picked on rise above the negativity outside and embrace community inside.
TUE 8/6/13 U: EARLY EVENING SHOW: LeaguePodcast Presents: Musiquestria Tour - 8 Brony Musicians - All Ages $10 Advance / $12 Day Of Show *NOTE: 5:30pm Doors
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“Musiquestria is a month-long pony music tour spanning the entirety of the United States.”
Musiquestria is a month-long pony music tour spanning the entirety of the United States, from Everfree Northwest in Seattle, WA to cities in the New England area. During these four weeks we hope to visit as many major cities as possible across the country, bringing incredible live performances of some of the community’s most talented musicians to you.
Bronies have already infultrated so much of pop culture. This first-of-its-kind tour will take us to the next level! If this series of epic events are successful, this tour will become an annual event bringing up-and-coming brony musicians right across North America and into your home towns!
Alex Ross is a master of the fully painted interior comics page. He returns to the storytelling with Chris Roberson (Superman, Monkeybrain Comics) to tell the tales of masked vigilantes The Green Hornet, Kato, Zorro, and The Spider in Masks #1 set in New York circa 1938! … Last week, we had our followup interview with Grace Randolph, creator of Boom! Studio’s Supurbia. This ‘Real Housewives’ of superhero story was so successful as a mini-series, that Boom! picked it up as an ongoing. The best part was getting talking to Grace about the development of the characters that get a change to grow in the second art. Like gossip and reality TV with loads of robot smashing and demonic interference? Supurbia Vol. 1 Trade Paperback is out today, collecting the hard to find sold out issues. Grace Randolph EARTH PRIME TIME interviews Part one here and Part Two here. … Bronies, your comic dreams have come true! IDW Publishing will now be delivering your monthly dose of My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic starting this week with issue #1. Ponyville talent includes Katie Cook (Gronk, Star Wars) and Stephanie Buscema. … Picks this week from LeaguePodcast.com.
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Fortunately for all involved, right before the panel, Forces Of Geek editor-in-chief Stefan Blitzinformed me that my ‘moderation’ was now to be downgraded to ‘introducing John and sitting next to him’. John is an engaging speaker and has spoken to hundreds of audiences in his time. He didn’t need my help up there. Self-doubt and nervous energy had already pervaded my senses just as the 11AM Red Bull started taking effect.
Somehow, I just knew that my 12 plus hours of Netflix ‘research’ and my 10 questions for an actor of John’s caliber were not good enough.
Well, not good enough in comparison to the questions his die-hard fans would have for him. I was still busy revising my queries on I-95 just minutes before.
I was showered, caffeinated and a strange combination of unprepared and over prepared.
In the panel room we delayed the start of the talk to allow more people an opportunity to get inside. The line outside was long as first-time convention volunteers attempted to process hundreds ofBrowncoats, Jedi, Finns and Fionnas. Day 1 of Rhode Island Comic Con was off to a slow start but there were already over 30 people here for John De Lancie’s panel. Snacking on a convention breakfast of leftover M&Ms, I broke out my 2007 White MacBook to take a final look at my questions. I was confronted by the gray Mac Screen of Death and Matrix digital rain. I’d seen it before. This was a gasp, a final plea from ol’ Lappy to for me to say ‘goodbye’ to her just one last time.
For some reason when it was time to go on to the dais, I brought her with me.
“Maybe Q can fix my computer”, I must have thought. Nay. No snapping of fingers could fix the logic board.
John did pick her up, though. Using her as a prop and coaster for his coffee was a right send off for the old bird.
Was I disappointed that I didn’t get to ask my all of my questions? The answer is unequivocally “No.” I got to sit back and listen to John with best seat in the house.
Below, please check out the full hour of John de Lancie (also Donald Margolis on Breaking Bad, Eugene Bradford on Days of Our Lives, Frank Simmons from Stargate: SG-1) discussing his craft, music, writing and his involvement with BronyCon: The Documentary.
