Yes, FILK. Precisely so. Filk music does not have a specific style or sound. Although much of it is accoustic, for the simple reason that most filk activities are of the "lets get together, bring our instruments and sing" variety. However with the event of programmable midi keyboards and other electronic musical aids, other styles are becoming more and more common. There is also at least one filk rock band, and a couple filk chiors. Filk music is associated with fantasy, amoung other things, so the elves are appropriate. I'll be posting the beta version of the picture soon, and I'll post a link so you can tell me if it would be off-putting to adults. I don't consider it particularly cutesy, but then I have six children, so my views might be skewed. Songs about the mating habits of vampiric space ghosts are probably not suitable for children (okay, so songs about the mating habits of were-wolves are a little more common,) but many filk songs are kid suitable. It isn't a "kid" genre though, no. Filk music started out as folk music as done at science fiction conventions way back when folk music was having it's come-back. As you might imagine considering the venue, this quickly became folk music with a decidedly unusual slant. The new name came from a typo, and people said, "Well we're different enough from the regular folky crowd that we needed our own name anyway. Let's keep it." Filkdom grew beyond the sf convention scene, and is now a community in its own right.. There are 8-10 filk conventions held anually worldwide. The music is hard to describe, but the community isn't. At filk events people gather and sing. Singing along is generally encouraged. Making up your own songs to sing is also encouraged. If you find writing tunes difficult, then you can borrow tunes from anywhere you feel like, and just do words. If you find words difficult, you can borrow words (Tolkien and Kipling being two favorite sources), and just do tunes. If you have no gift for either, that's okay too. People will be singing about TV-shows, and their favorite books, and the movie they saw two weeks ago, and history, and dinosaurs, and greek mythology, and food, and computers, and quantum physics, and roleplaying games, and politics... and strange combinations of the above... Just about anything goes, but if you insist on singing covers of pop love songs, we will wonder what you are doing hanging around with us. "Curiosity, Creativity, Imagination and Participation" is something I've just recently come up with in an attempt to describe what filking is about. Conventional defintions don't seem to work very well. If you would like to hear actual filk music, I recommend visiting filk.com and listen to their webcast music station, filk-radio. (My connection is too slow to listen to web-radio myself.) Doing a websearch for filk and mp3 will also turn up bunches of hits, and there are a number of filk artists on mp3.com (although they aren't all labled as such, interesting.) The quality of the recordings will be widely variable. Filk is primarily a "live" genre, and only a few artists have put out top quality studio recordings. Most recorded filk on the web is available to allow other filkers to learn the songs, not to promote sales, and the production values are correspondingly low.