The Pegasus Awards

	Eric Distad IF HoF

Pegasus Awards
Award	Year	Category	Collaboration	Song
	2025	Best Writer/Composer
	2021	Best Mad Science Song		I Built A Time Machine
	2021	Best Performer	The Faithful Sidekicks

 

Pegasus Nominations
Year	Category	Collaboration	Song	Sample
2026	Best End of the World Song		Business Plan for the Apocalypse
2026	Best Humorous Song		Clicky Clacky Math Rocks
2025	Best Writer/Composer
2024	Best Filk Song	Jen Distad	Our Kind of Strange
2024	Best Writer/Composer
2023	Best Filk Song	Jen Distad	Our Kind of Strange
2023	Best Adapted Song		Whiskey in the Jawa
2020	Best Media Song		Han Solo for President
2019	Best Performer	The Faithful Sidekicks
2018	Best Filk Song		Han Solo for President
2018	Best Performer	The Faithful Sidekicks

 

Eric Distad has been obsessed with music for as long as he can remember. He has done everything from musical theater to barbershop quartets, played in bands with styles ranging from country to folk-punk, written pieces ranging from medieval chant to modern prog-rock, eaten foods ranging from peanut butter to jelly. Yep, it's been a full life so far.

Eric was introduced into filk by friends made through FAWM (February Album Writing Month) who pulled him along to a filk circle, telling him there were folks who might like his geeky songs inspired by Star Trek and Lord of the Rings. He didn't quite believe them but went anyway - and boy, was he wrong! (This "being wrong" thing happens fairly often, actually.)

He is one half of the Acoustic Geek-Rock Filk Duo - The Faithful Sidekicks, along with his wife and co-conspirator Jen. Since 2014, they have been writing and performing (mostly) comedic songs about the nerdy things they love at sci-fi cons and venues around the US, Canada and even Germany!

He's also one half of the Filk/Folk duo Tell the Tide with Summer Russell

He's also a founding member of FAWM (February Album Writing Month) where, since 2004, he's written an awful lot of songs and amassed a sizable back catalog - a few of which he might even still remember. He lives in Oregon City, Oregon with Jen, two cats and an ever growing collection of instruments. By day he's an IT Admin and by night he is an avid board gamer, baker of many breads, and moderate failure at resisting the call of music gear.

 

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