The Logan Whitehurst Memorial Award for Excellence in Comedy Music

2018 Jurors

Fan Jurors

Musician Jurors

Carrie Dahlby

Car­rie Dahl­by has been both a devot­ed fan of com­e­dy music and a cre­ator of it since the mid 2000s. Start­ing her com­e­dy music career by singing lead female vocals for the great Luke Ski in 2005, Car­rie released her first solo EP in 2006, and has released 3 full length albums since then. She has record­ed vocals for numer­ous oth­er male com­e­dy musi­cians, thus earn­ing her­self the nick­name “the Car­ol Cleve­land of the FuMP”. One of her songs was nom­i­nat­ed for a Logan Award. She cur­rent­ly spends most of her time being a full time Mom of one very spir­it­ed young boy (who has a com­e­dy music CD of his own). The rest of her copi­ous amounts of free time are spent per­form­ing with an ear­ly music vocal ensem­ble called Court and Coun­try, tak­ing trum­pet lessons, vol­un­teer­ing for a non-prof­it called Your Whole Baby, and pro­fess­ing her undy­ing love for the Aquabats.

Brett Glass

Brett Glass is an Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer, ham radio oper­a­tor (call­sign WY7BG), sci­ence non­fic­tion author, inven­tor, mul­ti-instru­men­tal­ist, and song­writer based in Laramie, Wyoming. Known to the com­put­er com­mu­ni­ty as the author of Bor­land’s “Tur­bo Pas­cal Tutor” (which taught tens of thou­sands of peo­ple to pro­gram) and as a colum­nist for some of the ear­li­est com­put­er mag­a­zines (includ­ing Dr. Dob­b’s Jour­nal of Com­put­er Cal­is­then­ics and Ortho­don­tia), he helped to bring up the mod­ern Inter­net as a grad­u­ate stu­dent at Stan­ford. He also found­ed LARIAT, the world’s first wire­less ISP, which has been oper­at­ing for 25 years.

For­mer­ly the bass play­er for Jim Bur­ril­l’s com­e­dy music trio Sounds Like Fun (which per­formed Bur­ril­l’s fre­quent­ly played song “The Doc­tor,”) he’s a reg­u­lar per­former in the Marscon Demen­tia Track and at FuMPFest. He also pops up at filk con­ven­tions when he is able to escape briefly from his work respon­si­bil­i­ties. He enjoys cre­at­ing com­plex back­ing tracks with dig­i­tal audio work­shop soft­ware, but also loves to take a bass or gui­tar to a blue­grass, rock, or jazz ses­sion with no pri­or knowl­edge of the songs being played, guid­ed only by his ears and a view of a gui­tarist’s left hand.

Madison “Metricula” Roberts

Madi­son “Met­ric­u­la” Roberts (she/her) is a singer-song­writer, clown, and enter­tain­er from Raleigh, NC.

You can cozy up with her at the Nerd Music Camp­fire and relive the sum­mer camp nights of your youth with sing-a-longs and smores, but nerdier! Stream tunes from her debut EP, “Songs for Gamers” for free online or pick them up via Band­camp.

Met­ric­u­la is also a co-host of the “All in the Reflex­es” geek cul­ture pod­cast as well as a founder of the Social Jus­tice Bards, a group of livestream­ing musi­cians and artists on Twitch. You can catch her live (for free!) online doing music or host­ing Nasty Woman Knit­ting Cir­cle, where she knits… adult nov­el­ty items.

In her mug­gle life, Met­ric­u­la is a sci­en­tist, DIY enthu­si­ast, and avid cof­fee-drinker. She’s total­ly not mad that the cat loves her spouse, Richard, more than her.

Fol­low her online basi­cal­ly every­where as @metricula or find her hub at metricula.com.

Permanent Juror

Dr. Demento

Dr. Demen­to is the on-air name of Bar­ret Hansen, the long­time host of The Dr. Demen­to Show, a syn­di­cat­ed radio show in the U.S. that fea­tures nov­el­ty and com­e­dy records. Hansen stud­ied music at Reed Col­lege in Port­land, Ore­gon and at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia at Los Ange­les. He first used the Dr. Demen­to moniker in 1970, in his ear­ly days as a Los Ange­les disc jock­ey. By 1974 he was nation­al­ly syn­di­cat­ed, play­ing rare nov­el­ty songs from the past and present, from Spike Jones and Tom Lehrer to Frank Zap­pa and Weird Al Yankovic. Hansen is also an avid record col­lec­tor and expert on the his­to­ry of record­ing who has pro­duced sev­er­al com­pi­la­tions, most­ly for Rhi­no Records. He was induct­ed into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2009. (from Infoplease.com)

The Dr. Demen­to Show is radio’s week­ly two-hour fes­ti­val of “mad music and crazy com­e­dy” avail­able for stream­ing on the inter­net. It is a free-wheel­ing, unpre­dictable mix of music and com­e­dy. Along with leg­ends like Spike Jones, Tom Lehrer, Stan Fre­berg, Mon­ty Python, and Frank Zap­pa, the Doc­tor plays new fun­ny songs sent in by ama­teur and pro­fes­sion­al singers and come­di­ans. (from Dr. Demento.com)

A doc­u­men­tary film about Dr. Demen­to, “Under the Smog­ber­ry Trees,” is cur­rent­ly in production.

Chairperson

Wayne Garmil (WildCard)

Wayne has been a fan of com­e­dy music since the ear­ly 1970’s, dis­cov­er­ing the Doc­tor Demen­to Show on the radio in 1977. An avid col­lec­tor of com­e­dy and nov­el­ty LPs, CDs, and MP3s span­ning the 1950’s to 2010’s. Cur­rent­ly a DJ on and co-own­er of Demen­tia Radio online radio station.