Sing-a-long at BronyCon
Hey everypony! Want to join us in a sing a long? Well heres your chance! Lets memorize it together and sing as one! http://bit.ly/2vJ2BGW
BronyCon Welcomes Claire Corlett
The Cutie Mark Crusaders are all uniting,
BronyCon is excited to announce voice actress Claire Corlett is coming to Baltimore this summer!
Corlett is a 17-year-old Canadian actress, director and creator. She was first introduced to voice acting when her father, Ian James Corlett, made her a voice demo when she was five years old. She never looked back. Voices for commercials soon followed as did animation work. In short order she became well known for being the voice of Sweetie Belle in the TV series “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic,” Tiny in the TV series “Dinosaur Train,” Stacie in “Barbie & Her Sisters: The Great Puppy Adventure” and Dizzy in the TV series “Bob the Builder” plus many more.
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BronyCon Welcomes Brynna Drummond
For the first time ever,
BronyCon is excited to announce voice actress Brynna Drummond is coming to Baltimore this summer!
Drummond is mostly known in the world of “My Little Pony” for her guest role as the fan favorite Babs Seed. She has also voiced Princess Aubray in “Barbie Rockin Royals,” Daphne Daspletosaurus in “Dinosaur Train,” and she voices the role of young John Darling in “The Adventures of Peter Pan.” She has also voiced numerous Anime guest roles.
Don't forget to get your badge if you haven't done so yet at http://bronycon.org/registration
Artwork designed by Jacki Steiner
BronyCon Opens Art Show Applications
BronyCon is excited to announce that applications are now open for this year’s Art Show.
BronyCon’s Art Show is an opportunity for artists to showcase and sell their art without the pressure and commitment of a full pre-paid vendor table. Fees are based upon a percentage of sales. The Art Show is well-suited to those seeking a chance to get their work in front of potential fans.
For more information, and to apply to have work featured, head on over to https://bronycon.org/marketplace.
Also while you're there, don't forget to register if you haven't done so yet by going to https://bronycon.org/registration.
Artwork by Rachel Fujii (http://onnanoko.deviantart.com)
BronyCon Welcomes Back Michelle Creber and Gabriel Brown
BronyCon is excited to welcome back the dynamic duo Michelle Creber and Gabriel Brown to Baltimore this summer!
Creber is a Canadian actor, singer, dancer, musician, song-writer and voiceover artist. She is known internationally as the voice of Apple Bloom and, earlier in the series, the singing voice of Sweetie Belle in “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.” Her on-screen credits include “Supernatural,” Disney’s “Search for Santa Paws,” Hallmark’s “Smart Cookies” and The Hub’s “Haunting Hour.”
Brown, perhaps better known to MLP fans as Black Gryph0n, is an American singer, actor, voice actor, songwriter and animator. At 18, Gabe joined the US Navy in special operations before touring the Eastern Hemisphere as lead singer, 7th Fleet Band “Orient Express.” Since then he has pursued a career in entertainment in Canada and has vocal credits on various MLP songs as well as the lead vocals for “Pac-Man & the Ghostly Adventures” theme.
Together, Creber and Brown have released several collaborative albums, including their latest “Getting Stronger.”
Don’t forget to register by heading to BronyCon.org
Artwork by Timoth Fay
Calling all Vendors and Artist Alley hopefuls, we have a message for you regarding the third and final wave of Artist Alley applications.
BronyCon Announces Maddy Peters
BronyCon is excited to announce voice actress Maddy Peters will appear at its event this summer at the Baltimore Convention Center!
Peters has been performing all her life. She trained in musical theatre as a child and got her first major role as a voice actress at age 10 when she played Helen on the PBS hit “Martha Speaks,” recording almost 100 episodes over the course of five years. She is most well known for her role as Scootaloo in “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.” She also voiced Emily in the movie “Barbie: Princess Charm School.”
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Artwork by @centchi
BronyCon Welcomes Cathy Weseluck (aka. Spike the Dragon)
BronyCon is excited to announce award-winning voice-over actress Cathy Weseluck will appear at its event this summer at the Baltimore Convention Center!
Internationally-known Weseluck’s acting/production career extends over a wide range of areas. In addition to her continued success as a voice-over performer, Weseluck's noted accomplishments also include her work as a TV actress, instructor, consultant, guest speaker, casting director/director, associate producer, writer, composer, performer and photographer.
Weseluck is best known in the animation world for her starring roles as Spike (and the Mayor) in “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”, the excitable bunny Butter Cream Sundae in the hit series “Littlest Pet Shop,” Cybersix (and Adrian) in the award-winning TMS/N.O.A. series "Cybersix," Dennis the wide-eyed naïve little boy in the fun-filled Disney comedy series “Kid Vs Kat,” Near in "Death Note," Young Trunks in "Dragonball Z," Dorothy Catalonia in "Gundam Wing" and as Shampoo in "Ranma 1⁄2", Cathy has performed thousands of voices in hundreds of productions.
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Artwork by Karen (http://everdeer.deviantart.com) and William (http://fallfeatherspony.tumblr.com)
BronyCon Announces Actor Vincent Tong
BronyCon is excited to announce actor Vincent Tong will be attending its event this summer at the Baltimore Convention Center!
Tong is widely known to fans of “My Little Pony” as the voice of Flash Sentry in “MLP: Equestria Girls” and Prince Blueblood, Garble the Dragon and Donut Joe in “LP: Friendship is Magic.” Other animated voice roles include Kai in "Ninjago," Jestro in "Nexo Knights," Muck in “Bob The Builder,” Junjie in “Slugterra” and Matsuda in “Death Note.”
Artwork by Rachel Fujii and William Marks
Starlight Glimmer to attend BronyCon!
We're so excited to welcome back voice actress Kelly Sheridan this summer to the Baltimore Convention Center!
Sheridan is delighted to play Starlight Glimmer, Sassy Saddles, Misty Fly and others in “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.” With more than 20 years of voice over experience, she has appeared in numerous animated series and features including Ukyo in “Ranma ½,” The Scarlet Witch in “X-Men Evolution,” Sango in “Inuyasha” and numerous roles in “My Little Pony Tales” and MLP G3.
Registration: http://bronycon.org/registration/
Artwork by @animatedvisions
BronyCon Announces Daniel Ingram
Get ready to “Smile, Smile Smile” because the award-winning songwriter for “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic,” Daniel Ingram, is coming to BronyCon this summer!
Ingram is an award winning and four-time Emmy nominated songwriter/composer. He’s written songs for such notable stars as Emily Blunt, Zoey Saldana, Kristin Chenoweth, Lena Hall and Weird Al Yankovic to name a few. Daniel’s distinctive musical style has earned him a place as one of the top songwriters working in Children’s/Family entertainment today.
Today, Ingram is currently scoring “My Little Pony: The Movie” for Lionsgate/Hasbro Studios due for release later this year and writing a stage musical with executive producer, Michael Vogel.
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Artwork by Sam Silva (https://twitter.com/jadedjynx)
BronyCon March Magic Kicks Off!
Today at 12pm EDT we kick off BronyCon March Magic! For the next 23 days, you'll be able to vote on your favorite MLP song. A new Twitter poll with launch every day at 12pm EDT and you'll have to chance to vote so make sure you follow us at https://twitter.com/BronyCon. You can follow along using the hashtag #BCMarchMagic.
Make sure to visit http://bit.ly/BCMarchMagic to see our official bracket and to download your own and see who you think will win Best Song.
And yes, songs were strategically placed in a way that will make it extremely hard for you to pick a favorite ;)
BronyCon Welcomes Back Comic Artist Andy Price
BronyCon is excited to welcome comic artist Andy Price back to its convention this summer at the Baltimore Convention Center.
Since issue 1, Price has been the lead pencil/ink artist for the incredibly successful and record breaking “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” comic book from IDW Publishing. MLP broke the 100,000 presale mark, the first independent book to beat out DC or Marvel in 9 years!
To register for this event, visit BronyCon’s registration page. Badges for BronyCon will cost more at the door, so don’t wait!
Artwork by: @animatedvisions
BronyCon Welcomes Back Comic Artist Tony Fleecs
BronyCon is excited to welcome back artist Tony Fleecs to its convention Aug. 11-13 at the Baltimore Convention Center!
Tony Fleecs has created a number of covers for the My Little Pony comic series, and was also the artist for the second installment of the MLP micro series. Fleecs has had comics published by Random House (Villard), Image Comics, Silent Devil Inc., Terminal Press, IDW and Boom! Studios, and his autobiographical comic “In My Life” has been met with overwhelming critical acclaim. Beyond comic books, he has provided illustrations for organizations as diverse as The Milwaukee Brewers and Monster Garage.
His mother says he is handsome.
To register for this event, visit BronyCon’s registration page. Badges for BronyCon will cost more at the door, so don’t wait!
Artwork by: @animatedvisions
BronyCon: Better Together
When BronyCon started six years ago, it was an oddity—an opportunity for unlikely fans to get together and unabashedly celebrate something they loved. Since then we’ve grown, but the heart of our event has never changed.
Every year since, thousands of friends have come together. Pastel horses are how so many of us have met, but we have built lasting friendships that span much more.
BronyCon is, first and foremost, a My Little Pony convention. It’s a fact our staff, our guests, our vendors, our musicians and everyone else who attend it are passionate about. We’ve always strived to be of the fandom, by the fandom and for the fandom.
That said our staff has always actively tried to stay on the cutting edge. Trying new things leads to the innovation that keeps BronyCon fresh for returning attendees and makes it the incredible experience that it is for newcomers. It is with that in mind that we are trying something a little new this year. Like some of our previous experiments we fully expect that it may be polarizing, but we’d like to think we’ve established enough trust that you will hear us out. The success of it will pivot on the community after all.
This year, BronyCon is going to invite a little bit of non-pony under our roof. Think along the lines of a beefed up gaming area and some new, additional programming. To reiterate, pony is still priority number one. Non-pony is already a huge part of the rich tapestry of BronyCon. Every year brings more gaming cosplays, more Steven Universe EPs, more Undertale art in the marketplace and more totally out there meme-ry. It’s clear that this fandom thrives on more than just miniature equines and “20% cooler” jokes. What brings us together may be ponies, but what keeps us together is the complex net we’ve woven with one another. At the same time, we won’t skirt it—there’s a lot of My Little Pony conventions out there. Yes, BronyCon is the largest, but you can’t depend solely on a legacy to drive interest in an event. For BronyCon to continue to lead, it needs to leverage new ideas to stay out front. This is a way for us to add value for everyone, not to reduce the pony. A lot of you sacrifice other cons to attend BronyCon. This is a way of bringing some of the things that you might miss at another event right to you. Plus, think of how much easier it will be to finally drag that stubborn friend along! ADDED BONUS.
Furthermore, the fandom has long thrived upon and celebrated those who create content within our community. Many people have used their creativity inspired by My Little Pony to go on and begin pursuit of their own careers in art and animation. By allowing a little extra content to be at BronyCon, this provides the opportunity for content creators who have the same source of inspiration as all of us to be more free with the content they produce and bring in fresh ideas that have not been seen within the pony fandom before.
All that leaves is the question of what we are adding. Well, the thing that makes the brony community so unique is the fact that it has brought together people of all ages and walks of life over a single show. As the show we’ve loved is even titled, “Friendship is Magic.” Our staff are targeting things that share that same spirit—geeky shows and games that have a way of uniting all sorts of different folks. After all, isn’t that what fandom is all about?
Your input is very valuable to us. After all, this convention is for you. As always feel free to throw any questions, of which we are sure there are many, to info@bronycon.org or contact us on social media. We will do our best to answer them. Keep your eyes on our social media in the coming weeks as we start to announce more details. We hope everyone is as excited about this as our staff! Thanks for your continuing confidence in what we do. At the end of the day, it’s all for you.
Not a Goodbye, but a Thank You
Note: This letter was written by Josh Dean who was the con chair for BronyCon between 2014-2016. Now that he is stepping down, he had a few words with share.
This is a letter that I imagined myself writing exactly three times in my time here at BronyCon. Each one of them was during the convention chair elections with the thought: "if I don't win, I should have something prepared." Each one of those times, I never did get around to writing that letter, but I've given a lot of thought towards what I should say if and when the time should come that I would no longer be BronyCon's convention chair.
That time has finally come, and still, I do not quite know what to write. But hopefully this will suffice.
For three days a year, we have the honor and privilege of working for an event that is able to shape, change, and better the lives of people who set foot into the Baltimore Convention Center. For the other 362 days, we come together in other ways, preparing ourselves for that work. What we do, as staff, attendees, guests of honor, exhibitors, press, panelists, musicians, and everything else is nothing short of a miracle. It is a labor of love that many in the world would turn their backs on and choose not to do, but that is not us – we should be proud of that.
My tenure as chair has been a bit of an odd one. Before me, no one had run this convention for longer than a year. In most cases, less than a full year. I decided that I would keep going until I had literally nothing else to give BronyCon as chair. It has not always been the easiest, I've not always succeeded, but for every bump in the road, every conflict, every complication, I put more and more of myself into BronyCon. At the end of my journey, I gave BronyCon everything I had – blood, sweat, tears. I shared with it all of my happiness, all of my sorrow – I gave it my very soul. In return, it always gave me back the same. For as much as I might say that a lot of my DNA is in BronyCon's, in truth, it's actually the opposite. For as much as I have helped define what BronyCon is, it has helped define who I have become in my adult life, and I would not be the person I am today if not for you all.
Thank you for letting me help you all change the world for the past three years. I hope the memories stick with you, and I know they will with me. This letter is not goodbye. Goodbyes are for sorrow, and I have no sorrow in my leaving. I lay my position in the very capable hands of BronyCon's new convention chair, Jenna O’Connell. She is smart, fresh, and ready to take our convention to the next level. I leave knowing there is a convention full of hard working and dedicated staff and a group of people world wide who enjoy what we do, and want to see what is next for our event.
I will not be saying goodbye our event, this much I swear. No matter what, I will be there for BronyCon. I cannot wait to see what the future holds for us.
Thank you for letting me be BronyCon for a little while. Thank you for everything.
Opening Ceremonies selfie #BronyCon5