Consonance

Consonance is a filk convention held annually in the Bay Area area. It was founded by Bob Laurent in 1990. Since 2001, Consonance has been sponsored by FanFare Music, a 501(c)(3) fannish charity. Since 2013, Consonance has been held in Milpitas, CA at the hotel now known as the Sonesta San Jose.

From 2003 to the present, Consonance has had at least one guest from outside the U.S. every year.

After Buck Coulson passed away early in 1999, Consonance 1999 raised over $5,000 to help pay his final expenses. Consonance 2018 raised over $20,000 so that Santa Cruz filker Summer Russell could have surgery, not covered by her insurance, to cure a painful condition from which she had suffered for two decades.

Convention	Dates	Guests
Consonance 1990	March 2-4, 1990	Barry Childs-Helton, Sally Childs-Helton, Tom Smith, Chris Weber
Consonance 1991	March 1-3, 1991	Gytha North, Rilla Heslin
Consonance 1992	March 6-8, 1992	Mark Bernstein, Mike Whitaker, Nick Smith
Consonance 1993	March 5-7, 1993	Carol Roper, Gary Anderson
Consonance 1994	March 4-6, 1994	Larry Warner, Dr. Jane Robinson
	1995	From 1995 through 1997, Consonance and ConChord (the Southern California filk con) were held in alternate years.
Consonance 1996	March 1-3, 1996	Murray Porath, Timelines (a group that included Teri Wachowiak), Alan Thiesen, Mike Rubin (passed away before the con)
	1997
Consonance 1998	March 6-8, 1998	Barry Childs-Helton, Sally Childs-Helton, Diana Huey, Rand Bellavia, Adam English, Heather Alexander
Consonance 1999	March 5-7, 1999	Clam Chowder (Bob Esty, John Huff, Cliff Laufer, Kathy Sobansky, Sam Van Wyck, Carl Zwanzig), Gary Ehrlich, Cecilia Eng
Consonance 2000	March 3-5, 2000	Steve MacDonald, Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, Heather Borean, Juliane Honisch, Katy Dröge
Consonance 2001	March 2-4, 2001	Urban Tapestry (Debbie Ohi, Jodi Krangle, Allison Durno), Dave Weingart, Mike Stein
Consonance 2002	March 1-3, 2002	Tom Smith, Sherman Dorn, Karen Linsley, Jordin Kare
Consonance 2003	March 7-9, 2003	Talis Kimberley, Simon Fairbourn, Mark Mandel, Ookla the Mok, Jane Mailander
Consonance 2004	March 5-7, 2004	Dandelion Wine (Dave Clement and Tom Jeffers), Franklin Gunkelmann, Steve Savitzky
Consonance 2005	March 4-6, 2005	Terence Chua, Juanita Coulson, Rand Bellavia and Adam English of Ookla the Mok, Adam Selzer, Blake Hodgetts
Consonance 2006	March 3-5, 2006	Bill Roper, Gretchen Roper, Marty Coady Fabish, Peter Beagle, Chris Conway, Puzzlebox (Paul Kwinn, Taunya Gren, Alisa Garcia, Luis Garcia)
Consonance 2007	March 2-4, 2007	Jeff Bohnhoff, Maya Bohnhoff, and Alex Bohnhoff, Dave Rood, Gwen Knighton, Kathy Mar
Consonance 2008	March 7-9, 2008	Graham Leathers and Becca Leathers, Carl William Thiel (of the Fibs), Judi Miller, Summer and Fall (Eva van Daele-Hunt and Crystal Blum), Mary Crowell
Consonance 2009	March 6-8, 2009	Vixy and Tony (Michelle Dockrey and Tony Fabris), Mary Bertke, Playing Rapunzel (Mich Sampson & Marilisa Valtazanou), Erica Neely
Consonance 2010	March 5-7, 2010	Tricky Pixie (Alexander James Adams, S. J. "Sooj" Tucker, and Betsy Tinney), Judi Miller, Chris O'Shea, Juliane Honisch and Katy Dröge
Consonance 2011	March 4-6, 2011	Carla Ulbrich and Joe Giacoio, Denise Gendron, Chris Malme, Lynn Gold
Consonance 2012	March 2-4, 2012	All four of the Three Weird Sisters (Mary Crowell, Teresa Powell, Brenda Sutton, and Gwen Knighton Raftery), Partners in K'Rhyme (W. Randy Hoffman and Kira Heston), Brooke Lunderville, Seanan McGuire
Consonance 2013	March 1-3, 2013	Ookla the Mok West: (Adam English, Rand Bellavia, and Luis Garcia), Merav Hoffman, "Downtown" Freddy Brown, Scott Snyder
Consonance 2014	March 7-9, 2014	Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, Jonathan Turner, Robin Holly, Rika Körte, Mark Osier
Consonance 2015	March 6-8, 2015	Wild Mercy (Barry Childs-Helton, Sally Childs-Helton, Debbie Gates, Jen Midkiff, and Amy McNally), Gary Hanak, Phil Mills, Jim Partridge
Consonance 2016	March 4-6, 2016	Cheshire Moon (Eric Coleman and Lizzie Crowe), Jela Schmidt, Kathleen Sloan, Tim Griffin
Consonance 2017	March 24-26, 2017	Bill Sutton and Brenda Sutton, Leslie Hudson, Deb Baudoin
Consonance 2018	March 23-25, 2018	The Blibbering Humdingers (Scott Vaughan and Kersten Vaughan), Summer Russell, Art Warneke, Heather Dale, Ben Deschamps
Consonance 2019	March 22-24, 2019	TomBoat (Tom Smith and Toyboat), Vanessa Cardui, Char MacKay
Consonance 2020	March 20–22, 2020	Cancelled at the last minute because of COVID. The intended performer guests became 2022 guests. The intended listener guests passed away later in 2020 and were honored in 2021.
Consonance 2021	March 5-7, 2021	Virtual only. Listener guests (deceased): Bob Laurent, Lindy Laurent
Consonance 2022	March 25-27, 2022	T. J. Burnside-Clapp, Mitchell Burnside-Clapp, Karl-Johan Norén

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