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, Inc.

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

Mike Rubin was originally selected as the 1996 Toastmaster, but he passed away before the con, and was replaced by Alan Thiesen.

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
Consonance 1991	March 1-3, 1991	Gytha North
Consonance 1992	March 6-8, 1992	Mark Bernstein, Mike Whitaker
Consonance 1993	March 5-7, 1993	Carol Roper
Consonance 1994	March 4-6, 1994	Larry Warner
	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)
	1997
Consonance 1998	March 6-8, 1998	Barry Childs-Helton, Sally Childs-Helton, Diana Huey, Rand Bellavia, Adam English
Consonance 1999	March 5-7, 1999	Clam Chowder (Bob Esty, John Huff, Cliff Laufer, Kathy Sobansky, Sam Van Wyck, Carl Zwanzig), Gary Ehrlich
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
Consonance 2002	March 1-3, 2002	Tom Smith, Sherman Dorn
Consonance 2003	March 7-9, 2003	Talis Kimberley, Simon Fairbourn, Mark Mandel, Ookla the Mok
Consonance 2004	March 5-7, 2004	Dandelion Wine (Dave Clement and Tom Jeffers), Franklin Gunkelman
Consonance 2005	March 4-6, 2005	Terence Chua, Juanita Coulson, Rand Bellavia and Adam English of Ookla the Mok, Adam Selzer
Consonance 2006	March 3-5, 2006	Bill Roper, Gretchen Roper, Marty Coady Fabish, Peter Beagle, : Chris Conway
Consonance 2007	March 2-4, 2007	Jeff Bohnhoff, Maya Bohnhoff, and Alex Bohnhoff, Dave Rood, Gwen Knighton
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)
Consonance 2009	March 6-8, 2009	Vixy and Tony (Michelle Dockrey and Tony Fabris), Mary Bertke, Playing Rapunzel (Mich Sampson & Marilisa Valtazanou)
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
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,
Consonance 2013	March 1-3, 2013	Ookla the Mok West: (Adam English, Rand Bellavia, and Luis Garcia), Merav Hoffman, "Downtown" Freddy Brown
Consonance 2014	March 7-9, 2014	Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, Jonathan Turner, Robin Holly,Rika Körte
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
Consonance 2016	March 4-6, 2016	Cheshire Moon, Jela Schmidt, Kathleen Sloan
Consonance 2017	March 24-26, 2017	Bill Sutton and Brenda Sutton, Leslie Hudson
Consonance 2018	March 23-25, 2018	The Blibbering Humdingers, Summer Russell, Art Warneke, Heather Dale, Ben Deschamps
Consonance 2019	March 22-24, 2019	TomBoat, Vanessa Cardui
Consonance 2020	March 20–22, 2020	T. J. Burnside-Clapp, Mitchell Burnside-Clapp, Karl-Johan Norén, Bob Laurent, Lindy Laurent

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