Welcome to Consonance

• A Weekend of Friendship and Song
• Concerts, Events, and Circles Schedule
• Glossary of Filk Terms Often Used at Consonance

A Weekend of Friendship and Song

2025 is here and the convention is this weekend! We're so glad to see you join us.

If you haven't got a paper copy of the Program Book or you want to save a few trees, you can download the PDF.

CONCERTS, EVENTS, and CIRCLES SCHEDULE

Function Space Details

• Aloft has a Quiet Time policy past 1 am every night
• A dinner run has been planned for Sunday

• the BOARD ROOM is the Reg Desk --- where you sign up to be a member of the convention, and to perform in 2x10 concerts. the INFO DESK also lives here. Make Requests for the Request Concert, or get other info for the convention.
• the CON SUITE (room 115) was open on Friday, and is available 9 am Saturday and Sunday.
  Snacks are packaged to disinvite germs.
• TACTIC 1 (one!) is our HUCKSTERS (Dealers Hall) - 4 to 6 pm FRI,
  11 to 6 pm SAT,
  11 am to 3 pm SUN.
  

Time Conversion Key

• Mountain: +1
• Central: +2
• US Eastern: +3
• UK: +7
• Europe: +8
• Australia Eastern: Tomorrow -6

US time switches to Daylight Savings between Saturday and Sunday this weekend. Europe and many other regions who tweak the clocks twice (or more) per year are other weekends. Most notably the European Union doesn't switch for another 2 weeks.
 
Travellers be safe and aware of the Time when returning home.

This is Spring Forward weekend. (at 2 am SUN our clocks set to 3 am instead.)

2025

• Friday 3/07
• Saturday 3/08
• Sunday 3/09

GLOSSARY OF FILK TERMS USED OFTEN AT CONSONANCE

• This is by no means a complete list.
• We may add others here, but always feel free to ask if you aren't sure what someone means.

  2x10s

  Two songs or ten minutes per person/group, whichever comes first. Come to hear some old favorites and great surprises. Sign up at the registration desk Friday and Saturday before the concert. We sometimes have 2x10 on Sundays or at a pre-set time chunk on Saturdays.

  One Shots are the same thing but only permit a single song.

  In either case setup is part of the time alloted, so be joyous and simple in getting up there.

  Theme Circle

  Come share and listen to songs about ...some particular topic... or what has shaped them or relates closely. These are usually a half hour or hour in length.

  Dealer's Room

  Where you can slip aside to chat with the purveyors of fine songbooks, discs, guitar straps, or assorted other fannish merchandise.

  Drum Circle

  Got time to thrum with a drum, shake shiny ring things on a tamborine, or make other patterned noise? Engage with rhythmic instruments in a collaborative and improvisatorial spirit.

  In a resonant ballroom and seated in a wide circle we can immerse in the musical experience.

  If unusual instruments entice you, you might consider visiting the Try A Ukelele session this year.

  I Can Follow That

  Your hand's up, your song in mind fits the theme of or otherwise directly relates to the previous song, so you'd like to be next or very soon, to keep up the fun.

  This might be all the organized we get at a Kaos style circle.

  Poker Chip Bardic

  This isn't a performing group of playing cards singing tales of ancient Scandinavia (though we'd be highly amused) - it's a method to provide a large "campfire ring" of people a fair share of turns, without being sad that the filker's ring is so populated there will never be a turn for someone who sat in the wrong place. The poker chip can also be passed to someone you'd like to indulge to take another turn.

  Pick, Pass, Play

  These are the standard options dropped in the lap of whoever's next in a Standard Bardic Circle. "Play" in this case means perform, but doesn't insist on any sort of stage, nor that the song or poetic endeavor must be a solo. Art is for sharing.

  Kindness

  Be kind to yourself and others.

  If a singer warns that these may not be the lyrics you expect - that's the folk process, prepare to be delighted.

  If someone expresses specifically they do not desire to be recorded - please turn your recording functions OFF to honor this request.