The full music schedule can be found HERE
Featured Music Guest 2025: Clearly Guilty
With additional performances by:
Toby Danger is a rag-rag group of elder Millennials writing funny rock and roll songs and making them family friendly because their wives told them to. Like “Weird” Al with distortion, The Aquabats with slightly less outfit coordination, or Tenacious D without the sex appeal, Toby Danger is mixing up slick riffs, huge drums, and an exciting (if a little out of breath) stage show. (from Cleveland OH)
Chuck Shiring and Brenda Shaffer-Shiring are a match made in fandom. They met as members of Starfleet International’s (now-defunct) Pittsburgh-based U.S.S. Potemkin, and got to know one another as members of its fanfiction-writing workshop. They started filking at Shore Leave, about 20 years ago, and haven’t stopped since. In addition to Shore Leave and Confluence, they’ve performed at Philcon and the Festival of the Living Rooms, and have had a couple of songs on Filkcast. They’re both avid readers and enjoy following sf media. They live in Lower Burrell, PA, have one son (also called Chuck), and both work for a certain local bird-themed supermarket chain.
Twill Distilled (nerdcore)
Maddie Cardoza (indie pop/steampunk)
Sirens & Liars (videogame music)
Brimstone Rhine (mythpunk)
Nathaniel Johnstone (steampunk)
WASD (videogame music)
Heroes 4 Hire (nerdcore)
With performance ASL for select concerts by Judi Miller
Judi Miller has been active in the filk community since the 1980s. She won the Pegasus Award for Best Performer in 2006 and 2017 and was admitted to the Filk Hall of Fame in 2017. Judi is best known for her sign-language musical interpretation, which she has done for concerts at our conference and elsewhere for many years. She was our 30th Anniversary Honors Guest in 2019 and we are very glad that she can be with us again.
Staff:
Music-Programming Coordinator
W. Randy Hoffman is a filker and an aficionado of many types of fannish music who originally hails from Pittsburgh but currently resides in Maryland. He has written an enormous number of songs, has won numerous songwriting contests, has been nominated for seven Pegasus Awards, has been a member of the Filk Hall of Fame since 2019, and has been running the music program at Confluence—which he considers his home convention—since 1995.
Randy brings his own brand of wacky fun to every Confluence. We are always grateful for his willingness to put in the enormous volunteer hours it takes every year to put on the successful Confluence music track. Email Randy at: music@confluence-sff.org
Sound Technicians:
Mark Peters has been a member of the filk community since at least 1999. In addition to running sound here at Confluence and at Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF) and Marcon in Columbus, OH, he is a member of the OVFF convention committee, often providing a calm voice in a sea of chaos. Mark has a passion for filk, advocating for filkers and other performers who might be overlooked or not as well-known as they should be. He was inducted to the Filk Hall of Fame in 2022.
Roberta Slocumb has been a member of the filk community for many years and has run the music programming at Marcon in Columbus for the past decade or so.
In case you glossed over this detail, W. Randy Hoffman, Mark Peters and Judi Miller are all Filk Hall of Famers! Our lucky attendees get to experience their Confluence music with Hall-of-Fame-level organization and presentation. Just thought you might want to know. 😊
Need to contact the music program staff?
Use the below form or send an email to: music@confluence-sff.org