The Confluence Concert series for next season was announced last night.  There are eight concerts:

• August 20th – Side by Side.  The Confluence team will spend a week in workshops with a group of young artists.  The public concert resulting from that is on August 20th at Heliconian Hall (which is the venue for all their concerts unless otherwise specified).
• September 25th and 27th – Global Voices.  Suba Sankaran curates a concert of a cappella works from different musical traditions.  The 27th show is at some place at Queen and Shaw that I didn’t catch!
• November 18th and 20th – Diaspora: Songs from Home.  Andrew Downing curates a show of music by artists from all over the world who now call Toronto home.
• December 9th and 10th – Deepest December.  Seasonal tunes curated by Patricia O’Callaghan.
• February 8th – A tba concert curated by the season’s Young Associate.
• March 5th and 6th – A collaboration with the Canadian Art Song Project featuring works by female Canadian composers.  Jonelle Sills and Jesse Blumberg will sing with Helen Becqué and Steven Philcox at the piano.
• April 17th and 18th – Metal Mozart:  Teiya Kasahara does Mozart as you have so far failed to imagine it.
• May 28th and 29th – The Beckwith Effect.  Larry of that ilk curates a concert of music by his father John, some of his father’s students and his teacher.  Three generations of Canadian music!

In typical Confluence style its nothing if not eclectic.  I still. think that after eight years this is one of the city’s most innovative and interesting concert series.

But wait, there’s more… there are still two concerts left in 2025/26:

• April 11th and 12th. The Manadala: The Beauty of Impermanence.  I don’t know if Suba Sankaran’s show will be exactly the same as the 2021 on-line version but I’m sure it will be close.
• May 22nd and 23rd.  Queens, Divas and Icons, Oh My!  Another Teiya Kasahara extravaganza.