Southwest Collaborative Music Convergence 2025 
September 18th-20th
at the Coconino Center for the Arts

Please join us at the Coconino Center for the Arts to celebrate the 2nd Annual Southwest Collaborative Music Convergence! Spanning three days and nights of concerts and presentations, this is a one-of-a-kind experience for musicians and audiences alike. Along with co-director Thollem McDonas, Interference Series has invited a wide variety of collaborative musicians from around the region to create unique sonic experiences that express the dynamics of the Southwest ecologically, socially, politically, as well in response to CCA's two exhibits, Shades of Route 66 and Route 66: Alternative Perspectives. We are grateful for the opportunity to bring together all of these exceptional artists who have spent their lives honing their craft through collaboration with others. Most of all, we are excited to share it with the community! 

 

The Convergence is an extension of a concert held Feb., 2023 in Tucson that Thollem curated as part of the Peaceful Sky Benefit. PSB was organized in order to raise awareness of the increasingly dangerous exercises the U.S. military is conducting in the southern desert. Based on the enthusiasm of the participants and the audiences, it became clear that the Convergence needed to happen again. The artists for this year's Convergence include musicians who participated in both 2023 and 2024 plus local musicians from Flagstaff and the Navajo Nation. Next year we are planning to open it up to more musicians from the region. See/hear you out there!

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A special thanks for funding support from Creative Flagstaff, the City of Flagstaff BBB Tax Revenue Fund, the NAU Honors College, and John Schiek.