Silence CALendar

Doors: 7:30 PM
Show: 8:00 PM
Tickets: $15 in Advance/ $20 at the door

Silence Presents provides an accessible venue for touring and professional artists to perform for the Guelph community. 

Our new album is out and we are coming to Guelph as part of our album launch celebration tour.

Have a listen/purchase music here: https://surefiresweat.bandcamp.com

For the show: http://www.silencesounds.ca/silence-presents-surefire-sweat/

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i hear django presents Nigel Wearne (AUS)
Silence w/Benjamin Dakota Rogers
SUN 2 FEB 2020
Doors 2pm // Show 2:30pm
TIX $15
Tickets

Nigel Wearne is an Australian singer-songwriter, luthier, poet and gleaner. Equipped with personally handcrafted instruments, his music melds finger-style guitar, ‘up’-hammer banjo, folk and honest storytelling. Gleaning diverse influence from Kelly Joe Phelps, Townes Van Zandt and Sun Kil Moon, he tells stories of forgotten rebels, wandering poets and his love of eggs.

Almost a decade ago, he spent 3 months travelling across Canada from west to east. From the Rocky Mountains, to the mosaic of Montréal and back to the graffiti adorned streets of Toronto, it was a trip marked with poetic meanderings and self-discovery. By the time he got to Halifax he had a bag of new songs that became his 2012 album 'Black Crow'. 'Black Crow' garnered wide critical acclaim including a 4 star review in Rolling Stone Magazine, a nomination for Best Country Album at The Age Music Victoria Awards and it debuted at #1 on the AMRAP Great Southern Charts.

Returning to Canada in 2019, Nigel was an Official Showcase Artist at Folk Alliance International in Montreal. He experienced his first ‘true’ winter and his love for Canada was reignited. In September, he returned once again to play the Troubadour Festival and to showcase at Folk Music Ontario. February marks his 3rd Canadian tour in 12 months and the Great White North is fast becoming his home away from home.

Wearne’s current album 'Drawing Circles' is a solo record that’s raw, compelling and reflective. With songs born of shadows and lucid reveries, the 14-song double album explores the dark corners of creativity and the irregular swells of life. A storyteller at heart, he paints lyrical pictures with “the narrative-fuelled prose of Paul Kelly” - Beat Magazine. “One of Australia’s emerging songwriters” – Tone Deaf. “Warmth flecked with grit…beauty awaits” 4 Stars – Rolling Stone.

www.nigelwearne.com

BENJAMIN DAKOTA ROGERS
Hailing from the countryside of rural Ontario, Benjamin funnels his penchant for starry nights and nostalgia into his stylized folk sound, reaching far beyond to include influences of roots, blues and country music.

Benjamin found a passion and purpose in folk music after inheriting his Great-Grandfather’s violin at the tender age of seven. From budding musician to awe inspiring performer, his love of creating meaningful music has taken the reins and garnered much attention from folk artists and enthusiasts alike. “Rogers’ unique voice,
thought-provoking lyrics, energetic performances and dynamic fiddle techniques leave this up-and-coming musician in a class of his own.” – InSpades Magazine.

Benjamin's music is genuine, emotionally-charged folk, that can only be delivered from the honesty, strength and grit of a farm boys hands. With his latest release 'Better by Now', Rogers continues to redefine the genre with an infinite sound evolution that promises to deepen the path he’s already carved for himself for years to come. This is an album that can only be delivered from the honesty, strength and grit of a farm boy’s hands.

www.benjamindakotarogers.com

DOORS @ 7:00 PM
SHOW @ 7:30 PM
Tickets: $15 

A concert of 21st century cello music that links ancient and modern, East and West, nature and human. Including compositions by Canadian, American, and European composers of various genders, the genre line is hazy at times, the textural spectrum rich. Program:
Philip Glass – Orbit; The Secret Agent; The Paris Sky
Kaija Saariaho – Sept Papillons
Fjóla Evans – Augun
Giovanni Sollima – Alone
India Yeshe Gailey – untitled 
Michael Harrison – Just Ancient Loops

Bio:


India Yeshe Gailey is a cellist, composer, and improviser based in Montréal. Compelled to play music that speaks to our time, she draws from many eras and genres, performing as a solo artist and collaborator around the world. In 2017, she released her first solo album, Lucid, a collaboration with three emerging Canadian composers, which was nominated for “Classical Recording of the Year” by Music Nova Scotia. More recently, she earned her Master of Music degree under the tutelage of Matt Haimovitz at McGill’s Schulich School of Music. Other recent highlights include working with Philip Glass at Scotia Festival, winning a Graduate Mobility Award from McGill to perform in Germany, and holding a fellowship at Garth Newel Music Center in Virginia. India tours regularly with the environmental chamber jazz quartet New Hermitage, as well as performing with several other ensembles. A multidisciplinary human, she also enjoys making visual art.

Website: https://indiayeshe.com/

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Doors: 7:30 PM
Show: 8:00PM

Tickets: $15/PWYC

Silence is excited to welcome back Steve Cowan! 

Guitarists Adam Cicchillitti and Steve Cowan have received several media accolades over the past years: the renowned American magazine Classical Guitar praised Cicchillitti as a “superb” and “exceptional Canadian guitarist” and Cowan as “one of Canada’s top contemporary classical guitarists”. The two award-winning musicians and long-time friends joined forces in 2015 to form a duo that focuses on expanding the guitar repertoire through collaborations with living composers. The ensemble’s vision aims to breakdown traditional notions of classical music presentation through their unconventional programming, curated to stimulate the classical connoisseur and the general public alike by bridging classical and popular music genres. Having recently collaborated on an album of Spanish guitar music under the Analekta label, the duo toured the Canadian Atlantic Provinces with Debut Atlantic in 2018 and will tour the Prairie Provinces with Prairie Debut in 2020. In 2019, they will premiere fourteen new works by Canadian and American composers, including commissions of ten pieces through the Canada Council and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. 2019 and 2020 will culminate with tours of Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, the United States and Europe.  

www.stevecowanmusic.com

www.adamcicchillitti.com

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3pm Concert, $10/PWYC

Join the Guelph Youth Jazz Ensembles as they share a couple sets of standard jazz demonstrating what each group has been working on this season. Under the direction of Brent Rowan & Tyler Wagler the ensembles are also preparing for a trip to Humber College later in the month for the Next Generation Jazz Festival.

Visit us: gyje.org
Contact info is music@gyje.org
FB Facebook.com/gyje.org
Twitter @Guelphyouthjazz

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Doors 7:30pm

Show 8:00pm

Tickets $10

Pipedown! provides an accessible venue for emerging artists to perform indie and/or rock music to audiences with similar tastes.  

Armed with a collection of youth-driven anthems, this kinetic quintet has amassed a cult following, spiraling out from their hometown of Kitchener,ON, where Safe As Houses’ bandmates Elliot Anton (guitar, vocals) and Bensen Carter (cello, bass, vocals), along with brothers Andrew Laughton (guitar, vocals) and Thomas Laughton (drums, vocals), and Lauren Taylor (violin, vocals) laid the band's monumental foundation.
https://www.safeashouses.ca/#music-section

With special guest:

London Hammer is a 4 piece, alternative rock band, formed and based at University of Guelph 

Listen to them on Spotify!

Doors: 7:30PM 
 Show: 8:00PM 
Tickets $15 

Silence Presents provides an accessible venue for touring and professional artists to perform for the Guelph community. 

An intimate concert in one of Ontario’s finest independent art and performance spaces. I played here in 2018 and am so looking forward to a return visit.

David Essig was introduced to Canadian audiences in 1971 as a “talented newcomer” at the legendary Mariposa Folk Festival. Now, nearly 50 years later, he continues to pursue an international career as one of Canada’s finest roots music performers. He has appeared at every major folk festival in Canada and at concerts throughout the world.An intimate concert in one of Ontario’s finest independent art and performance spaces. I played here in 2018 and am so looking forward to a return visit. 

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Join us from 7pm - 9pm to celebrate the opening of a new exhibition of works by Marnie Dallan

Guelph based artist, Marnie Dallan, is a painter and self published children’s author/illustrator. With a background in graphic design, she became a full time visual artist in 2006. Marnie’s recent series of abstract oil paintings are inspired by the subconscious and play. Her colourful paintings excite and spark the imagination. She has exhibited in many solo and group shows across Ontario and has collectors throughout Canada. When she’s not painting or working on her next children’s book, you will most likely find Marnie playing music and jamming with friends in her cozy studio.

Artist Statement

My current series of abstract oil paintings developed from an experiment in freedom and play. Without preliminary sketches, I joyfully allow my subconscious to lead each piece in colour and line.

Entertainment will be music by Guelph based singer/songwriters Chris Dallan and Scott Mackay

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Session 2 of 4

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Napoleon
w/Late Kings

Sunday, February 16, 2020
Silence
Doors: 7:00 - Show: 7:30
All Ages

$10.00
Tickets available at Eventbrite
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Hailing from Toronto, ON, Napoleon has been garnering attention since day one within their local Toronto scene. The band has managed to develop an impressive resume in the short period of time they have been active, largely thanks to their highly energetic live show. Napoleon has played with bands such as Single Mothers, Indian Handcrafts, Heart Attack Kids, Sven Gali, and more. With singles like "Deal With the Devil" and "Formaldehyde" as well as a general well reception of their latest EP "Apostasy," Napoleon continues to grow and expand onto the music scene as one of Toronto's hottest bands.

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Doors 7:30pm
Show 8:00pm
Tickets $10

Pipedown! provides an accessible venue for emerging artists to perform indie and/or rock music to audiences with similar tastes.  

KING DICE
One has been playing keyboards for a zillion years. The other has been playing drums for a zillion minus 3 years. In the interest of pushing boundaries and having fun, it was decided that a kickass electropunk duo would be formed between the two of them. Imagine the sound of video game music melting and then turned up to 11, and you'll get the idea of the band's sonic identity.
https://soundcloud.com/kingdiceband 

With special guests: 

Mac N' Sleeze
We play music and yell and drink beer and occasionally get naked.
https://www.facebook.com/macnsleeze/

Ungler 
Chris and Meg singing wonky songs about having crushes on people. Neither of them really learned know how to play their instruments cause they were too busy playing with their cats.
https://ungler.bandcamp.com/releases  
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Incorporate group practices into grieving processes.
Enter a supportive space for lament, ritual, and loss.
10:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Silence. Registration $75

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Impressionistic soundscapes on world instruments
Visual projections by Christine Mills
Move. Meditate. Murmur.
8 p.m. $20

Persian Poetry and Music (معرفی شاعران پارسی همراه با کنسرت موسیقی)
By Reza Yazdanpanah
last Sunday of every month
2:30 pm - 4 pm.
$15 suggestion donation or PWYC
Silence - 46 Essex St. near downtown Guelph

Description: After hosting two concerts in Guelph, featuring the poetry of Rumi, I now appreciate that many Canadian only know Mowlavi’s poetry (Rumi). Iran, however, boasts dozens of poets, some dating back thousands of years. These poems are still familiar to Persians and especially musicians. In this spirit, it is worth noting that a carpet in the United Nations building is adorned with a famous poem by Saadi Shirazi. The poem is:
“Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.
If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.
If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain.”

Once a month, beginning in October, I want to share my artistic culture with the community of Guelph. During these Sunday afternoons, I will play and sing music, as well as read translations of great Persian poets.
I hope you can join me.
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Join James Wood as he proves that time doesn't exist.
Who says criticism has to be critical?

In this Thinking Spaces presentation James Wood will discuss Plastic Time, relating to a practice he calls Optimistic Criticism (OC). The former, in brief, is a method of rhythmic and temporal analysis and notation he is developing after years of frustrations with traditional notation and analytical systems. OC is a description of his general critical approach, which incorporates artistic research and a questioning of institutional biases of justification. This talk will include some performance and hands-on activities.

James Woods is a musician, academic and writer who has performed across the world. He has had poetry published in The Moth, Kindling Journal and The Looking Glass. In 2017 he was shortlisted for the National Poetry Competition. In 2014 he won (with Donkey Zoo) the inaugural Cheltenham Jazz Festival Award. In 2017 he was awarded the Vinson Award from the University of York for academic excellence. He is studying for his PhD at Leiden University and is an affiliate member of ARC (Art_Research_Convergence).

The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series, Thinking Spaces, considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting. Throughout the year, this group organizes public talks, workshops, special events, and concerts, as well as reading sessions that may include music, performance, film, academic texts, fiction, etc., based around critical thinking on improvisation. Readings are circulated in advance, and may also include short informal presentations by current IICSI students, artists or community groups.

Doors: 7:30 PM
Show: 8:00PM
Tickets $15 at the door

Guelph's own Vertical Squirrels (Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, Lewis Melville, and Ted Warren) are hosting a residency at Silence through the Fall and Winter of 2019-20, featuring performances that highlight the group in improvised dialogue with special guests.

Scott Merritt is a Canadian recording artist and music producer who has worked throughout North America since 1980.During that time he has released six albums under his own name on labels that include Duke Street Records and Maple Music in Canada and IRS Records and Universal Records in the US.  
He has also produced and mixed other Canadian songwriters and bands at his studio, the cottaGe.

While still a kid in the 70's, Merritt began working out his musical kinks in garage bands around his home town of Brantford, Ontario, playing everywhere from CYO dances to Blood Donor clinics.  Eventually, as band life began to feel confining, he quietly gathered up a collection of original songs and struck out on his own, playing colleges, coffeehouses and festivals in Ontario and soon, around North America.
By the early 80's he had released two independent releases, Desperate Cosmetics (1979) and, Serious Interference (1981) (Little Jona Records).  
He sold both out of the back of his van as he toured, gathering critical press support and developing a loyal fan base along the way. Serious Interference, remarkably, garnered him unsolicited commercial radio airplay which would eventually lead to a succession of recording contracts, tours and nominations throughout the following years and six releases.

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