Silence CALendar

An evening of intimate duos featuring some of Canada’s finest instrumentalists.

First Act: Conversations in the Key of Be (Who You Are)

Master of the shakuhachi, Gerard Yun, and electronics wizard Jim Harley begin the festival with an invitation into deep listening spaces.

Second Act: Those MandoCello Fellows

Long-time Silence friends and extremely tall people, Kevin Breit and Matt Brubeck go low
in this unusual dialogue between bass family members who rarely, if ever, have a sit-down.


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

Tickets: $25 or with a Festival Pass

An evening devoted to unexpected convergences and sonorities. Dialogues between decolonizing texts and improvising musicians featuring the words and voices of two gifted writers, Tom King and Rinaldo Walcott. 

• 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin

Kathryn Patricia Cobbler, Rebecca Hennessy, Michael Herring (featuring the voice of Tom King) 

•  The Long Emancipation 

Kathryn Patricia Cobbler, Rebecca Hennessy, Michael Herring, Rinaldo Walcott

Times:
Doors: 7:30 PM 
First Performance: 8:00 PM

Tickets: $25 or with a Festival Pass

Time:
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Beer Tent Hang with food and the infectious sounds of Guelph’s own The Social Committee buskers (led by trombonist David Lane). Silence indoor and outdoor.

Sponsored by Wellington Brewery

• Music Lessons featuring Bob Wiseman (solo piano)

An intimate encounter with one of Canada’s most original voices on the piano in dialogue with readings from his book Music Lessons (ECW 2020). 

“Music Lessons is funny, tender and at times profound. It is a brilliant and unusual memoir of a life dedicated to music told by a silver-tongued storyteller.” ― Scott Thompson of The Kids in the Hall

Time:
Doors: 2:30 PM
Show: 3:00 PM

Tickets: $25 or with a Festival Pass

• A Glimpse of What’s Beautiful

Named in celebration of the great William Parker, this newly formed improvising quintet comes together in search of a glimpse.   

Jonathan Kay (tenor saxophone)
Dan Loughrin (guitar, effects)
Nicole Marchesseau (piano)
Joe Sorbara (drums, percussion)
Claire Whitehead (violin)

• This Strange Container

Three of the most extraordinary voices in Canada come together in an exploration of sound and story, of the joyfully bizarre and weirdly wonderful human voice. Along for the ride: a playful friend to tap, knock, scrape, and smash out some support.

Christine Duncan (voice, theremin, etc.)
Richard Marsella (voice, guitar, clarinet, etc.)
Joe Sorbara (drums, percussion, etc.)
Ronley Teper (voice, accordion, etc.)

Times:

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

Tickets: $25 or with a Festival Pass

RiverChants Redux (including vinyl launch of recording)

The Silence Collective: featuring Christine Duncan, Daniel Fischlin, Jonathan Kay, Nicole Marchesseau, Lewis Melville, Joe Sorbara, Carey West, and Claire Whitehead.

A long-awaited replay of the Canada Council project recorded, but never performed live, by the Silence Collective during the pandemic. RiverChants aims to deepen our understanding of the plight of water as well as to celebrate the sinuous waterways that surround and shape the city of Guelph. Featuring never-before-heard instruments, a wonderful palette of new musical voices added to the Silence Collective, and Jeff Bird’s exquisite experimental film about water created specifically for the project.

“The Silence Collective is an ensemble of improvisational musicians that have toured and recorded extensively together. With poetry, music, ambient noise, the sounds of the world all around us, “RiverChants” feels like the universe tuning up before something magical happens.”

–– Samantha Simmonds-Ronceros

Tickets: $25 or with a Festival Pass

BUY TICKETS

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

LUVR - Dreamy Indie Pop with some spice.
https://linktr.ee/luvrmusic

Living Room for Small - Living Room for Small is an Alternative Pop band based out of Toronto Canada.
We are a band, Not a Living Room
https://linktr.ee/livingroomforsmall

WAYLEY - Indie/Folk-Pop Artist
https://www.instagram.com/wayleymusic
Doors: 7:30 PM
Show: 8:00 PM
Tickets: $10 in advance

$10/pwyc at the door. 

Tickets $10/ PWYC