Silence CALendar

Doors 7:30pm
Show 8pm
$20/PWYC - BUY TICKETS

Silence presents an evening with Vancouver’s Jared Burrows featuring the guitarist, composer, and educator in a “first meeting” improvising trio with Guelph-based cellist Matt Brubeck and bassist Ben Finley and then exploring the music of Thelonious Monk alongside Michael Herring, Jonathan Kay, and Joe Sorbara.

Burrows’ music draws upon jazz, free improvisation, and European concert music, and is influenced by his frequent collaborations with traditional musicians from China, Ghana, Indian, and Iran. He leads the Jared Burrows Quartet and Sextet, the Vancouver Improviser's Orchestra, and is involved with many other ensembles in the Vancouver area including Les Djangophiles, Naadaleela Ensemble, Thunder Lizard, Dave Robbins' Electric Band, Brad Muirhead 4, Colin MacDonald Pocket Orchestra, Len Aruliah Quintet, Michael Vlatkovich Quintet, Burrows/Houle/Sorbara, Reliable Parts, and The Offering of Curtis Andrews. He teaches at Capilano University. Recent performance highlights include concerts and recordings with mrdangam maestro, Sri Trichy Sankaran, and with legendary Los Angeles reed player, Vinny Golia.

Doors 7:30pm
Show 8pm
$15 - BUY TICKETS


Kaeley Jade is a Métis singer/songwriter, actor, and multidisciplinary artist based in Edmonton, Alberta (amiskwaciwâskahikan). Blending lush imagery and hooky melodic lines to create her own brand of pop-forward indie folk music, Kaeley Jade has performed at venues and festivals across Canada. Past performances include BreakOut West, Coldsnap, JUNOfest, and the Tkaronto Music Festival, and she has shared the stage with Digging Roots, Preston Pablo, Delhi 2 Dublin, and Grammy-winner Bill “Birdsong” Miller. Kaeley’s artistry has been recognized on a national level with an Honourable Mention in the 2023 SOCAN Indigenous Songwriter Awards and a Nomination in the Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards. Reminiscent of artists like Maggie Rogers and Vance Joy, her debut full-length album, Turpentine, is available now.

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Courtyard is an alternative indie pop-rock band from Guelph Canada with Isaac Grant on percussion, Jeremy Maldonado on bass, Matt Morgan and Simon Pequegnat on guitar and Hanna Bennett on lead vocals. Years of original material music was brought to life by these highschool friends when they reunited during a long period of isolation. With eclectic musical backgrounds in jazz, country, big brass bands, choral music, progressive metal groups and producing original beats, Courtyard's collaborative approach to songwriting is genreless, dabbling in its many influences.

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Doors 7:30pm
Show 8pm
$15 - BUY TICKETS

Nameless Friends

Nameless Friends is a rock band that wears matching uniforms, criticizes the government, and goes through a lot of glitter. Grand, funny, and vulnerable, the band does big songs for big feelings. They have been described as modern glam, prog-punk, metal-adjacent, and your new favourite band.

Nameless Friends has performed regularly across Ontario since 2018, including Indie Week 2019 in Toronto, ON; the 2019 #JunosWeekend in London, ON; and showcases for the City of Markham and Western University. They opened for the The Flatliners at the Horseshoe Tavern's sold-out Stranded Fest pre-pandemic, which is available online in audio/video as "Nameless Friends, Live At Stranded Fest". They have most recently shared bills with Wolf Saga, Jason Blaine, and Stuck on Planet Earth, and were featured on the main stage at Deep River Summerfest 2022.

Their debut original album, Blasphemy, will be released everywhere in Spring 2023. As of winter 2022, they have begun The [redacted] Tour, offering exclusive previews of that album across Canada. Nameless Friends is delighted to be female-fronted and a loud supporter of intersectional human rights everywhere.

Their members have been known to include Number One (vocals and guitar), Number Two (bass), Number Three (guitar), Number Four (drums), Number Five (vocals), Number Six (keys), Number Seven (also drums), and all seven of the four of us look forward to making your acquaintance.

Anela + the Early Hours

Anela & The Early Hours formed in 2016, when all 4 members stumbled upon each other while roaming the walls of silent halls in college. They found familiarity at night, as those were the hours music resonated with them the most. Resulting in songs like the earworm that slides its way into the brain and refuses to leave. Their debut album, Yesteryear came out in 2016, followed by a 5 song EP, My Escape in 2019.

In the fall of 2022, they released their best work yet. They’re new EP, Closure, encapsulates the band’s signature sound with new elements that've been anxiously waiting to be heard. Closure is exactly what listeners have been anticipating.

Anela & The Early Hours is available on all major streaming services

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HouseCat

HouseCat is an indie-pop trio from Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario Canada. Composed of Caleb Huizenga, Emily Gilbart, and Shannon Lee, their debut single, Skeleton Man, was just released on Halloween. Critics are calling it the best song of all time since ever before, ever (No source). Their music can be described as catchy, devastatingly sad, and a little morbid.

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Doors 7:30pm

Show 8pm

$20/PWYC at the door

The ongoing collaboration between Halifax’s award-winning minimalist chamber-jazz quartet New Hermitage and Peterborough ON’s Polaris-nominated drone-hymn duo Joyful Joyful was developed out of a summer 2022 festival performance at Sappyfest in Sackville, New Brunswick where New Hermitage and Joyful Joyful, meeting for the first time, joined celebrated Canadian producer & songwriter Michael C. Duguay for an unscripted improvisational performance oriented around his songwriter material. The performance received a standing ovation and the ensemble decided to pursue the project further, with Duguay shifting from principal songwriter to co-composer & producer.

In early June 2023, the 7-piece ensemble recorded their debut collaborative album in multiple community spaces in Halifax’s north end with material composed during a weeklong artist residency at the Hotel Wolfe Island on Wolfe Island, ON, in March ‘23 supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Produced by Duguay, and engineered by Newfoundland-based artist and engineer Jake Nicoll and his solar-powered mobile recording studio, this recording incorporated the group’s expansive musical backgrounds, combining their skills in jazz, classical, drone, folk, ambient, metal, improvisational, minimalist and avant-garde music. The recording will include performances by more than thirty participating musicians from Nova Scotian and Canadian creative music communities.

Mansaray/ O'Reilly/ Sorbara
Violinist Kelvin Mansaray, guitarist Patrick O'Reilly, and percussionist Joe Sorbara will offer an opening set of original compositions in the African American Creative Music tradition. Their music will make you want to dance and might also cause dancers to trip over their own feet.

Joyful Joyful 
Cormac Culkeen - voice 
Dave Grenon - processing

New Hermitage 
Andrew MacKelvie - woodwinds

India Gailey - cello
Ellen Gibling - harp
Ross Burns - guitar

Michael Guguay - keyboards, etc

Come to Silence to meet current volunteers, learn more about what it's like to volunteer at Silence, and ask questions about the Silence experience!

Volunteers are vital for Silence's sustainability and we are always looking for reliable, friendly, people who are passionate about music, art and community!

Drop in at anytime from 6-9, there will be some snacks and drinks available.

A new sketch comedy show each month. Like a snowball rolling down a hill, this show will pick up cast members over the course of the run.

Venue: Silence Sounds. 46 Essex St. Guelph, ON

Doors: 7:30PM / Show: 8:00PM

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sketch-comedy-snowball-tickets-519999361087

This Month's Cast:

• Josh Anderson-Coates
• Emily Vance
• Emma Currie
• Jay Reid
• Rob Lewin

Dates:

• Saturday February 4th
• Saturday March 25th
• Saturday April 22nd (Postponed - new date TBD)
• Saturday May 27th
• Saturday June 24th

Price: $12 online/ $15 at the door

Accessibility Info: The Main Space at Silence is wheelchair-accessible (34 clearance on doors) however there are no automatic doors. There is an accessible all-gender single-stall bathroom, with a round knob on the door. The show may make use of flashing lights or loud noises.

CD/ALBUM RELEASE SHOW!
David James Allen & The Growing Machine [Solo/One-Man Band] performing at SILENCE in Guelph, Ontario.
with very Special Guests Geordie Gordon & Joseph Gallo Jr.

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Listening to David James Allen, it often feels as if he channeling every cool record you’ve ever owned. Built upon a rootsy funkiness that’s part JJ Cale and The Band, accentuated with shades of Daptone and Bill Withers, his songs spin off into emotional realms populated by the likes of Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt and Harry Nilsson. As with all great art, the magic is conjured through alchemy, and more importantly, through a connection to a level of consciousness few of us have the capacity to access. � David James Allen has been releasing music for more than a decade, but over the past five years—after moving eastward from Toronto to the wilds of Prince Edward County—he has been startlingly prolific. Beginning with 2017’s When The Demons Come and carrying on through 2020’s Radiations and the following year’s The Architect, Allen has been steadily amassing a remarkable body of work that stands alongside those of any of his Canadian contemporaries. � Now comes By The Summertime, an album that keeps Allen’s winning streak solidly intact. Allen cites Canadian poets Al Purdy and Nelson Ball for inspiring many of his new lyrics, but he could surely write his own book based on the backstories to each song on By The Summertime. Finding the sweet spot between simplicity and boundary pushing is a goal many artists seek with varying degrees of success. For David James Allen though, it just seems to be where he naturally resides.
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Geordie Gordon
As a multi-instrumentalist, Geordie Gordon has spent 20 years playing almost every role possible in a band. He is best known for backing up talented artists such as , , , and Born in Guelph, Ontario to a folk music family, Geordie was set free amongst his father’s () instruments. He taught himself fiddle, mandolin, drums and keyboards as a child and experimented with cast-off tape recorders and drum machines in the basement. As a teenager, he was part of , Guelph's youngest avant-garde pop group, gigging with and on the weekends while attending high school during the week.
In 2008, Geordie formed The Magic as a vehicle for his own song writing. Using disco-inspired grooves to deliver hook laden tunes, The Magic toured The U.S. and Europe and released two albums: 2012's Ragged Gold and 2016's Nightfalling.
Recently, Geordie has been setting off on his own, producing his own music and performing solo under his own name. Collecting a lifetime's worth of musical knowledge, he has been creating powerful, emotional music. His acoustic guitar, lush synth orchestration and driving analog beats meld into a striking and modern singer-songwriter style.
Geordie was a player on U.S. Girls' 2020 Polaris Prize shortlisted record Heavy Light and appears on the just announced Islands album Islomania.