Shari Ulrich at Silence
Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 7:30 PM – 11 PM Doors at 7:30pm Show at 8:00pm $25 Silence Presents provides an accessible venue for touring and professional artists to perform for the Guelph community. Shari Ulrich is touring Ontario to share the music from her 9th solo album Back To Shore released at the end of June on Borealis records. It is her 25th release including her work with Pied Pumkin, The Hometown Band, UHF (with Bill Henderson and Roy Forbes), BTU (with Barney Bentall & Tom Taylor) and The High Bar Gang. Shari will perform songs from Back to Shore along with a selection of her original songs from 1976 to the present, on piano, guitar, mandolin & violin with her signature spontaneity, warmth and sense of humour. She encourages concert goers to write her at info@estherrecords.com with any special requests for a specific song theyre hoping to hear…
Pipedown! Presents: Mauve Grove // Animatist // Still Sound
August 10, 2019 – Doors 7PM – Show 8PM – Tickets $10
June 2019 Music
Silence Presents: Eguiluz Trio Monday, June 24, 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM Doors: 7:30 PM Show: 8:00 PM Tickets: $15 With Ontologies, Géraldine Eguiluz and her accomplices, violist Jean René and bassist Stéphane Diamantakiou, interrogate the very nature of being. Nine musical drawings are at the root of this twelve-part work, which is further animated by diverse influences: Quantum physics, the symbolic language of biology, and the YI King. This trio, between its silences, pursues a musical equilibrium with the sacred numerological implications of multiples of three and the Holy Trinity. It balances the intimacy of chamber music; the folk-music earthiness of the Bulgarian flute, kalimba and guitar; and the strength and vulnerability of the pocket trumpet, two male voices, and one female voice. The trio evokes the cosmos within the freedom of listening without intention and of playing away from the roots of tonality. These are spontaneous, improvised compositions…
Silence Presents: Mingjia / Pomes / Samson Wrote
Thursday August 1, 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM Mingjia (pronounced MING-jee-yah) is a vocalist, improviser, composer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, & active contributor to the ever-growing Toronto arts scene. Recognized for her technical & stylistic versatility as a vocalist & her fresh sound as a composer, Mingjia has performed with, composed for & recorded with a plethora of musical groups. These include her own group the Tortoise Orchestra, as well as James Fernando, the science of what ?, David Occhipinti, Juliet Palmer, GREX (led by Alex Samaras), Pleasurecraft, SonuSkapos Jazz Orchestra, Obsolete Vernacular, Makes Shapes, Celeste, Andi, & more. She has performed at various venues and festivals across Canada, China & the United States, & has produced 2 releases as a band leader. Feel Seen, her most recent EP, is described by the WholeNote as “beautiful, mature and exceptionally coherent”. A graduate & the Oscar Peterson Prize recipient of Humber College’s Bachelor of…
Silence Open Mic feat: Carla Reimer
Wednesday June 26, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM Doors and sign-up at 6:30 PMEvent at 7:00 PM $5/PWYC Calling beginning, intermediate and advanced artists, poets, musicians, magicians (and more!) to come out and perform on the first and third Wednesday of every month! Sign up at Silence begins at 6:30 pm, performance between 7-9 pm. Silence provides P.A., piano, drum kit, mics, bongos and atmosphere!
May 2019 Music
Fauna is intentionally minimalist, in her use of stage set up and melodies. by adding layers of organic and electronic loops, fauna forms a full atmospheric sound you can close your eyes to. fauna is a drawn out daydream, and an embodiment of healing. fauna croons songs about every feeling ever, power imbalances, buried over bouncy beats under a blanket fort of forget-me-nots. Place for Bands: Blessed & Eddyevvy P4B’s favourite B.C buds are coming back to Guelph right in the middle of their gargantuan North American tour in support of their debut LP ‘Salt’Blessed have been a long time favourite of the P4B gang and probably one of the most impressive rock outfits in the country right now. Definitely one you don’t wanna miss!Listen to their brand new record here!https://blessedband.bandcamp.com/ Local loveable favourites EddyEvvy will be joining Blessed to bring their signature brand of doom and gloom to the…
April 2019 Music
DREAM SEER – Sarnia, ONhttps://dreamseer.bandcamp.com/album/good-as-gone Silence Presents: Otterville Saturday April 20, 2019 Doors: 7:30 PMShow: 8:00 PMTickets $15, available on Eventbrite Andrew Downing’s Otterville “…superb arrangements that blur the instrumental tones into a dream-like luminescent whole.” All About Jazz Otterville is Andrew Downing’s foray into the complex simplicity of his ancestral Tobacco Belt lineage. The music is nostalgic, evocative, peaceful and humourous, finding influence from Kurt Weill, Billy Strayhorn, Erik Satie and Bill Frisell. The magical layering of lap steel guitar, vibraphone, cello, saxophone, bass and drums creates the backdrop for the subtleness of the music to quietly squeeze the listener into emotional submission. The group’s debut double CD, simply called Otterville, was released in 2016 to critical acclaim including a JUNO nomination. featuring Andrew Downing – cello Christine Bougie – lap steel Michael Davidson – vibraphone Tara Davidson – alto saxophone Paul Mathew – bass Nick Fraser – drums Silence…
March 2019 Music
Silence Presents: Canadian Women Composers Project Sunday March 24, 2019 Doors at 1:30 PMConcert at 2:00 PM Tickets available here. The Canadian Women Composers (CWC) Project is a non-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing greater awareness to vocal music by Canadian women founded in 2016 by Canadian soprano Clarisse Tonigussi. In the 2018/19 Toronto season, The CWC Project is continuing to support the music of Canadian women in a concert series spanning multiple genres: from folk to opera. The CWC Project concert with Silence Presents features Toronto based jazz singer Laura Swankey and a band of Canadian female jazz musicians behind her. The music on the programme is written by local female/ female-identifying/ non-binary composers including Lieke van der Voort, Tova Kardonne, and Juliet Palmer, some of whom have been commissioned by The CWC Project to write works for the performance. Laura SwankeyCanadian vocalist/ composer/ improviser Laura Swankey is known for her…
February 2019 Music
Place For Bands Presents: Nicolette and the Nobodies wsg Matt Monoogian February 16, 2019 Celebrating Nicolette & The Nobodies debut record release, “Devil’s Run”. Fronted by Nicolette Hoang, The Nobodies are a hand-picked assortment of Guelph locals who bring their surf, punk, and pop sensibilities to Nicolette’s appreciation of ’60s and ’70s country music. Devil’s Run, was recorded at Lincoln County Social Club in Toronto in the summer of 2018. It will be released independently on February 15, 2019. Listen to their single “Roses” on bandcamp now! Matt Monoogian has been sitting in the shadows; honing his craft, searching for his voice and percolating disparate influences for his sophomore album, and it shows. The cinematic full-length from this unassuming sideman has the depth of singer-songwriter contemporaries such as Patrick Watson or Destroyer while harkening to the dark-folk of Timber Timbre and Okkervil River. His sweetly pining vocals reach deep into…
January 2019 Music
Silence Presents: Karen Ng & Scott Thomson January 29, 2019 Doors at 7:30Show at 8:00Tickets available $15 at the door or on Eventbrite Karen Ng Toronto based improviser Karen Ng can be found in many different projects across a wide range of music. She has appeared on stage with Andy Shauf, L CON, Happiness Project, Do Make Say Think, Fresh Snow, Bry Webb, Woodshed Orchestra and Broken Social Scene. Currently Karen is involved in several improvising ensembles in the city including Josh Cole Quintet, Craig Dunsmuir and the Dun Dun Band, DELVE, In Between, Rob Clutton Trio as well as various ad hoc duos, trio and quartets. In 2015 she was awarded the Chalmers Professional Development Grant by the Ontario Arts Council to study with the saxophone section of the ICP Orchestra in Europe as well as the OAC National/International Residency grant in 2018 which took place in New York. In 2017 she was a finalist for the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist award. Formerly…