Flavius Wagner – December 12th
December 12th, 2025 Doors: 6:30 PM Show: 7:00 PM Flavius Wagner was born and raised in Baden-Baden Germany. From a very young age, he showed a great passion for the guitar. He began his first guitar lessons at the age of four at the music school in Baden-Baden and later studied under Prof. Boris Bagger. At the age of 14, he transferred as a young student to the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, where he is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in guitar. Flavius is a multiple first-place national winner at “Jugend Musiziert” and a prizewinner at the International Youth Competitions (IYC) of the Guitar Foundation of America. Additionally, he received awards at the HASPA Cup 2024 (3rd prize) during the Hamburg Guitar Festival, the Hanika Guitar Competition in Bangkok, (3rd prize) the Dallas International Guitar Competition 2025 (2nd prize), and festivals across Europe and North America, including first…
Silence Presents: Temporal Waves
March 1st, 2026 Doors: 6:30PM Show: 7:00 PM Temporal Waves is the latest project from renowned Canadian tabla player Shawn Mativetsky, transporting the tabla into a rich electronic sound world, with Shawn’s tabla bathed in the neon glow of analog synthesizers. Temporal Waves is an excursion deep into aural science fiction. Montreal’s Shawn Mativetsky has long been celebrated as one of Canada’s leading ambassadors of the tabla, and next to his exceptional musicianship, it’s his unquenchable curiosity that one most frequently hears praised. Mativetsky is an accomplished practitioner of Indian classical music, but is equally embedded in the contemporary music realm, where he has established himself as both a champion of living composers and a generous collaborator to the likes of Tim Brady, Nicole Lizée, and Dinuk Wijeratne. An avid improviser, he can also be found accompanying countless other artists across and beyond the spectrum between jazz, pop, and global…
Silence Presents: Tireless Foliage, Tube Top, & Megan Arnold
December 13th, 2025 Doors: 7:30 PM Show: 8:00 PM $20/NOTAFLOF tireless foliage tireless foliage is jiaqing wilson-yang (guitar & vox), germaine liu (percussion), and karen ng (reeds). their name is an adaptation of a lyric of the late songwriter Richard Laviolette, jiaqing’s greatest friend. the songs were written by jiaqing around the time of Richard’s death and explore grief and friendship.links:jiaqing’s instagram | karen’s instagramjiaqingwilsonyang.bandcamp.com| germaineliu.bandcamp.com | karenng.bandcamp.com tube top tube top is a queer post-punk indie rock outfit guided by a collaborative, diy ethic. The group includes bass-led songs, raw and tender vocals, scrappy guitar and driving drums. The lyrics point to carving out space for love, loss, and meaning-making. Megan Arnold Megan Arnold has been making and performing looped electronic bedroom pop music since 2014, unprolifically. Her last release was GOOD in 2020, but she continues to do gigs as they suit her.
Transstar: The Dowager Speaks – December 6th
Silence presents the anxiously-awaited release of Transstar’s third EP, DOWAGER, with a very very special DJ guest. 8:00 PM. 20 at the door. 19+ Tickets
Silence Presents: Stef.In, Midswim and Dan Loughrin/Joe Sorbara Duo
November 3oth, 2025 Doors: 7:30 PM Show: 8:00 PM “stef.in” is the experimental rock project of Toronto based multi-instrumentalist Stefan Hegerat. The quartet features Stefan (drums), Patrick O’Reilly (guitar), Luan Phung (guitar) and Chris Pruden (bass) and has been performing since 2017. The band combines rock, jazz and classical sensibilities with experimental soundscapes and a heavy focus on improvisation to create music that straddles the line between beauty and chaos. They have released two studio albums (Icterus and Icterus II) and are currently touring in support of their third album; Nightmares. TICKETS
Silence Presents: We Three Ft. Iios Steryannis
January 31st, 2026 Coming together under unusual circumstances, the members of piano trio We Three found a common thread in their mutual appreciation for pianist Phineas Newborn. They quickly decided to add Newborn’s entire 1958 album We Three to their repertoire, a classic piano trio record that features Roy Haynes and Paul Chambers. Since then, Josh Smiley on piano, Bennett Young on bass and Ilios Steryannis on drums have added other composers to their playlist, including Oscar Pettiford, Benny Golson, and the late and dearly missed Toronto musician Julia Cleveland.