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SUMMARY:YGFC Presents: Basset & Janice Jo Lee
DESCRIPTION:Toronto-based folk duo Basset are full of timeless heart. With deeply human lyrics and harmonies reminiscent of the early folk revival\, CBC Q’s Tom Power says\, “I think you’re going to love this.” Their debut album In the Clay was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award. With a live show that is sincere and disarmingly funny\, they’ve performed at Mariposa\, Winnipeg\, and Celtic Connections Folk Festivals. In 2026\, they’ll tour Australia\, Canada\, and Europe\, promoting their upcoming album Human Nature. bassettheband.com \nJanice Jo Lee (she/they) is a contemporary folk-fusion musician\, composer\, sound designer\, spoken word poet\, actor-clown\, director\, facilitator and educator born and based in Toronto. Her artwork explores climate grief\, antiracism\, loneliness\, workers rights\, queer joy\, and her Korean heritage. She is a dynamic and engaging performer\, and performs with a guitar\, trumpet\, vocal looping and jjangu drum. As a professional educator\, she has facilitated arts and anti-oppression workshops for 15 years. Janice Jo Lee has toured across Canada with her music and poetry. Currently she is composing the first draft of a musical adaptation of Minh Ly’s Ga Ting (Finding Family) and working on songs from her next album Lullabyes for End Times. janicejolee.ca \nWednesday\, September 23\, 2026 Cost: $25/sliding scale (no one will be turned away due to lack of funds\, so please choose the ticket option that best suits your needs) Doors open at 7:00pm\, music starts at 7:30pm Location: Sally Wismer Gallery/Guelph Arts Council (22B-55 Wyndham St N in Old Québec Street Mall) The venue is a physically accessible space. \nMany thanks to Guelph Arts Council (GAC) for partnering with YGFC to present the series. As part of your purchase\, you may also choose to make a charitable donation to GAC. \n\n$25/Sliding Scale (nobody turned away for lack of funds)
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/ygfc-presents-basset-janice-jo-lee/
LOCATION:Guelph Arts Council\, 55 Wyndham Street N\, Guelph
CATEGORIES:Families,Music,Performance
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SUMMARY:Guelph Jazz Society: Big Band Open Rehearsal
DESCRIPTION:Come see the Guelph Jazz Society Big Band in action at an open rehearsal! This is a chance for anyone in the community to get a behind-the-scenes look at how a big band works\, hear the music come together\, and learn more about the players\, the rehearsal process\, and how you can get involved. \nJoin the Guelph Jazz Society Big Band for an open rehearsal\, where community members can either bring an instrument and sit in with the band\, or simply sit back and listen to the rehearsal process. The band runs democratically in the Ellingtonian tradition\, giving musicians a voice in shaping the music and the sound of the ensemble without the interference of a rehearsal director. \nDate: October 6\nTime: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM\nLocation: Dublin Street United Church\nLink: https://guelphjazzsociety.ca/event/big-band-open-rehearsal-fall-season/
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/guelph-jazz-society-big-band-open-rehearsal/
LOCATION:Dublin St. United Church\, 68 Suffolk Street West\, Guelph\, ON\, N1H 2J2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261030T193000
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SUMMARY:Between the Lines – Zemlinsky Quartet from Prague
DESCRIPTION:Guelph Musicfest ENCORE opens with a return visit by the ZEMLINSKY QUARTET (on tour from Prague).\n\nSmetana: String Quartet No. 2 in D minorBartók: String Quartet No. 2\, Op. 17Beethoven: String Quartet F major\, Op. 18\, No. 1\n\nSome of the most powerful string quartets say as much between the notes as within them. This program brings together three works where personal confession\, folk memory\, and historical upheaval quietly shape the music from behind the scenes.\n\nBeethoven’s String Quartet in F major\, Op. 18\, No. 1 finds a young composer testing the boundaries of a genre he would soon transform — confidence and experimentation woven into a classical frame. Smetana’s String Quartet No. 2 in D minor\, written as his hearing failed him\, reads like a private diary of fear and resilience. And Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2\, composed against the backdrop of the First World War\, channels folk idiom and wartime unease into music of raw\, searching intensity.\n\nhttps://www.guelphmusicfest.ca/encore_zemlinsky.html\nTICKETS: https://musicfest-tickets.square.site/s/shop
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/between-the-lines-zemlinsky-quartet-from-prague/
LOCATION:Guelph Youth Music Centre\, 75 Cardigan St\, Guelph\, N1H 3Z7
CATEGORIES:Music,Performance
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ORGANIZER;CN="Guelph Musicfest":MAILTO:ken@guelphmusicfest.ca
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SUMMARY:REIMAGINATION with violinist SADIE FIELDS & pianist KEN GEE
DESCRIPTION:Violinist SADIE FIELDS returns from Edinburgh\, Scotland\, to join her duo partner/pianist KEN GEE for a Guelph Musicfest ENCORE concert at the Guelph Youth Music Centre. \nIn 1935\, the violinist Fritz Kreisler admitted something he’d hidden for decades: several “long-lost” Baroque pieces he’d been performing\, including tonight’s Sicilienne et Rigaudon\, supposedly “in the style of Francoeur”\, were his own invention all along. His response to the outcry: “The name changes\, the value remains.” \nThat question — what changes when we look back and remake something — runs through the whole programme. De Falla turns Spanish folksong into the concert hall; Tartini channels operatic tragedy into the violin; Vitali’s modest original becomes Romantic grandeur in Ferdinand David’s hands; Schnittke plays knowingly with Baroque forms two centuries later. \nThe evening closes with Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending\, no longer reimagining a style\, but a poem\, rising above everything that came before it. \nTartini: Violin Sonata in G minor\, Op. 1\, No. 10\, Didone abbandonata (Dido Abandoned)\nde Falla: Suite Populaire\nKreisler: Sicilienne et Rigaudon\nVitali: Chaconne\nSchnittke: Suite in the Old Style\nVaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending \nhttps://www.guelphmusicfest.ca/encore_festivalduo.html\nTICKETS: https://musicfest-tickets.square.site/s/shop
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/reimagination-with-violinist-sadie-fields-pianist-ken-gee/
LOCATION:Guelph Youth Music Centre\, 75 Cardigan St\, Guelph\, N1H 3Z7
CATEGORIES:Music,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261129T150000
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SUMMARY:Holidays in Motion
DESCRIPTION:The Guelph Concert Band presents “Holidays in Motion” on November 29th at 3:00 PM at Harcourt Memorial United Church.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/holidays-in-motion/
LOCATION:Harcourt United Church\, 87 Dean Ave.\, Guelph\, N1G 1L3
CATEGORIES:Music,Performance
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