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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:National Day of Truth and Reconciliation- Centre Wellington
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. \nJoin Dalton Associates and the Township of Centre Wellington for a special evening of remembrance\, reflection\, action\, and learning in recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. \nWe are honoured to host Leo Stands Alone Strong Atlookan of Eabametoong First Nation\, alongside his brother\, Elmer Atlookan. Together\, this talented duo will offer: \nCultural Teachings & Stories: Personal reflections on history and traditional ways of living on the land. \nMusic & Dance: Artistry featuring the flute and hand drumming. \nTraditional Regalia: A visual display and explanation of sacred cultural attire. \nStay after the presentation for an exclusive meet-and-greet with Leo and Elmer. \nThis is a free event; however\, registration is required as space is limited
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/national-day-of-truth-and-reconciliation-centre-wellington-2/
LOCATION:Elora Centre for the Arts\, 75 Melville St.\, Elora\, N0B 1S0
CATEGORIES:Heritage,Performance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261015
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UID:53137-1792022400-1792281599@guelpharts.ca
SUMMARY:Guelph Comedy Festival
DESCRIPTION:We have a fantastic three days planned of standup comedy\, improv\, storytelling and more\, featuring a stacked lineup of local talent. There are events for the whole family\, including a Community Showcase on Thursday night and a Li’l Local Legends kids’ improv show on Saturday afternoon. \nOctober 15th to 17th\n10C Shared Space\n42 Carden St\, Guelph
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/guelph-comedy-festival-2/
LOCATION:10C Shared Space\, 42 Carden St\, Guelph\, ON\, N1H 3A2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Families,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261029T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261029T213000
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SUMMARY:Svāhā! by Nova Dance at River Run
DESCRIPTION:This October\, join us for Svāhā! – a high energy event teeming with life\, bursting with colour\, and centering the compassion of shared humanity. \nGuelph Dance and River Run Centre proudly present Nova Dance’s Svāhā! In Guelph for one night only!  \nA cast of 16 performers from a diversity of dance forms and cultural backgrounds\, comes together in a collage of moving images\, pulsating rhythms and intense emotions. Expressing the uniqueness of the individual and the value of community\, Svāhā! is an offering of dance\, music and joy! \n🗓Thursday October 29 \n🕢7:30 PM \n📍River Run Centre\, Main Stage | 35 Woolwich St  \n🎫Tickets: $10-$49 via River Run Centre’s box office \nPlus\, the evening will open with a special performance by The Body Choir – an ad hoc group of local dancers working with Nova Dance in the spirit of Svāhā! to present a new dance as unique as all the wonderful artists who perform it. 
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/svaha-by-nova-dance-at-river-run/
LOCATION:River Run Centre
CATEGORIES:Performance
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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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SUMMARY:Oliver!
DESCRIPTION:Consider yourself at home with Lionel Bart’s classic musical based on the Charles Dickens novel\, Oliver Twist. The Tony and Olivier Award-winning show is one of the few musicals to win an Academy Award for Best Picture and is widely hailed as a true theatrical masterpiece by actors and audience members alike. \nThe streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver\, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse\, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker. Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance amongst a group of petty thieves and pickpockets led by the elderly Fagin. When Oliver is captured for a theft that he did not commit\, the benevolent victim\, Mr. Brownlow takes him in. Fearing the safety of his hideout\, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes and the sympathetic Nancy to kidnap him back\, threatening Oliver’s chances of discovering the true love of a family.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/oliver/
LOCATION:River Run Centre
CATEGORIES:Performance,Theatre
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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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