LOST DOG SUNDAY

APPLIED SILENCE 

Led by composer/multi-instrumentalist Stephen Lyons (Fond of Tigers) and writer/performer José Teodoro, Applied Silence merges music and narrative in dynamic ways, developing multiple projects in collaboration with innovative, interdisciplinary artists from around the world. 

With Shanto Acharia (bass), Ida Nilsen (voice, keys), and Paul Rigby (guitar, pedal steel), Lyons and Teodoro will perform some of  Finisher, a new project that covers territory, time, and musical approaches evocative of post-rock, musique actuelle, alternative country, and directed improv. 

Drawing on the lives of José’s parents, Finisher uses storytelling, documentary recordings, and song to explore themes of migration, family, and labour. These pieces reflect the ways jobs shape and misshape our lives and bodies, and act as travelogues, moving through geographies real or dreamed-of: from the dusty hills of Extremadura, to arctic and tropical seas, to plains and prairies, to mysterious borders that separate generations. 

https://www.appliedsilence.ca/about

https://www.instagram.com/applied_silence/

GREAT AUNT IDA 

Pianist and songwriter Ida Nilsen’s Great Aunt Ida project has existed in various shapes and places since 2003, beginning in and returning to Vancouver, BC. Influenced by a variety of genres but rooted in popular song, Nilsen’s writing has been called “intimate and honest”, “warm and spare,” bordering on misanthropic, and “somehow unlike any other girl/piano combo.” Active in the Vancouver music scene in the late 90s and 2000s, Nilsen was a member of The Buttless Chaps, acclaimed post-rock group The Beans, and experimental improv group Cunt. 

Flash forward to 2026, and Great Aunt Ida’s absorbing new material reflects on grief, change, connection, and relationships with space and place.

https://www.greatauntida.com/

https://www.instagram.com/great.aunt.ida/

DOORS 7:30 / DOWNBEAT 8PM / UNTIL LATE / $15/PWYC / ALL AGES

at THE HARGROVE(150 EAST 3RD AVE) (enter around back in the alley)

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LOST DOG is a music series curated by Cole Schmidt and Kevin Romain, and presented by Barking Sphinx. 

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Accessibility info: There are two steps up to the entrance of the Hargrove. There is one gender neutral washroom which is not wheelchair accessible.

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Taking place on stolen Coast Salish land. We acknowledge that our work takes place in Vancouver on traditional and unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),Stó:lō and səlil̓wətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are grateful for this place.