KRUGER BROTHERS
2025-05-23 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Toronto)
One Night Only @ The Registry

Bluegrass, Americana, and Beyond

From Switzerland to North Carolina, the Krugers are one of America’s foremost bluegrass groups. Music steeped in the traditional repertoire, including their tribute to Doc Watson, and their own classically influenced originals, make the Krugers unique in the world of Americana.Special guest, mandolin sensation Jonah Horton.

Tickets: $50

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LONDON’S BADDEST BIG BAND
2025-05-24 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-24 15:00 - 17:00
Jazz @ The Registry

Part of the Spring Big Band Jazz Weekend

Trombonist Seth McNall leads the BBB with a whose who of London, Ontario’s jazz scene. They will present eclectic big band renditions of Mozart, Greig and other classics.

Tickets: $40Special Offer: Buy Tickets to two shows in the Spring Big Band Jazz Weekend for $65, or all three shows for $90!

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HILARIO DURAN AND HIS LATIN JAZZ BIG BAND
2025-05-24 20:00 - 22:30, 2025-09-30 20:00 - 22:30
Jazz @ The Registry

Part of the Spring Big Band Jazz Weekend

Juno and Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, arranger, and musical director of remarkable virtuosity, Hilario Durán, is well recognized for his piano playing and composing skills. The music to be performed by this Orchestra blends milieus and motifs of the classic Cuban musical form, American standards, and the arrangement of the Frédéric Chopin composition Fantasia Impromptu. The music has been influenced by most of the traditional forms of Cuban music and the most modern contemporary harmonies.

Tickets: $40Special Offer: Buy Tickets to two shows in the Spring Big Band Jazz Weekend for $65, or all three shows for $90!

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KW BIG BAND THEORY
2025-05-25 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-24 15:00 - 17:00
Jazz @ The Registry

Part of the Spring Big Band Jazz Weekend

Waterloo Region’s finest jazz musicians with performances at the Waterloo Jazz Festival, and The Registry, and a live album with the great Canadian Don Thompson. Featuring original compositions and arrangements sure to thrill fans of big band music.

Tickets: $40Special Offer: Buy Tickets to two shows in the Spring Big Band Jazz Weekend for $65, or all three shows for $90!

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HEATHER TAVES
2025-06-15 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-11 15:00 - 17:00
Classics @ The Registry and the KW Chamber Music Society

Ms. Taves’ final concert in her complete Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle. Part 8 including Les Adieux

Tickets: $30 General Admission, $10 Student

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KEVIN RAMESSAR
2025-10-02 20:00 - 22:00
One Night Only: Live at The Registry

An Evening with Kevin

Kevin returns by popular demand after his sold-out concert last winter. With music from his vast repertoire of music and song, Kevin brings another heartwarming performance to his favourite home town theatre.

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Rob Szabo
2025-10-03 20:00 - 22:30
Homegrown @ The Registry

Rob Szabo celebrates the release of his new EP with his first solo show at The Registry in over a decade. KW music lovers will know Rob from his solo singer/songwriter career, and as the singer/guitar player of The Groove Daddys and Plasticine. Rob is a JUNO-winning, and multi-JUNO nominated producer who has produced over 50 albums for others and has released 7 albums as a solo artist.” Welcome back Rob.

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Nosferatu (1922)
2025-10-23 20:00 - 22:00
VOC Silent Film Harmonic

VOC kicks off a new season with the original vampire movie by renowned director F. W. Murnau. At his Transylvania castle Count Orlok casts his spell on the lovely Ellen.

Tickets: $20 ($12 at the door with Food Bank donation)

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BORDER BALLADS
2025-10-24 20:00 - 22:00
One Night Only: Live at The Registry

fluid (folk)songs of work, love & rebellion

A metamorphosing ensemble, ANIMA is a place of queer friendship and sustaining story: a place where old texts and melodies are animated by spirit and voice.

Join ANIMA’s Daniel Cabena, Luke Hathaway, Henry Oswald Peirson, Paul Genyk-Berezowsky & Lesley Emma Bouza with folksongs traditional and new. Today’s stories with roots in ancient ones. Tales of travel, trial, and transformation; tales of friendship, and steadfastness; tales of the community that we’re imagining and building together.

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AFTERNOON SOIRÉE: THE LESCHETIZKY CONCERT
2025-10-26 15:00 - 17:00
Classics @ The Registry

The First Wrinkle

A one act comic opera by Theodor Leschetizky, translated and accompanied by our very own OCLA member pianist Charmaine Fopoussi, with singers directed by Barbara Dunn-Prosser. A story full of wit, passion and charm.

Tickets: General Admission $35, Student Admission $10, Equity Lens Pricing $10

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Green Gables Singalong Fundraiser
2025-11-02 15:00 - 16:30
Presented by Green Gables Ukuleles and Friends

Join Green Gables Ukuleles & Friends for their fourth community singalong/playalong to raise funds for the Registry Theatre! Classic songs by ABBA, John Denver, Bob Dylan, Herman’s Hermits, Elton John, The Monkees, Peter Paul & Mary, Billy Joel, Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley and more!

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Matt Weidinger: An Evening with Matt
2025-11-21 20:00 - 22:30
Homegrown @ The Registry

Kitchener’s own returns to The Reg. Join Matt and his band for an intimate evening of original music paired alongside some of Matt’s favourite eclectic covers.

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GEMMELL & SMITH
2025-11-23 15:00 - 17:00
Presented by K-W Chamber Music Society

Classics @ The Registry

Beethoven violin & piano sonatas

Distinguished soloists and chamber musicians, violinist Corey Gemmell and pianist Benjamin Smith perform the second of three concerts of the complete Beethoven violin & piano sonatas. This concert showcases Sonatas No. 4, 7 and 8.

Tickets: $30 General Admission, $10 Student, plus fees

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THE ARROGANT WORMS
2025-12-06 20:00 - 22:00
FOLK NIGHT @ THE REGISTRY

The Arrogant Worms have spent over three decades making fun of a big dumb world. Their songs have been played on the radio, the internet, and in outer space (on the space shuttle Endeavour). The Worms began at Queen’s University in 1991 at the campus radio station CFRC. The Arrogant Worms (Chris Patterson, Mike McCormick, and Trevor Strong) have since toured ceaselessly across Canada (and select other parts of the world), released 13 albums, and recorded with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Their Happy Happy birthday song is a viral sensation with over one hundred million views of the various fan videos on YouTube. This is their first visit to Folk Night.

Tickets: $32 in advance, $35 at the door, $24 live stream

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A LOST & FOUND CHRISTMAS - SOLD OUT
2025-12-07 15:00 - 17:00
The tradition continues with stories and songs of the season. Featuring special guest singer songwriter Michael Kelly Cavan.

Come one and all.

Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can at the Door

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JACK WISE
2025-12-10 19:00 - 20:15
MAGIC & SHENANIGANS PRESENTS: JACK WISE

World famous Irish magician Jack Wise will make his Kitchener debut for one night only! Hosted by KW’s own Silly Phil from the Silly People, this show will be one talked about for years to come!

Dublin Magician Jack took this quote literally choosing not to attend almost all school exams. Instead he turned his attention to a more exciting curriculum which included:

Learning to shuffle a pack of cards and keeping them in exactly the same order

Teaching himself the skills of suggestion and psychological manipulation making him appear to be a mindreader!

Learning to slow his heart to fewer than 10 beats a minute which is of no practical use but really freaks people out.

Mastering the art of Sword Swallowing, Jack is one of only sixty swordswallowers in the world today. He is proud to be a member of The Sword Swallowers International Association.

A lot of people have asked Jack as a Magican how he does these things, more people ask why? His reply is always the same … “Because I can”

Tickets: $25

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A BIG BAND CHRISTMAS
2025-12-13 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-13 20:00 - 22:00
WITH BIG BAND THEORY

If it’s December, it’s the BBT charity fundraiser. The region’s best musicians return for a jazzy Christmas, with special guest vocalist Heather Bambrick.

Show Dates:Saturday, December 13 at 2pmSaturday, December 13 at 8pmSunday, December 14 at 3pm

Tickets: $40

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A BIG BAND CHRISTMAS
2025-12-14 15:00 - 17:00
WITH BIG BAND THEORY

If it’s December, it’s the BBT charity fundraiser. The region’s best musicians return for a jazzy Christmas, with special guest vocalist Heather Bambrick.Show Dates:Saturday, December 13 at 2pmSaturday, December 13 at 8pmSunday, December 14 at 3pm

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SARA PORTER
2026-01-10 19:30 - 21:00
DANCE @ THE REGISTRY

EXCERPTS FROM HELLO SUNSHINE! AND BAD POETRY: LIVE IN KITCHENER!

The finale of a Registry dance residency to develop Sara’s show about her life with PMLE, an extreme sensitivity to sunlight. Storytelling, dance, comedy, and image come together in a multi-media account of living with an invisible disability.Cheryl Ewing Dance ResidencyTickets: Pay-What-You-Can at the Door

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WENDELL and WHEAT
2026-01-17 20:00 - 22:00
FOLK NIGHT @ THE REGISTRY

Wendell Ferguson is the six-time Canadian Country Musician’s Association Guitar Player of the Year. The Ottawa Citizen says that Katherine Wheatley is “a performer to keep you on the edge of your seat”. They are the best of musical pals, and together they are dynamite. Her heartfelt lyrics andstunning voice and his honest and irreverent humour make their show both moving and hilarious. They performed a Christmas show for Folk Night in December 2011 that has had many requests for a reprise, and we welcome them back for a concert that may include some “memories of the Season”.

Tickets: $25 in advance, $27 at the door, $20 live stream

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Sashar Zariff Dance and Anto Chan/Ranganathan Rajah
2026-01-27 19:30 - 21:00
ft. R. K. Gandhi and Amrit Phull

Presented by Dance @ The Registry, in partnership with the IBPOC Artists Touring Network: From Words to Action

For nearly four decades, Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre has carried its work across more than forty countries, moving with the people, places, and stories that shape its journey. The company engages diverse publics through research, residencies, collaborations, creation, and performance.

Confronting the human struggle of hypocrisy, Anto and Ranganathan combine poetry, movement, and the In-between to challenge the audience’s perception of self. Art & Design, Spirituality & Religion, Love & Romance, within the pains of human limitation, this performance intentionally brings both endless and limiting elements to engage with the dichotomy of contraction and expansion.

Ravi K. Gandhi is a Canadian-Indian poet, writer, breathwork facilitator and educator, living in Guelph Ontario. He regularly performs and speaks about the power of poetry in front of audiences.

Amrit Phull is a Kathak performer and instructor at M-DO Kathak Toronto. She is a student of Joanna De Souza, disciple of Pandit Chitresh Das, through the Ali Akbar College of Music tradition, and has presented work across Canada and India. Through the teachings gifted to her, Kathak represents an ever-deepening space in which she explores her body as an instrument for sound and story.

$25 General Admission$15 Student / Senior / Arts Worker

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Mafa Dance Village and Tiger Princess Dance Projects
2026-02-02 19:30 - 21:00
ft. Sam Nabi and Bboy NLiteN of KW Breakers

Presented by Dance @ The Registry, in partnership with the IBPOC Artists Touring Network: From Words to Action

Mafa Dance Village operates within a diasporic framework, rooted in South African cultural heritage and grounded in the artistic ecology of Toronto. The work draws from African spiritual traditions and contemporary dance practices, resonating with African, Afro-Caribbean, and Indigenous communities through themes of healing, ancestry, and embodied knowledge.

All that is between is a contemporary dance work that explores how we exist together — and apart. Through powerful, wordless storytelling, six performers reveal the subtle ways bodies hold memory, connection, longing, and isolation. Created by choreographer Yvonne Ng (tiger princess dance projects), the work invites audiences into an intimate, poetic world where movement becomes its own language.

Featuring performers Morgyn Aronyk-Schell, Johanna Bergfelt, Amelia Brown, Charlotte Cain, and Sierra Chin Sawdy

Original music by Nick Storring • Lighting design by Arun Srinivasan

Ideal for audiences who enjoy contemporary dance, thoughtful performance, and visually poetic storytelling.

About the ArtistYvonne Ng | 黄碧琬 (B.F.A., M.A.) is a Singapore-born, Peranakan Chinese choreographer and the founder and artistic director of princess productions, home to tiger princess dance projects and the biennial dance: made in canada / fait au canada Festival. Trailer Photo by Marlowe Porter.

Sam Nabi is a hip-hop MC who leans into poetic curiosity, vulnerability, improvisation and risk. Whether probing universal questions or the inner workings of his own mind, Sam seeks to reflect deeply while making space to move your body.

Bboy NLiteN is a breaker from KW. He has been breaking for several years. He is the co-founder of the crew “KW Breakers”, “KWB” for short. Together with his crew, he travels all over Ontario competing in breaking jams, performing in shows, engaging in community events, hosting breaking workshops, and much more.

$25 General Admission$15 Student / Senior / Arts Worker

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LARRY LARSON’S JAZZ GUYS
2026-02-06 20:00 - 22:00
JAZZ @ THE REGISTRY

PART OF THE WINTER JAZZ WEEKEND

THE ANNUAL REGISTRY CONCERT

The season opening tradition continues. Trumpet virtuoso, and Registry favourite, Larry and his Guys return with more great cool jazz.

Tickets: $35

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DAVE THOMPSON
2026-02-07 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-07 20:00 - 22:00
JAZZ @ THE REGISTRY

PART OF THE WINTER JAZZ WEEKEND

JAZZ IN THE ROUND

An immersive experience with the guitar virtuoso. Sit on stage and up close. Intimate limited seating of only 40 tickets per show.

Tickets: $50

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