Who: The Siren of Howe Sound, Heather Haley
What: A night of multimedia delights celebrating the recent publication of Three Blocks West of Wonderland.
When: Monday, August 16, from 7pm-9pm
Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 212 Carrall Street
As always, $20 buys you dinner and a drink and some of the finest literary company this city has to offer. No RSVP is required, but it’s appreciated so we have a rough idea of whether we need to reserve the snug or to lay in crowd control! Click here to RSVP on Facebook.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Heather Haley’s latest book of poetry, Three Blocks West of Wonderland. Heather is both the digital AND actual troubadour of the West Coast, from Bowen Island to Venice Beach, and for the first time she’ll be bringing her multimedia performance experience to the Shebeen Club. There will be poetry. There will be prose. There will be beauty. There may be song. And there WILL be videopoems, a dynamic new genre that seems to have sprung fully formed from the forehead of the Siren of Howe Sound herself.
We’re very proud to help celebrate a pivotal local literatus’s latest launch! And that’s my allotment of “L’s” for the week right there.
Poet, author, musician and media artist Heather Haley pushes boundaries by creatively integrating disciplines, genres and media. Published in numerous journals and anthologies including Geist and The Verse Map of Vancouver, her poetry collections Sideways (Anvil Press) and Three Blocks West of Wonderland (Ekstasis Editions) have been described as “supple and unusual,” “brawny and uncompromising.”
Heather Haley is returning to LA to perform poems from her new book "Three Blocks West Of Wonderland," dedicated to the memory of Peter Haskell.
RPW's "Canadian national treasure," will be at Pasadena Public Library on Sept 26th at 3:00.
Heather is the author of the forthcoming Three Blocks West of Wonderland and Sideways, described as "brawny and uncompromising" and “supple and unusual.”
Check out her AURAL Heather spoken word song CD 'Princess Nut' and download the songs right here at RPW.
Sylvia Patricia, Billy The Kid and Beth Southwell are lighting up the stage at the Cafe Deux Soleils on Sat. Sept 12th.
CDS is at 2096 Commercial Drive and tickets are $7 or PWYC.
Brazil's Sylvia Patricia joins with Vancouver's Billy The Kid and Beth Southwell for a magical mingling of musical cultures.
Sylvia Patricia http://www.sylviapatricia.com.br/en/
All the way from Brazil, Sylvia Patricia is touring in support of her fifth CD¨ NO RADIO DA MINHA CABEÇA.¨
One of most important composer and singer from Bahia-Brazil, with a really unique personal style, she mixes Bossa Nova and Brazilian Rhythms with Blues, Jazz, Rock and R&B, as well as doses of Latin music.
With her sensual, deep voice, and her versatility as a singer, ranging from whisper to wild chords, Sylvia Patricia was the first Bahian singer to receive the Sharp Prize.
Sylvia Patricia feels comfortable within any musical style being both an academic musician and a popular singer. She studied composing and conducting, classical guitar, piano and even classical Indian music.
Born in Salvador, with indigenous blood she uses the music to talk of love and life’s ups and downs in the metropolis, of sprawling cities that don’t ever stop growing but all from an upbeat female viewpoint.
"Prolific and incredibly talented." - The Leader-Post
“Billy is a DIY poster girl.” - Vue Weekly
'Lost – a phenomenon, not a trend." - The Cambridge Voice
"It's not enough to say that Billy The Kid is a talented artist. It isn't enough to say she's successful. It isn't even enough to say that Billy and her band of Lost Boys have a stage–presence worth seeing over and over again. Billy the Kid exemplifies the essence of the independent spirit, charisma and inspiration for artists on the rise or for those hoping for the chance to make it that far. " - Echo Weekly
Beth Southwell http://www.myspace.com/bethsouthwell
Beth has just returned from touring the Okanagan.
This world traveller writes songs from her experiences of life and living. Songs from her journeys to France, Ireland and Taiwan intermingle with those of personal experience.
Her songs speak of truths and easily relate to others.
An opportunity to catch AURAL Heather on Friday Sept 18th at Cates Hill Chapel, Bowen Island. It is a special evening concert of love to help Jeanne Robinson beat cancer and has entertainment by Shari Ulrich, Pauline LeBel, AURAL Heather and Spider Robinson along with a host of hot island talent. Start time is 8:00 and more information can be found on Facebook.
AURAL Heather—have been invited to participate in the &Now Conference of Innovative Literature and the Literary Arts in Buffalo in October! RPW is excited. SUNY-Buffalo is a poetics Mecca and Kurt says it’s competitive venue. AH were selected from over 300 proposals. They are working on a NYC gig and hoping to can get some help with travel expenses.
For more information on the &Now visit Heather's Blogand subscribe to get her updates.
RPW artist Heather Haley will be performing poems from her new book "Three Blocks West Of Wonderland" at the Summer Dreams Festival on Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 5:10pm - 5:30pm on the Granville Stage at Lumberman's Arch in Stanley Park, Vancouver BC.
Beth is off on tour with Bahiyyih. It is the Live to Sing, Sing to Live Tour of Kelowna and Penticton. Details of the tour can be found at RPW RecordsPam is playing several gigs in Vancouver, Red Gall...
AURAL Heather is the new weather, a unique, sublime fusion of song and spoken word by firey-poet-vocalist Heather Haley and dazzling guitarist-producer, Roderick Shoolbraid.
They are perfoming Friday July 10th as part of the opening celebration starting at 7:30 at Cates Hill Chapel.
Bowen Island has been inspiring writers for almost a century. Maybe it's the beautiful natural surroundings or maybe it's the welcoming community that gets the creative juices flowing. Either way (or both!), Bowen Island is the place to be for aspiring and experienced writers on the weekend of July 10 to 12. Come spend the day or the whole weekend! All you need to bring is your notebook and your imagination!
Sponsored by the Bowen Island Arts Council, Write on Bowen! kicks off at 7:30pm on Friday, July 10 at Cates Hill Chapel with an intense and exciting evening of readings and performances featuring Bowen's own Spider Robinson, Pauline LeBel, AURAL Heather (with Heather Haley and Roderick Shoolbraid), Keath Fraser, Susanna Braund, and Nick Faragher.
Heather is also facilitating a workshop on Sunday July 12th -"SIDEWAYS-Alternatives To Print"
We received an email from WOMR 92.1FM saying they love Violet Femmes Vol 2. It was so kind of them and they are playing Janet Bates song "For All His Wealth" WOMR 92.1FM is Outermost Community Radio, ...
RPW is joining with Vancouver City Limits to present a Violet Femmes Showcase featuring Claire Hayek from Montreal along with Vancouver artists Chistie Rose and Manuela.
Vancouver City Limits present weekly music events featuring bright new stars on the Vancouver scene. Their team film and edit performance video and upload it onto their youtube channel, http://www.youtube.com/vancouvercitylimits
Claire Hayek will travel from Montreal especially for this show. Her new CD Intentions has just been released and her song ‘If Only I’ is on Violet Femmes Vol 2, released in March 09.
Before her parents fled Beirut with their children, Claire Hayek escaped the unbearable realities of the civil war in Lebanon with music. As a young child, she sang and played the flute for her school choir. At that point she already knew that music would be her lifeblood. Info music and videos at:
Christie Rose has a soulful voice that wraps itself around the listener. Her songs are big, deep wells you fall into and soak up the sounds. Recent appearances at Lugz and Lime are winning her new fans.
“Manuela stands out from the crowd. Her quiet, unassuming offstage presence vanishes when she's in front of a mic, replaced by a confident, tuneful chanteuse. Her songs are perfectly rendered pop/jazz/folk. Manuela is right in there with the best of the best.” John Pippus, Trees Coffee House
This is a great night in the making, charismatic women performing in a variety of genres.
"A very exciting, eclectic collection of creatively engaging women"
Yesterday on Bowen Island, at the home of Heather Haley, there was a very special benefit gathering
in recognition of the importance of Al Purdy to Canadian poetry. Poets, and lovers of Canadian poetry gravitated to Heather's Purdy Party to raise funds to preserve Purdy's A Frame home which is considered an important cultural and heritage property.
Esteemed poets read for us, Jamie Reid and George Bowering were among them. Also AURAL Heather performed a new piece written in honour of Al Purdy.
It was a great chilly yet sunny afternoon and an occasion I will always remember.
Violet Femmes Showcase at The Beaumont StageVancouver City Limits and Violet Femmes join forces to present an outstanding evening of original music at the Beaumont Stage.Montreal’s Claire Hayek will b...
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1638187/p...Violet Femmes can be listened to at www.reverbnation.com --they influence my poetry more than a single poem can say.
GL Morrison has been a great s...
RPW Records presents a Violet Femmes Showcase Concert.
An eclectic collection of creatively engaging women, at the MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie St. on Wednesday April 1st at 8:00.
Marian Call, from Alaska, brings her quirky songwriting stylings. AURAL Heather (Heather Haley and Roderick Schoolbraid) perform their difficult to define spoken word song, “a unique fusion of song and spoken word”. They join Vancouver's Beth Southwell singing with a fire in her soul and her heart in hand.
Doors open at 8 on Wednesday April 1st at The Media Club for an exciting evening of VIOLET FEMMES/RPW RECORDS MUSIC. Tickets are $10 at the door.
This is a great night in the making, charismatic women performing in a variety of genres.
"A very exciting, eclectic collection of creatively engaging women"
Violet Femmes features the best and the brightest of women performers from Vancouver and beyond.
THis show features Alaska's Marian Call, and AURAL Heather, both from Violet Femmes Vol 2 and Beth Southwell from Violet Femmes Vol 1
Marian Call http://www.myspace.com/mariancall
"...If I were a betting man, I would put my money on Marian Call. Vanilla is a Certified Desert Island Disc, and any other awards or monikers you can think to throw its way. It's the best thing I've heard thus far in 2008, and is one of the three best debut albums I've ever heard. Remember the day and time when you first heard about Marian Call, and get on the bandwagon soon. This star is going to burn bright." - Wildy Haskell, music reviewer & pop culture blogger
AURAL Heather is Heather Haley and Roderick Shoolbraid. http://www.heatherhaley.com
An interesting twist on poetry, AURAL Heather has taken an artform to higher levels of cool. Pulling no punches, AURAL Heather drops the truth on a diverse array of controversial topics relevant to society. Doing it with an undeniable allure, lead poet Haley's voice is both sensual and intriguing delivering the real to you without apology.
For most, this form of artistic release may be quite new. The artists have been plying their craft in the underground scene for years, but do yourself a favor and open your ears and mind to a complex and intriguing ageless artform.
AURAL Heather has fashioned a unique style of melding some very cool musical production with haunting realities communicated in memorable, sensual and haunting vocal stylings. The core musical aspects of this act are the essence of cool, ...
Beth Southwell
Beth writes with a lyrical honesty and sings with a rare sincerity and selflessness.
Beth has toured the UK, Taiwan and British Columbia, recorded three albums and is currently working on another solo project. http://www.myspace.com/bethsouthwell
All artists are available for interviews. CDs are available on request.
Complimentary passes are available for members of the media, so please email me if you would like to attend the show
About the Violet Femmes CD compilation project.
Violet Femmes Volume 2 is the second Violet Femmes compilation CD released by RPW Records, and features 19 talented women from around the world.
There is rock, country, singer/songwriter, pop and more.
The music is as diverse as the soil these women spring from. This CD is a gathering of strong women artists of all ages and from all walks of life.
Pam Southwell and RPW Records, the creators of the project, have been hosting Showcases in Vancouver to promote and support the women on the CD’s. Last year artists came from Denmark, Venuezuela, Las Vegas and Toronto to perform at the East Cultural Centre and Firehall Arts Centre as well as at New Music West 08
RPW Records also supports women artists not on the compilation CDS., including BC artists in the showcase concerts as well as the women on Volumes 1 and 2.
http://www.myspace.com/violetfemmes
http://violetfemmesmusic.blogspot.com
Last night Aural Heather's Heather Haley was on The Storytelling Show on CFRO 102.7 fm COOP radio. She spoke of her inspirations and performance experiences and we heard tracks from the new cd Princess Nut as well as one from Surfing Seasons. It was a great night Heather will be performing at the Violet Femmes Showcase on April 1st at the MEDIA Club in Vancouver
Join us at the Media Club on Cambie St in Vancouver BC on Tuesday March 10th for the CD Release of Violet Femmes Vol 2.
Pauline Kyllonen from Kelowna will be in town for the show. Her track, Unlucky, is the first single off this compilation CD featuring women from around the world.
Here is a little info on Pauline as found in her recent review by Nancy Dunham in the Indie Music Magazine
Pauline Kyllonen may hail from Canada, but her sound is right out of Nashville, or Texas, or maybe Arizona. Suffice to say she's got the Folk/Americana/Country sound down pat and has the talent to make the most of it.
What sets Kyllonen apart from others is the simplicity with which she showcases the music. Her strong yet wistful voice is the main instrument on these tracks, never overwhelmed by complex instrumentation or too slick production. Think of a cleaner, less fussy musical version of Lucinda Williams and you'll be on the right track.
Vancouver's Joanna Chapman Smith will also be performing songs from her newly released CD.
Joanna Chapman-Smith is a sassy singer-songwriter who writes about the contraries of Right/Wrong and Mind/Body with humour and sophistication. Inspired by William Blake's, "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell", Joanna's songs look at oppositions that exist within the human spirit. Appropriately, "Contraries" is the title of Chapman-Smith's second solo album (2009).
There are new songs posted on myspace.com/violetfemmes. Take a listen to Addie Loy, Lorraine Reid, Lisa J Carman, Jean Greer McCarthy and Laura RoppeAlso the official website has been updated and loo...
Pauline's performance at Mountainfest confirmed and more..March 25, 2009 - Happy Spring - Pauline's performance at Mountainfest confirmed and more...FINALLY!! HAPPY SPRING EVERYONE! It seems like it ...
Violet Femmes features the best and the brightest of women performers from Vancouver and beyond.This show features Alaska's Marian Call, and AURAL Heather, both from Violet Femmes Vol 2 and Beth South...
Kat Gillis has agreed to be a special guest and has been added to the Violet Femmes Vol 2 CD Release show at the Media Club on March 10th. Kat is busy performing all over the city and has an intervie...
Violet Femmes Vol 2 CD Release March 10thJoin us at the Media Club on Cambie St in Vancouver BC on Tuesday March 10th for the CD Release of Violet Femmes Vol 2.PaulineKyllonen from Kelowna will be in...
Addie Loy sings at Cincinnati Midpoint Music Festival One of the new Violet Femmes, Addie Loy, performed at the Cincinnati Midpoint Music Fesitval this weekend, Sept 25th-27th.Here is a video of A...
I just got word from VIOLET FEMMES Davina Robinson that her song featured on the VIOLET FEMMES VOL 1 compilation has been awarded anHONORABLE MENTION from the BILLBOARD WORLD SONG CONTEST!Congratulati...
Two Tall Women are playing at this benefit, What a night it will be!Hosted By: CJ RiceWhen: Jun 5, 2008 9:00 PMWhere: The Railway Club579 Dunsmuir StreetVancouver, CanadaDescription:CJ Rice Click Her...
Fara Palmer was nominated for a JUNO for her album Phoenix. She was up for the Best Aboriginal Album. Here she is after the Awards with K-os.
Fara and K-OSFara Palmer with K-OS at Juno Awards Party
Fara did not win the JUNO but had good news the day after the Awards Ceremony.
Here is what Fara had to say
"Guess what? So like the day after my Juno loss, I check in to my email and find out that i WON the award for "Outstanding Musical Achievement In A Contemporary Field" for the 2008 FAITA awards.
FAITA stands for "First Americans In The Arts" and is based out of Los Angeles. So not sure yet, but may be heading to L.A. Thank you FAITA for acknowledging my cd, PHOENIX, and for honouring me with such a beautiful award!!
xox
Fara
www.musicfarapalmer.com
Fara is performing at NEW MUSIC WEST along with Zoe Scott from LA, and Beth Southwell from Vancouver. The VIOLET FEMMES SHOWCASE STAGE is at the LIBRA ROOM on Sat, May 17th at 7:45.
The women from the Violet Femmes CD project will be joined by Australia's The Jilted Brides, a psychedelic rock duo with a video backdrop as part of their performance.
It promises to be an amazing evening of music from this "electric and eclectic collection of women"
