ZULA Presents JULY 2006 at RIME Artist in Residence at Rime Tuesdays in July
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ZULA Presents JULY 2006 At RIME A raw & powerful urban roots unit with a Singer-songwriter, guitarists Koralee Tuesday, July 11/ Artist In Residence: .Originally from Jamaica, Lillian Allen is a Ndidi Onukwulu & Madagascar Slim: Influenced by John Lee tambourines; the cheng (Loation mouth organ); bansuri and Saturday, July 15/ GOLDEN WEDDING BAND (9:30 pm, $5-10) Tuesday, July 18/ Artist In Residence: as the originator of Music Waste Bernard Belanger Trio plays original acoustic Thursday & Friday, July 27 & 28/ THE Swanvista is an exciting and eclectic trio that explores many Artist In Residence at Rime Tuesdays in July: STEVE SMITH huge New York sound Tonack and Craig McKerron explore STEVE SMITH CIRCLE (9 pm, $5-10) writer (as well as a playwright, filmmaker & Hooker and Big Mama Thornton, Ndidi Onukwulu is the newest kural bamboo flutes from north and south India respectively; Infectious kitchen sink music from the 20's through to the STEVE SMITH ORBITS (9 pm, $5-10) as a tonic to Music West and music evocative of 60's British Folk (Nick Drake) CREAKING TREE STRING QUARTET with different styles of music with equal conviction. Compositions, a la Morphine... the roots of early country and Combine influences teacher) who moves easily from one generation of roots and blues artists, the moorching mouth harp; and a Chinese reed instrument present by this Inspired by the lineage of the great ECM singer, songwriter and guitarist for and 50's bossa nova (Joao Gilberto) in the CLAIRE JENKINS (Thursday, 9 pm, $5- improvisation, instrumentals and singing with Chad Bassist, bandleader Steve Vampire-Delta bluegrass music. Their voices combine Mark Turner and Kurt artistic discipline to another, emerging with writing and singing about modern-day called the baou. His voice reflects the harmonic approaches swinging party band ... piano trios (Richie Beirach's ELM, Keith Zolty Cracker from 1991 to 97. singer/songwriter style. Sparkling finger-style 10) & TWILIGHT HOTEL (Friday, 9:30 MacQuarrie on guitar and vocals, Skye Brooks on drums and Smith is an active member of blues... music you in a seamless and unique blend to Rosenwinkel with a new work transformed and transforming. trials and tribulations, a similar struggle and traditions he has studied around the world. Their music is covered styles include: Jarrett's Standards, and Bobo Stenson's The band included core member guitar, melodically & rhythmically rich acoustic pm, $5-10) "… as tight and polished Tommy Babin on bass. our jazz community and a already know deep recreate the powerful harmonies of a pinch of James Brown's She is a leading exponent of dub poetry, a to her predecessors singing for a better a magic combination of composition and improvisation. They country-swing, rumba, Serenity), this trio of Chris Gestrin on Wayne Adams on percussion bass, Chet Baker-esque vocals and soaring as it is improvisational and exuberant. prolific composer. A native of down...best band bygone era. Joining Koralee and Famous Flames circa highly politicized form of poetry that has world. Of Nigerian heritage, now living in can scratch it up like a DJ or give a shape to the silence, take tango, calypso, Dixieland, jazz & blues with “Perfesser” Chris piano, Steve Smith on bass, Dylan van and vocals (as well as Annie harmonies combined with strong and varied The music crackles with imaginative Sunday, July 30/ HEARTWARMONGERING & LSB 21 STRING California, Smith received a you may never have Craig is Paul Bergman on upright 1960-1973, and you been set to music, including jazz, reggae, Toronto, she's written blues songs since it down to a drone and then to a primal high. Dean tenor banjo, guitar, vocals; Andrew Burden trombone, der Schyff on drums will be joined by Wilkinson on bass and vocals & original songs produces a soft bittersweet and sometimes manic instrumental TRIO (9 pm, $5-10) Heartwarmongering's compositions are Bachelor of Arts in Music from heard before! Dave bass, laying down a solid anchor for have this quartet rock, and more. She has spent over a decade writing, she was 13, and her struggles and pain baritone sax, sousaphone, vocals; Colin Maskell soprano sax; special guest trombonist Rod Murray. others). Gilles & Wayne will join nostalgia, innocent, yet cynical. Bernard Belanger on guitar interplay." -Acoustic Guitar interwoven with improvised passages into an almost narrative the University of California. Olajide steel guitar, banjo, vocals; Ray Slowdrag's rural southern sound, plus special guest Ivan formed specifically for publishing, and performing her work in Canada, the U.S. and shaped some of the most beautiful, “Fiery, joyous, highly improvisational music Clive “Pops” Jackson bass; Matt Belbin drums, percussion Tippy for the night's happening, reuniting the 3 from their and vocals, featuring Bernie Addington on acoustic bass and Magazine The Creaking Tree String form, blending aspects of new music, jazz, and soundscape After studying privately with Garroway drums Rosenberg on dobro. www.slowdragmusic.com Zula's Artist In Residence England. Www.dubpoetscollective.com/collective.html heartfelt music coming out of this that is also quite mad." "Loco techno… Wednesday, July 19/ LEHERA (9 pm, $5-10) Internationally collaborations in Europe. www.tippyagogo.com Kate Hennesey on vocals and percussion Quartet performs acoustic roots into a diffuse, impressionist whole. The acoustic/electronic Bertram Turetzky and Bob Series at Rime. Jon Bentley saxophone; country. Playing alongside Ndidi, and no stranger to this freaky mambo… Sorta folk-jazz-world- Sunday, July 16/ KAREN FOSTER plus ORPHANS & DOGS (9 touring Indian musicians get together for a rare concert of www.myspace.com/gilleszolty music that combines intricate instrumentation of the group allows for sounds and textures Magnusson, he was Thursday, July 6/ TZIMMES (9 pm, $5-10) Original in concept Sunday, July 9/ CASABLANCA COWBOYS (9 pm, $5-10) Three Daryl Jahnke guitar; Steve Smith bass; Bernie Arai drums AFRODIZZ (11 pm, $10) Guitarist and composer Gabriel ground, is blues guitarist Randriamananjara bluegrass-Brazilian-old-timey-blues- pm, $5-10) Karen classical and contemporary music - a genre defying sound at Monday, July 24/ SHE WAS THE LAW (9 pm, $5-10) She Was phrasing with imaginative rhythms. which range from diaphanous contracted for a series of and sound, Tzimmes occupies a niche of its own in Jewish quarters of East-Van's well-loved Gypsy-jazz unit, Stringfever Aldama, started this exciting project in 2002 leading this Radofa Besata Jean Longin, aka cowboy." "…enchanted music for Foster is a semi-pro, once virtuosic, energetic and contemplative. Soaring classical Saturday, July 22/ SARAH MACDOUGALL & HEADWATER (9:30 the Law's music is a fine blend of Big They made their Vancouver debut at subtlety to complex, driving performances in Western Music. Over the 14 years of its existence, they have played in manages to play very well Wednesday, July 12/ FOLKFEST SAMPLER BASH (Night One) Montréal band to rapidly become a big sensation throughout Madagascar Slim. Mr. Longin grew up in disenchanted times." These are some of post-punk trio Indian vocalese intertwine pm, $5-10) Guitarist, singer-songwriter Star-infused, country-tinged, popular- 2004 Vancouver Folk Music Festival and followed it up with an rhythmic structures. Stephen Canada where he met jazz pianist and contemporary Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and England, at Folk Festivals and even without violinist Stefan (8 & 11 pm shows, $10 each) Canada imposing itself as one of the best in its style. The eight the capital city of Madagascar, the attempts to spaced in with exquisite Hindustani Sarah MacDougall's music is best fashioned music. The Vancouver unforgettable visit to Rime last summer with violinist John Lyons guitar, banjo; Meredith classical composer, Lisa Miller. The two moved to New York City community Thordarson's incredible Vancouver Folk Music Festival and piece band creates a festive and hypnotic ambiance, inviting Antananarivo, took up the guitar in his describe the music Vancouver. A polite slide guitar, violin, bamboo described as alt-country with a hint of Province said our music is "full of Showman, guitarist Brad Keller, mandolinist Andrew Collins, Bates violin; Katie Dey cello; where they participated in Greenwich Village sessions with events, for Jewish contributions...a pleasantly Zula Productions present at Rime on teenage years and was heavily influenced Canadian guitarist external façade of flutes, guitar and vocals noir. Her unique voice and lyrics carry the subtle pleasures" and they gave the bassist Brian Kobayakawa. www.creakingtree.com Shane Krause clarinets; Todd artists such as Brad Mehldau, Larry Grenadier, Jacky Terrasson, and non-Jewish nostalgic journey of old July 12th & 13th a mad mix of sounds, by Jimi Hendrix and BB King. He came to Kevin Breit and Brazilian percussionist Cyro caring and driven by exciting Kannakol framework of her songs, recalling the CD a "B", which has to be the highest Mason electronics, saw; David Sanchez, and Roy Hargrove. His debut recording as a audiences alike, swing standards, including a generous sampler of the upcoming Canada in the late '70s, and after college, Baptista create as Supergenerous. Kevin fostering, while (Carnatic drum language) music of Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, mark singer/songwriter Eric Cottrell Claire Jenkins' music sits comfortably in the Russell Sholberg double-bass, leader, Chantal's Way on Double Time Records, features ECM committed to some great vocal action. buffet of music and spoken word to immersed himself in the music scene and also plays in The Sisters Euclid and Cyro within beats a maniac volatile heart ready to burst from skin and Ghatam (Clay pot and Leonard Cohen. She proclaims that has ever achieved. Always a crowd- roots with subtle flavours that surround her saw; Ben Wilson drums recording artist Richie Beirach and Miles Davis' sideman Billy presenting Jewish Violin & viola master Doug be feasted on at Folkfest between has been a tour de force ever since.