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Here’s a message from Marlee and Tully:
“Our new album “Not Deserted” has just been released worldwide!
To hear our online CD release and interview with the lovely Len Rogers in Virginia, USA, go to http://www.rainbowworldradio.com (till Sept 15)
Get yourself a cuppa (Aussie for a cup of tea) and settle in. You’ll hear the first half of the CD, then a nice long interview, then the second half of the CD.
“Not Deserted” can also be heard at:
www.sugarbeachmusic.com & www.myspace.com/sugarbeach
You can also see videos and photos and other info on these 2 sites.
To purchase “Not Deserted” either in disc form or digital, go to: www.cdbaby.com/sugarbeach1 You’ll be able to download the individual songs from iTunes in a few weeks.
Thanks
Marlee & Tully
OXOX”
Sugarbeach's new album cover
[Editor Note: I received this email from Marlee and Tully of Sugarbeach, who have some great news to announce. Congratulations! - Editor]
Hey Sophia!
Hope you gals are doing well!
We thought we’d send you this as it might interesting to you.
We have just written and recorded this years’ theme song for Vancouver Pride 2008, “Living Out Proud”. Vancouver will be using it for the kick off of events and media liaisons as well as in the parade. So far 7 other major cities around the world have also decided to use it…some have put it on their website already. The cities include, Seattle, Ottawa, Charlotte, North Carolina (where we will be performing at their pride in July), Toronto (it looks like Proud FM may be playing it as well) , Kentucky and Cornwall, UK. We are totally jazzed by the great response we have gotten.
We have given it to them for free to use however they need it and it is also downloadable for free on our myspace page.
“Living Out Proud” is a celebration of Pride as well as an encouragement for LGBT people to come out in every aspect of their lives and we’re hoping it also reaches the ears and the hearts of those in prominent positions whose coming out, we feel, could make such a positive impact on the lives and rights of LGBT people everywhere.
So there you go!
Chat soon…thanks,
Marlee and Tully
from SUGARBEACH
After winning a Grammy Award in 1985 for best new artist and becoming the first artist in history to have five top ten singles from a debut album, Cyndi Lauper continues to win critical acclaim as a singer, musician, actor and writer. Cyndi has released 11 albums, over 40 singles and has sold more than 25 million records worldwide. She has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, 2 Emmy Awards, 2 American Music Awards, 7 American Video Awards, and 18 MTV awards.
As an actor, Cyndi has appeared in such features as Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Fine Line/Mirimax), Life With Mikey (Touchstone), Off and Running (Independent), Vibes (Columbia/Imagine) and opposite Christopher Walken in her critically acclaimed dramatic role in The Opportunist (Independent). Television credits include Queer as Folk (2005), Live and Kicking and Noel’s House Party (both for the BBC) and her Emmy Award Winning performance (Outstanding Guest Performance in a Comedy Series) as Marianne Lugasso on Mad About You (94-99). Cyndi also has lent her talents to other film and TV projects, voicing animated projects for Disney and The Simpsons as well as scoring soundtracks for the films Off and Running and Private Property, and the title song for Nick Cassavete7#39;s, Unhook The Stars. Cyndi made her Broadway debut in 2006, in the role of Jenny in The Threepenny Opera.
A devoted advocate for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community for over 25 years, Cyndi Lauper launched the annual True Colors Tour in 2007. In partnership with organizations like the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), this North American tour brings people together to voice their solidarity for GLBT equality and raise awareness about the continued discrimination the community still faces. From Cyndi and her openly gay sister, Elen, taking part in a highly successful national public awareness campaign for PFLAG to participating in countless events to raise funds and awareness for the fight for GLBT equality, Cyndi is committed to this vital community that has loved and supported her throughout her career. In appreciation for her work, Cyndi has been honored by many organizations including HRC, PFLAG, and the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
Cyndi also is a tireless participant in the struggle to end the HIV/AIDS pandamic that has ravaged the world. Participating in efforts and events for organizations like AMFAR, Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS, the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Cyndi continues to speak out about the need for education and greater resources to fight this disease
TRUE COLORS
WEDNESDAY JULY 2
DEER LAKE PARK – BURNABY, BC
Doors 4:00pm Show 5:00pm
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
http://www.hob.com/go/3pw/1217/tcolors_girlgig/
Ticketmaster or Charge By Phone 604-280-4444
Tickets (incl. GST) $57.50
(plus FMF and service charges)
**general admission lawn**
featuring …
CYNDI LAUPER
THE B52’S
ROSIE O’DONNELL
JOAN ARMATRADING
NONA HENDRIX
plus host …
CARSON KRESSLEY
This weeks’ Xtra west did an excellent cover story about queer women in music, and why so many of them aren’t publicly self identifying as queer or lesbian or putting queer/lesbian content in their music.
Young lesbian and queer women artists are quoted as saying they don’t want to be ‘pidgeonholed’ as queer by representing themselves in the media as lesbian or writing about lesbian experience. While not exactly closeted, if the majority of their fans have no reason to know they’re not straight, they will be assumed to be straight.
Musicians and other public figures passing for straight is nothing new. Queer artists like KD Lang, the Nylons, George Michaels and Elton John also passed for straight in their early careers. While not needing the deep closet of gay actor Rock Hudson or US Congresswomen Barbara Jordan, who were outed only after their deaths, many young lesbian and queer artists are choosing to represent themselves as straight by not declaring otherwise. Would kd or the Nylons have been as successful as they have been if they had come out early in their careers? We’ll know that gay and lesbian people have reached full equality when creating art about our own experiences no longer reduces our career success.
But why are musicians looking for less mainstream audiences not out and proud? Lesbian musical matriarch Cris Williamson is quoted as saying that it’s all just a part of an artistic pendulum, and that much younger women, currently 12 or 13 have swung back towards being more political, and that gives her hope. I think she’s got a point here. Cris’ words put me in mind of an 80’s TV show starring Michael J Fox as the Republican teenage son of progressive activist parents. His parents were so political, there was no way to differentiate himself from them without embracing the conservative values they’d fought. Perhaps the current generation of lesbian and queer women artists are reacting to their musical foremothers in a similar way, choosing to be apolitical or pass for straight in order to be nothing like the lesbian musicians who preceeded them. One can only hope that their musical daughters will feel an equal need to do something different.
SATURDAY MARCH 8 CELEBRATE !!! ‘INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY’ with the fabulous … KIM KUZMA and guests …
SUGARBEACH (The band) special installment … featuring 3 dusted off and better than ever!! former MISTRESS members … the outstanding/powerhouse vocals of Marlee Walchuk the beautiful harmonies and keyboard stylings of Tully Callender the serious rocker chick guitar licks of Rona Goodman rounded off by the always stellar drumming of Lisa Lambert and a very special…
MELISSA ETHERIDGE TRIBUTE by yet another former ‘MISTRESS’ member … JANIS MULLAN opening set with … BONNIE STE-CROIX an incomprable evening of outstanding women’s music and merriment!!! The Fairview Pub … 898 West Broadway Doors: 8:30pm Show: 9:30pm advance tix $15 available @ Little Sisters 1238 Davie St. *get tix early!! always a sell out! http://www.kimkuzma.com/ http://www.sugarbeachmusic.com/
(Girlgigs productions – girlgigs@yahoo.com)
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For more information: http://www.soundsandfuries.com/concerts.html
Excerpted from above site:
HOLLY NEAR & Emma’s Revolution:
“Over 35 Years of Social Change Music”
WHEN: Friday October 30 8 pm, Doors 7:15 pm
WHERE: Unitarian Church, 949 W. 49th Ave @Oak St, Vancouver
TICKETS: $27 advance, $32 at door:
Available at Little Sisters 1238 Davie and Urban Empire 1108 Commercial Dr (cash only)
PayPal tickets coming soon.
Print your own souvenier copy of the concert poster.
HOLLY NEAR
SINGER, PRODUCER, ACTOR, AUTHOR, ACTIVIST & TEACHER!
Nominated for the Nobel Peace prize, Holly Near is known throughout the world as an ambassador for peace, a musician and a global justice activist.
Near’s career as a singer has been profoundly defined by an unwillingness to separate her passion for music from her passion for human dignity. Her voice soars as she sings about that which she knows & has experienced. You can feel and see the passion, the knowing in her voice and in her body.
Holly was one of the first woman artists to start an independent record company when she founded Redwood Records in 1972 which became a major force in alternative music for nearly 20 years. Near’s vision for Redwood was to promote and produce music by politically conscious artists from around the world, a mission fulfilled for almost two decades.
Near worked for world peace and multi-cultural consciousness. The world was her university and social change movements informed her songs. Near helped support the work of artists from Nicaragua, Chile, Australia, Canada, England, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay, Vietnam, El Salvador, Mexico, and the United States. She was outspoken on such issues as gay and lesbian rights, a woman’s right to choose, stopping domestic violence, and opposing nuclear war.
A peace activist and advocate for human and civil rights, Holly has linked the multitude of issues that are our lives, refusing the idea of separate “causes.” When asked how she keeps her energy for this work, she smiles: “I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best efforts as a gift to our children.”
For more information on this amazing woman, visit her web site www.hollynear.com.
EMMA’S REVOLUTION
Dancing on the edge of folk and pop there’s a revolution: Emma’s revolution. The sound of passion in “deftly-turned phrases,” songs imbued with hope, warmth and the “power and drive” to turn tears into laughter, cynicism into action.
EMMA’S REVOLUTION is the duo of award-winning, activist musicians, Pat Humphries & Sandy O, who write songs that become traditions. Their song,“If I Give Your Name” won Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and their music has been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and Pacifica’s “Democracy Now!”. “Peace, Salaam, Shalom” is sung around the world and has been called the “anthem of the anti-war movement.” “Keep On Moving Forward” opened the NGO Forum at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Bejiing, becoming the unofficial theme of the Conference.
“The powers that be can control the media but it’s hard to stop a good song… Pat’s songs will be sung well into the 22nd century.”
WE CAME TO SING! is Holly Near & Emma’s Revolution new CD. Get a copy on October 30th!!
Holly and emma’s revolution put their unique vocal stamp on songs from Holly’s repertoire. Eleven tracks include old favorites such as Listen to the Voices, Sky Dances, and Fired Up along with new arrangements of Study War No More and Sail Away Lady, Pat Humphries’ Swimming to the Other Side, and Rick Burkhardt’s (The Prince Myshkins) Ministry.
For more information on Emma’s Revolution, visit their web site www.emmasrevolution.com.
KATE CLINTON, #1 Lesbian Comedienne
WHEN: Thursday November 5, 8 pm, Doors 7:15 pm
WHERE: WISE Hall, 1882 Adanac St @ Victoria Dr
TICKETS: Tickets $27 advance, $32 at door
Available at Little Sisters 1238 Davie and Urban Empire 1108 Commercial Dr (cash only)
PayPal tickets coming soon.
Check back soon for more details. We`ll post them as soon as we have them.
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SUNDAY OCTOBER 25
THE DOTS
with special guests …
The Railway Club … 579 Dunsmuir St.
Doors: 7pm Show: 8pm
Admission: $10
upcoming highlights …
TUESDAY OCTOBER 27
ANI DIFRANCO
Centre In Vancouver for The Performing Arts … 777 Homer
8pm Tickets: www.ticketmaster.ca / 604-280-4444
$44.50-$49.50 plus service charges
Vancouver first embraced Ani DiFranco in 1992, when she made her debut appearance at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Audiences fell head over heels for the feisty young singer-songwriter full of dynamic pizzazz. Armed with only a guitar, talent and a brain she kicked in the door for a generation of followers.
Twenty-some recordings (all on her own Righteous Babe label) and innumerable shows later, the little folk singer that could returns to Vancouver with a couple of pals. She’ll play songs from her latest release, the brilliant New Orleans-infused Red Letter Year, and selections from both ones that came before and new songs from a writer who never stops writing.
Whether the subject is politics or the foibles of being human, this is an artist who continues to deliver honesty, excellence and a few surprises. Seventeen years after her Vancouver debut, Ani DiFranco remains at the top of her game – a significant, outspoken and creatively ingenious artist who just keeps getting better and better.
Ani also performs in Victoria on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at The Royal Theatre.
Presented by Valdine Ciwko and Gary Cristall
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5
KATE CLINTON #1 LESBIAN COMMEDIENE!!
THE WISE HALL … 1882 Adanac St
Doors: 7pm Show: 8pm
Tix: $27 advance @ Little Sisters 1238 Davie St & Urban empire 1108 Commercial Dr. $32 @ door
A Sounds & Furies and girlgig productions co-presentation
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6
PO’GIRL “DEER IN THE NIGHT” TOUR
with special guests …
THE WISE HALL … 1882 Adanac St
Doors: 8pm Show: 9pm
Tix: $15 advance @ Little Sisters 1238 Davie St. & Highlife Records & Music 1317 Commercial Dr. $20 @ door
* ON SALE Tuesday October 6
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15
EVALYN PARRY
*EARLY SHOW
The Railway Club … 579 Dunsmuir St.
Doors: 5pm Show: 6pm SHARP!
Admission: $10
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28
ISSA formerly (JANE SIBERRY)
with special guests … THE FATES
THE WISE HALL … 1882 Adanac St.
Doors: 7pm Show: 8pm
Tix: $28 advance @ Little Sisters 1238 Davie St. & Highlife Records & Music 1317 Commercial Dr. $33 @ door
*ON SALE Tuesday October 6
another Sounds & Furies and girlgig productions co-presentation
girlgig productions trigger@girlgigs.com
| June 1, 2008 | to | June 30, 2008 |
Message from the editor: Rhizome Cafe is a lesbian owned (and run) cafe with a wonderful community attitude. Because they have so many events of interest to LQ’s readers, I have inserted their entire monthly calendar and events notices below, rather than taking on the daunting task of separating them into separate events postings. Enjoy! (more…)
| May 1, 2008 | to | May 31, 2008 |
May at Rhizome Café * Community Space * Arts Venue 317 East Broadway, Vancouver
Events
Stand Up, Sing Out: Expressions of Resistance and Liberation
Friday May 2nd, 7:30pm
Streams of Justice presents an evening of music and poetry on the theme of human solidarity, and against the unjust social structures that break us apart. (http://www.streamsofjustice.org/).
Free
Art Show Opening: Illustrated Journey Youth Project
Saturday, May 3rd, 6:30pm
For the past six months, a group of immigrant and refugee youth have worked with established illustrators and comic book artists, learning how to share their personal stories and talk about issues that are important to them as newcomers to Canada. The comics currently hanging on our walls are the result of this collaboration. Come see the comics, meet the youth artists, and learn about their journeys, both physical and artistic.
Free
Family Sunday: Caravan World Rhythms Society Presents Boris Sichon
Sunday, May 4th, doors at 4:30, show at 5:00, supper til 7:00
Bring the kids to experience over 25 instruments, and musical traditions from near and far. This is a participatory show, part of Rhizome’s Family Sunday series: events, activities and supper for all ages.
$4 for kids, $6 for adults
Caffeinated Queers: Youth Week Talent Show
Friday, May 9th, 6:00pm
Come join a fabulous night filled with wonderful young talents, hosted by GAB, Out in Schools, and the Vancouver School Board. It will be an evening of singing, acting, stand-up, spoken-word, drag, film and fun entertainment for queer youth and their friends.
Free, donations welcome
Althea Cunningham Duo
Saturday, May 10th, 8:00pm
Sultry, original R&B and soul music sung by Althea Cunningham and accompanied by David Priest and Harry Kalensky. Don’t miss this chance to satisfy your appetite for great jazz tunes!
$5 at the door
Family Sunday: Will Stroet and His Mom’s Mothers’ Day Concert
Sunday, May 11th, doors at 4:30, show at 5:00, supper til 7:00
Celebrate Mothers’ Day with children’s musician Will Stroet and his mom Marion! Will and Marion will sing interactive songs in French and English from their acclaimed album Will et sa maman: Chantons et dansons.
$4 for children, $6 for adults
Locution: The UBC Creative Writing Department’s Reading Series
Thursday, May 15th, 7:00pm
Five writers from UBC’s MFA Creative Writing program read from their latest works, live performances are presented, mystery guests do their thing, and more!
Free
Claudia Dey Book Launch
Friday, May 16th, 7:30pm
Claudia Dey celebrates the launch of her debut novel, Stunt, which the Toronto Star calls a “surrealist coming-of-age novel, a shot of Catcher in the Rye with a One Hundred Years of Solitude chaser.” She is joined by local novelist, Teresa McWhirter, who reads from her new novel Dirtbags (Anvil Press), a book FFWD Weekly calls a “search for beauty amid chaos and anarchy [that] resonates long after the last page is turned.”
Free
Caravan World Rhythms Society Presents: Pe de Cana
Saturday, May 17th, 8:00pm
Pe de Cana, Vancouver’s own choro/chorinho trio band brings us this popular style of Brazilian music and rhythm.
$10 at the door
Family Sunday: Storyteller Naomi Steinberg
Sunday, May 18th, doors at 4:30, show at 5:00, supper til 7:00
A little bit of curiosity, a whole lotta heart and a generous heap of fun – all wrapped up in tried and true traditional tales from around the world. Join storyteller Naomi Steinberg for this evening of stories. Bring your ears, hearts and willingness to wonder the world into wellness!
$3-$5 suggested donation, but no one turned away for lack of funds.
Palestinian Refugee Film Night
Thursday, May 22nd, 7:00pm
As part of Vancouver-Palestine Solidarity Month, the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign presents an evening of films focusing on the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948. The two films, Children of Ibdaa and Deir Yassin Remembered, depict not only the events of 1948 but also the continuing struggle of Palestinian refugees.
By donation, suggested $5-$10 but no one turned away
Café Rebelde
Friday, May 23rd, 7:00pm
Join us for this monthly informational and social event in support of Latin American social movements. May’s topic is to be announced.
Free
Board Games are So Gay
Saturday, May 24th, 7:00pm
Bring your favourite games or use ours! DJ Ruggedly Handsome will keep the tunes coming during this queer-friendly community games night.
Free, donations welcome
Family Sunday: Disco, Baby
Sunday, May 25th, 4:30-7:00
We’ll be out on the disco floor again! Dj little d will be mixing the old school and the new. Bring the kids out for some disco dancing fun.
By donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Kulilu & Nuhkinka Coffee House Night
Friday, May 30th, 7:00pm
First Nations Grassroots Arts and Entertainment (A department of the George Manuel Institute) presents a First Nations evening of culture and traditional sharing. Our elder Kulilu (political activist, poet, writer and performer) has turned 60. We offer this night of entertainment and connection as a way to bring our people together to embrace our oral traditions of storytelling through spoken word and song. Nuhkinka (performer, youth worker and political activist) will deliver a premier performance as a gift to Kulilu and our guests.
Free
EveryBODY Dance Now! A Latin Dance Party for Queer Folk and their Allies
Saturday, May 31st, 7:30pm
Whether you’ve only dreamed of dancing Salsa or are already a pro, you are welcome here! From 7:30 to 8:15 we’ll hang out, listen to some music, eat, drink and maybe try out our dance shoes a bit. At 8:15 we’ll learn some moves from Michael Gabriel Rosen of Más Movement. From 9:30 onward we´ll work it to the sweet rhythms of Salsa, Merengue and Reggaeton. No partner necessary.
$5-$10 sliding scale, but no one turned away for lack of funds
Workshops and Other Small Happenings
Many groups use our Community Meeting Room and other corners of the café for gatherings, workshops, and more. This month, the following are open to the public:
Common-ist Conspiracies Discussion Group
Wednesday evenings, May 7th-June 25th, 7:00-9:00pm
Join us for a weekly study/discussion group on “the commons:” physical and social relationships based on shared resources, networks of mutual aid, dignity and non-alienated labour. We will discuss examples of how people have built emancipatory ways of living as alternatives to the destructive mode of social organization that is capitalism. Each week we will focus on a specific theme of interest. There will be no formal reading list but readings relating to particular topics will be made available for anyone who is interested. Together we will elaborate on a language and practice of political struggle and social change that connects us with others.
Free
Rhizome Café * Community Space * Arts Venue
Where we are:
317 East Broadway Vancouver, BC, Coast Salish Territory
For more information: 604-872-3166
http://www.rhizomecafe.ca/
rhizome@rhizomecafe.ca
When we’re open:
Tuesdays: 4pm to 10pm
Wednesdays and Thursdays: 11am to 10pm
Fridays 11am to midnight
Saturdays 10am to midnight (brunch from 10 to 3; kitchen closed 3-5)
Sundays 10am to 3pm (and often also from 4:30 to 7:00 when we have a Family Sunday event scheduled)
A note on our name: In the botanical sense, a rhizome is a root system that some plants (like lilies and orchids and ginger and bamboo) use to spread themselves about. While the roots of most plants point generally downward, the rhizome is a horizontal root system that runs parallel to the surface of the ground. The plant sends shoots up from nodes in the rhizome, creating what look like many separate plants. These seemingly unrelated individuals are actually all connected, through a system that’s not immediately visible to the eye.
