An Evening of Alternative Folk
Saturday – June 26th – Cafe Deux Soleils

The Reckoners will be performing as a new 5 piece ensemble including Noah Walker (Electric Guitar), Evan Bates (Standup Bass), Sam Heard (Drums), Christina Simpson (Vocals & Percussion), and Ricardo Khayatte (Vocals & Guitar) and special guest Jonas Shandel from Headwater.

This album drives that point home. Getting American Hammond B3 virtuoso Joey DeFrancesco as his sideman is telling.  This marks the third recording as leader in as many years for Weeds. And if it seems he has a special fondness for organists, having played with Dr. Lonnie Smith and then Mike LeDonne in his first two albums, you’re on to something.
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The Fox 99.3 FM Vancouver have launched their battle of the bands “The Seeds” and voting is coming to an end.  Only 4 days are remaining to vote for your favorite BC band. The winner of The Seeds win A lease of a Mazda CX9 for a year, A Demo Recording deal from Maple Music and will work for the year with some of  the biggest names in the Canadian Music Industry and more.  DMA is very proud to work with last year’s winner Goodbye Beatdown and wish all the bands in the competition this year good luck.

For more information please visit http://cfox.supernova.com

Inhabitants continue to push forward into new sonic territory with “A Vacant Lot“, their third full-length on Drip Audio. Spacious and expressive, the new album explores the dynamic relationship between chaos and form through experimental sound, intuitive group interplay and instrumental composition. There is new diversity in the music; rich textured landscapes augmented by electronics and feedback are contrasted with moments of intimate acoustic minimalism. A reflective mood pervades the new landscape Inhabitants occupy on A Vacant Lot, their improvisations and compositions permeated with an uncommon, yet alluring lyricism.

CD Release Concert
Thursday May 27th @ the newly renovated Colbalt (917 Main St)
With guests Gordon Grdina

Callanish Society is a small, grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to improving the emotional and spiritual health of our communities by assisting families with cancer, and their health care providers, to explore illness and/or death openly and consciously.

On Wednesday June 16th at 6:30PM The Spacious Heart, A benefit concert for the Callanish Society is taking place at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.  Tickets are $75 and there will be a wine and cheese reception before the concert.  The concert features Lorna McGhee on flute, Joan Blackman on violin, Ariel Barnes on cello and Maryliz Smith on piano.  For more information please call the Callanish Society at 604-732-0633 or email at info@callanish.org

Friday May 14 @ the Hennessey
Show @ 8pm. Cover $6. With guest musicians:  Zoe (talented 12 year old musician) and Onward Voyageur

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A rising star on the west coast music scene, Malcolm Aiken is an exciting young trumpet player, bandleader and producer whose sound blends influences of jazz, soul, and latin music. This debut for TrebleFive Records, “Paper Star” showcases his original music and several intimate interpretations of jazz and classical standards. Supported by an all star cast of musicians, Malcolm presents his lyrical and smokey trumpet sound in a diverse selection of musical textures, combining strings, vibes, percussion and woodwinds.

CD Release concert on Thursday May 20th, 2010 at St. James Hall.  Doors at 7PM show at 8PM, For tickets and info go to www.malcolmaiken.com

The PEAK FM in Vancouver has launched their second PEAK Performance grant project and are excepting applications until April 30th. Year two of The PEAK Performance Project will see an increase of overall funding to B.C. artists from $275,000 to $315,000 in development cash awards and will see all Top 20 artists receive artist development funding. The 1st place artist will receive $100,500, 2nd is $75,000, 3rd is $50,000, 4th is $10,000, 5th is $5,000 and all 20 finalists will receive $3500 each in initial artists development funding.  The $5.29 million PEAK Performance Project is designed to educate, promote, develop and hopefully launch the careers of some of British Columbia’s top emerging artists. It also hopes to foster the province’s music industry and create a sense of community amongst music professionals.

For more information please visit: www.peakperformanceproject.com

US raised, Cuban-American singer/composer Havana Carbo has just released her 6th CD entitled “Phantoms of Love”.  Spellbinding bolero/bossa/jazz renditions of gems – songs of love, longing, remembering, from Brazil, Cuba, France, film and treasures from the American song book..in original languages..as a softly sung murmur in your ear…

“A languid, sensual delight that won me over as I listened to it. Her sexy, breathless vocal style perfectly matches the sparse arrangements, creating the perfect late-night, bachelor-pad music for any hiking of the Appalachian Trail. I loved the orchestration, the bass part sets the scene perfectly for “Que reste-t-il de nos amours…Obviously a heart-felt cd, both from the singer and the ensemble, so much love is poured in to this that it glows, one to keep close, just don’t play it in the car in the daytime…” – Mick Freeman: WQUB / Quincy IL

Havana Carbo’s CDBaby Page

Canadian Jazz Vocalist, Karin Plato, has just finished her newest CD entitled “Out of Town” and is having a CD release party on March 31st at the Heritage Hall in Vancouver.  Tickets are available at the Book Warehouse (632 Broadway) and at Highlife Records (1317 Commercial Drive).  For more information please visit www.karinplato.com