Music: Dawn Pemberton is April's Artist in Residence at Rime

That’s right, The Shirleys’ own scintillating diva is taking over the town, and that means that every Sunday night will be Saucy, Sweet and Superb!

Here are the details, now it’s up to you to make it your mission to have Sunday nights with Dawn.

Location 1130 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Admission Cover $8 @ the door
Contact 604.215.1130 or see www.rime.ca

April 1st
The No Shit Shirleys are eight soulful singing women offering up an acapella stew guaranteed to kick you in the pants! They sing everything from Cuban Carnival music and tragic Russian love songs to sweet Mandarin flirtations and wrenching Appalachian protests. Their harmonies are complex, their arrangements original and they sing in at least seven different languages. Their mission: to promote joy, love and happiness through singing and - if possible – to save the world. Can they do it? We say yes!

April 8th
Dawn Pemberton and Curt Allison host a Sunday night gospel and soul experience guaranteed to make you stomp your feet, clap your hands and sing your heart out! Curt Allison, hailing all the way from North Carolina, plays with fiery determination and invokes some of gospel's greatest piano players! Together Curt and Dawn will blow the roof off!

April 15th
The Dawn Pemberton Trio creates an intimate, connected, soulful and heartfelt setting with their arrangements and adaptations of the songs that we all know and love. Together they explore and craft their own book of modern standards with a sense of adventure, curiosity, quirkiness and serious groove. Dawn Pemberton-vocals, Jeff Younger-guitar, Cory Curtis-bass.

April 22nd
The Dawn Pemberton Trio dive right in and explore the massive musical legacy of The Beatles. Dawn Pemberton-vocals, Jeff Younger-guitar, Cory Curtis-bass.

April 29th
The Deep End is a 7 piece funk and soul locomotive that will lay the dirty on you like no one else can!!! Bring your dancing shoes and get ready to throw down. The Deep End is Kristian Naso-trumpet, Dan Pigot-tenor sax, Shannon Thue-keys, Cory Curtis-bass, Jeff Younger-guitar and Dawn Pemberton-vocals. PS...It's also Dawn's Birthday so come on out and help her celebrat