Special Event: The Wet Spots at Lime

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Time:	9:00pm - 11:00pm
Location:	Lime (was Rime)
Street:	1130 Commercial Drive
City/Town:	Vancouver, BC

The fabulous Wet Spots make their triumphant Vancouver return.
Not sure if there is a cover, but i think so.

Get there early to reserve a table.

CALL 604 215 1130.

www.wetspotsmusic.com www.danielpackard.com

Special Event: Wet Spots @ Lime on Valentine's Day

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Music: Jesse Waldman February Artist-In-Residence @ Lime

Multi-talented Jesse Waldman is the artist residence for February at lime (formerly known as rime). What this means is he'll be performing there every Sunday in the many different projects I’m involved in. You can expect many fantastic delights including high-end sushi, drinky drinks, screaming girls, track lighting and of course, great music. Below is a detailed schedule of what's happening…

Sun Feb 3

lisa o’neill
lisa o’ neill – acoustic guitar, vocals, jesse waldman - electric guitar and nick stecz – drums

Lisa O'Neill is a singer-songwriter from Vancouver, her music is an eclectic blend of Dreamy folk resulting in a style that is uniquely her own. It has been described as melodic, lyrical and deeply moving. Lisa's powerful lyrics radiate from deep within her soul and her inspired song-writing is filled with passion and grace.

monica lee band

monica lee – vocals, viola, acoustic guitar, marc l’esperance – drums, vocals and jesse waldman – electric guitar, vocals

Easy to listen to, hard to ignore, this prairie girl run away to the west coast will warm your heart, sooth the tired mind and get you out of your chair. The band's live sets are energetic, inspiring and intimate full of lush piano, soulful vocals, and warm viola, tight drumming and soaring guitars. Monica's voice is stirring, reminiscent of Carly Simon and Carole King, delivering a mixture of folk, blues and roots with gypsy overtones. Monica Lee is joined by the multi-talented Marc L'Espérance on drums and backup vocals, and the virtuosic guitar hero Jesse Waldman

Sun Feb 10

Supna

jesse waldman – acoustic guitar, Kenton loewen – drums, percussion, rup sidhu - didjeridoo, percussion, flute, pete shmitt – bass

Yes ladies and gentlemen, the legendary supna are returning to the stage for the 1^st time in years. Supna is an instrumental group that incorporates many musical genres including middle eastern, flamenco, metal and funk and free improv.

Josh Martinez and the pissed-off wild

Josh Martinez – rapping, Kenton loewen – drums, pete shmitt – bass, jesse waldman – electric guitar

The Pissed Off Wild started as a beer, went around like reefer, and ended up passed out in the backyard under the picnic table with a empty quart of whiskey clutched in its hands and a huge smile on its face. All punk rock attitude, black humor and a rhythm section that just won't quit, these boys make The Supremes look like a bunch of chicks. Mixing 50's doowop, 60's drugs, 70's rock, 80's punk and 90's party rap with a post-Y2K love of the good times, The P.O.W. have established themselves as fusion phenoms wherever they play.

Sun Feb 17

electric kids

jesse waldman – acoustic/electric guitar, vocals, marc l’esperance – drums vocals,chris bizzochi – piano, keys, paul Surjadinata – bass, vocals

Jesse is a unique singer/songwriter who seems puts a touch of magic in his songs. This new project: electric kids has all you’ve come to expect from waldman: crafty, memorable songs, contagious melodies, sweet vocal harmonies, thumping rhythms and of course, wild guitars. These are mostly new songs people! This art-rock experience is sure to have you mesmerized and inspired.

jess hill
jess hill – acoustic guitar, vocals, jesse waldman – electric guitar

Like the intuition implied by synchronized movement, Jess Hill's music reminds you of something you thought you'd forgotten. Anchored in the tendencies of folk, blues and jazz, Jess tells stories: cyclones and downpours, hovering birds, white skies. In the dim light of midnight living rooms and in the hearts of singing shadows, Jess Hill is building something beautiful.

Beth southwell
Beth southwell – acoustic guitar, vocals, jesse waldman – electric guitar, wayne adams - drums

Beth Southwell is a singer songwriter that has travelled the world. She writes songs from her experiences of life and living. Her melodic, memorable songs speak of truths and relate easily to others. Beth has performed in a variety of projects, toured the UK, Taiwan, and the West Coast, recorded three Albums, and is currently working on another solo project.

Sun Feb 24

Fearless melodies
khari - vocals, fraze ford - vocals, mark beatty - bass, melissa mcCready – acoustic guitar, jesse waldman – electric guitar and john raham – drums

brand new R&B project featuring khari’s tunes…

phatty phatty and the roaches
blair duthie – vocals, percussion, jesse waldman – electric guitar, vocals, kirk layman – drums, brian dragseth – guitar, vocals, andy cakes – trombone, vocals, mike donnely –bass, brian davies – trumpet, jeff Birmingham – keys

Bouncing along a BC highway without a care, sparks off the guardrail, rides the phatmobile. Bringing extra-terrestrial reggae songs of bingo, girls and palaces in the sky, phatty phatty is a true westcoast gem. Not only are these guys seasoned players and connoisseurs of the finer things in life, but they’re also psychedelic super heroes who may just save the world one day.

Lime is located @ 1130 Commercial Drive (near napier)
(604) 215-1130

Cover charge will range from $7-10 depending on the night

Thanks y’all and I hope to see you there!!

Music: Monica Lee Band @ Lime

The Monica Lee Band is playing at Lime this Sunday, Feb 3 as part of Jesse Waldman's Artist in Residence month. Formerly Rime, there are new owners and a new menu...Japanese Fusion! Jesse says its grrrrreat!

Lime is located @ 1130 Commercial Drive (near napier)
(604) 215-1130

Cover charge is $7

Music: Wyckham Porteous @ Lime

Wyckham Porteous and His Stellar Band of Neighbors plays at Lime (formerly Rime) at 9pm on Thursday, January 10th.
Porteous will be performing songs from his critically acclaimed album, "3AM".

Literary: Brendan McLeod @ Rime

Brendan McLeod is a former Canadian SLAM poetry champion, the recent winner of the 3 Day Novel Contest, and a musician/spoken word artist with The Fugitives. Tonight, he combines elements of all three of these fields: high energy poetry, surreal/earnest folk songs, and passionate storytelling. He'll be armed with surprise special guests to help him rock out.
"One of the most intelligent and dynamic performance poets on the globe." - Chair, Spoken Word Canada
"McLeod's (novel) works away with quiet efficiency...a personal addendum to the most horrific of biblical parables" - Globe and Mail
"Canada's top SLAM spieler" - CBC


Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 9:00pm

Rime
1130 Commercial Drive
Contact Info:
604.813.9877

Comedy: The Laugh Gallery @ Rime

By Guy MacPherson

From the Georgia Straight
Publish Date: May 17, 2007

In his weekly showcase at Rime, local standup veteran Graham Clark would rather see the new and strange than the tried and true. Mark Mushet photo.

You might think Vancouver comedian Graham Clark would avoid racetracks, given his allergy to horses. But Hastings Park is precisely where Clark chose to meet up with the Straight on a recent sunny Saturday afternoon. For the Alberta native, it's the perfect place to unwind after his visits to flea markets and yard sales in search of tacky prizes to give away at his weekly Wednesday-night comedy show, the Laugh Gallery, which takes place at Rime (1130 Commercial Drive).

And when you think about it, a day at the races makes perfect sense. Clark, an old soul at the age of 27, would fit right in with the Marx Brothers, with his ever-present vintage paperboy hat, Vandyke-ish facial hair, and quick wit. Even his alias fits: Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo, meet Wannabo (a portmanteau of wannabe hobo), the moniker Clark uses on MySpace to differentiate himself from the millions of other Graham Clarks of the world.

Read here for the complete story...

Special Event: Conversation with Richard Rodriguez

Disunited We Stand: America's Diversity Is Its Strength

Author Richard Rodriguez.

A Latino writer probes his nation's mixed-up soul.

By Richard Rodriguez
Published: April 25, 2007

in the TheTyee.ca

[Editor's note: Award winning essayist Richard Rodriguez wrote this article a month after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Does he feel the same today? You can learn first hand tomorrow evening in Vancouver as he discusses his book Brown: The Last Discovery of America, a rich meditation on race and cultural politics in the New World. In conversation with Marcus Youssef, Thursday, April 26, 5 p.m., Rime Restaurant, 1130 Commercial Drive. Event is free.]

In peace time, America is the most original nation in the world. We are the maddest, most inventive; truly a splendid disorder are we. When America goes to war, we become a nation like any other.

Nowadays, I turn on TV and hear Americans gamely stumbling through the national anthem. At an intersection yesterday, I saw a Lexus carrying a socialite alongside a pickup with a kid who was absorbing the thump-thump-thump of rap music -- both cars wearing the stars and stripes.

Read the full article first...

Music: The Black Crow Project Presents 4 Evenings in May

A Fundraiser for the Portland Hotel Society

Location: Rime, 1130 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Tickets: $10 at the door

Dates: May 6, 13, 21, 27 – 8:30 pm.

Featuring musical performances by: Mark Berube, Cora Fields, Jess Hill, Sarah MacDougall, Corbin Murdoch and the Nautical Miles, Parlour Steps, Pawnshop Diamond, Jessie Turner

You can hardly pick up a newspaper today in the Lower Mainland without reading about the dismal conditions of the homeless and hard to house. In fact, the region’s homeless population is on the rise, with the income gap between Vancouver’s rich and poor among the worst in the country. Aren’t you glad you have a safe place to sleep?

The Black Crow Project, developed in response to the basic needs of shelter and community for the less fortunate, is organized around a central belief that music is a powerful tool to reach across social boundaries. The arts, according to the organization’s founders, help communities find focus and belonging so they can constructively move towards common goals.

Katie Ormiston and Jessie Turner are the driving force behind the project. Last November, they, along with co-founder Nina Fleming, successfully launched “The Black Crow Project” as an arts fundraiser event for the Portland Hotel Society (PHS), one of Vancouver’s longest running and most respected organizations. It provides housing, service and advocacy for those in need. Says Ormiston, “I wanted a way to contribute positively to the issues surrounding homelessness. I often think about my own brother who suffers from a mental illness and where he would be if he didn’t have family. The Project also released a compilation CD by local musicians about the crows that fly over Vancouver.

Why the crows? The crows that fly together across East Vancouver each morning and evening have captivated Ormiston for years. “They are a symbol to me of all the potential Vancouver has to offer. More than the mountains or the ocean, when I watch these crows come together to fly home every night I am inspired to take part in this community and make it my home.”

For the month of May, the Black Crow Project will be “Artist in Residence” at East Vancouver’s Rime. Musicians from the project will perform along with a short talk by a Portland Hotel Society spokesperson. Fifty percent of cover and one hundred percent of profit from the compilation CD will be donated to the PHS. To find out more about the PHS call: 604-683-0073.

The Black Crow Project recording, rated as one of Highlife World Music’s Best of 2006, is also available for purchase at Highlife World Music, 1317 Commercial Drive, Vancouver.

Special Event: Sauna Sessions at Rime

April 09, 2007

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

Special Event: Bite of the Underground

This Saturday evening at RIME on Commercial Drive will feature another eclectic and electric night of music, laughs, and spoken word...featuring Patrick Swan, Jess Hill, John Murphy, Adrienne Wong, Charlie Demers and Circus in Flames. Tickets are $12 and hopefully they'll be available at the door.

Here's the official blurb from organizer, Nick Marino:

Here is the line-up: Charlie Demers (one of the best comedians in the city - also a skecth comic and editor of seven Oaks online magazine) Patrick Swan (slam poet ) John Murphy ( actor/ writer / director will be performing part of his hilarious new play) It's Good to Know People ( sketch comedy duo - performed several show at the comedy fest last year - they are "the folk fest meets the shopping channel") Jess Hill (see picture) (singer/songwriter - beautiful voice, beautiful songs, friendly girl) Adrienne Wong (she has a ukelele). there will also be a band of local rockers - circus in flames - to close the show.

the show is called Bite of the Underground

it is on March 31st at rime ( a restaurant at 1130 commercial drive)

it starts at 8:30

tickets are $12

If you are interested in tickets, please reply to nmarino@vsb.bc.ca or phone Nick at 604 298 0955

Music: Upcoming at the Rime

Tambura Rasa returns to RIME for another evening of enchanting Mediterranean and Middle Eastern grooves on April 6^th. www.tamburarasa.com

Get Closer To The Flame, April 26^th at RIME when Joel Kroeker celebrates the release of his new album by the same name. Hear more of his music at www.joelkroeker.com.

For a complete listing of events happening at the Rime, go to their website www.rime.ca.

Profile: Joanna Chapman-Smith

Joanna Chapman-Smith grew up with her New Zealand-born father, Italian-American mother, in a family of six on a quiet street on the edge of Toronto. Her father fell in love with the folk music of Eastern Canada when he came to Canada in 1983, singing his four children to sleep with these and the songs from his home every night. With the Toronto traffic rushing on in the distance, this is how Joanna learned music.

When Joanna moved out west to Vancouver, British Columbia - her music met a vast new array of cultural traditions. That was five years ago and since that time, Joanna has grown into her power as a singer and as a songwriter. In 2007 she released her first full-length album, Eyre Corvidae (Journey of the Crow Family). The songs in this collection are personal melodies, soothing rhythms and rocking laments. Influenced by a wide variety of traditions, her style is a satisfying blend of sounds. She ties her sound together with a unique vocal style that is sensitive and powerful. Joanna's love of music, and her joy of life come across in her music and voice. It is pure, passionate, and playful - as is her approach to music.

Find her music at http://www.joannacs.com or hear Joanna live with the Glee Club and friends Blue Island Trio, 30 Toes (Dance Company) and "Bad Poetry" by Melissa Bandura, Natalie Hobbs & Marnie Norwich

Friday, March 30th
9pm at Rime
1130 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC