Feb 1-4: sheree plett in alberta

hello friends,
many of you know that we (me and jer) are leaving for a small alberta tour this week, January 31-February 5, we're travelling in our new beautiful 1990 dodge caravan affectionately named "Ruby Bluesmoke" with 3 other band mates, Kenton Wiens (drums), Ben Appenhiemer (bass), Jeremy Penner (wurlitzer). We"ll be hitting up Calgary, Edmonton and Camrose. If any of you live in these cities or have friends that live there, please pass on these show dates and invite them!!

Feb 1st: Ironwood stage @ 8:30 pm (Calgary, AB)
Feb 2nd: Riverdale Hall @ 7:30pm (Edmonton, AB)
Feb 3rd: Summerside Church @ 8:15pm (Edmonton, AB)
Feb 4th: Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute @ 7:30pm (Camrose, AB)

for more details/addresses of veunue visit: www.myspace.com/shereeplettmusic

Hope to see some of you soon!
thanks for your friendship and support, sheree


//sheree plett
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Feb 2: Martyn Joseph concert

Some years back, a Martyn Joseph concert for the Rogue Folk Club was the artistic and spiritual high point of my entire year. Superlatives intentional. An immense stage presence, palpable integrity, virtuostic singing voice (he's Welsh, dontcha know), singular Christian perspective in a cultural context where that doesn't often go down too well. And you should hear his cover of "One Of Us"!

Just got an email from PT actor Ian Farthing about a concert this Friday night. I'll be in a play reading as part of the Rosedale On Robson Writers Week (more about that to follow sooner or later, over on the Pacific Theatre blog), and there's no way I'm missing that, but if it were anything else, I'd be thinking of cancelling to hear Martyn again.

Here's Ian;

Hey y'all,

Martyn Joseph is a singer-songwriter from the UK who I got to know a little bit when I was working for the Arts Centre Group in London.

He is a fabulous performer and he's in town on Friday night, performing at the St. James Community Centre at 10th & Trutch in Kitsilano.

Martyn's done many a gig in Vancouver - both at the Folk Festival and at Capilano College as part of the Rogue Folk Club series. He loves BC and at one time was even thinking of moving here with his family. Well, he was thinking of moving to Prince George. God knows why.

He's toured with the likes of Celine Dion, Belinda Carlisle, Art Garfunkel, Suzanne Vega, Janis Ian and even Shirley Bassey!

I can't recommend him highly enough for his passion, his humour and his gritty faith.

So, I'll be there on Friday night at 8pm. Join me if you can!

Tickets are $23
Available from the Rogue Folk Club
604 736 3022 or online

Ciao for now!

Ian

Jan 25: Nisbet, La Grand, Wiens at Backstage Lounge

If that girl on the right looks familiar, maybe it's because you saw her at CONFESSIONS last fall, that's Kathleen Nisbet. (At least, I think it's Kathleen. Only, how come that other girl's got her fiddle?....)

Anyhow, she's making music tonight at the Granville Island Backstage Lounge. And so is Peter La Grand, who opened for Over The Rhine at Regent last fall. And Kenton Wiens, drummer for almost every PT show with music in the past two or three seasons, plays with Lily! Many birds, one stone.

Here's what the email said;

Lily Come Down... AND Viper Central?... AND Peter La Grand?

That's right folks - this night's a night to remember. It's a Thursday and it's a late show - not for weak constitutions.

When: Thursday January 25th, 10 pm
Where: The Backstage Lounge, Granville Island
Who: see above
What: Awersomeness...
Why: N/A
How: I'll leave that in your capable hands.

(Peter's on first, then Viper, then Lily...)

Jan 25 - Feb 3: Lost In Yonkers, Gallery 7

Gallery 7 Theatre & Performing Arts Society presents
Lost in Yonkers
The Pulitzer Prize Winning Comedy by Neil Simon

January 25 – 27 & Feb 1 – 3, 2007 @ 7:30 PM
Discount Matinee: Saturday, January 27 @ 2:00 PM

MEI Secondary School Auditorium
4081 Clearbrook Road, Abbotsford

Tickets - House of James: 604-852-3701

Overheard in the lobby and on the street….

“The best play yet!”

“The play was great! I’m coming again!”

“I wanted to take Aunt Bella home with me!”



"Don’t miss this opportunity to catch one of Neil Simon’s best plays! It's the summer of 1942 in Yonkers, New York. Jay and Arty are left in the care of their stern and bristly grandmother while their father attempts to earn fast money to pay off debts. While there, the boys experience family in an entirely new and bizarre way as they relate with their love-starved aunt and their mysterious uncle who appears to have ties to the mob. As the summer goes on, the boys’ presence becomes a catalyst for emotional healing in an affectionless home where people are prepared for the hard life through hard-nosed discipline and correction."

Featuring…

* Pat Braun * Tamara Charman * John Dawson * Dave Peters *

* Nathan Peters * Tommy Peters * Shelley Picard *

Directed by Ken Hildebrandt; Set Design by Jordan Block & Ashley Unger; Costumes by Heather Davis; Lighting Design by Ryan LeComte; Make-Up Design by Sarah Wiget; Sound Design by Rick Havinga

Jan 18: Joycelin Ng recital

Some of you know Joycelin from her work with Tom Cooper. She and I connected a few years back at a Student Forum: her focus was almost entirely on ministry, but she had chosen to sit with the Arts group. She's a trained pianist, and right away I started in on her, probing to see whether she was just as happy to leave her music behind, or whether there might be a place in her life to resume playing.

Saw her late last year, and I swear she was glowing. Perhaps it was entirely coincidence that she has also returned to playing the music that she loves. But I don't think so.

Anyhow, she had a performance scheduled earlier in January that was snowed out. It's been rescheduled for tonight...

Looking forward to seeing some of you tonight at 7:30pm. Xin and I will be playing some Veracini, Frescobaldi, Albinoni, Rachmaninoff, Hindemith and other great, but already dead composers who wrote for the double bass and piano. They did, however, live between the time of the 16th and 20th centuries and influenced many around them...

Come, relax, and enjoy...refreshments available in the foyer afterwards.

Where: Koerner Recital Hall, 1270 Chestnut Street (at the Vancouver Academy of Music across from Vanier Park, near the Burrard bridge).
When: 7:30-9:00 (ish) pm
Cost: Free

Cheers & thanks!
Joycelin

Jan 25 - Feb 17: THE QUARREL

"At Sinai, God made a covenant with the Jewish people. At Auschwitz, he broke it."

January 25-Feb 17
Book Your Tickets Now!
Subscribers – be sure to use your tickets!

“Excellent! A war of the spirit on a battleground of ideas.”
Michael Wilmington, L.A. Times

“A rare triumph! Confronts guilt and justice in a compelling drama.”
Rabbi Harold Kushner

To book your tickets ($9-$32), call our Box Office at 604.731.5518
Pay-What-You-Can Preview Nov. 23, on the night-of, at the box office, or $10 in advance.

Rosh Hashanah. 1948. When two intelligent, traumatized men meet on a park bench in Montreal, the ensuing struggle is at turns tender and intense. Chaim has lost all his faith; Hersh radiates his bitterness with extreme religiosity. This dialogue-driven story of hope and friendship in the face of genocide offers an intellectually vigorous discourse of great minds struggling to find common ground.

Morris Ertman, a recipient of nine Sterling Awards and a Dora Award for the Canadian Opera Company’s Beatrice et Benedict, will direct Pacific Theatre’s own Dan Amos, seen before in Halo, Shadowlands, Hamlet, and A Bright Particular Star. He is joined by Nathan Schmidt, a resident company member of Rosebud Theatre in Alberta, where he has featured in Voice of the Prairie, Cariboo Magi, and The Kite. The Quarrel features scenic design by Stephen Waldschmidt (A Bright Particular Star), stage management by Charlene Crawford (Broken), sound design by Luke Ertman (The Hungry Season), and lighting design by Graham Bedwell (Lilia!).

Midnight Theatre Collective is a new company of self-producing artists in Vancouver. It believes in the essential role of storytelling in human society, and in the power of theatre to engage and transform culture. Midnight Theatre Collective is comprised of self-producing professional artists committed to working in tandem with emerging actors and designers in the creation of passionate theatre. Dedicated to presenting both marginal and traditional stories with a creative, relevant edge, Midnight Theatre Collective is proud to premiere The Quarrel in Canada, a play in which two men ultimately learn they are seeking the same redemption, but looking down different pathways to find it.

Dec 16: Christmas Presence in the Valley Credits

ACT ONE
Ron - Robert Farrar Capon: Advent
Lance - Go Tell It On The Mountain
Ron - Sufjan Stevens: Tube Socks
Jonathan - The Lowly Shepherd Boy
Ron - Frederick Buechner" Emmanuel
Sheree - O Emmanuel
Rebecca - Mike Mason: Christmas In July
Leora - Love Came Gently
Lance - Maybe This Christmas
Ron - Howison: Reverie
Michael - Huron Carol
Ron - Annie Dillard: Feast Days
Jeremy & Sheree - Cloakroom

ACT TWO
Michael - The Little Drummer Boy
Lance - Disturber
Ron - Mike Royko: Pretty Well Picked Over
Leora - It Don't Cost Very Much
Jonathan, Jer, Lance - Once In Royal David's City
Rebecca - Jellema: Four-Square
Mike, Ron, Rebecca Karl Petersen: Night Watch
Lance - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (Joseph's song)
Mike, Ron - Rainer Maria Rilke: Joseph's Suspicion
Michael - What Child Is This (instr)
Rebecca - Madeleine L'Engle: O Sapientia
Sheree - Silent Night
Leora - Jesus What A Wonderful Child

Requested readings are posted at Oblations

Dec 12: Christmas Presence credits

ACT ONE
Nelson - Christmas Time Is Here
Michael - All Hail And Welcome
Ron - William Nicholson: "Christmas Drinks Party"
Sheree - O Emmanuel
Ron - Frederick Buechner: Emmanuel
Carolyn - Is Bethlehem Too Far Away?
Ron - David Sedaris: Santa's Little Helper (the Ryan edit)
Nelson - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Trish - Annie Dillard: God In The Doorway
Carolyn - Do Not Be Afraid
Ron - David Kossoff: Seth
Ruth - O Holy Night
Ron - Frederick Buechner: Gabriel
Sheree - Silent Night
Leora - It Don't Cost Very Much

ACT TWO
Nelson - I Saw Three Ships
Carolyn - What Kind Of King Is This?
Ron - Mike Royko: Pretty Well Picked Over
Michael - Good King Wenceslas
Trish - Mike Mason: Christmas In July
Leora - Love Came Gently
Ron - Dina Donohue: No Room At The Inn
Carolyn - Christmas Must Be Tonight
Ron - John Henry Faulk: A Child's Christmas in Texas
Leora - What A Wonderful Child
Ron - Ron Klug: Joseph's Lullabye
Sheree - What Child Is This?
Ron - Robert Louis Stevenson: Christmas Prayer
Michael, Ruth, All - Silent Night

THE PLAYERS
Carolyn Arends joined us tonight, and - a long-standing tradition - debuted a brand new Christmas song, "What Kind Of King Is This?" Beautiful. Also first CHRISTMAS PRESENCE this year for CP veteran Leora Cashe, who rocked the house with "Jesus, What A Wonderful Child!" (the one that's on the "Christmas Presence" CD), husband Jaye Krebs on the grand piano. First ever PT appearance for Ruth Gill, who sings with the Vancouver Bach Choir, and regaled us with a glorious "O Holy Night" and played the HT pipe organ for our closer, "Silent Night." Returning from previous nights were Michael Hart, Sheree Plett, Nelson Boschman, Spencer Capier, Becca Robertson, Rick Colhoun and Brett Ziegler. And joining me reading tonight was Trish Pattenden, who you've seen in THE FARNDALE CHRISTMAS as well as her Jessie-nominated turn in LETTICE & LOVAGE - a high point was her take on Mike Mason's brand new "Christmas In July."

Requested readings are posted at Oblations

Dec 11: Christmas Presence credits

ACT ONE
Garth - Go Tell It On The Mountain
Ron - Robert Farrar Capon: Advent
Sheree - O Emmanuel
Rebecca & Ron - William Gibson: Butterfingers Angel
Paul - I Heard The Bells
Ron - John Lekich: A Keen Sense of Occasion
Jeremy - Cloak Room
Ron - David Kossoff: Seth
Sheree - Silent Night
Ron - Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Christ Climbed Down
Garth - Christmas Song (Alleluia)

ACT TWO
Ron - George Carlin: Holiday Message
Nelson - Santa Claus is Coming To Town
Ron - David Sedaris: Macy's Christmas Elf
Garth - Glory To The Earth Is Comin' Down
Sheree - No Snow
Garth & Rick - What Child Is This (instrumental)
Ron - Loren Wilkinson: Simeon
Rebecca - Mike Mason: Christmas In July
Paul In The Bleak Midwinter
Garth - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Ron - Ron Klug: Joseph's Prayer
Sheree - What Child Is This

THE PLAYERS

Garth Bowen is working on a Christmas album, so we were eager to have a listen to some of those tunes, both old and brand new. In addition to the two re-conceptions of traditional tunes she played us last year, Sheree Plett brought in two Christmas tunes she's penned in the past couple weeks, and at the last minute we added her husband Jeremy Eisenhauer to the roster when we found out he had a brand new tune in his back pocket as well! And Paul Hiller (you may remember him from that hot little country swing band we had onstage for CHICKENS) brought us a gorgeous, Vince Guaraldi-inspired "I Heard The Bells" and a heartbreaking, delicate "In The Bleak Midwinter" beautifully in keeping with the gentle tone of the evening's home stretch. All ably aided and abetted by our Christmas Presence House Band - Nelson Boschman, Becca Robertson, Brett Ziegler, Kenton Wiens, Rick Colhoun and the just-barely-back-from-touring Spencer Capier.

Requested readings are posted at Oblations

Dec 10: Christmas Presence credits

ACT ONE
Nelson Boschman & the band - Christmas jazz
Ron Reed - Nicholson: "Christmas Drinks Party"
Michael Hart - Huron Carol
Jim Byrnes & The Sojourners - Be Ready When He Comes
Ron Reed - "Clay"
Jim Byrnes & The Sojourners - Of Whom Shall I Be Afraid
Michael Hart - Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
Ron Reed - Tom Carson: "Snow Angel"
Richard Osler - The Gift
Jim Byrnes & The Sojourners - Fortify Me
Ron Reed - Ferlinghetti: "Christ Climbed Down"
Michael Hart - Light Of The Stable

ACT TWO
Nelson Boschman & The Band - Christmas jazz tune
Jim Byrnes & The Sojourners - You Better Run
Ron Reed - Rudi Krause: one way
Michael Hart - Mary's Boy Child
Ron Reed - Buechner: "The Annunciation"
Michael Hart - What Child Is This / O Little Town of Bethlehem
Richard Oslter - Advent poems
Michael Hart - Polish Carol
Jim Byrnes & The Sojourners - Please Come Home For Christmas
Ron Reed - Lekich: "A Keen Sense Of Occasion"
Michael Hart - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Ron Reed - Falke: "Child's Christmas In Texas"
Jim Byrnes & The Sojourners - Today
Ron Reed - Dillard: "Feast Days"
Michael Hart - Candle

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THE PLAYERS

Michael Hart has been a Christmas Presence essential since the whole thing got started in the atrium at Regent College, thirteen or fourteen years ago. His gorgeous Christmas album, "Dulcimer Light," is in constant rotation at the Reed house every December: check it out at his website, as well as other albums such as Desire, Lord of the Mountain, The Heart of the Matter, Soulkeeper, and True.

Steve Dawson has joined us several times over the years, first drawn into the PT orbit by his brother-in-law Wyndham Thiessen. One of the workingest musicians in Canada (and half of "Zubot & Dawson" - the latter half, in fact), you can read about his newest release (and listen to some of the tunes!) at Black Hen Music. Where you'll also find Jim Byrnes - including streaming audio of three of the tunes he and The Sojourners sang for us last night: "Fortify Me," "Today" and "Of Whom Shall I Be Afraid," the latter "a nod to the 27th Psalm" and a glorious answer to "Clay." (Also check out Jim's Myspace page.) This summer somebody pointed me to Jim's latest CD, "House Of Refuge," and it instantly became the record of the year for yours truly. I sent Steve a fan email (he produced and plays on the record), one thing led to another, and last night all five of the boys joined us onstage. And didn't it rain!

Marcus Mosely, Ron Small and Will Sanders became The Sojourners when they joined JB for the "House Of Refuge" sessions, but they've sung together in all sorts of contexts over the years. I first heard the three of them as featured vocalists with the amazing Good Noise Gospel Choir, which Marcus co-Artistic Directos with Gail Suderman. A recent Christmas concert at my home church, Fraserview MB, is still being talked about, and I'd tell you to make sure and go to their upcoming gigs at the Cathedral - except they're already sold out! Watch the blog (or sign up for my Soul Food email) for word of their future performances.

And then there was our amazing house band; Nelson Boschman on piano (Keeping Time, Vol. 1), Brett Ziegler on keyboards, Kenton Wiens and Rick Colhoun on drums and percussion, and Becca Robertson on bass.

I've known Richard Osler for years, but it was reading his recent book "Again, No More: Poems Of Africa" that prompted me to invite him to join us for Christmas Presence. Carolyn Arends has posted several of Richard's Africa poems and stories in her online journal. For copies of his book (which includes a cd of the poet reading his own work), contact Richard directly at osler@shaw.ca. Thanks, Richard!

For other Christmas readings, check out Oblations

Dec 10: Songs In The Night Christmas

Songs In The Night Christmas Service
West Point Grey Baptist
Sun Dec 10, 7pm

Most years I take part in a swell Christmas evening at West Point Grey Baptist. This year's Sunday performance of Christmas Presence precludes that for me at least, but any of you who aren't required on the PT stage tomorrow night may want to check out this marvelous line-up: Allen DesNoyers, Tammy Enockson, Al McKay, Autmn Stevick, Ryan McAllister, Dan McAllister and the Songs in the Night Band.

Dec 12: Extra CHRISTMAS PRESENCE Performance!

The two Vancouver performances of CHRISTMAS PRESENCE listed in our season brochure are sold out, but fear not! We've added a special performance in the Holy Trinity sanctuary (right above the theatre) on Tuesday December 12! Carolyn Arends, Spencer Capier, Leora Cashe, Michael Hart and Sheree Plett and Ron Reed will be joined by Ruth Gill (from the Vancouver Bach Choir) and Trish Pattenden (LETTICE & LOVAGE, THE FARNDALE CHRISTMAS CAROL) for a "Raise The Roof" benefit performance for Holy Trinity Anglican Church, a small congregation facing a whopping huge bill for urgent repairs to the leaky roof, ill-fitting windows and ageing guts of the handsome (but elderly) heritage building that is their (and Pacific Theatre's) home.

There's lots of room in the sanctuary - I figure we can crowd ten or fifteen thousand people in there easy - but you'd be smart to book your tickets now at the Pacific Theatre box office: 604 731-5518.

There are still tickets left for CHRISTMAS PRESENCE IN THE VALLEY, PT's seasonal shindig slated for Clearbrook on Saturday December 16. Call the PT box office for those tickets as well!

Dec 12: Extra CHRISTMAS PRESENCE Performance!

The two Vancouver performances of CHRISTMAS PRESENCE listed in our season brochure are sold out, but fear not! We've added a special performance in the Holy Trinity sanctuary (right above the theatre) on Tuesday December 12! Carolyn Arends, Spencer Capier, Leora Cashe, Michael Hart and Sheree Plett and Ron Reed will be joined by Ruth Gill (from the Vancouver Bach Choir) and Trish Pattenden (LETTICE & LOVAGE, THE FARNDALE CHRISTMAS CAROL) for a "Raise The Roof" benefit performance for Holy Trinity Anglican Church, a small congregation facing a whopping huge bill for urgent repairs to the leaky roof, ill-fitting windows and ageing guts of the handsome (but elderly) heritage building that is their (and Pacific Theatre's) home.

There's lots of room in the sanctuary - I figure we can crowd ten or fifteen thousand people in there easy - but you'd be smart to book your tickets now at the Pacific Theatre box office: 604 731-5518.

There are still tickets left for CHRISTMAS PRESENCE IN THE VALLEY, PT's seasonal shindig slated for Clearbrook on Saturday December 16. Call the PT box office for those tickets as well!

Hunter S. Thompson & Ron Reed, "Work and Art"

When you work with your hands, you're a labourer,
When you work with your hands and head, you're a technician,
When you work with your hands, head, and heart, you're a craftsperson,
When you work with your hands, head, heart and soul, you're an artist.
- Adapted from a speech given by Hunter S. Thompson

When you're out of work, you're a theatre artist.
- Ron Reed

Tarry G's new coffee bar!

Okay, this ain't exactly about art. Unless great coffee is art. A position which Tarry Giannakos would no doubt advocate.

Tarry and his wife Kristine are hardcore Pacific Theatre fans, known to many of you. Well, they've started a new venture, and I want everybody to know about it.

Here's another pal of mine and Pacific Theatre's to tell you all about it. Mister Rory Holland...

Hey all, sorry for the Spam, but I did want to draw the attention of those that live in the Vancouver area, especially the North Shore, that a new coffee bar is opening in West Van that promises the best coffee, best atmosphere, and the highest speed wireless connection. CAFE CREMA is owned by Tarry and Kristine Giannakos - veterans of the coffee trade, but more importantly the most relational people you will ever meet. They have taken over and transformed the old "Bojangles" location at the bottom 15th Ave. and Bellevue.

"Does the North Shore really need another coffee bar?" Well, the answer for coffee snobs is - yes. Tarry is a fanatic about coffee so if you know your macchiatos from your mistos this is the place for you. And the North Shore DEFINITELY needs Tarry and Kristine. This place is bound to become the club house for many - great food, great people, comfy chairs.

They open Monday morning December 4th. Tons of parking, and easy stop on the way into the office, a perfect location for the mid-morning dog walking, running, workout crowd. My office is the table on the far left. See you there.

Dec 7: Gallery 7 auditions, STEEL MAGNOLIAS

Gallery 7 is a more or less a community theatre counterpart to Pacific Theatre, operating in Abbotsford.

info@gallery7theatre.com
www.gallery7theatre.com

Gallery 7 Theatre & Performing Arts will be holding open auditions on Thursday December 7, 2006 at 6:30 PM for its upcoming production of Robert Harling’s delightful comedy/drama, Steel Magnolias. The production, directed by Sarah Hu, will run March 9 & 10, 15 – 17, 22 – 24, 2007 with additional matinees on March 10 & 17 at 2:00 PM. Rehearsals will commence in January.

Truvy’s hair salon, nestled in the heart of a small town deep in the American south, forms the backdrop to this heart-warming and endearing tale of friendship where life’s hard-fought victories are celebrated and tragedies are made more bearable. Audiences will laugh, cry and ruminate along with six colorful characters as they share each other’s joys, challenges and ambitions.

All female performers ages 16 to 70 are invited to attend the auditions, which will be held at the MEI Secondary School Auditorium, 4081 Clearbrook Road in Abbotsford. Interested individuals are asked to sign up ahead of time by calling Gallery 7 Theatre at 604-504-5940 or by email at info@gallery7theatre.com. For more information about Gallery 7 and the rest of the 2006/2007 theatre season, please visit our website at www.gallery7theatre.com.

Cast of Characters:

TRUVY JONES: Early 40’s. Owner of Truvy’s beauty shop
ANNELLE DUPUY-DESOTO: Nineteen. Beauty shop assistant.
CLAIREE BELCHER: Mid-60’s. Widow of former mayor and a grande dame.
SHELBY EATENTON-LATCHERIE Mid-20’s. Prettiest girl in town.
M’LYNN EATENTON: Early 50’s. Shelby’s mother and socially prominent career woman.
OUISER BOUDREAUX: Mid 60’s. Wealthy curmudgeon, acerbic but loveable.

Dec 1: Carolyn Arends "Something 2 Give" Concert

THE SOMETHING 2 GIVE TOUR
featuring Carolyn Arends and Greg Sczebel
December 1, 7:30 pm
Bell Performing Arts Centre, 6250 144th Street, Surrey
www.carolynarends.com / 1-866-953-1833

Carolyn Arends brings a new project (Pollyanna’s Attic), an exciting support act (soulful Juno-award winner Greg Sczebel) and a Big Cause (sponsorship for impoverished children in El Salvador) to Surrey's Bell Centre as the final date of their national Something to Give Tour. Not to mention the niftiest sideman this side of... Wherever the niftiest sidemen reside. Spencer Capier.

www.myspace.com/carolynarends

Nov 22: Viper Central (Kathleen Nisbet)

Kathleen Nisbet played fiddle at CONFESSIONS. She's in a bluegrass band called Viper Central. They've got a gig this week at...

The Cafe Montmartre
Wed Nov 22
4362 Main St.

"We are going to try to start the music at 9pm. There will be two sets." KN

Nov 24,25: Graham Ord Returns!

Soul Food regular Graham Ord moved away to Kelowna last year, but he'll be in the lower mainland this coming weekend. So if you've been feeling Ordless...

Graham Ord Acoustic concert
Fri Nov 24, 7:30
Sutherland Church, 630 East 19th Street, North Vancouver (19th and Grand Blvd)
985 8906

Offering of Hope
building project fundraiser for children in Watoto, Uganda.
Sat Nov 25
South Delta Baptist Church, 1988 – 56th Street, Tsawwassen, B.C
943-8244
Doors open at 5:30 pm (Live and Silent Auction). Gourmet Coffee and Bistro Bar.

Nov 19: Jim Byrnes & The Sojourners on CBC

Sunday Nov 19, noon
"Westcoast Performance," CBC Radio 2

My favourite new record this year is "House Of Refuge" by Jim Byrnes. Produced by Steve Dawson (who several times has played his many stringed instruments at Pacific Theatre gigs), the gospel-soaked disk features The Sojourners, a very fine trio of singers from the Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir. You'd swear you stepped into a storefront church someplace in New Orleans.

Early this fall, the Rogue Folk Club hosted a CD release concert ("I was there. It was fabulous." reports Soul Foodie Rudi). CBC recorded it, and is broadcasting it tomorrow at noon on Radio 2.

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Advance word about related matters. Good Noise will be performing a series of three Christmas concerts, the first at my home church, Fraserview MB in Richmond. When time gets closer I'll post more details, but here's the heads up for now (and just in case...)

FRIDAY, DEC 1, 2006 7:30 pm
Fraserview Church
11295 Mellis Drive, Richmond, BC

FRIDAY, DEC 15, 2006 7:30 pm
Christ Church Cathedral,
Georgia & Burrard Vancouver BC

SATURDAY, DEC 16, 2006 7:30 pm
Christ Church Cathedral,
Georgia & Burrard Vancouver, BC

Details at their website, linked above