24 — Friday, May 14. 1999 — North Shore News

JAZZ improvising ensemble Talking Pictures will be joined by Dutch saxophonist and clarinetist Jorrit

Talking Pictures

Photo Lincoln Clarkes

Oykstra 9 p.m. at the Western Front on Saturday. Dykstra is hot on Amsterdam jazz scene.

Concerts benefit community

TWO worthwhile bene-
fit concerts on tap for
next week shcw just
how powerfu! a com-
munity can be when
heartfelt action and
vision come together.
Music Menagerie 99
offers a series of ben :fit con-
certs to raise money for North
Shore Search and Hescue as
well as Presentatior. House
Theatre. The rescue team is
still looking for cash to fund a
new rescue vehicle; the non-
profit theatre needs ic
upgrade its sound and light-

ing equipment.

Five days of music are pro-
grammed for benveen May 19
and May 29 at Presentation
House Theatre, 333
Chesterfield Ave.

Here’s the line-up:

Mi Wednesday, May 19, Cirele
of Song with Leslie Alexander,
Laurel’ Barker, Mark James
Fortin, Sam = Masich and
Yvonne McSkimming;

@ Wednesday May 26, a dou-
ble hit of jazz with Monde
Ensemble and the = Kate
Hammett- Vaughan Quartec;
@ Thursday May 27, world-
beat artists Mike Wetterings
Band;

B Friday May 28, Shawn
Carle Band with Linda Kidder
and Charlie Hayes, The
Euphorics with Nathen
Aswell, Joani Bye, Helen
Davis and Bing Jensen;

@ Saturday May 29, Geoff
Gibbons and Pete
McCormack.

Tickets are $10. Shows
start.at 8 p.m. Phone 999-
3474 for tickets or = more
information.

Meanwhile across the
bridges you'll find a series of
benefit concerts for 2 coffee
shop-music venue that burned
to the ground on April 20.

The 65-seat South Hill
Candy Shop on Main Street

GEOFF Gibbons plays
May 29 at Presentation
House in North Van.

hosted music six nights a
week. [b was a unique spot to
drop in’ — best on a rainy
night — to hear original
music trom area musicians.

South Hill owners Fred
and) Rita MeEachern had
planned to renovate and
expand the place. Phey were
committed to fostering home-
grown talent. The fire has left
them flat. They were not
insured.

The shows Friday May 21
and Sarurday May 22 at The
Vogue are as follows:

@ Friday — Clambake, Steve
Mitchell’s Yardsale, Mark
James Fortin with Yvonne

McSkimming, Hot Club of

Mars, Coal, The Westerlies,
Christine Duncan and Sam
Masich, Tim Readman and
Fear of Drinking;

@ Saturday — Kate Hammett-
Vaughan, Daisy = Duke,
Michael Friedman, Time
Waits, Sweet Papa Lowdown,
Veda Hille (with Lucas Hille)
and Bocephus King.

A compilation disc, featur-
ing tracks from many of the
artists who performed at the
venue, wil] also be released.

Tickets may be had at
Ticket Master (280-4444),
$20 to $30 for both nights, at

Blick Swan 3209) West
Broadway, High Life Records
1317) Commercial Drive,

Zulu Records 1869 West 4th,

and at the door.

— Michael Becker

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