Punk Poet Princess Heather Haley Releases Princess Nut CD May 29th

PUNK POET PRINCESS HEATHER HALEY RELEASES PRINCESS NUT CD


For immediate release - Vancouver, BC, April 11, 2008

Old School and proud of it, Heather Haley and RPW Records are gearing up for a spring release of her groundbreaking AURAL Heather CD of spoken word songs, Princess Nut. Come celebrate at the official AURAL Heather Princess Nut CD launch, Thursday, May 29, 8 PM, at the Media Club in Vancouver, BC, with AURAL Heather and special guests Susan Cormier, Beth Southwell and her band, Kedrick James, and emcee Kyle Hawke.

Poet and publisher Warren Dean Fulton will be selling pooka press wares, including one of Heather's poems featured as part of their photo booth broadside series.

AURAL Heather are touring in July with dates in Ontario, Montreal, and the eastern US. View the tour schedule and listen to AURAL Heather at http://www.myspace.com/auralheather.

Heather has video poems on her website, http://wwwheatherhaley.com.

She is a published poet and her book is also on her personal website.

AURAL Heather is available for interviews and personal appearaces. Please contact pam@rpwrecords.

AURAL Heather is Heather Haley, Roderick Shoolbraid and 'a unique, sublime fusion of song and spoken word.' Shoolbraid is a dazzling guitarist, composer, sound designer and DJ. Haley is a maverick poet, singer, author and media artist often found pushing boundaries and always on the vanguard.

'A Canadian national treasure', Haley started writing verse in high school influenced by poets like bp Nichol, ee cummings and Susan Musgrave. Her life as a bona fide artist began on the stage of the infamous Smilin' Buddha fronting the all-girl punk band, The Zellots. She was a member of The 45s with Randy Rampage and Brad Kent of DOA and The Avengers. Later she formed HHZ-Heather Haley & the Zellots - praised by music critic Craig Lee as one of 'Ten Great LA Bands'.

She has made a commitment to honesty, feeling, craft and a sense of the absurd. 'Supple and unusual', her work asks all the questions a nice girl's not supposed to ask. Haley is a gutsy and compelling performer who enjoyed a stint as an official BC Transit busker and has appeared at the Vancouver International Writers Festival, Crush Champagne Lounge, the Lamplighter Pub, Rime, Thundering Word Heard, the Art Bar in Toronto, Words & Music in Montreal, the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, Red Sky Poetry Theatre in Seattle, Shakespeare & Sons in Prague, the Roar Lit Crawl with Edmonton's Raving Poets band and on CBC and Book Television.

In 2004, she teamed up with Roderick Shoolbraid to produce a series of live shows and their first CD, Surfing Season. As Haley returns to her roots, their sound has evolved into the spoken word songs of AURAL Heather . This is 'brawny, uncompromising language from a voice that demands to be reckoned with' and there is nothing precious or flowery about the poetry on Princess Nut. It rocks, in more ways than one!

Praise for Surfing Season: 'Beautiful. A credit to the genre.' - Ian Ferrier, Wired on Words

'Great job! An auspicious disc. One of the best albums of its kind.' - Kurt Heintz, e-poets

'Important work.' - Poseybeat

RPW Records is an independent label in British Columbia, Canada, that showcases, promotes and sells independent music. They produce the compilation albums, Violent Femmes and Coffee Music for Coffee Beings.


CONTACT:

Pam Southwell
RPW Records
604 463-8339

rpwrecords@hotmail.com
http://www.rpwrecords.com

FARA PALMER WINS 2008 FAITA AWARD

Fara Palmer was nominated for a JUNO for her album Phoenix. She was up for the Best Aboriginal Album. Here she is after the Awards with K-os.


Fara Palmer with K-OS at Juno Awards Party

Fara did not win the JUNO but had good news the day after the Awards Ceremony.
Here is what Fara had to say

"Guess what? So like the day after my Juno loss, I check in to my email and find out that i WON the award for "Outstanding Musical Achievement In A Contemporary Field" for the 2008 FAITA awards.
FAITA stands for "First Americans In The Arts" and is based out of Los Angeles. So not sure yet, but may be heading to L.A. Thank you FAITA for acknowledging my cd, PHOENIX, and for honouring me with such a beautiful award!!
xox
Fara

www.musicfarapalmer.com

Fara is performing at NEW MUSIC WEST along with Zoe Scott from LA, and Beth Southwell from Vancouver. The VIOLET FEMMES SHOWCASE STAGE is at the LIBRA ROOM on Sat, May 17th at 7:45.
The women from the Violet Femmes CD project will be joined by Australia's The Jilted Brides, a psychedelic rock duo with a video backdrop as part of their performance.

It promises to be an amazing evening of music from this "electric and eclectic collection of women"

Adriana Lorenzi performs at the Firehall Arts Centre for Violet Femmes Second Showcase Concert

Adriana Lorenzi came all the way from Venezuela with guitarist Humberto Rodriguez for the seconde Violet Femmes Showcase Concert on March 15th at the Firehall Arts Centre.
This was a beautiful setting for this wonderful evening of music featuring Adriana, Toronto's wondrous Laura Aidanblaise and Vancouver's colourful Kola Collective.

Here is some video of Adriana performing for a captivated audience.
Thanks to all the fans and supporters who turned out to make this such a special evening.