Dark Blue World, part of SignalFest.

SignalFest Vancouver is a festival of contemporary music without borders presented by The Signal on CBC Radio 2 in partnership with Drip Audio and Capilano Performing Arts Theatre.

The Signal, hosted by Laurie Brown, is heard Mon-Sat from 10:00 pm to midnight on CBC Radio 2.
I found this information on todays shows at the Capilano University Performing Arts Theatre Site, one of the sponsors of the event.

DarkBlueWorld are set to perform March 5 at CBC STUDIO 40, 9:45 pm. The CBC Vancouver Broadcast Centre is at 700 Hamilton Street, Vancouver

Dark Blue World is fronted by singer/poet Elizabeth Fischer featuring collaborations with noted Canadian musicians. Drawing on Fischer's texts, expressive vocal style and the wide ranging musical influences the members bring to the group, DarkBlueWorld creates and perform material that is emotionally layered, often acerbic or darkly satirical, with subtly complex harmonic and rhythmic structures - individualized, intelligent expressions intended to communicate the complexities of human experience in sophisticated yet accessible song formats.

Elizabeth Fischer and Tony Wilson: A rare appearance at Indie Vancouver

Indies Vancouver celebrates the independent arts with a monthly multi-media event featuring film, spoken word and music on the third Wednesday of the month. This month Indies Vancouver is held at Cafe Deux Soleils at 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver and features:

Grand Champion of the 2008 Vancouver Poetry Slam, Scruffmouth.

Short Film Slam. Film makers bring in their short films and the audience chooses a winner.

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In a rare appearance together of two of Vancouver’s most creative musicians, Drip Audio recording artists Elizabeth Fischer and Tony Wilson. They will be performing original songs as well as arrangements of some their favourites.

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Elizabeth Fischer:

A recognized vocalist, composer and lyricist, Elizabeth Fischer is the singer in DarkBlueWorld, who are about to release their second CD. She has recorded and performed with internationally reknowned musicians, led the noted art-rock band Animal Slaves in the 80’s, loves Hungarian songs and French chansons, and continues to explore the music of Brecht/Weill and Hans Eisler in a number of contexts.

“With her cigarette-rough voice, Fischer invites comparison to Nico or Patti Smith, though her superior range and color indicate that the similarity has more to do with persona than sound. The slow burning anger in these songs is hardly apparent at first, but finally surfaces as defiance rather than cynicism. It is the sound of a damaged romantic” - JunkMedia


Tony Wilson:

Vancouver's Coastal Jazz and Blues hails Tony Wilson as "unquestionably one of the most original guitar stylists on the Canadian scene". Down Beat Magazine entitles him as "...a talismanic West Coast figure." Tony won a West Coast Music Award with his band Video Barbeque and released the critically acclaimed ‘Lowest Note’ in 2001, which went on to become a pick of the year in the Globe and Mail. Tony’s current sextet is turning heads after recent successful appearances at this year’s Guelph and Vancouver Jazz Festivals. Tony’s compositions have been played by artists as diverse as the NOW Orchestra, The Hard Rubber Orchestra, Myra Melford, Kokoro Dance, Marilyn Crispell, François Houle and Zubot & Dawson.

“...heartfelt, mercurial, and inspired” – The Georgia Straight

“wonderful and exotically quirky” – Exclaim!

“fearless music-making that spits in the face of too-polite conservatism” - textura