[Newspoetry] Two Feminist Concerts at the IMC featuring Sarsaparilla, MeccaNormal, Angie Heaton, and Ripley Caine!

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hark!

Come support our own!

Both shows should be tons of fun.  More info is below and on the IMC
website: www.ucimc.org

--Sascha

P.S. After checking with the Mayor's offfice, I'm pleased to say that you
can BYOB to the shows -- just think... cheap music, your favorite
beverage, and the best shows in town -- what more could a newspoet ask
for???  Alright, perhaps fully posable newspoet action figures, but other
then that???

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Please pass this email message on to anyone who may be interested! :)

This weekend the IMC is featuring two nights of fabulous female musicians:

This Friday, April 19, anarcho-feminist artists/writers/musicians Mecca
Normal (from Vancouver) will be playing along with Parasol Records
drummer/singer Angie Heaton, local popsters Sick of Midwifen, and
singer-songwriter Kate Hathaway.

This Saturday, April 20th, awesome guitarist (heavily influenced by PJ
Harvey and Grace Slick) Ripley Caine will be playing with her full band
and local fantabulous alternative country/folk trio Sarsaparilla will be
opening the show!

Both shows are ALL AGES, start at 8pm, and cost $5 at the door.
Please come out and support indie media and talented female musicians!
The IMC is located at 218 West Main Street, Urbana. For more info, please
email jenny at ucimc.org or call 344-8820.


MORE INFO on Mecca Normal, Ripley Caine, and Angie Heaton listed below:

Mecca Normal:
"Mecca Normal has inspired a larger movement of feminists in their teens
and early 20's who call themselves Riot Grrrls."
-- New York Times

"I can't think of anyone else who writes more powerful songs about what
it's like to be a woman in a world of violence against women."
-- Los Angeles Weekly

"If Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine had demented younger siblings, they would
be the Vancouver duo known as Mecca Normal. Their work is never less than
astonishing - jagged guitar sounds matched with a vocal performance as
barbed and potent as the lyrics it delivers.'
--Radio Station KCRW

Vancouver's Jean Smith and David Lester have been friends and artistic
partners for 20 years. As Mecca Normal, they've long blended
anarcho-feminist politics with humour, personal observations and the
near-naked sounds of voice and guitar. The band stipple fierce declamatory
poetry and raw guitar for an agit-blare whose passion creates a hybrid of
expression. Jean Smith is an extraordinary rock poet, turning clichs on
their heads with razor-sharp metaphors that slice at commonly held beliefs
and systems. Live, Mecca Normal have an unmatched capacity for incendiary
fervor, serving up the exposition and the elemental, destroying it, and
then questioning its existence and its nihilism.


Ripley Caine:
Ripley Caine has a startlingly rich and clear voice, as cutting as
diamonds slicing glass. this trio evokes a mesmerizing hushed stillness."
-- W.C. Times

RIPLEY CAINE... part PJ HARVEY, part GRACE SLICK, part JONI MITCHELL and
part JIM MORRISON...

Completely left of center, comically sarcastic, and a little fiery, Ripley
Caine breaks the mold of the stereotypical singer/songwriter. This woman
combines the rawness of alternative with the softness of folk and the
edginess of rock and roll. Since the release of her debut CD, "Thrift
Store Sweater," Ripley Caine has been getting consistent airplay on many
radio stations across the country!

Angie Heaton:
"Inspired by the fertile flatlands of central Illinois, Heaton sings a
Lois-y style of folksy indie rock. Mellow and lackadaisical vocals are
accompanied with a simple and strummy acoustic guitar, accented with
violin on some tracks (I Cant Remember) and sitar on others (Fall). Heaton
plays most of the instruments on the album herself, which is commendable
See How You Are  the albums standout track  is basically a duet with
herself and Trans Am, which uses clapping accents for percussion, takes
her into more experimental, rockier terrain. A pretty and well-produced
debut."  Susan Carpenter

--Puncture Magazine, Number 37