Thursday Sept 11th
Vancouver BC
1608 Commercial Drive Tour kick off!
Friday Sept 12th
Saturday Sept 13th
House Concert
Cumberland BC
Sunday Sept 14th
Reservations (250) 388-9166
Thursday Sept 18th
811 1 Street SW
Calgary, AB
Reservations (403) 263-1650
Saturday Sept 20th
House Concert
Edmonton AB
Sunday Sept 21th
650 Broadway Avenue
Saskatoon, SK
Reservations (306) 652-8595
Thursday Sept 22th
2206 Dewdney Avenue
Regina, SK
Reservations (306) 359-7276
and many more including our Vancouver house gig
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1608 Commercial Dr - Vancouver, BC
November 2008
Monica Lee Band Celebrates Solid
Success… and New Journeys
The Vancouver-based Monica Lee Band has plenty to celebrate these days.
The three-piece band, which offers a completely original and eclectic fusion of roots, jazz, blues, country, indie rock and a hint of gypsy, is freshly back from a fall tour of B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. Its inspirational songs of love, pain and redemption were so enthusiastically received by audiences that the band is eagerly planning its next touring adventure.
“Our fall tour introduced our sound to a lot of people, and we made a lot of new friends and contacts,” reports Monica Lee, the band’s multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter. “Our summer 2009 calendar is quickly filling up with gig dates.”
Festival and club performances have already been confirmed for communities from Vancouver Island to Saskatchewan. Lee will be joined by her highly skilled musical collaborators: Michael Simpson on percussion and Jesse Waldman on guitar.
The trio is equally elated about the success of its newly released CD. Titled The Monica Lee Band Live at the Libra Room, the CD effectively captures the band’s dynamism in live performances that have pulled heart-strings and shaken rafters weekly for the past three years at the renowned live-music venue on Vancouver’s Commercial Drive. The album also showcases the band’s penchant for improvisation: four of the CD’s 10 tracks were actually written on stage.
Besides generating healthy sales, The Monica Lee Band Live at the Libra Room is winning praise from critics and musical peers alike. Tom Harrison, the Vancouver Province music critic who describes the band as “crowd pleasers … gypsy folk”, enthuses: “She is singing for the people and they are responding.” Spirit of the West front-man John Mann compares Lee’s lyricism to Joni Mitchell’s talent for imagery and poetry, while Nathan Peekay of For The Record Magazine defines the band as “the sound of life! … of new landscapes being explored and musicians finding that special place where birth happens.”
As if all of this weren’t reason enough to celebrate, Lee and her husband Chris Bizzocchi are expecting their first child in January. Following a break from travel to get to know their new family member, Lee plans to resume touring in May. Expect to see her with four-month-old baby and two doting grandparents in tow.
“My folks are both musicians, and huge fans. They’re really excited about touring with us, and about taking care of our little one during performances,” says Lee. “For us, music has always been family affair.”