Veda Hille

at the biltmore with the fugitives! celebrating their new album, which i was lucky enough to give advice to. it’s awkward sentence day here at hille inc.

with tomboyfriend! may 23 at Slacks, a benefit for toronto newsgirls boxing club. details at the link above. no other toronto shows planned for a million years. or one year, anyway.

ps the complaints choir is sounding great! that performance is june 13 in vancouver, various street locations. i’ll post it as they are decided.

playing at the western front with shelley hirsch. and then on to the Or Gallery dance-a-thon at the wise hall. friday night!

i notice this morning that one of the “top searches” that lead to my site was for weasels. i would like to continue this trend, so here you go.

i just updated the show page, take a look!

a new show folks, in service of an excellent cause: i’m playing at the yale in vancouver with old friends luke doucet and kinnie starr on may 3. this is in aid of Music Mondays, a movement to keep music education vital in our schools. you can check them out here. come on down to the old yale!

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april 14: ali and ali at the cultch
april 17: kismet at the cultch
april 19: gabriel kahane at the heritage hall (nyc songwriter, also writes about craigslist among many other things)
april 27: baby dee at gallery gachet
may 6: jonathan richman at the biltmore. SO EXCITED.
may 10: standing wave at the cultch.
may 28: the very best at the biltmore.

i’m going to do my best to be at all these stellar shows. see you there i hope.

i am writing a song for the Vancouver Complaints Choir. if you live in vancouver and you have a complaint, please send it to me. you can leave it in the comments section below, or email it to me at veda@vedahille.com. your complaint may be voiced in song! all complaints will be kept anonymous, and i reserve the right to adjust language while respecting the essential nature of the complaint.

ps if this goes well i may end up writing more complaints music and will open up the field to complaints outside of vancouver. live in hope.

oh goodness, a whirlwind of a few weeks have gone by. this is a picture of me and my conspirator ami gladstone at the opening of the Greatest Cities show on March 9. since then we’ve also been workshopping the expanded Craigslist piece, which you can see in all its rough glory on may 2 at the arts club revue theatre. i also played at a fundraiser for think city, a gang of really interesting and motivated vancouver people. it inspired me a bit more to stay in our city, although the wanderlust has taken hold of my heart lately. speaking of wanderlust, my husband is on tour with No Kids and is blogging from the road: have a good time at jenkin time. i’ve also been doing a bunch of teaching lately, out in whiterock and at ubc and in my garage. not to mention keeping the child alive and kicking.

things i’m looking forward to: a gig on april 7 at the vancouver art gallery with bill richardson and ivan coyote. The Very Best at the biltmore may 28!!!!!! also at the biltmore, the fits will be joining the fugitives for their cd release on may 26. oh, and if i can possibly make the ryan trecartin talk at emily carr on thursday i’ll be very pleased. there’s a disorganized bunch of information for you. did i mention that i dreamt about viggo mortensen and a rogue killer whale last night? see ya.