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NEWSLETTER
SEPTEMBER, 2005
The café will return to its “winter” schedule in September which means that it will be closed on Wednesday nights. They will also be closed for some renovations on September 12 and 13 and will reopen on September 14. We are also having a wine tasting this month. See below for the details. As if that is not enough, take a look at the performance schedule, our usual mix of new and favorite performers:
AUGUST 31 – MARC YAXLEY TRIO. Our summer jazz series ends tonight. Come treat yourself one last time.
SEPTEMBER 1 – SAM ANDERSON. An old friend returns with his wise lyrics and incredible guitar.
SEPTEMBER 3 – KELLIN WATSON. This Asheville-based singer/songwriter is making her first appearance at the café.
SEPTEMBER 8 – DAVE POTTS. It has been too long since this Alabama-based singer/songwriter has been with us.
SEPTEMBER 10 – ROCK KILLOUGH. Rock describes himself as a songwriter/singer. He has appeared often at the café.
SEPTEMBER 15 – BILL KAHLER. From Atlanta and making his first appearance, Bill says he will be giving away CDs to anyone in the audience who tells him that they are on this Purple Onion newsletter list.
SEPTEMBER 17 – THE GROOVIN’ BROTHERS. A new bluegrass band for our many bluegrass music fans.
SEPTEMBER 22 – KEVIN DANZIG. Now living in Brasstown, NC, this singer/songwriter has been with us several times.
SEPTEMBER 24 – THE MUSES. This acapella female trio from Asheville will introduce us to their “sinuous harmonies. . .with a global beat.”
SEPTEMBER 29 – REDHEADED STEPCHILD. From upstate New York, this duo is appearing for the first time at the café.
OCTOBER 1 - JACKSON CROSSING. Bring your dancing shoes as this audience favorite returns.
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The wine tasting is on Wednesday, September 21, at 6:30 and will feature wines from the Bordeaux region of France. Our wines will be accompanied by a selection of hors d’oeuvres chosen to perfectly complement each wine. As usual, Richard McKinney from Tryon Distribution will join us to tell us more about the wines.
The price for the evening is $28 per person. Reservations can be made by calling the café at 828-749-1179. We accept Visa and/or Master Card. Please call early as seating is limited.
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Hunter Thompson, the (in)famous Gonzo journalist and author of “Fear and Loathing: On The Campaign Trail” among other books, committed suicide recently. I have had more than a passing interest in him and his work over the years because he and I were in the same literary society in high school (read “fraternity” with limited literary aspirations designed to give it more substance and relevance). He was wild back then and became even more so over the years as his life seemed to be one long party full of drugs and alcohol. He was, however, an outlandishly creative (if sometimes erratic) writer who was not afraid to say what was on his mind regardless of what anybody else thought. One of my favorite quotes of his is “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
He lived his life and ended it in his own way with a $2 million extravaganza that featured shooting his ashes into sky from a cannon at his compound in Aspen, Colorado. I imagine that it was hard to like Thompson much less love him. Nevertheless, I was struck by what his son, Juan, said in his eulogy to his father. He said that he was not looking for “closure” of any sort. He added that “missing him is a way of loving him.”
I imagine that we all want to have left enough of an imprint on this world to be missed when we are gone.
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Some months ago I introduced you to Dooley, our new labradoodle. He is now a year old and, in spite of the energy and time it has taken to train him, we have decided to keep him after all. Nevertheless, it took him the longest time to want to get into my truck and go for a ride. This was tremendously irritating to me because what is the sense of having a truck if you also don’t own a dog that voluntarily wants to be in it with you.
One of the features of my truck is that it has a sun roof. Dooley loves to put his front paws on the console between the front seats and stick his head through the opening as we ride along. (Don’t worry. We don’t do this at high speeds.) When people see him, they instinctively smile and some times wave. We experience it all the time as we run our errands and make our stops in the community.
We have so little to smile about nowadays that I hope you have a chance to see us soon. I know that you will smile, too. I sure do.
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My favorite bumper sticker of the month is: Vegetarian – an Indian word for “lousy hunter.”
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Some license plates I have seen:
CLRD4TKF
WHATEVER!
EXCOPCAR
LVLKHRSS
#1 BELLE
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“A surplus of virtue is more dangerous than a surplus of vice because it is not subject to the constraints of conscience.”
Peter Gomes
Robert Seiler
Purple Onion Café
www.purpleonionsaluda.com