NEWSLETTER

AUGUST, 2006

These are certainly not the “dog days of summer” at the café as we welcome several new voices and conclude this season’s summer jazz series.

AUGUST 2 – JAZZ WITH PATRICK BOLAND & PEGGY RATUSZ. A welcome return visit. www.patrickboland.com

AUGUST 3 – LOUISE MOSRIE. Singer/songwriter from Knoxville.

AUGUST 5 – JACKSON CROSSING. A favorite returns.

AUGUST 9 – JAZZ WITH FRED WHISKIN. Swingtime favorites.

AUGUST 10 – ROCK KILLOUGH. Nationally known singer/songwriter returns.

AUGUST 12 – DROVERS OLD TIME MEDICINE SHOW. Bluegrass at its best.

AUGUST 14 – ROBERT SEILER. Piano music for your dining pleasure. Proceeds to the Children & Family Resource. Center. You can visit their web site at www.childrenandfamily.org.

AUGUST 16 – JAZZ WITH MARC YAXLEY. Fine jazz guitar.

AUGUST 17 – SCOOT PITTMAN. Singer/songwriter from Charlotte making his debut at the café.

AUGUST 19 – THE NEAR MISSES. Trio also from Charlotte at the café for the first time.

AUGUST 23 – JAZZ WITH SHARON LAMOTTE TRIO. Another debut first timer to the café this time from Asheville.

AUGUST 24 – SAM ANDERSON. We are always happy when this singer/songwriter returns.

AUGUST 26 – JEM CROSSLAND & THE HYPERTONICS. Another great band coming to us for the first time.

AUGUST 30 – JAZZ WITH UPTOWN JAZZ QUARTET. A wonderful musical ending for our summer jazz offerings.

AUGUST 31 – ERIC CONGDON. Another singer/songwriter new to us.

SEPTEMBER 2 – ROD PICOTT. Singer/songwriter from Nashville returns.

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THIS MONTH’S TEASER. Later this month we will be sending another newsletter announcing an exciting expansion of the Purple Onion’s music program. It is worth a newsletter of its own.

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The Chinese sage Lao Tzu once said, “He or she who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.” How calming that can be. Just imagine. Happy with what we have or who we are. How un-American. No more striving for and anxiety about what we don’t have or aren’t. Is it possible that life itself is enough? I have days like that. Perhaps not as many as I would like but some. Maybe you have, too. What does that look and feel like for you? Would you be willing to share what is enough for you with our other readers? If so, it could make a great future newsletter. Let us hear from you by replying to this newsletter.

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As you know, the political arena is heating up as we had into this Fall’s mid-term elections. It will become increasingly noisy until then. If there ever was a time when all of us should be reevaluating the direction our country is taking, it is certainly now. I hope that you are doing so and VOTE accordingly but VOTE. My only political offering I have for the moment is this quote from Robert Kennedy, Jr. “80% of Republicans are Democrats who don’t know what’s going on.”

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The singer/songwriter Chuck Pyle (who has appeared at the Purple Onion twice) has confessed to being in Cowboy Dancers Anonymous. It is a two step program.

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Here are some aphorisms that may or may not be true:
If you don’t pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
A grenade thrown into a French kitchen would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

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I suppose that is enough for now. I am sure that you agree.

Robert Seiler
Purple Onion Café
www.purpleonionsaluda.com