NEWSLETTER

SEPTEMBER, 2006

Summer is basically over and we are easing into Fall. We had a great summer jazz series and will incorporate more of it into our regular schedule. That was then. This is now. Look at the fine September line-up featuring the usual top-notch performers most of whom have appeared before at the café.

SEPTEMBER 7 – GOVE SCRIVENOR. Hearing him play the autoharp is worth the whole evening although it is certainly not the whole evening. .

SEPTEMBER 9 – JON SHAIN. Songwriter and blues guitarist from Durham returns

SEPTEMBER 10 – CHUCK BRODSKY – The first performance in the new Monthly Sunday Night Concert Series. Tickets are $15 per person. The audience will be limited to 100 people.

SEPTEMBER 14 – STEPHEN SIMMONS. Returning Tennessee singer/songwriter is as interesting as the title of his latest recording, “Drink Ring Jesus”.

SEPTEMBER 16 – MEL JONES & HIS BAG OF BONES. He and his group are just too much fun to miss.

SEPTEMBER 21 – VALORIE MILLER. Asheville singer/songwriter making her first appearance at the café.

SEPTEMBER 23 – GIGI DOVER & THE BIG LOVE. For the many who have asked, we too welcome her back.

SEPTEMBER 28 – DARLYNE CAIN. Now located in Chicago, she shot the lights out in her appearance earlier this year.

SEPTEMBER 30 – THE BUCKERETTES. Asheville’s Premier Cowgirl Band returns.

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BEFORE READING FURTHER, PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CAFÉ IS NOW CLOSED ON WEDNESDAYS UNTIL NEXT SUMMER. OF COURSE, THAT SHOULD NOT CREATE TOO MUCH OF A HARDSHIP FOR YOU AS WE ARE STILL OPEN FIVE DAYS A WEEK.

EVEN MORE IMPORTANT IS THE BEGINNING OF OUR NEW MONTHLY SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT SERIES. WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL BE WITH US AS WE START THIS NEW ADVENTURE IN LIVE MUSIC.

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Since Saluda is such a small community, I want to share these two commentaries on what it can be like:
One of the advantages of living in a small town
is that if you don’t know what you are doing,
surely someone else will.

This town is small enough that every citizen can
tear the telephone book in half.

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Here are some license plates that I enjoy (most of which I have actually seen):
BLEV-N-U
KRMIT
THINK1ST
IBGONE
& SO FORTH

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Some bumper stickers that I wish I had written:
Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?
Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did only backward and in high heels.
Heck is for people who don’t believe in gosh.

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Finally try not to get too despondent as the political campaign season kicks into high gear and remember these words by Anne Lamott:
“If you want to change the way you feel about people,
you have to change the way you treat them.”

Robert Seiler
Purple Onion Café