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June Purple Onion Newsletter |
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PURPLE ONION NEWS
JUNE, 2009
Summer is finally here. That means that you can now add Wednesday to the days that you can dine with us. Of course, the music will be great, too.
JUNE 4 – CORINNE WEST. Fine singer/songwriter returns. www.corinnesmusic.com
JUNE 6 – JACKSON CROSSING. We’re always happy to have these old friends back. www.jacksonxing.com
JUNE 11 – JEF CHANDLER & FRIENDS. Singer/songwriter from South Carolina here for the first time. www.jefchandler.com
JUNE 13 – THE NEAR MISSES. Energetic all-female acoustic trio from Charlotte is back. www.thenearmisses.com
JUNE 18 – BEAUCOUP BLUE. Blues from father and son duo that Susan likes a lot. www.beaucoupblue.com
JUNE 20 – BILL NOONAN BAND. Bill says that his band has a new sound that we will like. Can’t wait. www.billnoonanband.com
JUNE 24 – JONATHAN BYRD, DOUG & TELISHA WILLIAMS AND DANNY SCHMIDT. A special Wednesday singer/songwriter in the round presentation of their original music. www.jonathanbyrd.com www.dandtw.com and www.dannyschmidt.com
JUNE 25 – THE HONEY DEWDROPS. Winners of the 2008 Prairie Home Companion’s contest for performers in their 20s here for the first time. www.thehoneydewdrops.com
JUNE 27 – DEHLIA LOW. Bluegrass from Asheville is back. www.dehlialow.com
EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT – FRED WHISKIN at the piano doing his magic on the 88s.
It has been a grand wet Spring especially after the last two years of drought we have experienced. Nature seems to have exploded with color and activity now that we are not being starved of water. Gardens are more beautiful than ever. Even the birds and animals seem happier and more active. Or maybe that is just me projecting my satisfaction onto them. Whatever, it has been a fine time to be alive.
Then I encountered this poem by Derek Walcott which seems to resonate with me nowadays:
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give Bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
* Peace.
Robert Seiler
Purple Onion Café
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