This Week's Music

Gove Scrivenor
Thu, Jul 2nd, @7:30pm
Fred Whiskin
Fri, Jul 3rd, @7:00pm
Darlyne Cain
Sat, Jul 4th, @8:00pm

Upcoming Events

Americana Songwriters in the Round
Wed, Jun 24th, @7:30pm
Wine Tasting
Wed, Jul 1st, @6:30pm
Coon Dog Day
Sat, Jul 11th

Hours

Monday through Saturday
Lunch 11am - 3pm
Dinner 5pm - 9pm

Closed Sunday

 

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Purple Onion featured on UNC TV

The episode of North Carolina Weekend on UNC TV featuring the Purple Onion aired last week. If you missed it you can check it out on their website from this link http://flash.unctv.org/ncweekend/6042009_purpleonion.htm

 
June Purple Onion Newsletter
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
www.purpleonionsaluda.com
 

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