While September is traditionally the month where our lives shift from summer vacation mode to back-to-school activities, the Purple Onion never stops providing the great music that you have come to expect.

Check this out:

SEPTEMBER 2 – ROD PICOTT. Long time singer/songwriter and friend from Nashville returns. www.rodpicott.com

SEPTEMBER 4 - THE STEREOFIDELICS. We can’t say enough about this exciting young duo. www.thestereofidelics.com

SEPTEMBER 9 – RED HOT SUGAR BABIES. Led by Wendi Loomis we welcome this new group. www.jazzandpoetry.com

SEPTEMBER 11 – AARON BURDETT. This is a CD-release performance to celebrate his new recording which features the Aaron Burdett Band. www.aaronburdett.com

SEPTEMBER 16 – NO MUSIC. THE CAFÉ WILL BE CLOSED MOST OF THE WEEK.

SEPTEMBER 18 – LAURA MONK & HIGH COTTON. We welcome back this Atlanta-based group. www.highcottonatl.com

SEPTEMBER 23 – AARON PRICE. This multi-talented performer from Asheville always produces great music. www.aaronprice.net

SEPTEMBER 25 – JON SHAIN. This fabulous guitarist and singer/songwriter is back. www.jonshain.com

SEPTEMBER 30 – DANA COOPER. Nationally known Nashville singer/ songwriter makes his debut. www.danacoopermusic.com

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT – FRED WHISKIN at the piano.

Since I regularly get questions about the music program, let’s start this month’s newsletter with some housekeeping information. First, the café will be on winter hours beginning this month: meaning that we will be closed on Wednesdays as well as Sundays. Additionally, we will be taking September 13-16 off to get our heads back on straight from our wonderfully busy summer season.

Otherwise, it will be music as normal on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. The music starts at 7:30 on Thursdays and 8 o’clock on Saturdays. Fred starts at 7 on Fridays. You can make reservations for dinner on Thursdays and Fridays but not on Saturdays.

We don’t supply a lot of information in the newsletters about the performers but we do direct you to their web sites. There you can learn more about them and listen to a sampling of their music. We encourage you to do this as you will no doubt find some new music that suits your taste.

Now that that is out of the way, let’s talk politics. Well, maybe it is too early to talk politics. The media is chock-full of pundits and bloggers who seem intent on demonstrating that nobody knows what is going to happen. Unfortunately they feel that this not-knowing needs to be discussed ad nauseam.

This has made this new word, “refudiate”, spoken by a candidate who is not officially running for an office, seem even more amusing and absurd. I am not sure where I saw this but it made me smile:

“refudiate (transitive verb): To simultaneously oppose and ignore the existence of an idea or thing.

Usage: Used to highlight opposition to a thing to the point of pretending it doesn’t exist. Best used sarcastically.

Like: Sarah Palin refudiated the criticism of her tweet when she changed the original but still defended it.

Origin: Misspoken English of Alaskan origin. Thought to have been derived from “refute” and “repudiate”.”

You can be sure that we don’t refudiate your wonderful support of the Purple Onion Café and hope to see you again soon.

Robert Seiler
www.purpleonionsaluda.com