Hey everybody!

We've lined up some pretty exciting music this month, please come on by and check it out!

Friday, June 2nd: Natalia Zukerman, 8PM, $5
Natalia Zukerman has a sound that's strong yet delicate, gentle yet insistent. You can call the music she makes folk if you want, but there's jazz in it, too, and blues, and a soulful something or other that you can't quite put into words. You want to classify her? Lets call it bottleneck country jazz with smoky come-hither vocals. Her latest CD, On A Clear Day, is so well written and has such intelligent lyrics that it requires at least two listens to get it all in. And let me tell you, folks, this girl can play. But don't take my word for it:
"She has nimble fingers capable of picking upward of thirty notes per measure, and when she sings she can switch from scat to swoon in the course of a glissando."  -The New Yorker
"Her bright vocals can send an orchid into bloom, while her delta-slide guitar can open a beer bottle with its teeth." -Andy Friedman

Saturday, June 3rd: Brad Yoder, 8PM, $3-$5 suggested donation
Brad Yoder is an ol' Harrisonburg homeboy now prowling the Pittsburgh music scene. You could call him a successful musician based on the standard measures of success, but Brad believes musical success should be measured in more than just the obvious ways. Sure, being voted "Best Solo Musician" in the 2001 InPittsburgh Newsweekly Readers' Poll is great, but the way Brad sees it, playing Poughkeepsie, New York and having a college freshman from Los Angeles request songs she's only heard via internet downloads is actually cooler. What matters most to Brad is having a fan base that ranges in age from 5 to almost 80, sings along with unrecorded songs at live shows, and generally seems to show up when they're most needed. Come on by and show him some love, won't ya?
"Yoder is an authentic singer/songwriter who rules the Pittsburgh coffeehouse circuit." -Pittsburgh Magazine 

Saturday, June 10th: Danny Schmidt, 9PM, $5
The cry goes round the sleepy town of Harrisonburg: Danny Schmidt is coming back for a show at the Little Grill! A former Virginia resident now situated in Austin, Texas, Danny's a songwriter's songwriter: with a literacy and complexity, and underlying humanity, rare in this age of sound bite attention span marketeering. His tunes are wire frames draped with sheets of poetry. They're not your typical Texas singer/songwriter colloquial Polaroid trail diaries. They'd make lousy beer commercials.  And Danny has a quality common to all preeminent writers: he has his own unique voice. He doesn't sound like anybody you've heard yet. Truly.
"Danny Schmidt reminds me of why I gravitate towards the singer-songwriter art form. With the gravitational pull of the sun, he is, perhaps the best new songwriter I've heard in the last 15 years." -Rich Warren, Sing Out! Magazine
"He is hands down one of the best living musician/poets that I am aware of."  -producer Bob Thiele

Friday, June 16th:  Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart, 9PM, $5
Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart met for the first time 1991 at a songwriters night in Nashville TN. They knew that night it was one of them things that are just meant to be. They were married in 1992. Stacey Earle's first show was on an arena stage in Sydney, playing rhythm guitar in her brother's band, Steve Earle & the Dukes, on "The Hard Way" tour in 1990. She spent about a year and a half on tour with her brother, and then returned to Nashville to start a career of her own as a country/folk singer/songwriter. Mark's musical schooling included playing in the School of Honky Tonks and Beer Joints in and around Nashville by age 15 in his Dad's band. Mark was in off the road when he met Stacey, and the two have been playing together since. Their songs are the diaries of their life, good times and bad, completing the love they have. They share the full load together of getting by, day by day.
"Both talented songwriters and performers ... Imagination and emotion, along with humor, are key elements of their songs…"  -Dirty Linen

Have a great day, and we hope to see you soon!

Love, the LGC