Hello friends, so I know this is last minute but.. we're doing an All
Local meal this Friday and a fund raiser for "Buy Fresh Buy Local."
We've gathered some of the best local meats and veggies for this
exciting meal. To top it all off we've got Grammy-nominated Adrienne
Young playing at our little restaurant!! The meal will be served
between 5-8 and music will start shortly after. Hope you can come out!
  Admission to the show will be $15.
-Best
-LGC

Hello friends,
After a rather extensive period of dormancy, the group is back!  (It
sort of got lost in the shuffling of people and positions - sorry
about that.)
First, a few announcements:

1.  We will be serving brunch Easter Sunday (March 23) from 9am-2pm.
Come join us!  Bring your traveling friends and families!

2.  Our Wednesday night Indian special is undergoing some
construction.  I know there are those among you who love the Indian
plate and are die-hard supporters, but we have come to the decision
that it is time for a change, to keep all parties interested.  Every
relationship needs some variety to keep it fresh!  We will have new
and exciting dinner specials changing every week, primarily focusing
on local, seasonal foods.  We love to support our local farmers, and
we want to pass that appreciation on to you.  The quality of local
fruits and vegetables in their natural growing seasons is far superior
to that of produce trucked across the country, or the world!

3.  Check out our Very Little Store in the glass case below the cash
register.  We have Equal Exchange coffees and teas, local maple syrup,
and Country Canner jams for sale.  We also offer things like local
free-range eggs, hummus, and picante for you to take home.  If there's
something on our menu that you love but don't see advertised for
retail sale, just ask!  We are more than willing to be accommodating
if it's at all possible.


Okay, enough business.  Here's our exciting entertainment schedule for
March!

14th - The LGC's own Bethro Smalls, with Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore -
a night of acoustic folky goodness.  Check out Mat and Yvonne at
http://www.matandyvonne.com/

21st - Jay Punn & Morwenna Lasko - phenomenal violin-guitar duo
hailing from Charlottesville - if you've never heard them, they are
WELL WORTH a listen.  Check them out at
http://www.myspace.com/morwennajay or http://www.mojamusic.net/

28th - Accordian Death Squad - gypsy klezmer circus music.  They've
convinced me that every band should have an accordian.  Check them out
at   http://www.myspace.com/accordiondeathsquad

Alright!  Consider yourself updated!
Kendall

Hey there!

Thanks for signing up on the Little Grill mailing list! You can
continue to expect interesting and exciting emails, as well as other
updates, discounts and general info.


Some things currently going on...
We are now holding a T-SHIRT DESIGN CONTEST-the winner of the most
creative and representative design wins a FREE t-shirt AND 6 months of
FREE International Night.  The application is on our website,
littlegrillcollective.com under the "news" section.  The deadline is
October 1st, so hurry up and get those designs in!!!


Upcoming specials and events...
Tonight, and every Thursday night, is breakfast night where we feature
our delicious breakfast menu.  Also on Thursday nights, worker-owner
Chris Howdyshell hosts open mic night, starting at 8:30 pm.  It's
always a good time, so check that out.

Friday night's special is Down Home Night, your choice of free-range
chicken, fried catfish or vegan BBQ ribs served with mashed potatoes
and groovy gravy, cornbread and a side of your choice for $8.95.
MUSIC that night is Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun at 9 pm, tickets are $5.

Saturday night's MUSIC is the acoustic showcase, starting at 9 pm,
pass the hat.

Friday the 22nd, we have a big music guest:  Mary Gauthier will be
playing at 9 pm and tickets are $15.

Monday's we host the Our Community Place Free Community Meal at noon,
open to anyone in the world.

For other upcoming specials and events, check out our website or grab
a monthly calendar next time you are in.  Please come see us soon!  As
always, we love you and appreciate your business!

Love,
The Little Grill Collective
Kelsie Evans

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

Hello friends of the Little Grill and Little Store...
I just wanted to let you all know that some folks in the community
have been meeting regularly to discuss turning the Little Store
Collective into a consumer co-op.  We're really excited about the
idea, and it's come time for us to find out who else in the community
might be excited about it too.  So SUNDAY MARCH 5th @ 4:30 PM we're
holding a community interest meeting at the Little Grill. We're trying
to get as many people there as possible to see if it's a feasible
dream, so come if you can! If you're interested but can't make it or
have any other questions, please contact harrisonburgcoop@... or
call Mariana @ 540-434-2625.  Thanks!
Mariana

Hey everybody! We have some exciting music coming up:

TONIGHT November 30th- Dangus Khan and the Tornadoes

Friday December 2nd- and evening with Paul Curreri & Danny Schmidt
Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door. Show starts at 9PM.

Saturday December 3rd- Whiskey Rebellion Bluegrass

Saturday December 10th- Devon Sproule

Wednesday December 14th- Heather Berry and Dominion Grass


Our holiday hours are as follows:
CLOSED:
December 24th and 25th.

CLOSING AT 2PM:
December 17th (holiday party!) and December 31st.

We will be open for Brunch New Year's Day!

Thanks, we'll see you soon!

The LGC

Hey all!

We've got some really exciting music events coming to the Grill this
month!

First and foremost, Adrienne Young tickets went on sale today, and by
this afternoon we had already sold 20% of the house. At that rate,
we'll be sold out by the end of the week. Come get your tickets while
we still have them! She'll be performing Thursday, October 13th, at
9PM. Tickets are $10.

October 7th - David Ross MacDonald of the Waifs - 9pm, $5
October 8th - Rachael Davis - 9pm, $7
October 13th - Adrienne Young & Little Sadie - 9pm, $10
October 14th - Special Ed & the Shortbus Bluegrass Band - 9pm, $5
October 15th - Trent Wagler & the Steel Wheels - 9pm, $5
October 19th - Justin Jones, w/openers In The Red
October 22nd - Southside Future Squad
October 28th- Jackass Flats - 9pm $5
October 29th- DJ Williams Projekt Holloween Show - 9pm, $10

For more details on the performers, check out the LGC Events page:
http://www.littlegrillcollective.com/events/

And let's not forget the LITTLE STORE!! We currently offering coupons
for 15% off your purchase at the Little Store. Swing on by the Little
Grill and pick one up, but come soon, they expire at the end of the month!

If you'd like to join the Little Store email list to get email updates
on specials and promotions, follow this link:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheLittleStore

And always, thank you so much for your love and support!

Peace,
Doug & the LGC

That's right! The Little Store is open, and we're looking for
feedback. Stop on by and let us know what you think! If there's
anything you don't see that you'd like us to sell, let us know and
we'll get it in stock!

We're located at 434 North Mason Street in the Rose's Shopping
Center. Our hours are 9am-7pm Monday through Saturday.

We also have some great music coming to the Little Grill:
Sept 9- DJ Williams Projekt, 9PM
Sept 10- Vulgar Bulgars, 9PM
Sept 16- Red River Rollercoaster CD Release Party, 9PM
Sept 23- Trent Wagler and the Steel Wheels, 9PM
Sept 24- Meade Skelton, Red River Rollercoaster, Buck Gooter, 8PM
Sept 30- Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun, 9PM

and coming in October-

October 13- Adrienne Young and Little Sadie!

For more info check us out on the web at
www.littlegrillcollective.com

See you soon!

Hey Everyone!
As I'm sure you all know, the Little Grill will be operating on a half
day schedule for the first two weeks of August, opening at 7AM and
closing in the afternoon at 2:30PM. We'll be back to our normal
business hours on August 16th, but right now we're taking advantage of
the half days to try something new and fun with our music scene. We're
calling it the ENDLESS SUMMER THROWDOWN, and we've decided to book
some of our most popular music acts during the nights that the
restaurant will be closed, so that the whole space can be dedicated to
and focused on some great live music. The lineup is as follows:

******
TONIGHT Friday August 5th - The Furnace Mountain Band, 8PM, $5
******
Saturday August 6th - Jackass Flats, 8PM, $5
******
Friday August 12th - Devon Sproule, 8PM, $5 (w/guest opener Katie
Sawicki)
******

It's a fun experiment that we hope will provide you with the finest
listening experience we have to offer. It'll be a guaranteed great
time. The DOORS OPEN AT 7PM, and we'll be serving a limited menu of
appetizers, desserts, and drinks. Hope to see you there!

Peace,
Doug

Hey there!
Sorry about the short notice but we thought you all should know that on Saturday
July 30
VA Jihad (ex hackensaws, old crow medicine show guys) will be playing the OCP
Summer
Lawn Jam as well as Alex Albrecht, Arum Rae, Bob Driver and Terry Turtle's new
band Buck
Gooter! Plus more TBA.

Here's more info:
http://littlegrillcollective.blogspot.com/2005/07/saturday-july-30-coming-up-ocp\
-
summer.html

Come on out THIS SATURDAY for some awesome free fun!

Mucho Amore,
LGC

The Little Store Collective is located at 434 North Mason Street, not
434 North Main Street like I erroneously stated in the last message.

Stay Human,
Doug

Hey everyone!

I hope you've all been having some wonderful summers. I'm sure many of
you already know this, but this whole week the Little Grill is CLOSED
so that we can work on some major projects, do some deep cleaning, and
run workshops for the worker/owners. We've been pretty busy here, and
we appreciate your understanding and apologize for the inconvenience.
We'll be open again on Tuesday, July 19th.

Also, starting Friday, July 29th and running until Saturday, August
13th, the Little Grill will be open for BREAKFAST AND LUNCH ONLY.  On
weekdays and Saturdays we will be open at 7AM and closing the kitchen
at 2:30PM, and we'll be open our normal Sunday Brunch hours of 9AM-
2PM.

We're taking advantage of the half days to try something new and fun
with our music scene. We're calling it the ENDLESS SUMMER THROWDOWN,
and we've decided to book some of our most popular music acts during
the nights that the restaurant will be closed, so that the whole space
can be dedicated to and focused on some great live music. The current
lineup is as follows:

Friday August 5th - The Furnace Mountain Band, 8PM, $5
Saturday August 6th - Jackass Flats, 8PM, $5
Friday August 12th - Devon Sproule, 8PM, $5

It's a fun experiment that we hope will provide you with the finest
listening experience we have to offer. It'll be a guaranteed great
time.

(Speaking of our music scene, the Daily News Record did a feature on
us in Escape magazine last Thursday. This link will probably not work
when the new Escape comes out on Thursday, but if you haven't read it
yet, check out the story they did on our music here:
http://www.dnronline.com/EscapeStory2.asp)

And last but certainly not least, we're making the final push now to
open THE LITTLE STORE COLLECTIVE! We've been working since January to
open a small grocery store where we can sell local produce and breads,
bulk foods, natural foods, free range meats and eggs, and much more.
The store is located at 434 North Main Street in the Roses Shopping
Center. Our target date for the Grand Opening is **July 25th**,
barring any extreme circumstances. I'm sure I'll end up sending you
another email to announce the Grand Opening once it's been cemented
and confirmed. We're excited to realize this dream we've had, and we
hope you'll be excited to come support us!

Well, thanks for reading all this. It was long, but it was chock full
of important information. Be sure to check out the other bands we have
coming this month and next, and we hope to see you back in the
restaurant soon!

Peace,
Doug

Hey everyone! We've got some exciting shows coming up this month:

TONIGHT June 10th:
Furnace Mountain Band
The intention at the heart of the Furnace Mountain is the sharing of
music as a celebration of life between friends and loved ones alike.
We certainly can't find fault with a goal like that, especially when
you have someone like "Fiddly Dave" VanDeventer at the helm. You
might have seen Fiddly Dave play with Magraw Gap, David Via & the
Corn Tornado, Leftover Salmon, Hypnotic Clambake or Keller Williams,
to name a few. Add Morgan Morrison on the bouzouki and you have all
the makings of a powerful and unique musical experience not to be
missed.
9PM $5

TOMORROW NIGHT, June 11th:
Alex Albrecht and Arum Rae
You might recognize these two performers if you frequent the Little
Grill's open mic on Thursday nights. Alex and Arum both play the
blues, and they play the blues well. You know what's even more fun?
They've agreed to do a double bill even though they've never
actually met. Come on out and support some great local talent!
8:30PM Pass The Hat

Coming Soon:
July 6th- Jay Pun and Morwenna Lasko, 9PM, $5
July 8th- Devon Sproule, 9PM, $5
July 13th- Greensky Bluegrass, 9PM, $5
August 5th- The Furnace Mountain Band, 9PM, $5
August 6th- Jackass Flats, 9PM, $5
August 12th- Devon Sproule, 9PM, $5
August 26th- High Ground Bluegrass Band
and soon to be scheduled appearances by Soy Hero, The Greg Ward
Project, and Red River Rollercoaster!

Stay updated by checking in at our website
http://www.littlegrillcollective.com

Thanks for your interest, and hope to see you soon!

Don't forget about the great show going on tomorrow night(Friday the
13th) Tony Furtado will be playing at 8:30pm. $10

Our favorite Grand National banjo champion is returning to the
grill!
"A talented multi-instrumentalist, cross-pollinating rambler, and
budding songwriter, Tony Furtado is an eclectic musician with a knack
for mining musical gold from the American folk tradition while also
incorporating the best of contemporary rock music."
—Jambase.com
Tickets available now.

May is a great month for art and music...
Friday the 20th - Naomi Scully/Jason McCarty Art Opening
Saturday the 21th - Trent Wagler and the Steel Wheels, 9PM, $3
Wednesday the 25th - Larry Keel, 9PM, $10
Friday the 27th - Paul Curreri, 9PM, $5
Saturday the 28th - David Grier and Noam Pikelny, 9PM, $10

For more information check out www.littlegrillcollective.com

Thanks for your interest and hope to see you soon!