6 LaFayette Place, Oxford, NY Reservation Policy... At the Night Eagle Cafe, we like to use the honor system. ‘ You call and we’ll hold the seats. No credit card, no Night Eagle Cafe payment... we hold the seat. we like it this way. (607) 843-7378 Please, if you reserve a seat and you can’t make it... call us. Sometimes there are others waiting for those seats. www.nighteaglecafe.org “Central New York’s Home of Acoustic Music” Thanks. Ken
APRIL Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 3rd 7:30pm $15 Phil Och’s Song Night Tribute to the music of Phil Ochs w/Kim and Reggie Harris, Aztec Two Step, Greg Greenway, John Flynn, David Roth, $ $ 8th 8 pm 15 Howard Lyons 9th 8 pm 15 Cliff Eberhardt and Magpie Nominated for Best Folk Recording Artist for the Native Guitarist, singer and songwriter Cliff Eberhardt, often American Music Awards, singer, songwriter and musician referred to as one of the “new folk” artists on the Howard Lyons has been creating music that blends the scene, comes from suburban Philadelphia, historically The late Phil Ochs was one of the most important traditional sounds and values of his native Mohawk culture with contemporary folk sensibilities. His rich a strong folk music area. Raised in a musical family in singer/songwriters during the 1960s--his songs have voice, lively guitar style and thought-provoking, spirit- the 1960s, the self-taught guitarist began performing moving ballads have put him on stage in many concert at age eight and performed with his brother while in been covered by literally scores of other artists in a halls and Pow Wow events throughout the United States high school. In the mid-1970s, he relocated to and Canada. Moving flawlessly between the English and southern Illinois and found a singer-songwriter scene myriad of genres. For more than 20 years, Sonny Mohawk languages, Howard sings the traditional songs there. He continued to hone his skills as a performer, of his people in his own compositions, which he calls singer, guitarist and songwriter. Since the late 1970s, Ochs has been honoring her brother by producing Native Folk. His original music has an eclectic flavor that he’s been based in New York, one of the early pioneers reflects the stories of traditional American Indian life. in Greenwich Village’s 1980s folk music revival. concerts featuring contemporary artists singing Phil Ochs songs as well as their own. 15th 8pm $5 OPEN POETRY SLAM!!! An evening of competitive Registration 7:30-7:50 On April 3, Kim & Reggie Harris, Greg Greenway, SPECIAL Performance Poetry Poets should prepare two John Flynn, David Roth, Magpie, and Aztec 2 step Cash Prizes!! 3 1/2-min rounds will be the featured performers at The Night Eagle Wednesday Can be as high as; 2nd round is for finalists only Cafe’s Phil Ochs Song Night.....”This is a show not Night Show 1st Place: $25.00 This event is open to anyone who 2ndPlace: $15.00 wants to experience Spoken-Word to be missed!!.....I’ve been waiting years to present 3rd Place: $10.00 entertainment at its best this one.”...,Ken An Evening With.., 20th 8 pm $20 24th 8 pm $15 The McKrells Cathie Ryan CD Release Event! The McKrells deliver a unique musical Cathie Ryan’s New CD,”The Farthest Wave” has finally arrived!! And vocabulary and humble their peers in the Cathie will be kicking off the CD release tour from The Night Eagle process. “Traditional suits-and-ties bluegrass Café... accompanied by her band..., Greg Anderson (Gutiar/bozuki/ The McKrells are not...But those hip enough...will soon be awash in a sound that bass), Sarah Milonovich (Fiddles/whistles/fultes/vocals), Brendan can best be described as Irish bluegrass. Yes, Dolan (Keyboards/flutes/winds),and Brian Mellick (Percussion and Hosting • Design • Domains • Support it’s bluegrass, mostly, but there’s a lilt to the various other sounds).....This will be a magical evening and one that I www.woollybear.com tunes, a bouncing drive to the melodies, the have been waiting a long time for..It’s been years since Cathie’s been Roy Peterson 607-843-2121 trace of an accent in Kevin’s vocals, and here here,so lets give her a warm welcome back.., Ken and there a touch of melancholy that seems to 344 County Rd 4 Oxford, NY 13830 go hand in hand with the Irish persona.” An Evening With Thurs 29th 8 pm $15 30th 8 pm $15 The Sloan Wainwright Band 21st David Jacobs-Strain “I just saw him at a festival and can testify, he was Sloan Wainwright has been a pioneer all her life. A forerunner in the independent brilliant solo and shined alongside more seasoned music scene long before it became hip to walk the road less travelled, Sloan is an artist Open “Mic” players. His covers are fresh, masterful and authoritative. And his original tunes are knock- whose passionate work and extraordinary life have fused to burn a new definition for With Host’s outs, combining the emotional truth of his women in music. An outstanding and highly original vocalist, Sloan is a compelling The members playing with that uncanny, knowing voice and with subject matter deep beyond expectation… performer best known for her rich earthy contralto, intensely personal lyrics, and an of Fetish Lane blues that send shivers along your spine.” innovative approach to song merging distinctive elements of rock, folk, jazz, and blues – Millpond Music Festival, 2001 to create a soulful hybrid. MAY Thursday Friday SaturdaySaturday Sunday An Evening With..., PIZZERIA & $ Thanks.. 1st 8 pm 20 John Renbourn Our RESTAURANT piano 843-6555 & Jacquie McShee Master guitarist John Renbourn tuned Corner of South & and vocalist Jacqui McShee, courtesy Canal founders of the seminal British of... Oxford, NY folk-rock band Pentangle, bring per issue to the stage a rich repertoire developed over four decades of 6th 8 pm $15 Tret Fure 7th 8 pm $15 Leni Stern musical collaboration. John takes A singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Leni Stern is perpetual motion. When shes not listeners through a landscape of masterful playing in a producer, Tret Fure is also a ground-breaker wearing one of her many professional hats (singer, fusion of British and Celtic folk music with jazz, blues, and one of the most respected women in guitarist, label owner, author, composer, ragtime, classical, Middle Eastern and pre-Renaissance $50 1,961 and rising! Womens’ Music. Her 8-album discography orchestrator), she is wearing one or more of the music. includes work with Spencer Davis and Cris other many hats that make her who she is: An Williamson, as well as 3 acclaimed solo releases. Known for her easy soprano and wide-ranging tastes, Jacqui unassuming and humble role model she certainly has remained a constantly experimenting presence in “Fure engineers, harmonizes and arranges as is, given her stellar 17-year, 12-album recording helping with production and helping with production Promote your business while business your Promote though these skills were as simple as munching a Pentangle through it’s many personnel changes.
mailing costs. We now mail to We mailing costs. career. Gibson has chosen her as the Female croissant. The result is, at times, breathtaking.”- Guitarist of the Year five consecutive times Only This is a show not to be missed!.., Ken
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$ Gallery, Gift Shop and Cafe Hours: 14th 8 pm 20 John Gorka 15th 8 pm $15 FalconRidge Folk Rolling Stone calls Gorka “the Fest Preview Tour 11:00am. till 10:00pm Tues. thru Sat. preeminent male singer- Free Ticket Giveaways Start Tonite!! songwriter of the New Folk This year’s 7th Preview Tour Well spring always brings change and The Night Eagle Café is no Movement.” Minneapolis Star featuring your picks from 2004’s stranger to change.., so this is what’s new...We will be opening our doors Tribune says he’s “one of the Emerging Artist Showcase, that’s smartest and most authentic Meg Hutchinson, LisaBeth Weber at 11:00am. starting Wed. April 13th..,and keeping them open until folk voices of the decade,” and w/Maggie Marshall, Alastair Moock www.falconridgefolk.com 10:00pm. on night’s when we don’t have a show. On show nites we will Boston Tab calls him “a & Ned Massey... tunesmith of the highest order.” Meg Hutchinson - Performing close for a short while for the performers to set up and sound check....and We know that he writes with Songwriter calls Hutchinson, “...A master of introspective ballads filled then reopen at our usual time for the show...We will be expanding to a full uncommon grace, real beauty, with understated yearning and an and open eyes. It’s been many exquisite sense of metaphor.” The time “Art and Gift Gallery”..,with an expanded dessert menu and lots of years since he’s performed here, twenty-six year old describes her style as “lyric-based, folk-pop, with other idea’s are in the working...They will be posted on the website as soon and we are honored by his a whole lot of small town idealism return. and one devastating break up as they happen so dont forget to check for updates there...,So if you plan thrown in for good measure.” to be driving thru Oxford.,Stop in and say “Hello”...,Ken Millett LisaBeth Weber with Maggie Marshall - Over the last couple of years, LisaBeth was visited by some kind of muse that has An Evening With..., caused her to re-route her writing to a Regular hours for shows 8 pm $ more traditional style. She’s real excited 21st 15 about this, and the new CD also reflects a For Art Openings, Open Mic Nights and for Friday and Saturday night performances, the doors open at 7:15. For Sunday shows the doors Jeremy Wallace Band time when things were created in a simpler manner. Along with the beautiful open at 7:00 pm. For afternoon shows the doors open at 3:15. Open Mic nights are hosted by the members of Fetish Lane and Other Jeremy Wallace started writing harmonies of MAGGIE MARSHALL songs the way many singer- Alastair Moock - Moock’s award- Special Guest’s... If you wish to perform at Open Mic, sign up at the door or call ahead. songwriters do: he culled personal winning songs have been compared experiences from volumes of to those of John Prine; his whiskeyed voice to those of Steve journals packed into milk crates he Forbert and Tom Waits. His 8pm $ had kept since he was a teenager. recorded material ranges from 19th 20th 5 OPEN POETRY SLAM!!! Then somewhere along the line, deeply-grooved blues and twang to lush folk-rock and raw acoustic An evening of competitive Registration 7:30-7:50 Jeremy Wallace’s personal lyrics roots. Open “Mic” Performance Poetry Poets should prepare two merged with the lives of lonely fictional characters-the 3 1/2-min rounds unlucky, the heartbroken, blue collar joes who drank too Ned Massey has been described in Cash Prizes!! national press as an “evocative singer- With Host’s Can be as high as: 2nd round is for finalists only much, smoked too much, loved too much for their own good- songwriter with vision” (FMQB) and as 1st Place: $25.00 This event is open to anyone who and his musictook a turn. Instead of the self-absorbed world “a gutsy artist who isn’t afraid to add a The members of of a teenager, a mature narrative voice emerged one that little edge to his acoustic based music” 2ndPlace: $15.00 wants to experience Spoken-Word (Album Network). John Hammond, Fetish Lane entertainment at its best reflected his world but that connected with ordinary people. shortly before his death, said that Ned 3rd Place: $10.00 When audiences hear Jeremy’s music, they see themselves in Massey was the best artist he’d heard the stories he weaves since Dylan and Springsteen. month at a time.There will also hard copy mailing list.We hope costs of trying to keep a venue to keep trying costs of email newsletter and a place to can, we have added to the web The members of members The operate as economically we to cut costs wherever possible. l fyou will take advantage all of open, we are feeling the need fthese cost cutting features. of 16th page an icon that will enable and understanding, hope we remove your name from the as small as The Night Eagle as small The Thank youThank for your support be a place to sign up for the everyone to print their own hear from you. Ken Millett Open “Mic” MEMBERS WANTED • MEMBERS WANTED • MEMBERS WANTED Due to the ever-increasing mn h ihs fthe among the highest of oyo the calendar one copy of Printing and postage are hidden costs. In order to With Host’s Fetish Lane 6 LaFayette Place, Oxford, NY hrdyFriday Thursday
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from folk like you that keep the doors of the Night Eagle Cafe open. We have decided not to accept MEMBERS WANTED Federal and State funding. We feel that taxpayer dollars can be put to better use elsewhere. As a result, www.nighteaglecafe.org memberships are more important than ever. Every membership counts. Please help support Night Eagle in its efforts. Membership packages begin at as little as Thirty Five dollars yearly. 24th 17th 10th NAME 3rd neeigo competitive An evening of 3rd Place: $10.00 2ndPlace: $15.00 1st Place: $25.00 Can be as high as: Cash Prizes!!
DATE Performance Poetry $35 Friend Night Eagle bumper sticker 8pm 8pm 8pm ADDRESS 8pm $50 Patron Night Eagle bumper sticker, $ $ $ $ 5 15 15 4-color screen-printed Night Eagle T-shirt (100% cotton) GIFT.... 15 Please $35 Friend Check $50 Patron OPEN POETRY SLAM!!! England.”--Boston Globe England.”--Boston the boom was heard all over New Gilbert exploded on the Boston scene, Magazine. “When songwriter Vance through the heart.”--New Texas a dart shot right piercing quality of and rightly so. Gilbert’s songs have the and ‘stunning’ by critics, contemporary ‘undeniably expressive,’ ‘remarkable’ lightning...Gilbert’s voice has been called “Vance Gilbert strikes just like performing today.performing “Dazzling.”-NY Resident. the most telling womenís voices some of discography revealsclose harmonies-their by heart, and walk both alone in skin- and Jeannie travel an inner path they know spirit. Annie, Marie, together is a matter of these women singing music-but the essence of categorizing the everyday ways of all of choices- style, influences, harmonic of terms You in Sisters can think about the Burns $100 Guardian Night Eagle bumper sticker, the center of universe. stage in Ireland or here, the audience is CDs of their own, but when they’re on performers and are working on two bundle of new music for other in town. They have recently produced a one thing:The Dady Brothers are back a packed house of devoted fans means humor, a stage full of instruments, and Celtic and Americana tunes, good Warm harmonies, a splendid mix of wants to experience Spoken-Word Vance Gilbert The Dady Brothers Sisters The Burns One: This event is open to anyone who
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Park, Oxford, NY 13830-0446 Night Eagle Cafe MEMBERS WANTED • MEMBERS WANTED • MEMBERS WANTED More Upcoming Shows!! Our circulation is now at 1,961 + direct mail and 2,500 printed. July 8th, Greg Anderson & Sarah Milonovich July 21-24, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, www.falconridgefolk.com If you would like to advertise in The Night July 29th,Too Human 25th Eagle Newsletter, our rates are $50 per Aug 5th, Greg Greenway 11th issue. Thank you & Happy Gardening!! Aug 10th, Chenango County Fair w/ Fetish Lane JUNE & Nathan Brown’s Childrens Percusion Workshops 8pm Ken Millett Aug 18-21, Hickory Fest www.hickoryproject.com 9am Sept 10-11, Colorscape Chenango Arts Fest, www.colorscape.inf $ 15 Saturday A Performing Arts and Cultural Center Night Eagle Cafe PRESORTED WET PAINT!! one reviewer commented, “It’s a much over-used cliché, but I really believe this is what genius sounds like.” Fiddler Magazine, and took 2nd place for Best Celtic Instrumental Album competition Just in the international Plain Folks. As Connections. Jeremy’s second release, Roaming, publications including Sing Out and received praise from a broad range of 2000, and certainly the best by a new young artist,” by the syndicated radio show Celtic the top 20 Celtic albums of of Celtic Fest, the Arts & Milwaukee Irish Fest. Bethlehem Musikfest, Detroit Festival CD, His first of Celtic Fiddle, was called the Kennedy Center,festivals over the past five years including the Millennium Stage of “A Prairie Home Companion,” Chicago and also qualified for the All-Ireland concerts a in Irish fiddling four consecutive years. Jeremy at hundreds of has performed Scottish Fiddle Championship in 2000, Jeremy won the Junior National Scottish Fiddle Championship the previous two years the nation’s the US National top youngJeremy traditional musicians. Winner a reputation as one of of Kittel is rapidly earning located On the Park at 6 LaFayette Place P.O. Box 446 STANDARD Chenango Arts Festival,Colorscape Inc.. Director, Peggy can be reached Finnegan at (607) 336-FEST or by e-mail at info@colorsc you are a fine art painter, and youIf would like to join WET PAINT!, you are only requested to register with the committee. Co performances. will add a festive ambiance to the occasion. Online,performers visit www.nighteaglecafe.org for more info about the Night Eagl Ken music Millett will be arranging for the WET PAINT! high quality, art event on June 11th. His usual musical pro selection of Oxford’s Café. In this same Night Eagle artists and craftsmen, has great non-stop acoustic music by arranged Ken Millett of September. 11th annual Arts Festival The Colorscape 10th & 11th, in Norwich, will be held September NY. It will feature over 75 WET PAINT! this additional market to Colorscape’s offers participating artists as well as raising funds for the upcoming Festiv the not-for-profit organization. auctioned live in the Park, at 3:00 PM, by LeClar Bros. Jerry Auction LeClar, Service. proceeds The will be split between th of buildings, the Chenango River, residents, or gardens may all become subject matter for still lifes. artists will then chose The questions while they paint, and can also place silent bids on the work the Park, during the day. the his Landscape paintings of frompainters 9:00 AM 5:00 PM. Other artists will be disbursed around the Village. Passers by can converse with the artists, as the Village Green surrounded by 5-10 retail booths run by will haveColorscape past Color booth in the middle of an information artists will set up where-everThe the muse strikes them, but mostly they will center around LaFayette Park, between 9:00 AM - community should prepare for some increased activity in town. “a beautiful little village”, said Ms. Iannello. It is an honor for Oxford to be so appreciated and be chosen by this arts orga Lisa Iannello, Oxford wanted to broaden was chosenchairperson, as it is “very its reach picture beyond Norwich. Village The of is the second annualThis WET PAINT! event, having the first been in Norwich, NY. Chenango fundraising committee Colorscape doors, so people can watch. the Village), to paint “en plein air” desired,fine artists will set up their easels in LaFayette other parts of Park (and, if was just finalizedThis Monday, February 14th, with approval to use LaFayette Park, by the Oxford Village Trustees. WET PAI The A fund raising event for the annual Chenango Arts Festival Colorscape will be held in the Village of Oxford, Saturday, June 11t Jeremy Kittle Trio in Oxford, New York 13830 Oxford, NY 13830 US POSTAGE PAID OXFORD, NY For Reservations and RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED PERMIT #20 Information, call
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