Bottlebrush Gallery & Center for the Arts

Blues-Folk legend Malcolm Holcombe is playing at the  Bottlebrush Gallery this Friday, 7-10pm, only $10 Admission. RSVP to the Gallery at 724.452.0539.  BYOB. Snacks available. Come on out!

“Harmony in the House” Concerts presents:

Malcolm Holcombe
Acoustic Blues ~ Folk

“Haunted country, acoustic blues and rugged folk all meet [here]…” —Rolling Stone

Born and raised in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, Malcolm Holcombe is recognized by the contemporary U.S and European folk/Americana community as a performer of national stature and an uncommonly unique guitarist/vocalist.

If you’ve not seen him in a live setting, this is what you have to do. His presence is spooky and timeless, as one imagines it was like to see Son House or Leadbelly. No emotional stone is left unturned. http://malcolmholcombe.com

With Special Guest
Rick Malis
Talented, versatile, singer/songwriter/guitarist

Friday, May 4th, 2012 7pm-10pm
Bottlebrush: A Gallery for the Arts
539 Main Street “On the Square”
Harmony, PA 16037
$10 Admission
Limited Seating – RSVP Required
Call (724) 452-0539 or email hith@zoominternet.net

Music at the Bottlebrush Gallery this Friday, 7-10pm, only $10 Admission. RSVP to the Gallery at 724.452.0539.  BYOB!

“Harmony in the House” Concerts presents:

Todd Burge
Folk~Bluegrass~Alt Rock

A return engagement to our area! Todd Burge has performed over 100 shows each year in venues as diverse as The Country Music Hall of Fame and the Kennedy Center. Todd has performed and toured with Tim O’Brien, Kathy Mattea, Lucinda Williams, Bela Fleck, Mike Seeger, Larry Groce, Ricky Skaggs and many others. His high energy shows are packed with songs and stories of bizarre characters and critters from dogs to sharks to humans.

Last year, Todd played for us at the very successful Homeless Children’s Education Fund benefit. www.toddburge.com

Opening act:  Dennis McCurdy and the Lonesome No More Band– yes, our Dennis! 🙂 
Americana~Folk~Alt Bluegrass

NOTE: at 6pm, Todd will present his fun Kazoo Camp for Kids. Only $5 for the workshop with a free kazoo. Bring the kids!

Photo from Friday night’s St. Patrick’s Eve Concert at the Bottlebrush Gallery. So much fun! Thanks to the Stohrhaus Bakery for delicious shamrock cookies and boxty (Irish potato pancakes), and thanks also to Lisel Moser for lending a much welcome hand!

At the end of the concert, the Poets led the audience on a War Pipes (bagpipes) march from the Gallery all the way to the Harmony Inn and back. Thanks to everyone who attended–

84 people at last count! Click on the 2012 Concerts” link at the top of the page for a list of upcoming concerts and join us for good music in a family-friendly environment.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Eve at the Bottlebrush Gallery!

Ploughshare Poets – Traditional and Non-Traditional Celtic Music

with special guest

Shawn MacIntyre – Irish, Scottish, Medieval and Maritime Music in acapella style

Friday, March 16, 2012, 7:00-10:00pm Admission: $10 at door.  BYOB.  Snacks provided along with Irish cheer! RSVP required due to small venue. Please call 724.452.0539 or email hith@zoominternet.net

Vade and Ryan are the Ploughshare Poets. They will sing many old favorites as well as modern Celtic songs and tunes. Between the two of them, they play 3 different bagpipes, guitar, whistles, drums, bouzouki.

Far from being a kitschy pub band, the Poets study the history and cultural importance of a wide array of Scottish and Irish music. Vade has played extensively in England and Scotland and was the lead singer of “Colin’s Way” for 10 years. Ryan has played bagpipes for 20 years and makes his own smallpipes.

Ploughshare Poets playing at the Bottlebrush on St. Patrick's Eve!

The first Harmony in the House Concert of 2012:

Friday, February 24, 2012  7:00pm Bottlebrush: A Gallery for the Arts 539 Main Street “On the Square” Harmony, PA 16037 $10 Admission- BYOB

Limited Seating – RSVP Call (724) 452-0539 or email hith@zoominternet.net

Ellen Cherry (Baltimore)

Emmy nominated singer/songwriter Ellen Cherry is a full-time touring and working performer based in Baltimore, MD. She has licensed her music to the Oxygen Network, MTV, and Soap.net. In 2009, she wrote, recorded and performed a TV campaign for FOX Networks and also composed the score for a shadow puppet piece entitled “Alonzo’s Lullaby”, which has been awarded the prestigious UNIMA Citation of Excellence. She has been awarded Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards for Vocal Performance (2007) and Music Composition (2009) and founded her own studio and label, Wrong Size Shoes, in 2004.

http://www.ellencherry.com

Sue Gartland (Pittsburgh), opening act

Sue Gartland’s lyrics and melodies are drawn from life’s experience and delivered  in a style that’s all her own with a gentle and soothing voice. Born into a military family at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, Sue spent most of her childhood years moving from place to place leaving her with a sense of melancholy rootlessness and wanderlust that is woven throughout her lyrics.

Event Alert: February 14, 6-8pm: Valentine’s Party Benefit for the Butler County Humane Society

Join us for live music by Jack Knight from Pittsburgh, yummy refreshments, door prizes, a silent auction and an art scavenger hunt. Plenty of animal-themed art on display and for sale from regional artists.  BCHS is bringing some of the BCHS dogs and cats who are looking for a new home to meet you. Stop in before or after dinner, or stay the whole time, we are fine with either.  No admission – just bring a toy or food item for the animals. Monetary donations accepted too. 🙂

RSVP requested but not required. 724-452-0539.

Thanks to Bliss Salon and Kerven Subaru in Butler, Stohrhaus Bakery, The Enchanted Olive, The Center of Harmony, and The Harmony Inn in Harmony for their support of this event. Jill Claire is donating one of her fantastic paintings to the silent auction and Nancy Esmus is donating three prints– our artists rock!  Please help us help the animals!

Friends, come join us in Harmony on New Year’s Eve at the Bottlebrush for the German celebration of New Year’s, known as Silvester.  Festivities begin at 3pm and finish up with the dropping of the ball at 6pm, which is midnight in  Germany.  Bottlebrush will be hosting an open mic all afternoon, so bring your instrument, your voice and holiday good cheer. Wishing you all a prosperous 2012!

For more information on the annual Silvester celebration in Harmony:

http://harmonymuseum.org/news-recent.html#silvester2011

Harmony invites families to enjoy an afternoon of Silvester activities on Dec. 31: 2-5 p.m., Harmony Museum: Tours ($1); children’s games and crafts (free); the short comedy film “Dinner for One,” in English, a popular part of Silvester in Germany (free); Bleigiessen, the German tradition of examining the shape of a bit of melted lead to guess what the New Year may bring ($1); and, beginning at 3:30, a pork and sauerkraut dinner in Stewart Hall ($12). 3 & 3:45 p.m.: The 5th annual Butler Health System 5-K Run/Walk starts at 3 o’clock in the Main and Mercer Streets diamond at the center of the National Historic Landmark District, followed 45 minutes later by a new-this-year 1-Mile Fun Run. Post-race awards are presented at Grace Church Youth Center, Main Street. Entry forms are available from the Harmony Borough office, 217 Mercer Street (724-452-6780); registration is open until race time (5-K $25, 1-Mile $10).

Big doings in Harmony this weekend!

The annual German Christmas Market is Saturday (11-6) and Sunday (12-4). Music, traditional food, artists, vendors, horse and buggy rides, and all the shops will be open, decked out in their holiday finery! Between 3,000-5,000 people are expected. Parking with be tight of course, but shuttles will be running from remote lots. For more information, please visit the Harmony Museum’s page here: http://www.harmonymuseum.org/germanchristmasmarket.html

Friday night, Nov 11, at 7:00PM, Bottlebrush is hosting another of our popular House Concerts featuring Jeff and Vida (New Orleans and Nashville) entertaining us with their country-bluegrass sounds. $10 at the door, BYOB. ZTown is catering, so we will have some good food! 🙂  We anticipate either soup or chili, and we will be providing bread from the new Stohr-Haus bakery across the square from Bottlebrush in Harmony.

If you plan to attend, please call the Shop at 724-452-0539 and reserve a place. Last weekend’s Roy Book Binder show was standing room only, a great turnout and what a show, but we were short on seats. If you have a folding chair, please bring it with you.

Friday 11^th November, 2011, 7:00 PM
Bottlebrush: A Gallery for the Arts
539 Main Street “On the Square”
Harmony, PA 16037
$10 Admission
Limited Seating – RSVP
Call (724) 452-0539 or email hith@zoominternet.net
With Special Guests: The Lonesome No More Band

We’re getting a nice response, but please note this weekend, 11/12-13, is the German Christmas Market festival in Harmony and our back lot will not be available for parking.  There are 2 municipal lots nearby and on-street parking. There is handicapped parking by the stop sign in front of the shop and, if you have special needs, stop out front and we will help accommodate you. Please do not park in the Grace Church lot until after 7pm.

This show should be a blast. If you haven’t heard of Jeff and Vida, check them out on YouTube. I know we are excited to be opening for them. During their 9 years of performing and songwriting, they have delved into many different genres of music; country, honky-tonk, rockabilly, even a little rock and roll.  But throughout their career– which has included four critically-acclaimed albums, literally thousands of live shows in the U.S. and Europe, and a move from New Orleans to Nashville– bluegrass has remained a key influence in their style and sound.  Nowhere is this more evident than on their new CD, Selma Chalk.  For more on Jeff & Vida, go to their website: http://www.jeffandvida.com/JeffVida/Welcome.html.

YOU’RE INVITED!

Hard to believe the Bottlebrush will be 3 years old already on October 21! We’re having a music and art get-together to celebrate at the Gallery on Friday evening starting at 6pm. Joe Conti of New Castle will be our featured Third Friday artist, showing his photography. We’ll have some music and snacks. The new Vintage Christmas Shop should be open, fingers crossed for a good weekend to work on it. Come on out and celebrate with us! Bring your friends and a smile. We’re looking forward to seeing you.

NEW HOURS.

More news… we’ve changed our operating hours. Bottlebrush is now open 7 days a week, Monday through Friday, from 11am – 4pm, with extended hours on music and opening event nights and for the holidays. The shop will be open more to accommodate your shopping needs.

YOGA.

Sadly, we will no longer be offering Yoga classes at the Gallery, at least not until spring. We want to do some renovations on the upstairs of our building, so we won’t be keeping that portion of the building heated this winter. 🙁 Cathy and Diana have been awesome instructors for the Bottlebrush Yoga classes, and we appreciate them greatly, as do their students.

NOVEMBER MUSIC EVENTS. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Bottlebrush will be hosting two Harmony in the House Concert events in November. Blues guitar legend Roy Book Binder www.roybookbinder.com will be playing one show only at the Gallery on November 4, 7pm. Admission is $15. BYOB. Please note, RSVP is required– call the shop and reserve your space! Snacks and light refreshments provided. Don’t miss the chance to hear some Piedmont-style guitar picking from the Master Storyteller!

The second House Concert will be Jeff and Vida from Nashville (formerly New Orleans) www.jeffandvida.com/JeffVida/Welcome.html. Jeff and Vida’s nine years of performing and songwriting, have seen them delve into many different genres of music; country, honky-tonk, rockabilly, even a little rock and roll, but bluegrass has remained a key influence in their style and sound. Concert date is November 11, 7pm. Admission is $10 at the door. RSVP required, please email us or call. BYOB. Snacks and light refreshments provided. “Jeff and Vida make music that is real and true. Their’s are the songs you long to hear late at night on the interstate, in pool halls and smoky whiskey bars.” –New York Times Magazine

Many thanks to Linda McRae and Jennie Kay Snyder for bringing their fine talents to HITH for our September House Concert! Thanks also to Full Pint Brewing for the beer samples… they were much enjoyed by the guests. We have a quick turn around with another very good show coming your way– Tommy Womack from Nashville, with Tom Panei, opening. See details below!

Reminder, these events are BYOB for adults; we’ll have sodas and water and snacks, too. We are improving the seating, but you are still welcome to bring your own comfy chair. We do have some space limitations so be considerate. Join us to have some fun with this great line-up. We hope to see you there.

Because you asked… finding beer from Full Pint Brewing! The closest they sell cases are at distributors in Evans City, with beer on tap at Fishers Bar and the Harmony Inn. The brewery is located in North Versailles on route 30. http://www.fullpintbrewing.com/

Friday, 7th October 2011
7:00 PM
Bottlebrush Gallery & Shop
539 Main Street
Harmony, Pa. 16037
(724) 452-0539
HITH@zoominternet.net

About Tommy Womack:

TOMMY WOMACK is a published author and successful singer-songwriter with songs recorded by Jimmy Buffett, Todd Snider, Jason Ringenberg, Dan Baird, Scott Kempner and others as well as several solo releases with a new full length album due out in early 2012. If that’s not enough he’s also continuing his other band collaboration with AMA instrumentalist of the year Will Kimbrough and always writing towards his next book. “Womack leavens searing EMOTIONAL HONESTY with OBSERVATIONAL WIT and WRY WISE-GUY CHARM as he moves among rock, country and blues.” ~ The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daniel Seymour will be playing bass with Tommy.

Tommy says, “My name is Tommy Glynn Womack. Skot Willis once said I was the craziest person he’d ever met who had his life together. Todd Snider says I’m the only person he’s ever met in Nashville who’s crazier than he is. So I must be crazy, I guess. I can’t tell. Crazy for most folks must just be what normal feels like for me. From 1985 through 1992 I played in a band called Government Cheese. From 1992 through 1994 I played in a band calledthe bis-quits. In 1995, my book Cheese Chronicles: The True Story of a Rock and Roll Band You’ve Never Heard Of was published.”

http://www.reverbnation.com/tommywomack
http://www.tommywomack.com

About Tom Panei:

If you’ve been anywhere in Butler you’ve seen Tom’s art… visible to the public on the welcome sign as you drive into Butler and on the side of Natili’s South. His art is for sale regionally and nationally. For the past 20+ years, Tom has been writing and playing music. He was co-founder of the regionally successful band Mind’s I, has 4 studio releases, and has traveled extensively over the Northeastern US from 1999- 2008. Since then, Tom has logged countless miles and hundreds of shows as a solo acoustic act. Playing material from Johnny Cash, to Nine Inch Nails, to his well written originals, Tom Panei is sure to please anyone that comes out to a show. His high energy performances have been enjoyed by everyone from Pennsylvania to Illinois, and as far south as Key West, Florida. Honing his skills as a musician and entertainer over the years, Tom’s performance is a show you don’t want to miss.