Bottlebrush Gallery & Center for the Arts

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.