Orchard House Cafe

Wednesday, September 29, Rescue: Book reading by Sandra Hurtes, 8PM

Wednesday, September 29, Rescue: Book reading by Sandra Hurtes, 8PM In RESCUE: A Memoir, award-winning writer Sandra Hurtes explores the Holocaust’s effect on her life through the lens of psychotherapy. Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham and Second Hand Smoke writes, "Sandra Hurtes has written a memoir of great delicacy and emotional truth, a book that delves into the complex and contradictory meaning of rescue in the lives of Holocaust survivors and their children. The parents were never rescued, and it's too late for the children to try. As this wonderful and worthy book knows quite well: Who then is left to rescue the survivors of the survivors?"   Sandra is the author of the essay collection, On My Way To Someplace Else (Poetica 2009). She is an adjunct lecturer at John Jay and Berkeley Colleges in New York City. Her recent work was featured in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and Women In Judaism. She recently completed a memoir, Halfway Home. Admission to this event is FREE.
Saturday, September 25 Sensible Shoes and Friends, 8 PM

Saturday, September 25 Sensible Shoes and Friends, 8 PM Central Vermont's Sensible Shoes Band is a popular energetic combo with a knack for packing the dance floor. Now Sensible Shoes members Tim Utt (vocals and guitars), and Barbara Blaisdell (vocals and piano) have formed the Sensible Shoes Duo, playing eclectic original music as well as a mix of American songs drawn from blues, soul, folk, country, and New Orleans R&B, from Randy Newman to Professor Longhair to Patsy Kline. Sensible Shoes and Friends' new CD, "My History," is available on cdbaby and itunes. The disc is receiving rave reviews and can be previewed on www.myspace.com/sensibleshoesband Joining the Sensible Shoes Duo will be John Hemminger, guitarist and songwriter for NYC-based bands AudioAmor and Jimbo Norman. Admission is free but donations will be gladly accepted when we “pass the hat”
Friday, September 24, GLOBAL SPIRIT: Music, Sound and the Sacred, 8 PM

Friday, September 24, GLOBAL SPIRIT: Music, Sound and the Sacred, 8 PM In this episode of GLOBAL SPIRIT, host Phil Cousineau explores the transcendent qualities of spiritual and sacred music with guests Rev. Alan Jones and Grammy-award-winning singer and member of the Native American Onondaga tribe Joanne Shenandoah. The transcendent power of music has long been recognized as a vehicle for spiritual practice and a path to spiritual fulfillment and enlightenment. Spiritual music, a universally powerful form of prayer, has for millennia provided human beings with a sense of the greater spiritual universe. Chanting forms part of many religious rituals, and diverse spiritual traditions consider music as a means of opening the individual to spiritual experience. Other films from this series http://www.linktv.org/globalspirit will be shown at Orchard House Café throughout the fall. Admission to these films is FREE!
Wednesday, September 22, “Perception: modern science and ancient knowledge.” 8:30 PM

Wednesday, September 22, "Perception: modern science and ancient knowledge." 8:30 PM A talk by Chris and Dolphi Wertenbaker
Saturday, September 18 Hillary Reynolds Band

Saturday, September 18 Hillary Reynolds Band Do you remember how you loved Joni Mitchell, Carol King, or Laura Nyro when you first heard their exquisite voices singing about the things that matter to all of us? Listening to Hillary Reynolds will transport you to the emotional place you were in when these singer songwriters amazed you. Her lyrics touch on subjects that affect us all, sometimes with a twist: a daughter taking care of a parent, a lover’s remorse. Hillary has created a following in the Boston area, where she has lived and performed for the past three years. She recently compiled a CD of songs – of hers and other artists – to raise money for women with breast cancer: “Living Out of a Suitcase” and is preparing to release her debut album, “First Love Never Dies.” Suggested donation $15 ($10 students and seniors)
Friday, September 17, GLOBAL SPIRIT: Forgiveness and Healing, 8 PM

Friday, September 17, GLOBAL SPIRIT: Forgiveness and Healing, 8 PM “He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.” - George Herbert Tonight’s film from the GLOBAL SPIRIT series explores forgiveness and healing on a personal and societal level. GLOBAL SPIRIT, hosted by author and spiritual seeker Phil Cousineau, is a unique inquiry into humankind's belief systems, wisdom traditions and states of consciousness. Because it believes that real change starts within, GLOBAL SPIRIT calls itself the first "internal travel series." Many of the videos from this series were recently shown at The Rubin Museum of Art in New York. Thomas S. Healey, author of The Two Deaths of George Wallace: The Question of Forgiveness, will host a post film discussion. Other films from this series http://www.linktv.org/globalspirit will be shown at Orchard House Café throughout the fall. Admission to these films is FREE
Wednesday, September 15, One O’ Clock Poets, 8 PM

Wednesday, September 15, One O’ Clock Poets, 8 PM Join the One O’Clock Poets and their guests for a poetry fest at Orchard House Café on September 15 at 8:00 pm. Come and be moved, amused, and calmed by what only poems can do. In recent double-blind trials, Guillermo Castro's new chapbook, Cry Me a Lorca (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010), proved to be more effective than Boniva. So hurry up and get a copy before Sally Fields cleans out the entire stock! Katie Johntz was a finalist for the DISCOVERY/The Nation Poetry Award and the Sow’s Ear Poetry Contest. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and is a child and adult psychotherapist practicing in Brooklyn, New York. Amy Lemmon is the author of two poetry collections: Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009). She is Associate Professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology and lives with her two children in Astoria, Queens. Katrinka Moore is the author of Thief (BlazeVOX, 2009) and This is Not a Story (Finishing Line Press, 2003). Joan Lauri Poole’s first book, My Bed of Crimson Joy, is due out from Carry Tiger Press by winter. She lives in Turtle Bay with the poet John Couturier and an amazing canine named Oliver. Elizabeth Poreba is a New York City high school English teacher who is currently working on a book of poems tentatively entitled The Invention of Photosynthesis. Carly Sachs is a writer, yoga teacher and bartender in New York City. She is the author of the steam sequence (WWPH 2006) and the editor of the why and later (Deep Cleveland Press, 2007). Sarah Stern is a three-time Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) poetry winner and her poems have appeared in numerous publications, most recently in the anthology Ducts.org. Her manuscript My Father’s Hat was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2010 Lester F. Wolfson Poetry Award. Pui Ying Wong and Tim Suermondt are newlyweds. Their new books of poems from The New York Quarterly Press are Yellow Plum Season and Just Beautiful. Suggested donation: $6
Saturday, August 21, Live Music with Steve Morz, 8 PM

Saturday, August 21, Live Music with Steve Morz, 8 PM Steve Morz is a British singer songwriter based in NYC. He has over thirty years experience writing, recording and performing. Apart from his own music, he's worked with such international artists as Anne Pigalle, Alona Danielle and Shalom Hanok. You can hear his music at: www.myspace.com/stevemorz  
Saturday, August 14, The NYC Blues Trio, 8 PM

Saturday, August 14, The NYC Blues Trio, 8 PM The NYC Blues Trio has a unique sound that blends from early American Rock, Rhythm and Blues, Swing, Country, and Rockabilly; playing straight from the heart. Craig Harris, drummer, harp and lead vocalist, lead guitarist and lead vocals Mark Freeze and bass guitarist and lead vocals Pete Perdomo. Their music includes original songs and some old favorites from the albums of Elmore James, Jimmy Reed, Howlin’ Wolf, Johnny Cash, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Rivers, Bill Withers, Bobby Fuller, James Brown, Ritchie Valens, Niewe Heldey, and others.
Saturday, August 7, Illusion Genius Ben Robinson, 8 PM

Saturday, August 7, Illusion Genius Ben Robinson, 8 PM Join us for this wonderful evening of fun, magic and illusion. “Ben Robinson has caught bullets in his teeth. He’s trekked to Mount Everest, encountered wild synchronicity and recorded his experience, and broken new trail with a career that largely defies categorization”.-- Kate Milliken Whether entertaining chairmen, children, members of the Mt. Everest Base Camp team or nightlife crowds in Amsterdam, Ben Robinson is a one-of-a-kind act. He has performed for Frank Sinatra and all over the world including some of the most famous hotels and black-tie events from Monte Carlo to Bangkok, Thailand and New York City. Suggested donation: $10

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