This Friday (TOMORROW) from 8- midnight we are having Girls Night @ The Village!

Come out and enjoy some wonderful women filling up the Village with their beautiful voices.

We have two Austin S/S’s, Aimee Bobruk and Jenifer Jackson coming in to check out Downtown Bryan
followed by our very own Sarah Wise.

Starts at 8pm complete with the pizza kitchen opened until 9pm and $3.00 Sangrias!

No Cover. This is a show you won’t want to miss.

…MORE INFO ON THE ARTISTS:

www.myspace.com/aimeebobruk

www.myspace.com/jeniferjackson

Special plans for a fourth of July Locavore BBQ at the cafe coming soon. Keep your eyes peeled

Jenna Harbert, sophmore at Texas A&M will be our featured artist for the month of May.  Here is her artist statement:

My paint work is in acrylic, oil, collage, pastel, or marker. I love using my hands, creating a direct, cathartic experience.
Each work heavily reflects whatever music I am listening to. I’m inspired by the beauty and fundamentals of nature.
In my photographs, I focus primarily on motion, physics of nature, light, and color contrast. My vision is abstract, and impulsive, that invloves taking several hundred pictures each shoot.
My work is entirely intuitive stroke or thought, creating a visually aesthetic experience.

*If you’re interested in commissioning a painting or have other ideas
please contact me via email JennaHarbert@neo.tamu.edu, or HarbertJenna@gmail.com

Opening Music by Chris Puente from 6-8pm
Kathy Ross in the alley outside from 8-11pm

Sat is a huge day in local food growth in the Brazos Valley.
The Brazos Valley Farmers’ Market, in partnership with The Village and Go Texan, will show consumers how to transform fresh local veggies from the market into delicious meals, as part of the Market to Menu event Saturday.
The event ─ free and open to the public ─ will be held 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the farmers’ market on the corner of William J. Bryan Parkway and Texas Avenue and at The Village Cafe, 210 W. 26th Street in Downtown Bryan.
Rachel Fogle of The Village will kick off a Breakfast with the Farmers from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the market, offering cooking demonstrations and free omelette samples.
Fogle, who has worked in area kitchens for 10 years, will also serve a Locavore Lunch 1 p.m. at The Village Cafe, made from her finds at the farmers’ market. The lunch, available for a flat rate at the cafe, will be open to the general public.
Special guests Pam Walker, Brad Stufflebeam and Patrick Lillard will appear for a book signing at 10 a.m. to noon at the farmers market and at the 1 p.m. Locavore Lunch.
Walker will sign copies of her book, Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas: Profiles of Organic Farmers and Ranchers across the State (Texas A&M University Press, 2009) at both venues.

Saturday evening will feature a couple of Austin Singer/Songwriters David Ramirez and Brian Douglas Phillips from 8pm-Midnight.  Make sure you come out and enjoy this special concert.

Saturday evening is our weekly salsa night from 10:00pm-2am.  Free lessons at 10!  $5 cover starting at 11pm.

Sunday we have a special Mother’s Day Menu starting at 8am.

Brunch

Baked French Toast
classic cinnamon French toast casserole with
candied pecans and pure maple syrup

Southwest Eggs Benedict
with a poached egg, cheddar cheese, chipotle
hollandaise on a crispy corn tortilla
Special Sides

Fresh Fruit and Mint Salad
with fresh strawberries, cantaloupe, pineapple, oranges,
grapes, blueberries tossed in a Grand Marnier mint syrup

Green Chile Roasted Potatoes

Lunch

Salad Trio
your choice of chicken salad, tuna salad, three-bean
salad, pasta salad, potato salad, and fruit salad on a bed of lettuce

Downtown Turkey Burger
with Applewood smoked bacon, Swiss cheese, lettuce,
tomato, red onion, chipotle mayo on a homemade wheat bun

Roasted Portabella Burger
With provolone cheese, arugula, tomato, avocado,
and Dijon mustard on a homemade wheat bun

Special Drinks:  Champagne Lemonade & Poinsettia

Special Desserts:  Key Lime Pie & Pecan Pie

We are gonna have a great weekend.  Make sure you come out and spend some of it with us   Please forward this onto your friends.

THURSDAY

We have our Singer/Songwriter Night from 8pm to midnight.
It makes for a great chill evening.

FIRST FRIDAY

Live music by Cody Hamilton playing from 6 to 8 pm

Lonesome Heroes from 8 to 11 outside in the alley.

Our art this month is a compilation of local photographers that were the winners of our first photography competition.

SATURDAY

We have lunchtime Americana music featuring Kent South at noon
and brunch served all day.

Sammy Perez, a local singer songwriter will be singing at 7pm Saturday night from 7 to 9 Weekly Salsa dancing will kick off at 10pm with a $5 cover starting at 11pm.

SUNDAY

It’s our ALL DAY mimosa brunch.
It starts at 8am, you won’t want to miss it.

We would love for you to submit some images to kristy@art979.com by March 8th.  We are going to select at least 15 local photographers to showcase their work.  If selected, you will be required to exhibit a piece, framed black in the 11X17 to 16X20 size range.  Your piece will be tagged with your name and web contact info for advertising.   Your piece will be for sale and if it sales mid month, you will be allowed to rehang another piece.  The Village will take a 30% commision on the sale.  Please pass this info along to any photographers you might think would be interested in this exhibit.

Tonight is our singer/songwriter night from 8-midnight! If you have not come out to enjoy it yet, you should today. Feel free to bring your instrument of choice and join in on the fun!

Our First Friday artist of the month is in fact a collection of the artists from the past year. We are having a silent auction to give you a chance to bid on the works to show our appreciation of what they do for the culture of Downtown Bryan. They generously give of themselves throughout the year to different fundraisers, so I thought we should give them a fundraiser of their own. Come out, bid early and bid often.

The music for Friday is Puente from 6-8pm and Kathy Ross from 8-11pm.

…Puente’s a “roots” band… not “roots rock”, just ROOTS… they do REAL ROOTS MUSIC… I’m talking AMERICA, here, folks…”The Grapes of Wrath”, or a blues bar in the backwaters of the French Quarter in New Orleans pre-Katrina… or in a hobo camp in the Thirties, or at one of the dances my granny took me to as a young child, or in the Cotton Club in Harlem in NYC in the fifties…could’ve been the 1890s, the 1930s, the Fifties, or last night…I LOVE PUENTE…
~ Mick Darwin

Kathy Ross has been singing professionally since the age of 6. Kathy appeared on Star Search and quickly gained a fan base that reached out to millions and through that she has had appearances on VH1 “Before They Were Rock Stars.” Kathy has opened up for Merle Haggard, Kelly Willis and Little Texas. She is also known for her rendition of the National Anthem and that has led her to sing for the Spurs, Rockets, Cowboys, Oilers and Rangers.

Saturday and Sunday we will be having our all day brunch complete with mimosas and live music. Music will happen from 11am-2pm on Saturday and 2pm-5pm on Sunday. Come out and enjoy!

Saturday night is our salsa night with free lessons from 10pm-2am! $5.00 cover at 11.

Come one come all and invite your friends

We hope you guys had a wonderful holiday season!  The Village had a wonderful break and we worked on a bunch of new ideas during the holidays.
 
We are open again with some pretty EXCITING changes.

We are now open every night except Mondays AND we open at 8am EVERY DAY, including weekends.

We now have an extended brunch menu and are serving brunch all day Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday afternoons we have live folk americana music from 11-2
Sunday afternoons we have brunch and drink specials all day with live music from 2-5
Come out for mimosas and beer specials all weekend long.

Beer and wine are now available anytime we are open.

Wednesdays, starting on January 13th we will be having literature night. Complete with book clubs, reading circle and poetry readings. Be sure to come and “Get Lit at the Village”.  We have our own book club that you can join or just bring your book club to us!

Thursdays are still Singer/Songwriter nights with Chris and Brandon. It runs from 8-midnight.
Come weekly to listen to great original music!  “Story songs and Singalongs” will prove to be a fun evening.

This Friday is First Friday and we wil be having live music by Francisco Farias and Elizabeth Russell from 7-9:30pm. The art is representing a large group of artists that displayed over the last year.  We are pricing the art as a silent auction so you can bid on the works and all the proceeds go to the artists themselves for being brave enough to share their wonderful talents with the world.
Brave the cold weather and warm up with our coffee, wine and beer. Dinner will be served all night!

We are continuing with Salsa Saturdays from 11pm-2am.  There is no cover until 11pm.  $5.00 after that.   We will also be adding chill live music on Saturdays before Salsa.

We really hope you can make it out to our new events and that you will spread the word about all the great things happening at The Village.

Come by and see our nice new exterior sign, made by our very own Chris Clonts!

I know its alot of info to take in, but thanks for supporting us and helping us grow and transform into your community cafe.  Bring us your ideas, comments and criticisms.  We appreciate your feedback.
 
Please spread the word by passing on this email to a friend.  Hope to see you tonight at the Village!

The Village Cafe will be closed from Dec 23rd-January 2nd for the holiday season.  We will be doing a little freshening up to the place and making some fun changes for the new year.  Make sure you come out for “First Friday” on January 8th!

Join us this week for First Friday, the monthly celebration of Downtown Bryan!  The cafe will be serving fresh, local, gourmet sandwiches and treats until 10pm and the bar will stay open till 2am serving Texas beer and wine.  So come out in your warmest sweater and enjoy good food, beer, wine, art, music and friends!

Artist: Cielle “Sky” Chevalier was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia on a cold and rainy night, December 5th, 1985. Attending the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia earned her a Bachelor’s of Fine Art in Painting. Specializing in watercolor, oil, and mixed media, her work is a juxtaposition of figurative and abstract expressionism with floral impressions. She maintains a wide range of artistic abilities from ceramics to “live art” to tattooing. Her influences include the works of Frida Kahlo, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Odilon Redon, and Jenny Saville. She owes everything she is to her family and friends. “The profit of art is not solely monetary, you can never starve as long as you paint from the soul.” -Sky Chevalier.  www.facebook.com/skychevalier

Music: The Brazos Valley Troupe will play from 6-7 pm. The Big Apple Trio consists of Brian Lippman, Karl Rehn and Wayne Smith.  When asked to describe their sound, they replied “it’s just good straight up jazz!”  They will play from 7-10 pm outside in the alley if the weather cooperates!  The Rob Dues Band (www.robduesband.com) will play from 1030- 130 am.

 
We will also be hosting a fundraiser for Voices For Children (a non-profit organization that works with CASA and foster children) where with a five dollar donation you can paint your own Christmas tree ornament to take home or hang on The Village Tree!

Come read what the great people at AboutTown said about The Village.