The Village Downtown

TONIGHT:  Meet The Artist from 6-8pm

Frieda Isbell will be at the cafe this evening to speak to her regarding her work or to just say Hi.

Come support this month’s local artist!

Starting at 7pm, Joey McGee will be entertaining us with his musical stylings and selling his brand new CD,‘Love Is The Way’

(Look how happy he is, you gotta come see him)  And buy his cd at the above link.

Saturday afternoons at The Village are delightful.

Start with a trip to the Farmer’s Market on the corner of WJ Bryan and Texas, and then come by the cafe to have fresh “What’s The Buzz” coffee.

Listen to the musical stylings of Puente from 11-2 and enjoy a delicious lunch prepared by the lovely Village people

Tomorrow afternoon 3pm-5pm we are hosting

Coffee Talk: Forget the milk; just spill the beans

Coffee Talk is an effort to bring science back to the public.

Once a month 2 or more expert panelists (typically a professor at TAMU) will present/moderate a socially relevant scientific topic.

These experts in their field speak for about 5-10 minutes,

followed by open discussion andanswer questions from the audience.

Grab a beverage or some food and ask your own questions next session.

Their aim is to meet every 3rd Saturday at the Village Cafe.

This month’s topic is Gender: sex differences, sexism, feminism.

The expert Panelists from TAMU/TAMHSC are:
Dr Sohrabji (Neuroscience)
Dr Kristan Poirot (Women’s & Gender Studies )
Dr Gul Russell (Humanities in Medicine/History) .
Shelly Blair, M.A. Ph.D. Candidate (Communication),

publisher of fairandfeminist.com
Dr Neha Vora (Anthropology)

Tomorrow night we will have our first Salsa since school started back.  It is gonna be hoppin’  Salsa starts at 10pm and goes until 2am.  No partner necessary, mini lessons get everyone on the floor!

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Sunday Mimosa Brunch is ALL DAY Sunday 8pm-6pm

Bottomless Mimosas for $12 or fresh squeezed for $4.50.  Get crazy and try a green apple one!

Magic Girl will be playing at 2pm THIS SUNDAY

(She is visiting us from LA)

So, is that Fun and Busy or what???

COME PLAY!

Don’t forget about the Woven Harmony Artist in Residence coming into Downtown this upcoming week.  Click here for all the details about the great events you can attend for FREE!

Starting with a jam session at

The Village Monday night

11 New Year’s Resolutions for fully experiencing The Village

1.  Attend a Sunday Mimosa brunch.

(The Bottomless Mimosa is a must try)

2.  Try a daily special that you’ve never tried      before.

(Maybe the Angry Aubergine…)

3.  Get an espresso drink made with locally brewed ‘What’s the Buzz’ coffee.

(Try the Downtown Mocha!)

4.  Borrow a book from the Community Library

(And bring one in exchange)

5.  Try a glass of wine with a chocolate brownie

(Specifically our house cabernet)

6.  Enjoy local talent at Singer/Songwriter night     each Thursday at 9pm.

(Great original music)

7.   Attend at least one salsa lesson.

(Twice a week, Wed and Sat.)

8.  Try a new Texas beer, maybe Shiner 101, that’s my favorite.

9.  Get a hummus plate for your table, sharing is caring…

10.  Make sure you stop by each month o experience each and every artist in 2011.

11.  Bring someone to The Village who has never visited before…or at least forward on this email

Thank you for 2010!

Kristy Petty

We have some great things happening at The Village this Fall.

Remember every Thursday is Singer/Songwriter night from 9-12.  Come out and enjoy hearing some of our very own talented staff show you their musical talents as well as many other songwriters around the Brazos Valley.

This Friday morning at 7am we will kickoff Village Yoga, taught by our very own Kellie Wilcox-Moore.  Village Yoga will be a vinasaflow class for all levels.

The class will be donation based, so free, but students are encouraged to make a donation of any size.

All of the donationswill be given to a different local charity each month.
The class will start at 7am and run about an hour. We will try it for the next four weeks and we’ll see how it goes from there.

Be sure to bring your own mat.
You should come to the class and spread the word

Friday Evening we will be hosting a brand new band to the Downtown Bryan scene.  Come out and be the first to see Raspa, they are a Reggae Jam Band made up of wonderful local people.  Joining them will be our very own DJ Vegenaut to keep up inspired as the night goes on.  Come out and support NEW LIVE MUSIC!

Saturday afternoon we will have live music over lunch time as well as our all day Brunch every has grown to love.
Come get a farm fresh burrito.  We open at 8am everyday

Saturday evening you should join us for an evening of great music w/ R.G. Watkins & Friends.  A mixture of Folk, Rock, Groove sound with a touch of Jazz.
From 6:30-9:30 ish

Featuring: Joey Mc Gee-Guitar/vocals, Richard Kent-Horns, and Randy (R.G.) Watkins-Percussion

Make sure and make it down for Mimosa Brunch this Sunday from 8am – 6pm.

Come out this Friday and enjoy the talent and silliness inspired by hours of showtunes played by the incomparable Mr. Mark Bendiksen.  This event will be encouraged by Miss Molly Gasbarrini, as she leads singalongs and allows for solos (if you are so inclined).  We will have the pizza kitchen open, so definitely save room for that if you
haven’t tried it yet! Bring your own sheet music if you’d like!

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