First and foremost:
Starting this week, the Montpelier Skinny Pancake will be hosting a weekly music series on Sunday evenings.
This series will be anchored by an old-timey session every week featuring Katie Trautz, Kathleen Moore & Tom Mackenzie from 4 – 6 pm. Everyone is welcomed to listen, intermediates on up are invited to join in! As soon as the weather will allow, we’ll move the music outside to our patio & a second rotating gig will be scheduled from 6 – 8 pm!
Along with this weekly music session, the Montpelier mini-Skinny’s hours will be expanding to 8 pm on Sunday nights!
Presented by Main Street Landing…
Burlington Green Drinks is next Tuesday!
As always, Green Drinks is on the last Tuesday of the month (03.29.11) from 6 – 8 pm in the Main St Landing’s Lake Lobby. As always, the first 125 pints of delicious Wolaver’s Organic Ales are bought by our wonderful sponsors.
This month’s sponsor is 1% for the Planet (www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/en/).
Below is a bit about them…but first, here are THREE great reasons to come to Green Drinks this month (other than the beer & the people):
- Pirogi Union will be hockin’ their delicious wares. Learn more about Burlington’s only pirogi-genius here.
- Jenn O’Connor of Sustainable Wellness Massage will be giving FREE MASSAGES during Green Drinks. Learn more about Jenn’s business here.
- 1% for the Planet will be showing a 15 minute film at the end of Green Drinks: “a beautiful documentary follows 4 businesses — a bike shop, a musician, a brewery, and an organic blueberry farmer — that share a unique commitment to the planet. Each year, they send 1% of their sales to the environmental charities they love.”
A bit about our sponsor: “1% for the Planet is a growing global movement of 1419 companies that donate 1% of their sales to a network of 2423 environmental organizations worldwide.” Their mission: “1% for the Planet exists to build and support an alliance of businesses financially committed to creating a healthy planet.”
And here’s what they say in the about us section of their website: ”To be perfectly honest, it’s not about us. It’s about businesses recognizing that industry and ecology are inherently connected. It’s about realizing the positive effects of connecting businesses, consumers and nonprofits through philanthropy. And it’s about understanding that the true cost of doing business can be mitigated by a simple pledge to the planet. Since 2002, 1% for the Planet has inspired members of the business community to contribute 1% of sales to environmental groups around the world. In return, this growing alliance of companies is given the opportunity not only to see their self-worth rise, but their net worth climb as well.”
A deep and sincere thanks to our sustaining sponsors:
BTV YPG Burlington Young Professionals is celebrating it’s 1st Anniversary on April 6th at 156 Bistro: It’s been one year of our existence…come celebrate BTV YPG Year 1 at 156 Bistro on April 6! Music, food, beverages, mysterious guest speaker, and 100 young professionals kicking it semi-formal style. Tickets are $20 and includes all the food you can eat and a drink. $5 ypg specials after. Help us reach our goal of 100 pounds of food items for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf! More info here.
Green Drinks Burlington loves Seven Days (www.7dvt.com). Seven Days brings you the Daily 7 – Vermont’s top stories, delivered to your inbox. Get the day’s most compelling stories across all media – print, radio, TV and web. Sign up today: http://www.7dvt.com/daily7
Wolaver’s Organic Ales (www.ottercreekbrewing.com/wolavers.html) helps keep Green Drinks going in a big way. For the uninformed, Wolaver’s is: “One of the nation’s original certified organic breweries, Wolaver’s is committed to producing the best beer in the most ecologically sound way.”
Front Porch Forum goes out to 15,000 ppl in the area daily including more than 40% of Burlington! If you’re not already getting it, sign up today! Learn more about our community’s groundbreaking, remarkable & innovative resource Front Porch Forum at frontporchforum.com/about/.
Message of the month from The Main Street Landing Company:
“Although it looks to most of us as if our World is falling apart: Japan, nuclear meltdowns, earthquakes, tsunami’s, poverty, climate change, slow economic growth, high unemployment, increased gasoline prices, wars, corporate greed, ….and the list goes on and on and on – That said, Vermont is in a really great place: We have land, mountains, clean air, fresh water, local food, terrific non-profits, good schools and colleges, great hospitals, companies with social responsibility in their mission, a strong arts community, and a thriving business climate. We don’t have political division between our parties, and our folks know how to work together for the betterment of Vermont. Vermont is in a good place, folks, and that’s because of all of us doing our best to help make people, planet, and profit prosper. Keep up the good work and never stop fighting for what’s right – your voice is your power.” -Melinda Moulton, CEO
Food Specials this Week:
Miso Brazen (Montpelier): Red Miso Braised Greenfield Highland Beef Brisket with roasted Shitake mushrooms and pickled shallots wrapped in a scallion crepe. Served with a side of organic greens. $11.95
The Purple Yak (Burlington): Champlain Valley Apple and Spiced VT Yak Co Sausage, Purple Turnip Gratin with Cabot Cheddar, Organic Sautéed Cabbage, and Winding Brook Farm Bacon Lardon wrapped in a Savory Crepe then garnished with scallions and Mushroom Ketchup. $11.95
Two extra special food notes:
This is the last week for our winter long $25 prix fixe dinner for two (two soups or salads, two entree crepes, one dessert crepe). If you’ve enjoyed it and want to get your ‘fixe’, come on down Sunday – Wednesday in Burlington & Sunday – Thursday in Montpelier. Available starting at 5 pm.
On Wednesday, April 6th, the Burlington SP will be hosting a Wine Dinner featuring California’s Russian River Valley Winery, Hook & Ladder. Wine maker & owner Michael Deloach will be there. He will be talking throughout the wine dinner to guests about both the complimenting flavors, the wines and his product. Mark your calendars now…menu to follow next week!
A brief update on the Skinny Pancake Gardening Grant:
It’s growing! We have had TEN submissions, all of which will be posted on our website by April 1st. At that time, we invite & encourage you to vote for your favorite project. The project with the most votes at the end of the month will win the $500 grant!!!
Crop Mob at Adam’s Berry Farm
What’s a crop mob? It’s a work party on a farm helping out on a big project while enjoying each other’s company and getting to hang out with a really cool farmer! Adam, who grows us great blueberries, strawberries and raspberries, needs many hands helping to pull big sheets of plastic over top of his two strawberry hoop houses. We’ll have free warm drinks and muffins to keep our spirits high. This Saturday, March 26, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Rain date Sunday, March 27.) To sign up, email Meg at mklepack@citymarket.coop.
Music this week at the SP:
Thursday, 03.24.11
Phineas Gage (Folk/Americana)
***$5 suggested donation
www.myspace.com/gagephineasgage
Cheekily described as “music for happy brains,” Phineas Gage is an Americana folk band who borrows its name from Phineas P. Gage, a courageous Vermont railroad worker who amazingly survived a large iron rod driven straight through his head. A mystery to the world of medicine and a celebrity to his state in the mid-19th century, the music of tonight’s modern local band titled in his honor is one who has commandeered its sounds from the woods and front porches of men playing upbeat ditties at a county fair in 1848. With a few guitars and a mandolin, expect to hear upbeat back-country classics that sound like the harmonies of workin’ men and pretty ladies. Indeed, the ghost of Phineas Gage sure is going to make your noggin do a dance. Get a listen of the stuff we’re howlin’ about right over here.
Friday, 03.25.11
Bohemian Blues Quartet (gypsy jazz)
***$5 suggested donation
www.facebook.com/pages/Bohemian-Blues-Quartet/107789129270284
Armed with an arsenal of songs the Bohemian Blues Quartet spreads the music of Django Reinhardt, Oscar Marcelo Alemàn, and others. What once started as a simple love of gypsy jazz has grown to a full out celebration of the style of music. Be sure to bring your dancing shoes and a friend when you come see The Bohemian Blues Quartet.
BBQ is comprised of violinist Asa Sourdiffe, guitarist Greg Evans, bassist Corey Beard, and guitarist Matt Harpster.
Saturday, 03.26.11
Aaron Flynn (Rock ‘n Roll)
***$5 suggested donation
www.aaronflinn.com
When you hear someone who is meant to make music perform, the impact is certain and powerful. This is the experience that comes with listening to Aaron Flinn (solo or with his band Salad Days). The music is meant to be and anyone who takes the time to hear it will be stronger for it.
Aaron Flinn plays anything he can get his hands on and writes, engineers, records and performs most of the material that you’ll hear. Aaron also loves hitting the studio or stage with a long list of incredibly talented characters: poets, prophets, beats, bastards, wizards, fairies, family and friends.
Elements of folk, indie rock and classic pop combine with powerful vocals, poetic lyrics and finger-picking guitar. An eclectic group of rock and folk rock songs, with an emphasis on lyrical substance and performance from the soul. Aaron began playing and writing in high school. He won numerous competitions in performance and writing throughout his time at UVM and Berklee College of Music (where he graduated Magna Cum Laude – for what it’s worth). He has gone onto release an impressive body of original work, all the while touring such hallowed venues as Red Rocks Amphitheater, The Great American Music Hall and many House of Blues and working with the likes of The Samples, Gov’t Mule, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Don McLean and Tragically Hip to name but a few.
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delicious Garlic Mustard Greens. Meet at the small parking lot on the right after the dirt road begins, by the entrance to the Rena Caulkins trail. Sign up at the Customer Service desk. Free.
e Skinny Pancake and other participating venues) for a list of exhibits, free artist receptions, and events. The Skinny Pancake hosts artist Christa Manns exhibit “She Falls to Pieces”, a mixed media display of collage, black and white photography and oil paintings.
will join forces with Grow Team ONE and Shelburne Orchards to plant two apple trees at the Riverside Community Garden. We will be planting a Cortland and a McIntosh, both about three years old.
Really folks, click on the above link & listen…sweet harmonies…!
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We are deeply grateful to our host sponsor, the Main Street Landing Company, for donating this wonderful space to us each month. MSL has spaces available for daily or long term rentals, you can learn more by visiting them at 
