Joe K Walsh, Darol Anger and friends - June 22nd
We are extremely excited to welcome Darol Anger and Joe K. Walsh with Sharon Gilchrist, BB Bowness, and Alex Rubin to Tinder Hearth on June 22nd! Tickets for the show are available here
Drawing on years of inspired collaboration and celebrated recordings featuring a creative approach to string band music, fiddler Darol Anger and mandolinist Joe K. Walsh have assembled an all-star band featuring some of their favorite musicians from the bluegrass and string band worlds. With Sharon Gilchrist (formerly of the Tony Rice/Peter Rowan Quartet) on bass, BB Bowness (Mile Twelve) on banjo, and Alex Rubin (The April Verch Band) on guitar, the quintet will explore the sounds of the modern string band. From burning bluegrass to understated new acoustic, this ensemble’s adventurous spirit shines through, underlined by its decades of improvisational experience and deep interpersonal rapport.
Doors open at 5PM with pizza and drinks available for purchase. No reservations for food needed. Music starts at 7PM. Children 13 and under get in free. Music will be outside, weather permitting. If there is rain, music will take place in the barn. Seating will be provided.
One of acoustic music’s most influential fiddlers, Darol Anger has helped drive the evolution of the contemporary string band through his involvement with numerous pathbreaking ensembles such as his Republic of Strings, the Turtle Island String Quartet, the David Grisman Guintet, Montreaux, Psychograss, The Duo, Mr Sun, and Fiddlers 4 (for which he is GRAMMY-nominated).
Hailed by David Grisman as a “wonderful mandolin player,” Joe K. Walsh is known for his exceptional tone and taste. His years of collaborations with acoustic music luminaries include founding roles in the genre-expanding Mr Sun and pop-grass darlings Joy Kills Sorrow, projects with Matt Flinner, Scott Nygaard, and more. An associate professor at the Berklee College of Music, Joe has expanded the boundaries of string band music at festivals and performances around the world.
Sharon Gilchrist has had an essential hand in some of the most influential groups in the history of American acoustic music, including the Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet, Uncle Earl, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hand, and many others. Her intense musicality and grace always shines through, whether singing a ballad, thumping the bass, or performing an original piece.
New Zealand’s most famous export, BB Bowness, has a history of combining the traditional with the progressive, studying jazz performance on the bluegrass banjo at university. “J.D. Crowe co-mingles with the future,” says Tony Trischka. She is the winner of multiple IBMA awards for her band, Mile Twelve, and individual winner of the 2020 Steve Martin Banjo Prize for “outstanding accomplishment” on the banjo. Her euphoric energy and enthusiasm are not to be missed.
Freshgrass Award-winning guitarist Alex Rubin has brought his brand of flatpicking interpretations to stages all across the world, including 49 states as well as Australia, Estonia, Finland, Japan, and New Zealand. Formerly a member of The April Verch Band, Alex has interpreted a wide range of traditional string music for the guitar; his tone and technique allow for melodic expression of anything from Métis fiddle tunes through Scandinavian polskas to Applachian melodies.
Please contact us at tinderhearth@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
Menus week of June 10th — four nights of pizza!
We’ve arrived to the ephemeral stretch of the year where we offer four night of pizza, outside dining in the garden with soft serve and Deer Isle Oyster co oysters! Check out the menus below for your favorites, and reserve a spot online via the “reservations” tab. We hope to see you there!
Our bake days and morning cafe scene remains at just two days for a little longer — Wednesdays and Saturdays. We’ll be expanding that schedule soon!
Menus week of June 3rd
Unmmm…it’s June?! How did that happen?
Here are the menus for this week — we’re still working with one night of pizza (Friday) and two days for bread & pastry pickup and morning cafe (Wednesdays and Saturdays). *Next week* we’ll be rolling out four whole nights of pizza! But in the meantime, our Friday-only pizza reservations have been filling up 100%…so if you want it, get it soon. Reservations are open!
We’ll continue to have soft serve, outdoor seating, and our outdoor bar.
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And an event reminder: don’t forget about Katherine Perkins performing in the barn this Saturday, June 8th. Tickets available through the “events” page.
menus week of May 27th & the return of SOFT SERVE!
Hello everyone! Here’s a reminder of how we’re doing things these days.
The CAFE is open on Wednesday & Saturday mornings, with pastry, egg sammies, coffee and other fun drinks, as well as the bread, of course!
And PIZZA has OFFICIALLY moved outside!! We’ll be serving summer-style, with seating throughout the garden and a walk-up bar rather than table service. This week is the heralded return of SOFT SERVE ICE CREAM in our homemade waffle cones…does it get any better than that?!
Our schedule will be expanding in June: Starting June 11th we will be making pizza on Tuesday through Friday evenings. And our bakery schedule will expand to Wednesday through Saturday stating June 26th.
This week’s menus:
MENU UPDATE & menus for week of May 20th
Hello all!
Exciting things are in the works this week!
We’ve switched over to our summer menus & pizza arrangement! This means that the CAFE is open on Wednesday & Saturday mornings, with pastry, egg sammies, coffee and other fun drinks, as well as the bread, of course! Be on the lookout for this menu potentially expanding a teeny bit in the next few weeks!
And PIZZA has OFFICIALLY moved outside!! So our menu is a bit simpler than it was this winter (until next year, dear arancini!!), and we are back to our traditional order-at-the-counter style… BUT we can seat a lot more people, the bar outside is back open, and we do of course still have tables in the barn if you’d like to spend your evening there! ICE CREAM should be back on the menu next week!
Our schedule will be expanding in June: Starting June 11th we will be making pizza on Tuesday through Friday evenings. And our bakery schedule will expand to Wednesday through Saturday stating June 26th.
This week’s menus:
Culomba - June 1
Come enjoy the striking songs of Culomba, Boston-based vocal quintet.
We are so excited to announce that the incredible vocal group Culomba is bringing their new album release tour to Tinder Hearth on June 1st! Culomba specializes in close harmony singing from many different global styles, including American folk traditions, music from Georgia, Corsica, and the Balkans, renaissance polyphony, and originals. Culomba's singers have traveled internationally to study with masters of traditional music, and have performed at venues such as Club Passim (Cambridge), Jalopy (Brooklyn), Caffe Lena (Saratoga), and the inaugural Songroots Polyphony Festival (Vancouver). This performance features Sophie Michaux, Adam Simon, Lysander Jaffe, Lexi Ugelow, Sora Harris-Vincent, and Daniel Fridley.
Doors open at 5:30 PM, with toast snacks and drinks available for purchase. Music starts at 7PM. Children 13 and under get in free. Music will take place in the barn with seating.
You can hear the band at their website: http://culomba.com/
Please contact us at tinderhearth@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
Beto Jamaica Rey Vallenato Comes to Tinder Hearth, May 23rd
Come dance at Tinder Hearth to the one and only Beto Jamaica Rey Vallenato and his band — the Vallenato king from Colombia!
Alberto “Beto” Jamaica is one of the leading vallenato and cumbia players in Colombia. Since winning the prestigious Leyenda Vallenata Festival competition in 2006 he has become known as Rey Vallenato Colombia (“The Vallenato King”). His music is a vibrant mix of cumbia, paseo, porro all wrapped into his infectious accordion driven vallenato.
Doors open at 5PM, with pizza and drinks available for purchase. Music starts at 7PM. Children 13 and under get in free. We recommend getting tickets now—if we sell out online, we will not be able to have much available at the door. Please call us if you would rather not purchase tickets online.
We plan to be outside, please dress appropriately! The will take place in the barn in the case of inclement weather. Chairs are available as needed, but the space will be arranged primarily for dancing.
More about Vallenato and the band from their website:
Vallenato is one of Colombia’s most popular folk musics. Native to Colombia’s Caribbean Coast it literally translates as “born in the valley”, the valley being the one found between Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía de Perijá.
Originally the music of herders who combined the tradition of Spanish juglares or minstrels with the griot tradition of West Africa, vallenato historically served a dual purpose. As they traveled from village to village the herders would entertain themselves by singing and playing guitars or the indigenous gaita flutes.
They would also use song to deliver news and messages to the villages. In the late 1800s accordion was introduced replacing the gaita. Vallenato encompasses a variety of rhythms: paseo vallenato, merengue, puya, son and tambora. Beto Jamaica contemporised the vallenato tradition by adding electric bass, congas and timbales to the traditional lineup of accordion, guacharaca (a tube-shaped percussion instrument scraped with a metal “fork”) and caja vallenata (small goat leather drum) while never losing sight of the music’s roots.
Beto and his band has performed in several renowned festivals as Rainforest World Music Festival Malaysia, Jarasum Jazz Festival Korea, Sunfest London Canada, River to River Festival New York, Sori Festival Korea, Globalquerque USA among others.
You can listen to the band at their website here, or on Spotify or YouTube.
Please contact us at tinderhearth@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
April Break & Menus Week of April 8
Hello friends!
:::See below for menus for the week:::
I’ve been thinking about summer these last few days… can you imagine that the green lushness CAN come back?? I feel it rumbling! Let's hold it in our hearts!! The spring is long 'round these parts, but all these days of slush and layered sweaters, and long cold nights of dreaming, just might have a chance to ripen the hope of summer back into its wild riot of golden milk and blushing fruit! May it be so!!
On that note-the bakery is going to close one more time before summer to work through some projects and preparations that we just can't do while we're chugging away-and to also get a bit of downtime while the kids are out on break. SO::: We will be open this week, then will be CLOSED FOR TWO WEEKS, APRIL 14-27th. Our first day back open will be May 1st!!
Make sure you stock up on bread for your freezers now! You can preorder for the Wednesday bake online today-either for pickup here at the bakery or via FarmDrop. We'll also be delivering to our stores as usual this week on Wednesday and Saturday, including 44 north coffee which is back open now!
Huge love out to you all, to your loved ones and to your dreams. Thank you endlessly for your support and kindness-this reciprocity we've got going on is a staggering holy human joy. We are truly grateful, and may our communal blessings be honored and shared like the great pool of honey that they are. Each one of you carry some magical kinds of strength, care, and constancy that makes these extremely difficult times feel more possible. Thank you.
Best of luck with this eclipse situation folks, and we'll see a lot of you tonight for QWANQWA... it's going to be a party!!!
xoL
QWANQWA April 8th
Hello friends-
We are thrilled to welcome back QWANQWA, a supergroup of musicians from Addis Ababa, for a night of dancing in the Tinder Hearth barn!
We welcome you to come and celebrate this amazing music with us, both ancient and brand new, here at Tinder Hearth, on the day of the great solar eclipse of 2024. Could anyone have dreamed up a better way to start this season?
Doors open at 5:00PM, with pizza and drinks outside. Music will begin at 6:30PM.
From QWANQWA’s website: Beaming in from the sizzling Addis Ababa nightlife scene, this group shines an experimentalism based in the virtuosity of rooted traditions. With swirling masinko (one-stringed fiddle), wah-wah violin, bass krar grooves, the heavy riffs of goat skin kebero beats, and powerful mellismatic lead African diva vocals, QWANQWA keeps the people rapt in celebratory attention.
With great love-
TH xx
Bakery closed for two weeks
Hello bakery friends-
The team here is taking a little break for rest and projects, starting on February 18th. We’ll be back at it in early March, with bakery preorders opening on Sunday the 3rd, pizza reservations on Monday the 4th, and the cafe reopening on Wednesday the 6th.
Sending deep winter love to you all—
L&T
Bakery Break & Menus of February 12th
Hey folks-
The bakery is taking a two week bread starting on February 18th for some rest and project time. We will reopen on March 6th.
This week, bread and pastry can be reserved online here for both the Wednesday and Saturday bakes if you would like to get some extras for your freezer. The sales website has the ordering schedule listed, if you’re not familiar.
Reservations for Valentine’s Day pizza are pretty well booked as of 2/12, but takeout pizzas will be available for that night— call us on Wednesday to reserve yours. Friday night pizza reservations are currently open online here.
Much love to all-
Lydia & Tim
