Singing For Supper featuring Gary Antol and Taqueria Acosta

1/1/2023 UPDATE: All seats for this event have been claimed. Thank you for your support.

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Happy almost New Year everyone!

When Deb and I bought the Barn in 2019, we planned to start doing a regular series of smaller events featuring beverages, food and music. We pulled off a few before Covid and Deb's health slowed us down. With the promise of a bright new year looming it seems like time to get going again. The subscribers to this email list are the first to know. Welcome to Singing For Supper (SFS) 2023 !

The concept is simple: Musicians we love help design a menu for the evening, and perform after the meal. The monetary contribution is just enough to fairly pay the performers and the talent preparing and serving the food. Yinz bring a bottle or some such to share, I will share too. A limit of twenty four adult-only party guests, because I want to keep the experience casual and intimate. And I have exactly 24 dining seats available. Drinks/apps at 6, dinner at 6:30, music at 7:30 or so.  

The SFS featured performer on January 28 is Gary Antol. Gary has chosen Taqueria Acosta as his culinary partner.   

I have known Gary for quite a while - since before he built his reputation as a flat picking wizard - and have always been impressed by his playing, singing and songwriting. Gary was kind enough to perform for a private SFS test run last month. I could not believe how far his public repertoire has expanded since he reemphasized performing solo. Gary played our favorites from his own music but he also performed, for example, a jazz arrangement by Joe Negri, some classical passages, and a James Taylor song. All interspersed with stories as to why the music he chose was significant to him. Just perfect stuff for a small group of friends cozied up on big soft sofas after dinner. I expect more of the same on January 28, and possibly more. I hear rumors of new music and an electric guitar ...

Chris Acosta is bringing New Mexico taco culture to Pittsburgh. Chris has been holding pop-up events throughout the city, including a popular kitchen take-over at Scratch in Troy Hill.  Chris's specialties include Red Chile Chicken, Carne Asada and San Diego Fish, a tortilla-crusted pollock topped with fresh salsa verde, homemade pickled red onion and mango coconut slaw. Chris's long-term goal is to open multiple brick-and-mortar locations, where he plans to help people in need with maintaining nutritional stability. Chris is putting together a custom menu for this event, which I will send out in a follow-up email. 

The up front contribution for January 28 is $40/person. There will be a tip bucket on premises. Please tip and/or buy merch if you are able. I will have a limited number of Corncrib Bar and Dancing Deb shirts available for purchase, and I will share the proceeds from MNOJ t-shirt sales with Gary, Chris and any helpers.

We will announce the February SFS details in a few weeks. Stay tuned!

Music improves the human condition. So do good meals, tasty beverages and friends to share with. Celebrate Life.

Tim 

Music Night On Jupiter