~ New hand-cut silk leaf mobiles from Jan Carson.
~ Wooden chess/checker sets, cribbage & puzzle boxes.
Bring your out of town guests by to celebrate the holidays. Enjoy lunch on the porch with a peppermint mocha or an organic gingerbread ale from Bison Brews.
Craftsman House also caters and will help you make any event special. This month we are catering everything from American Stage's This Wonderful Life to holiday parties and large corporate events. We also prepare party platters. Call for details.
EVENTS:
Craftsman House 4-Year Anniversary Celebration
& the Downtown Art Association's Gallery Walk
2nd Saturday, December 12th, 5pm-8:30pm
Free
Join us for our Holiday Gallery Walk. Come by Craftsman House for some complimentary holiday cookies and hot spiced cider, while you shop for gifts. Make it a point to ride the new Central Avenue Shuttle. The shuttle can take you from Craftsman House to The Pier & to each of the Downtown Art Association galleries in between - then back to Craftsman House. Only a quarter for the shuttle!
Bring a canned food item to any DAA gallery. Food drive benefits the St. Petersburg Free Clinic.
Walking Tour: Westward Ho from the Waterfront
Saturday, December 26th at 10:00am-Noon
$5
The tour will begin at 10am in front of the Historic Detroit Hotel. Get a brief history about St. Petersburg as you travel through the country's largest public waterfront park system. See and learn about the Pier, the Vinoy Park Hotel, baseball in St Petersburg, and the Flori de Leon Apartments where Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig lived during spring training.
The tour group will hop aboard the new Central Avenue Shuttle, and ride to the Craftsman House Gallery -our wonderfully restored original model home for the Historic Kenwood Neighborhood. Tour continues into Historic Kenwood, one of the country's premiere bungalow neighborhoods. Typically one of the bungalows is open to view. The tour will return to the Craftsman House, where you can eat lunch or board the shuttle to return downtown.
Thanks to everyone who came out to our concerts in November. The Wiyos squeezed onto our small stage and delighted the packed house. Later in the month Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart put on another great show. Here's whose up next.
Tracy Grammer in Concert
Friday, December 11th at 8:00pm
$15 in advance/$20 week prior
www.tracygrammer.com
Only 6 tickets left for this show.
Beautiful vocals accompanied by her guitar & violin. Her 2005 CD "Flowers of Avalon" was the #1 most played album on folk radio across the US that year.
"Her voice is distinctive, as is her mastery over the instruments she plays" --- Joan Baez
"One of the finest pure musicians anywhere in folkdom" --- The Boston Globe
"Tracy Grammer has that elusive quality of being able to speak directly to another person's heart" --- Richard Shindell
Cliff returns with his new cd, "500 Miles" (5 out of 5 stars). One of the top performers on the solo acoustic circuit, he combines well crafted songs with rich, emotional vocals. His between song stories will keep you laughing all night. USA Today calls his sound a "soulful steam" and named his last cd the #5 album of the year.
This is the show I am most excited about! The band comes straight off the waters of Jam Cruise to perform here. They were the band voted onto the cruise by the fans. Their improvisational jams draw comparisons to Dave Matthews and Bela Fleck, with the voice of Jack Johnson. Check out their music online or maybe catch them on WMNF's jam band show, In The Groove, on Tuesday nights from 9pm-11pm. You'll be hooked.
This band is creating a buzz on the national scene. It's probably the last time they will play a local venue as small as ours, so we expect the show to sell out quickly. Edie Cary in ConcertFriday, February 19th at 7:30pm
$15 in advance/$20 week prior
www.ediecary.com
Boston's Edie Carey combines a graceful, soaring voice with powerful songwriting. This show will be her warm up for an appearance with Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt and Steve Earle on the Cayamo Cruise. The press has called her "the Shawn Colvin of her generation."
Two unadvertised concerts:
These will only be advertised to you, our newsletter readers. No radio, no print ads.
Sunday, February 14th - John Gorka (only 8 tickets left)
Sunday, March 14th - Cheryl Wheeler!
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