Live Music Most Every Weekend
In Vashon's Most Relaxed Environment
(And, hardly ever a cover cause that's just how we do it.)
Monday - Thursday 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday - Saturday 7:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Sunday 8:00 - 6:00

Friday, March 12, 6-8 p.m.
Second Friday Wine Tasting with Ron Irvine Five Wines for $8

Vashon Winery’s Ron Irvine continues his search for the best table wines from around the world. He urges Islanders to start their Friday nights with the wine tasting experience he provides at the Café, in a friendly, intimate setting. He offers five wines for $8, and the tasting happens at the tasters own pace. Tasters can taste the wines in any order that they choose, and are given a tasting sheet with information and tasting notes about all of the wines.

Friday, March 12, 7:30 p.m.
Mucho Gusto
Progressive Jazz

Seth Alexander, Mucho Gusto organizer, says, “Mucho Gusto is good fun. A local jazz trio that plays all original material, Mucho Gusto consists of saxophone, keyboards and drums. The musical style has been crafted with care and passion. The result is progressive jazz and R&B flavor mixed with some old school hip hop. Think Jill Scott meets John Coltrane. You'll love us & we'll love you. Some seriously danceable tunes mixed with some soul searching jazz.”
And it turns out that after their first gig at Luna last October, the group got raves from the people who listened, so we’ve decided to make the group a regular feature of wine-tasting nights at the Café, which means they’ll be playing every second Friday of the month.
Come and take a listen.

Saturday, March 13, 7:30 p.m.
Jonathan Nicholson
Solo Acoustic Guitar

Jonathan Nicholson, who played at Luna last year, is a self-taught fingerstyle guitarist from Spokane who has been making quite a stir in the last few years with his blend of soothing yet intricate guitar work and his emotionally captivating songwriting.
"He manages to craft lovely tunes that reward a thoughtful and careful listener with lots of cool stuff to meditate upon, said one of his reviewers, and anothersaid, "He makes sensitive, gossamer-delicate guitar instrumentals that invoke a more introspective, self-exploratory side of the human psyche."
He’s becoming a regular at the Café, showing up two or three times a year because, he says, he really enjoys playing at Luna. He even sometimes accompanies his friend Dave Hannon.

What's Coming Up? Lots!

Thursday, March 18, 7-9 p.m.
Poetry Open Mic
presented by Devon Atkins

Friday, March 19, 7:30 p.m.Islander Jon Whalen
Music Composted from Wood and Steel
Benefit Concert

Jon Whalen, an Island import singer/song-writer, had been keeping a low profile the last 10 years since moving to Vashon, but no more.
As part of his rapidly developing coming-out as an artist, Jon will perform a benefit concert for an ill friend at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 19, at Café Luna.
He has played bass with Michelle Shocked during both of her benefits for Vashon Youth and Family Services, and he’s performed to support Vashon’s homeless as well as the Backbone Campaign.
Many may recognize him as a current member of the Holy Roller Radio Players with the Church of Great Rain.
The current Luna performance is part of an up-coming series of shows intended as fundraisers.
Jon’s friend is having to pay $1500 each month, out of pocket, over the $500 insurance premiums to cure himself of a life-threatening disease, Jon says. “I am asking my friends to swap a few bucks for one or more evenings of music beginning with the show at Cafe Luna, and I will the be able to give him the money to pay for his meds,” and he adds, “This is real grass roots health reform.”

Saturday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.Dustin Darnold
Midwest Mountain Farmfield Folk

Growing up where the prairie meets the sprawl of Chicago, Dustin Darnold spent many days waking to the sounds of his father singing the songs of Neil Young, Greg Brown, and John Prine. Naturally, these influences rubbed off on Dustin, and today much of the imagery that inspired him as a child shows up in his own songs.
Dustin moved to Seattle in the summer of 2007, and he finds comfort in the mountains and dense forests he so often daydreamt about as a child.
Music critic Derek Wright of Liner Notes Magazine describes Dustin’s work in this unusually well-written comment:
“There's a level of honesty to Dustin Darnold's acoustic presence that hints the songwriter has crafted his music with meticulous intentions. He's not just a lonesome troubadour with a set of guitar strings in one hand and heart strings in the other.
These lo-fi numbers are intentionally sparse, and every beat, each note, and all the open spaces are executed with a surgeon's precision. It's as though the 26-year-old understands that somber mustn't be melancholy, that ambiance isn't always best as mere background noise, and that true sincerity doesn't come in Hallmark card sentiments. Instead, he sounds like a student of Americana music who put years of appreciating folk forefathers into arranging his own contributions to the genre.”

Sunday, March 21, 6-8 p.m.Vashon Celtic Players and Knitters Too!

Celtic music players and knitters are invited to gather at the Cafe for a combination of jigs, reels, polkas and homespun crafting from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 21. Every third Sunday, knitters of all abilities bring their projects to the Café to knit, schmooze, and learn from each other, while the Celtic Players work their understated and very merry music.

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