We are proud to present Edie Carey in concert Thursday, 6/25 at 7:30pm. Admission is $10 at the door.
“Accidental Poet,” one of Edie Carey’s earliest songs, describes a particularly eloquent friend, but could just as easily refer to Carey herself and the circuitous and serendipitous route that led her to become one of the country’s most notable young songwriters. Somehow, all of the seemingly unrelated turns – from her intention to become a doctor, to a tiny music room in the basement of a Morningside Heights’ chapel, to a year in Italy – managed to steer her towards music.
Born in Burlington, Vermont and raised in the Boston suburbs by her English teacher father, therapist mother, and poet stepmother, Edie Carey couldn’t help but learn to love words. But her ear for music only became apparent after she “took the stage” in the back seat of her babysitter’s green Cadillac, belting out her own rendition of “Up Where We Belong.” From age nine, after beginning voice lessons, she became involved in singing groups and musicals, which she continued all the way through high school.
A typical child of the 80’s, she dressed in lace and sequins and dreamed of appearing on Ed McMahon’s “Star Search.” However, as much as she loved performing, Carey was unaware that there was any middle ground between singing at weddings and being Madonna, and never considered music a real career possibility. So, she made plans to major in English/Creative Writing with Pre-Med classes at Barnard College in New York City. However, during her freshman year, two pivotal discoveries knocked those plans right off course – the Postcrypt Coffeehouse and the Italian language.
In the Postcrypt, an intimate music venue in the basement of St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University, the seeds of possibility were sewn as Carey watched artists like Jeff Buckley, Ani Difranco, and Lisa Loeb perform unplugged to candlelit audiences. She saw how words could sometimes have even greater power when used in a song, and simultaneously came to appreciate the sonorous quality of words regardless of their meaning or the melody in which they were framed. This appreciation for their musicality grew deeper with the study of Italian, which eventually led her to spend a year abroad in Bologna, where she taught herself to play the guitar.
Elliot Ingersoll
In Italy, Carey set herself up in a corner of the main piazza and played every Bonnie Raitt, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan, and Rickie Lee Jones song she knew, throwing in a few of her own tunes, which would later land on her debut album, The Falling Places. Her experience abroad gave her a newfound confidence and encouraged her to begin performing on campus, where she started to build a student following. She made her first album in 1997, while working days at Worth Magazine and recording until the wee hours. Though the process was a daunting one, by the time she was finished, Carey wondered if she might have “accidentally” ended up exactly where she was supposed to be.
After the release of The Falling Places in 1998, she began venturing outside of New York City to play neighboring east coast cities, and gradually expanded throughout the United States, then Canada and the UK. While the debut was a very sparsely produced acoustic contemporary folk album, Call Me Home, Carey’s follow-up in 2000, was by comparison an all-out pop record, a tribute to her early musical inspirations and the playfulness of her childhood. Shortly after its release, the “accidents” continued, and Carey unexpectedly found herself achieving her childhood dream of appearing on television with Ed McMahon.
Natural Facts guitar duo
Since 2000, she has been working as a full-time performing songwriter, touring rigorously to promote all of her independently self-released records, which now include her 2002 live CD, Come Close , When I Was Made (2004), and the latest addition to her growing catalog, Another Kind of Fire. Looking back, she has to wonder if maybe this wasn’t an accident after all.
Elliot Ingersoll returns on Friday and Natural Facts will set the groove on the patio on Saturday.
There’s a whole lot going on this weekend. If you stay at home, seriously, seek professional help because you are either agoraphobic, misanthropic or both.
Saturday is the Brunch, Larchmere PorchFest and Pride. Seriously, you could spend the whole day doing things that are very cool and fun and not in your house.
We are very happy to start adding local produce into the menu. We have fresh local strawberries and spinach. Yum!
Vine and Bean is the central hub for info for Porch Fest and we’re excited to host Ryann Guitar Anderson on our porch. Ryann developed his playing style by combining several musical styles & genres. His live performances may consist of soothing folk influenced pieces that remind you of Nick Drake & Leo Kottke, romantic classical inspired interludes, & even blues & reggae improvisations.
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Come in Saturday morning for brunch and enjoy the first of the local produce then stick around for PorchFest!
PorchFest (2pm-6pm) extends all over the neighborhood and includes performances on Shaker Square in the evening. Grab some dinner and wine here and then head over for the fun.
Pride goes on all day and into the evening. Please stop by afterward for a quiet afterglow on the patio.
Sunday is Father’s Day. Bring Dad out for a great brunch on Sunday and we’ll offer him a free Dream Cream – Heather’s summer cooler that fills a chilled glass with a concoction reminiscent of a creamsicle. Feed Dad and let us clean up afterward!
Think cream-sicle. In Orange, Blueberry, and Root Beer, we are now offering our specialty soda with a dash of old world charm. When you order a V&B Dream Cream you are presented with a frosted glass, a bottle of one of our specialty sodas and carafe of heavy cream. We drizzle the cream into the soda, creating a beautiful swirl of cool, creamy sweetness.
Try a V&B Dream Cream today for only $2 – just ask for it by name, because “V&B Dream Cream” is our Wednesday Magic Word.
The Cavs are in an unfamiliar spot this season – do or die. We want to do everything we can to help them regain their mojo, so we’re asking you to come in to the cafe and pronounce your support verbally.
Say, “GO CAVS!” and we will reward you with a cookie.
Sprecher Ravin Red - one of our many fine selections
Come in today and say: Music on the Patio! and we’ll offer you one of our amazing gourmet sodas for only $1.
We also serve Sprecher Orange Dream, Sprecher Root Beer, and Old Soaker Blueberry Soda. Normally these all go for $2 but we really want you to try one today.
Let us know what you think!
You know, one of those sodas…or maybe a cold beer or one of our hand-crafted wines will taste particularly fine when enjoyed on our patio oasis! This weekend looks like it good be the beginning of the “evenings on the patio” season at Vine and Bean. Our favorite time of year!
Here it comes, Cleveland! Summer is finally here. Time to start spending warm evenings on the Vine and Bean Patio, sipping local beers or crafted wines, enjoying locavore snacks and parties and listening to local music.
Well, all that starts this weekend. We have great, local artists welcoming the summer on Friday, Saturday.
Come on in and say “Clevavore” to get your free pastry – just today. Clevavore describes anyone who loves to consume things local to Cleveland. For us that means food made from local produce (of which there is a lot) and locally produced consumable like the fine beers from Great Lakes Brewing.
Our good friend Harriet at Loganberry Books has a list of other -avore terms you should also check out.
So many people have asked about reservations for Mother’s Day that we’ve decided to extend our brunch hours until 3pm. Let us know if you would like to make a reservation, we’ll be calling out on Saturday once we know whether the weather gives us a patio for that morning or not.
We really want to see plenty of Moms on Mother’s Day. Utter these words on the premises today and get a free large coffee with any purchase…and remember to bring mom by this weekend or get her a Fruit Tart.
