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Posted on December 12, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

The Urban Deli has another first

Since we’re still pretty new, we come upon a lot of firsts. Yesterday (Friday) we had yet another one. A couple of our customers, Cyril and Trena, got engaged at the Urban Deli!

It came about this way: the romantic couple have very busy schedules. In fact, they’re so busy it forced Cyril to propose to Trena over a smoked meat sandwich while lunching at the Deli. We’re honored they chose our place for their happy moment. And congratulations to the lucky couple!

Music tonight

By the way, tonight is yet another of our musical Saturday nights. It gets underway at 7:30 with Jessica Darrah. We’ll also have our guy Wes Jagoe and friends. They’ll be dropping in to see what musical confections might be in the air to be had, so there will be a little bit of everything tonight. If you’re in the Uptown area, pay us a visit. We think you’ll like some of the musical notes we’ll be hitting!

Posted on December 6, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

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A busy and fun weekend for us

We’ve had a pretty full weekend at the Urban Deli as far as keeping busy goes. On Friday, we provided 24 Operation Red Nose volunteers a hearty home made chicken soup with tea biscuits, two dips (our roasted garlic and artichoke and Hummus dips served with seasoned pita chips) and topped off with a mixed dessert tray of Deli goodies.

We spoke with Katie, the coordinator, and she tells us the volunteers made up seven teams of drivers and they chauffeured thirty-four trips, raising over $500 in donations — the largest amount raised in a single night thus far. (We’re not yet sure how last night went.) Last weekend they raised the same amount over two days.

So congratulations to everyone at Operation Red Nose and a big thank you to all the volunteers!

Music last night

Last night was another of our music nights and we welcomed Karen Palmer, an old soul and story teller with an affinity for Saint John history that comes through in her music, particularly in her own creative works such as “The West Side Song.”

Karen has a crystal clear sound, a bit reminiscent of Jewel. She brought us her own creativity, style and accomplished guitar playing to make it a warm and inviting evening. So many thanks to Karen.

And thanks as well to our Twitter followers for their tweets and retweets!

Posted on November 16, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

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What we were up to on the weekend

Once again, we had a good time on Saturday with food and music. Our man Wes reports:

It was a great gig on Saturday night with Andrew Clark and, yes, it was recorded. Andrew and I (Wes) are going to listen to some tracks today to see if a live album is in the mix.

Andrew was “spot on” as he played till 11:00pm. It was a good mix of songs, from originals to covers that ranged from Mark Knofler to John Denver. And there was story told for every song.

His guitar work was stunning and vocal and whistling was a “buttery” as ever.

Coming up next at the Urban Deli? Wes tells us it will be Bare Bones. (Details to follow, as the expression goes.)

Posted on November 13, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

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Music tomorrow night

Just a reminder that tomorrow night at 8:00 pm we’ll be welcoming Andrew Clark to the Urban Deli for another of our musical Saturday nights. He’s from across the pond (Leeds) and our music guru Wes tells us, “His vocals have been compared to Roger Whittaker meets James Taylor.” Should be interesting!

Hope you can join us!

Posted on November 9, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

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A wrap and a jam (food and music)

What a week! The Chop Chop “Feast”-ival is a wrap and it sounds like a lot of people enjoyed a lot of good food from a lot of Uptown’s diverse restaurants. Including the Urban Deli! We received some really nice compliments about our Montreal Smoked Meat pizza.

And wow! Did we ever have fun Saturday night with Terry Whalen and his performance. Our music man Wes Jagoe joined him later, as did a few others, and they were jamming for quite some time. Here’s what our man Wes had to say:

Terry Whalen’s performance Saturday night was a roller coaster mix of good old rockin’ country and grass roots blues right from the delta itself; a one man army not afraid to chance the trenches for the sake of the song.

His own songs were well delivered pieces of love and woe tapestries, all introduced by a story. Terry performed a great range of music. Yes, from AC/DC’s “It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll,” all the way to John Cougar’s “Pink Houses.” And it was all glued together with an oozing baritone tinge.

Hats off to a great performance.

Saturday coming up, we’ll have Andrew Clark and we expect we’ll have just as much fun. Hope you can join us!

Posted on November 6, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

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A music update

We’re excited about Saturday night (Nov. 7). Terry Whalen will join us for a solo performance here at the Urban Deli. He’s a roots, rock, blues kind of a guy and we love that sort of thing. If you’d like a bit of info, have a look at our Live Music page or have a look at the Terry Whalen Band site.

Coming up for the Saturday following, November 14, we’ll be welcoming Andrew Clark to the Urban Deli. Wes, our music guy, tell us Andrew hales from Leeds, England and is, “… a gifted song smith and fine guitar player.”

Posted on October 31, 2009 Posted by Urban Deli

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This and that and music, clocks, festivals

It’s a Halloween and we’ll be taking it in at the Deli with a bit of music tonight courtesy of Wes Jagoe (who is also our music guru, arranging our music nights). Wes will be playing from 8:00 pm till 10:00, (10 is a ballpark estimate). So if you get a chance, pop by. We’d love to see you.

And as a head’s up … Next Saturday (November 7), Terry Whalen will perform beginning at 8:00 pm.

With all these mentions of time, we should also toss out a reminder that tonight is the night we turn clocks back an hour as we go back to Standard Time. So as of tomorrow, mornings shouldn’t be quite as dark. Late afternoon, however, will. 🙂

Finally, there’s a nice article in the Telegraph-Journal about next week’s Chop Chop “Feast”-ival here in Saint John. It’s the one titled Saint John restos want foodies to Chop chop. It’s worth a read.

Hope to see you tonight — and have a great Halloween!

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