Fri. June 3: Brian Patneaude (saxophone) duo with pianist David Caldwell-Mason Performing a mixture of familiar jazz standards and original music. Music 6:30 – 9:30 Cafe 5-10PM $5 Cover.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Friday May 27: Readings from Elizabeth McCracken
Readings from Elizabeth McCracken
Poignant and Humorous, always intriguing
Presented By Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Friends, we are trying something new with these readings. We love the way conversations at Carmen’s can flow around the room, and hope these stories stimulate discussion. Open 5-10, with readings at 6:30 & 8. To allow for Troy Night Out. See the art uptown, then come down to the South Troy Arts Community to visit Mary Wheeler’s ART and Carmen’s Café.
No Cover
Friends Of Prospect Park Garden Tour—Thursday 5/26:
Thursday 5/26:
Friends Of Prospect Park
12th ANNUAL HIDDEN GARDEN TOUR – 4:00-7:00pm
Self-guided tour of some of the city’s surprising and beautiful gardens, held rain or shine. Upon check-in you will receive a map of the neighborhoods and participating garden locations.
Visit Carmen’s Café for tapas & sangria samples
(and we’re the designated restroom)
Check in for the tour @ Sage parking lot @ corner of First & Division, $10
Support Prospect Park!
Friday 5/27:
Readings from Elizabeth McCracken
Poignant and Humorous, always intriguing
Presented By
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Friends, we are trying something new with these readings. We love the way conversations at Carmen’s can flow around the room, and hope these stories stimulate discussion. Open 5-10, with readings at 6:30 & 8.
No Cover
Also new this week are these
Tapas Specials—
Shrimp in Coconut Cream
with sauteéd green beans
Pepper Steak in Sherry Cream Sauce
with plantains
Pollo al Jerez
Chicken stewed in a Sherry sauce
with artichoke hearts, red peppers & capers
Escabeche de Tilapia
Marinated Tilapia
with red pepper, onion and diced potatoes
Tomato and Heart of Palm Salad
with dijon mustard vinaigrette
Return of the Buffet Breakfast Sunday May 15
Due to popular demand, Carmen’s will have another Buffet Breakfast on Sunday May 15.
Help yourself to:
Scrambled Eggs
Scrambled Eggs with Chorizo
Flamenco Stew
Bacon
Homefries
Toast
Blueberry Multigrain Pancakes
w/ pure maple syrup
Fruit Plate
w/ homemade yoghurt dip
Cheese Platter
NEW! Macrobiotic Breakfast Porridge
both macrobiotic and vegan:
Rice and Buckwheat stewed with mixed vegetables, topped with tahini and tamari
Rice & Beans
Fried Plantains
Coffee, Tea, Juice
Adults… $12, Children under 12…… $7— and don’t forget to tip the waitress!
Fri. May 13: Glenn Weiser Live @ Carmen’s Cafe
Fri. May 13: Glenn Weiser. Blues and bluegrass, music from the 40s & 50s by one of our best local musicians. Full Tapas menu, along with wine, beer and the best sangria you’ll ever taste. Open 5-9+. music from 6-9. $5 Cover.
From http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/bio.htm
Onstage with guitar, baritone vocals, rack-mounted harmonica and occasionally banjo, Weiser shamelessly and wonderfully mixes genres and eras – Blues & Celtic tunes, Country Blues of the 20′s and 30′s – then throws in a Scott Joplin rag, Tin Pan Alley show tune, or a blues or folk classic made famous by the Grateful Dead. It’s the lilt of a Celtic air followed by the wail of a blues tune; and woven throughout are bits of not-so-trivia that spice his shows, taking you back to the music of blues legend Blind Lemon Jefferson, further back to Turlough O’Carolan (Ireland’s legendary blind harper of the 18th Century); touching on a little-known story starring none other than Johann Sebastian Bach, then shining a spotlight on the very colorful Lightnin’ Hopkins.
Sonny & Perley @ Carmen’s Cafe
New Art Installation
Changing Art Exhibits at Carmen’s Cafe
¡Let The Good Times Roll!
¡¡This Friday, May 6, Sonny & Perley Return!!
Our favorites, Perley for her golden voice and Sonny for his great keyboards
Sonny & Perley. The exciting duo of Sonny Daye and Perley Rousseau achieves a rare musical symbiosis. The husband and wife team have spent the last several years developing and perfecting their unique blend of Jazz, Bossa Nova, American Songbook Standards, and International Cabaret which has become their musical signature. They engagingly perform the timeless standards of the Great American Songbook such as Berlin, Gershwin and Porter as well as the irresistible Bossa Nova melodies of Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Full Tapas menu, along with wine, beer and the best sangria you’ll ever taste. Open 5-9+. music from 6-9. $5 Cover.
Next Week, May 13:
Glenn Weiser sings the Blues (& Bluegrass)
You loved him at the Victorian Stroll
so we brought him back again
Carmen’s Café
Carmen & Jim
Fine Cuban American Cuisine
(518) 326-2064
carmenscafe@nycap.rr.com
Tapas on Fridays 5-9,
Breakfast & Lunch Sat & Sun 9-4
198 First Street (Corner of Adams)
Troy NY 12180
