This weekend: 6/3 Mission of Berwyn ride AND 6/4 Japanese pub ride

Folks,

 

As part of my ongoing campaign to prove the suburbs are not a cultural wasteland I am leading TWO bike rides this weekend.

 

Friday, June 3: The Mission of Berwyn (folk) rock and roll ride

Depart from Palmer Square Park at 6:30; stop for a pint at a home brewer’s apartment in Garfield Park; dinner at the famous Depot American Diner, 5840 W. Roosevelt; head to Berwyn’s Friendly Tap, 6633 W. Roosevelt, where my folk rock band Ordinary People performs with the Last Kind Words; ride back to the city together at the end of the night or catch the nearby Blue Line.

http://www.thechainlink.org/events/mission-of-berwyn-folk-rock

 

Saturday, June 4: The Izakaya (Japanese Pub) Ride

Depart from the Arlington Heights Metra Stop at 1:30 pm for a tour of Japanese culinary landmarks in the northwest suburbs.

http://www.thechainlink.org/events/izakaya-japanese-pub-ride

 

Cheers,

 

John Greenfield

 

More about Friday’s concert:

 

Join us next Friday, June 3, as my folk-rock band Ordinary People plays our first show outside the city limits in the cozy confines of Berwyn's Friendly Tap, 6633 W. Roosevelt. No cover. The tap is a mere four blocks from the Blue Line's Oak Park stop.

The Last Kind Words, featuring Chandelier Swingers mandolinist Kip Rainey, opens the evening at 9 pm; Ordinary People performs around 10 pm.

The Last Kind Words are a guitar/mandolin duo from Chicago. Geoff Farina plays guitar and sings. Kenneth P.W. Rainey plays mandolin and sings. Visit: http://thelastkindwords.com/

Ordinary People is Sarah Saweikis, Kevin Monahan, John Greenfield, Angie Maloney, Jan Weinstein and they play Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers (to quote the old CBGB OMFUG slogan) on guitars, banjo, bass and mandolin. Think classics by Cash, the Band, CCR and Fats Domino plus original tunes about trusty trucks, Illinois poet Carl Sandburg, amorous bluegills and Civil War generals: http://tinyurl.com/OrdinaryPeopleChicago