Our famous Japanese Salad Dressing Now you can order this popular feature of the Cafe, and have it shipped right to your home! Click here for more information and to order The Rosendale Cafe offers some of the best vegetarian food and performing artists in the Hudson Valley, serving weekly entrees, assorted salads, exciting homemade desserts, organic coffees, three tap micro brews, and wine. Weekend concerts feature both local and international musicians: singer-songwriters, jazz, blues, world, and experimental; and every other Tuesday we host Singer-Songwriter Tuesdays, a showcase of local musicians. Enjoy delicious, whole vegetarian cooking and hear great music in an intimate, smoke free restaurant environment. Recognized by Chronogram Magazine as Best Vegetarian Restaurant and Best Performance Space, we also received a four star rating for food and value in the Poughkeepsie Journal. After a concert by The Hunger Mountain Boys, enthusiastic audience member Ammuse wrote "... The Rosendale Cafe holds a special place in my heart, being among one of my favorite intimate music venues in not only my surrounding area, but in NY State itself."  Click here to see the full review, including some great photos.

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Tomorrow's Event at the Cafe: Claire Lynch Friday, July 3 at 8:00pm  Cost: $15.00

Lynch is the perfect mix of that famed trio Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, and Dolly Parton. She's got the interpretive skills of Ronstadt, the clear and pure voice of Harris, and the bluegrass soul of Parton. Lynch has received Grammy nominations for best bluegrass album, and a female vocalist of the year award from the International Bluegrass Music Association in 1997, but she deserves all the accolades we can toss her way. Her latest album, "Crowd Favorites," is a compilation of the cream of her recently recorded output, along with re-recordings of a few songs she did in her days with the Front Porch String Band. "If you love bluegrass, your deity is Claire Lynch." --Cafe Guide

... and then... Louisiana Red Friday, July 10 at 8:00pm  Cost: $15.00

Louisiana Red has lived the Blues... and Louisiana Red not only plays the Blues, he lives it through his guitar and his singing. Strongly influenced by Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins and Arthur Crudup, he has long ago found his own voice, his own style, his own form of expression. When Red performs, the songs are often only launching pad for expressing his immediate feelings in the almost lost tradition of spontaneous composition that goes back to the original Delta Blues artists, and even further to the West-African griot bards. In a career spanning over half a century, Louisiana Red has played with just about every major bluesman you can name, some of the most memorable encounters being his jams with B.B. King and Muddy Waters. But it doesn't matter who he plays with or where he appears; Louisiana Red brings the same intensity and enthusiasm to every stage he appears on, whether in front of 10,000 people at a festival or 100 people in an intimate club. "A giant of the blues shows up to play a little club in the Catskills." --Cafe Guide

... and then... James Reams and the Barnstormers Saturday, July 11 at 8:00pm  Cost: $12.00

James Reams & The Barnstormers is a traditional bluegrass band based in New York City. Guitar-player and singer James Reams is originally from London, Kentucky, but moved to Freedom, Wisconsin, as a teenager with his family. He moved to NYC in the mid-1980s. The band has recorded two albums - Barnstormin' (2001) and Troubled Times (2005) - and tours throughout the Northeast, mid-Atlantic states and the Ohio Valley. Members of the band are James Reams (guitar, lead vocals), Mark Farrell (fiddle, mandolin, harmony vocals), Doug Nicolaisen (banjo), and Nick Sullivan (upright bass, harmony vocals). "With bluegrass music getting increasingly more slick, who would have thought that a band from Brooklyn, New York, would be a leader in reestablishing the classic sound of the 1950s... they are no ordinary bluegrass band as they draw much of their material from the South all the while playing with the power and drive of the big city." --Sing Out

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