Friends of Doe Bay -

This is not the April Fool's Newsletter which I am guessing 12 of the 8000 recipients of this letter were eagerly awaiting on April 1st. If it were, it would have described Doe Bay Fest 2011 as being the first all-channel festival; with all acts being deceased, chaneled through others; Chad chanels Hendrix, Kevin brings the ghost of Jerry Garcia and Janis Joplin appears as her former self. The Faux Letter would have also announced the Science over Hysteria Work Weekend where we bring friends and neighbors together for a weekend to build and start the Doe Bay Nuclear Reactor & Power Facility from scratch , in three days!.

Instead, this is a mid-month note to tell you about some things at Doe Bay and to remind you to watch for the next newsletter which will be loaded with news and which will be here before you know it. So this is a mini-newsletter. Let me know your thoughts. Does size matter? Does matter matter?

JOE

Joe@DoeBay.com

Post-script - There is some Doe Bay Fest stuff at the bottom (for those obsessed.) If you are not obsessed and click here to see a video that tells the story.

Tickets and camping go on sale MAY 1 at 10:00 am on Brown Paper Tickets and they WILL SELL OUT, probably in a very short amount of time. If you want to guarantee your spot, you can purchase tickets and camping in person at Doe Bay anytime during the month of April. Stay over, or eat in the Doe Bay Café, and buy your tickets and camping for Doe Bay Fest 2011 before they go on sale on Brown Paper Tickets and get snapped up! Be sure to follow us on twitter and stay tuned for future newsletters as more Doe Bay Fest info is released, like this year’s AMAZING line up! Retreat House is still open for Easter weekend!!! Retreat House has now been remodeled! Come on up and have a great Easter and get your Doe Bay Fest Tickets!

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News, (as in, Doe Bay in the news)

Doe Bay, and specifically the Doe Bay Cafe, thank Bellingham Alive for the great recent story. Click here to read the Bellingham Alive Article! If you can get ahold of the print version, it has incredible photos to accompany the story. Why hasn't the Seattle Times or the New York Times reviewed the Doe Bay Cafe? If you help me figure that out, or better yet, if you help resolve it, I will buy you dinner!

To quote two of our guests who commented about the Doe Bay Cafe on their Facebook pages after reading the article:

"Doe Bay is one of the best kept secrets in the NW, thank you for progressing the food movement and setting the standard high! See you soon Doe Bay Cafe!" - Kyle

Or as Linda said, "My husband and I wondered how long it would take for our secret place to get noticed. We've enjoyed meals here that have rivaled the French Laundry! When will the chef get a Michelin star or two?"

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Something(s) New- (Coming up at Doe Bay)

Garden:

The new greenhouse is in action, and we will be growing heirloom tomatoes!

It’s 20x48, the cover crop is growing, the tomatoes have germinated, and we are on our way! We have begun harvesting for the Café including our Doe Bay salad mix! New WWOOFers are arriving for the start of the new season, the plums, blueberries, and salmonberries are flowering, the 300 strawberry plants have arrived, the beds are getting prepped and planted, the chickens are enjoying the fruits of spring, and the hummingbirds are back! Say Hello to Heather, our Garden Manager, when you visit!

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Events:

I can't remember what Holiday this coming weekend is,

but the Doe Bay Bunny is downright giddy!

There is still space available for Easter Weekend, so come on up.

Retreat House can be your family Easter weekend getaway!

(360) 376-2291

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April 22nd:

Mary Bue returns to Doe Bay Café, show starts at 7:30pm

Come out to Doe Bay as we welcome back Mary Bue. What do songs sound like that come from a girl who: loves seaweed, seals and cats, bartends at a busy breakfast joint, has a bachelor’s in psychology, teaches yoga, used to attend rave parties in the late 90’s, adores Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and still hand-writes letters? You’ll get songs that run the gamut of curious human experience. From the epically melodramatic pop stuff of Rufus Wainwright, to the crunchy strumming of an acoustic guitar with driving, aching melodies akin to Neko Case; to the lovably raunchy poetry of Regina Spektor, the magical fairy never-never land of Tori Amos and the melancholy lullaby drawls of Sarah McLachlan or Lucinda Williams -- Mary Bue draws from these influences to create her own home of sound. This is soothing, cathartic and quirky piano and vocal music, full of melodies with symbolic tendencies and the potential to "emotionally sucker-punch" you!

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April 24th:

Artsmith Literary Salon presents “The Doe Bay Poetry Slam” at 7 pm in the Café

DB celebrates National Poetry Month with Slam

The first-ever poetry slam on Orcas Island will happen at Doe Bay Resort on April 24 at 7PM. Join the Orcas nonprofit Artsmith for a performance poetry competition featuring Seattle slam poets Maya Hersh, Greg Brisendine, and Steven Wilbur. Slammaster: Local writer Carlos José Camblor. Panel of judges: YOU! Writers' open mic too. Admission: We will pass the hat to defray writers' travel costs. For dinner reservations, call the cafe at 376-8059. In this open forum, adult language is expected.
“It’s extremely rare to see these three poets in one sitting without being in a major city,” volunteer organizer Jennifer Brennock said.

Greg Brisendine performs "Pull-up"

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April 29th:

(Joe will definitely be in the audience for this show.)

Live Music with Whiting Tennis in the Café, show starts at 7:30pm

 

Come out to Doe Bay for some dinner and live music! This week we will be hosting Whiting Tennis. Whiting Tennis lives in Seattle and is currently playing shows solo and with an ensemble that includes bass, drums, cello, and steel pedal slide. He is currently recording and mixing a new CD and LP titled "I Do", which is slotted to be released by Tarnished Records. His last record, "Three Leaf Clover" was released on Tarnished Records in April 2006. Whiting moved back to Seattle in 2004 after living in New York City for 12 years. While in New York he played in a group called The Scholars, and self released "Hello Dolly" in 2000. The Scholars were: Whiting on guitar and vocals, John Devore on Drums, and Hiroshi Kimura on bass, who replaced the original bass player, Pete Moe. Gerald Menke, a fantastic NYC steel pedal slide player, occasionally sat in for shows and recording. Before The Scholars formed, Whiting played in The Klugmen, (later called Savalas), which featured the hilarious and talented fron man Kevin Landers on vocals and sometimes guitar. When that band petered out, Whiting basically cannibalized that group to form The Scholars. The original idea and form of The Scholars came about when Whiting met Nathan Johnson, the drummer for the Seattle Rock band Flop (fronted by Rusty Willoughby), who had moved to New York after Flop was dropped from Sony. Nathan and Whiting drank lots of beer and decided to start a band that would only gig in libraries. That group only played in Whiting's Dumbo painting studio, but was full of promise. Nathan eventually moved to northern Europe.

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May 1st:

SPLAB Literary Series hosts author Kelly Lydick

Join SPLAB Literary Salon Series and the Doe Bay Cafe in welcoming author Kelly Lydick, a writer, photographer and editor who holds an M.A. in Writing and Consciousness from the New College of California (now California Institute of Integral Studies).
Her writing has appeared in Switched-on Gutenberg, ditch: poetry that matters, shady side review, SwankSpeak! and Java Magazine among others. Her fiction piece Love is a Piece of Gravel Lodged in the Brain was nominated for the 2011 Dzanc Books “Best of the Web” and her work on the theme “Silhouettes” has been featured on KQED’s The Writers’ Block. She is the author of the chapbook We Once Were (Pure Carbon Publishing, AZ) and the experimental work, Mastering the Dream (Second Story Books, CA).
In late 2010, Kelly also became a certified Gateway Dreaming Coach, and looks forward to helping others utilize writing and the depth and power of their dreams for transformation in waking life. Her website is: www.kellylydick.com.

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May 1st:

Symbol, Sign and Subconscious Signifier: Writing the Dream Time Writers Workshop

Kelly Lydick, the SPLAB Literary Series author for this week, will be hosting a writing workshop Sunday afternoon from 10a-1p.
Workshop description:
Do you ever wonder what your dreams are trying to tell you? And how they inform your creative process? Are the symbols of language and dreams arbitrary? Allegorical? Archetypal?
Bring 1-3 dreams to workshop and let’s explore the personal dream landscape and the language you can use to describe it. The goal of this workshop will be to look deeper at the symbolism of dreams and learn how to use this information to compose meaningful written creative work. We’ll begin with a guided meditation working with sacred geometry, color and the chakras to open up the flow of creativity. We’ll look specifically at individual dreams, primarily from a Jungian perspective, and begin to construct creative work that reflects the deeper meaning of these dreams.
Then, we’ll also look at the specific elements of symbolism, color, character structure and narrative voice, and incorporate free writing and group exercises into our craft.

By the end of this workshop, you’ll have drafted a creative piece (poetry or fiction, your choice!) that expresses and reveals the symbolism of your personal dream landscape.
This workshop will last approximately 2.5-3 hours. Suggested Donation: $20, will work on a sliding scale

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May 8th:

SPLAB presents author Dominick DellaSala in the Café

 

Dr. Dominick A. DellaSala is President and Chief Scientist of the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon and President of the Society for Conservation Biology, North America Section. He is an internationally renowned author of over 150 technical papers including the forthcoming book - Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World (Island Press, 2011). Dominick has given plenary and keynote talks ranging from academic conferences to the United Nations (Earth Summit II). He has appeared in National Geographic, Science Digest, Science Magazine, Time Magazine, Audubon Magazine, High Country News, Terrain Magazine, NY Times, LA Times, Jim Lehrer NewsHour, CNN, MSNBC, “Living on Earth (NPR),” and TV (including several conservation films). He has testified in numerous congressional hearings in defense of the Endangered Species Act, roadless area conservation, national monument designations, and climate change legislation among others. For his efforts to help foster national roadless areas conservation and support designation of new national monuments, he received conservation leadership awards from the World Wildlife Fund in 2000 and 2004, the Wilburforce Foundation in 2006, and was twice nominated for an international conservation award for his work as a whistleblower while on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service spotted owl recovery team. Dr. DellaSala co-founded the Geos Institute in July 2006.

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May 9th:

Final movie night of the season with SPLAB author Dominick DellaSala

This week's film is a PBS documentary titled "A Wild American West," and will be commentated by Dominick DellaSala, who is the SPLAB Literary Salon Series author from this Sunday. Movie begins at 7:30, there are half priced bottles of wine and free popcorn!

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May 20-22:

Grounding and Growing: Using Yoga and Nature to Connect Deeply and Unearth Endless Creativity

In this retreat we will hold space for people of all experience levels to deepen their yoga practice, explore movement and meditation, and develop nourishing rituals to channel creativity. Participants will walk away with a deeper connection to the life within and around them and the inspiration to stream creativity from the mat to the world and back.
On your own and as a group, you will tap into the nurturing flow of body, mind, spirit, and earth. Featured workshops: Advanced Yoga Asana, Partner Yoga, Mythological Yoga, Herb Walks, Creative Movement, Meditation, Journal Therapy and more. Our vegetarian meals will be a delicious course in nourishment. Throughout, there will be time to soak in, explore, and enjoy Doe Bay.
Friday May 20th, Registration at 2pm Opening at 3pm; Retreat ends Sunday May 22nd at 3pm
For more information feel free to explore our website:
http://groundingandgrowing.hoothouse.com/
Email: groundingandgrowing@gmail.com
Phone: 206.852.2846

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May 20th:

Doe Bay Café warmly welcomes back Seattle based singer/songwriter Sam Watts

Don't miss Sam Watts, period. You will enjoy it!

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May 27th:

Live Music in the Café with John Heart Jackie, show starts at 7:30pm

Dearest John,
For you a book. Le Balloon Rouge. From world of impossible probabilities. A world of the very young and the very old. Those that have time for imaginings and who possess young hearts. In this world "a king properly wears a beggar's rags and a cracked heart of lead and a dead bird are the most precious things in a city. Is this too strange? Or, have you, in fact, always known it to be true?"
This world is to be entered into whenever the COLD REALITY 20th century intellects are always referring to (and I guess it is pretty frigid) becomes too much for the human spirit. A world, as the song says, over the rainbow where troubles melt like lemon drops.
And this from your morning-grouch, evening-idiot-laughter of a roommate.
-Jackie
"Add John Heart Jackie to the growing list of artists to watch from Portland, Ore. The duo manages to pack a lot of beauty into it's handmade music." --NPR Music, Second Stage
"The Oregon duo's first full-length album, We Are Gold Mounds, is full of languidly folky pop songs that maximize the effect of Peter Murray and Jennie Wayne's sweet vocal interplay." --NPR Music, Song Of The Day
"John Heart Jackie write songs that make it easier to be human." --Sound On The Sound
Check them out on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/johnheartjackie

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June 3rd:

Really Very Live music in the Café

The Doe Bay Café is please to host some of the musicians that make Doe Bay Fest possible! Artist home Collective will be featuring members of Indian Valley Line, Goldfinch, Campfire OK, Friday Mile, and Fort Union. This will be a record fun weekend at Doe Bay!

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Artists Home Bookings staff and members of such noted bands as Indian Valley Line, Goldfinch, Campfire OK, Friday Mile, and Fort Union will come together in a "Super Group" to perform songs by Doe Bay Fest Favorites, Indian Valley Line, as well as by Charlie Kind (Member of Campfire OK). You can also expect the group to cover other songs by the groups mentioned above as well as some surprise covers by bands of Doe Bay Fests past.

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June 4th:

A Unique Doe Bay Cafe event

Celebrate Northwest Bounty at a Special Dinner on June 4
with Jennifer Hahn, Author of PACIFIC FEAST:
A COOK’S GUIDE TO WEST COAST FORAGING AND CUISINE
and Chef Abigael Birrell of The Doe Bay Café

When it comes to eating within your own foodshed, wild foraging is as local as it gets. Join us on Saturday, June 4, at 6 pm at the Doe Bay Café at Doe Bay Resort and Retreat to partake in a scrumptious five-course WILD FORAGED PACIFIC FEAST created by Chef Abigael Birrell. We’ve invited award-winning author and WWU Professor, Jennifer Hahn, to share slides and stories from her new book PACIFIC FEAST: A Cooks Guide to West Coast Foraging and Cuisine. (www.pacificfeast.com) Discover a host of delicious and nutritious wild and weedy greens, trees, ferns, berries, flowers, mushrooms, sea veggies and shellfish that thrive along the Pacific Coast. Enjoy an amazing meal with a refreshing side of natural history, First Nation plant uses, personal anecdotes, and sustainable foraging guidelines. There will be a book signing after this five-course feast and presentation.

The dinner will be held at the Doe Bay Café at the Doe Bay Resort and Retreat (www.doebay.com) on the southeastern tip of beautiful Orcas Island. The Doe Bay Café is dedicated to celebrating the unique seasonality, flavor and freshness of Orcas Island farms with every plate that comes out of our kitchen. Chef Abigael Birrell is committed to creating delicious and nutritious food sourced almost entirely of organic ingredients from our seed-to-table garden, neighboring farms and orchards, and including specialties from fair trade and small-scale regional producers.

Jennifer Hahn is a writer, illustrator, wilderness guide, and naturalist from Bellingham. She teaches at WWUs Fairhaven College and guides kayak and foraging trips in Alaska and Washington. Her first book, award-winning Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage describes her epic solo kayak from Alaska to Bellingham over two springs and summers. For more info visit Jennifer’s website: www.pacificfeast.com

 

June 13th:

Birthday

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Doe Bay Café is seeking experienced Line Cooks to work the coming season!

If you have line cooking experience and you want to be part of an incredible team doing great things in a gorgeous place, please send your resume to abigael@doebay.com with a cover letter introducing yourself to us. We are hiring for just two more line cooks and one café intern, so please get in touch soon if you want to be considered for these positions!

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Something Old-

Doe Bay Fest has turned into such a phenomenon that it is hard to remember the first year, when we just kind of faked it.

We had no permits and not much of a plan, but the basics that still work today were there; great musicians in a mellow atmosphere in one of the most beautiful places in the world! DBFest still has the highest musician to guest ratio of any festival in the country. We told musicians, "This should be your long holiday weekend of the Summer with your family and best friends at Doe Bay and, if you play a little music too, that is an extra."

The lineup included:

Left Hand Smoke

The Maldives

Tim Seely

Friday Mile

Sandman, the Rappin Cowboy

17th Chapter

Man in the Blue Van

Indian Valley Line

Chief Baker

Check out the pictures on Flickr, and then watch some of the action on YouTube. Be sure to search YouTube for other Doe Bay videos as well. Or Vimeo.

One of the Doe Bay traditions is to hang out at a bonfire after a musical performance. This happens every New Year’s eve, when Sandman does a second set by the fire at about 1:00AM. This photo (left) shows some post dbFest 08 revelers hanging out by the fire.Here are some classic photos of The Maldives ,

and Tim Seely performing onstage at dbFest.

 

 

We are still amazed at what a cool thing Doe Bay Fest has turned out to be for so many. I hope to see you this year

 

Family Week IS RIGHT NOW!

The Last two weeks of April are always family weeks at Doe Bay. This is happening NOW. It includes FREE guided hikes, tidepooling, a naturalist hike, garden tours, a wine tasting, and a garden class for kids/adults. All events are listed on our online Events calendar. Call 360 376-2291.

See you and the kids at Family week at Doe Bay!

For reading this far..... You deserve a reward.

Newsletter special!
May Mid-week nights added on to your weekend stay at a full 50% discount! Coming for the weekend? Why not arrive early or stay late and tack on a Thursday night or Sunday night to your weekend reservation at a 50% discounted price? Want to avoid the weekenders and enjoy Doe Bay nearly all to yourself? Book a mid-week stay at Doe Bay in May and get a 50% discount (Friday and Saturday nights excluded)! Beat the summer crowds with a steal of a deal to boot – please call us to book at 360-376-2291. We look forward to hosting you here at gorgeous Doe Bay!