The Hotel Cafe Tour is the brainchild of Cary Brothers, a North American singer-songwriter, who has been a regular performer at the Hotel Café venue in Hollywood. Having played in the Hotel Cafe for many years, and enjoyed its relaxed but stimulating culture where artists support each other musically, he suggested taking it on the road. His idea was welcomed by other Hotel Cafe frequenters including rising star Meiko, Greg Laswell, Tom McRae, Joe Purdy, Jim Bianco, Steve Reynolds, Brian Wright, and others. For the last 4 years, the Tour has traveled around various venues in the States. In 2006, Tom McRae took the Tour to the UK, and in 2008, McRae brought it back to the UK and also took it further afield, to continental Europe.
Famous quotes containing the words hotel, cafe and/or tour:
“Consider his life which was valueless
In terms of employment, hotel ledgers, news files.
Consider. One bullet in ten thousand kills a man.
Ask. Was so much expenditure justified
On the death of one so young and so silly
Lying under the olive tree, O world, O death?”
—Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
“When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.”
—Vivian Gornick (b. 1935)
“Do you know I believe that [William Jennings] Bryan will force his nomination on the Democrats again. I believe he will either do this by advocating Prohibition, or else he will run on a Prohibition platform independent of the Democrats. But you will see that the year before the election he will organize a mammoth lecture tour and will make Prohibition the leading note of every address.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)