Paul Tangren
Venues
Recent and Current Venues
Note: All of these businesses, who host my performances, deserve our support. Please come to see me perform, and while you are at it, show your appreciation to the businesses by patronizing them. It helps keep them and me in business. For more information on these businesses visit their websites on the
Potbelly’s Sandwich Works, in Northern Virginia locations – noon-2 p.m. Here is a list of locations I have performed at over the last four years:
…Fairfax (3955 Chain Bridge Rd, Ste 107, 703-267-6095)
...Herndon (905 Herndon Pkwy, 703-657-0435)
...Reston (12150 Sunset Hills Rd., 571-203-0750)
...Tyson’s Corner (1577 Spring Hill Rd., 703-286-5923)
...Gainesville (7352 Atlas Walk Way, 571-248-6425)
...Chantilly (14396 Chantilly Crossing Ln, 571-346-1976)
Note: My lunchtime show at Potbelly Gainesville on April 10 (noon- 2) was my final performance for Potbelly Sandwich Works
Al-Maza Lebanese/Mediterranean Restaurant (10427 North Street, Fairfax, VA 703-865-8401) – weekend evening (Fri-Sat) performances, 6:30p.m to closing.
Cobbler Mountain Cellars winery (10363 Moreland Road, Delaplane, VA, 540-36 4-2 802) 1-4 p.m. performances at wine tasting events, 1st Saturday of each month.
Manassas Gallery Walk, at the Opera House Gourmet (9126 Center St, Manassas, VA, 703- 330-9636) -This is a semi-annual event designed to promote the shops in the historic downtown district of Manassas, as well as the local art scene. I have participated in this event for the last several years. I perform on the 1st Friday evening in May, and the 1st Friday evening in November. My performances run from about 6:30- 9:00 p.m.
Old Mill Grill (497 Stover Ave., Strasbourg, VA, 540-465-8030)
Woodstock Cafe and Shops (117 S. Main Street, Woodstock, VA
540-459-8888)
Fort Valley Nursery and Cafe (1175 Hisey Avenue, Woodstock, VA
540-459-5151)
Joe's Steakhouse (708 South Royal Ave., Front Royal, VA, 540-636-5637)
Wollam Gardens (5167 Jeffersonton Rd, Jeffersonton, VA, 540-937-3222)
Upcoming Events
Friday, April 22, 2016, 5-7 p.m.
Fort Valley Nursery and Cafe
Woodstock, VA
Saturday, March 19, 2016, 1-4 p.m.
Wine Tasting Event @ Cobbler Mountain Cellars
With Scott Volles
Friday, March 18, 2016, 5-7 p.m.
Fort Valley Nursery and Cafe
Woodstock, VA
Saturday, March 12, 2016, 11a.m.-1 p.m.
Wine Tasting Event @ Cobbler Mountain Cellars
With Scott Volles
Blast From the Past
College
My first public performance was in my freshman year of college at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, in 1970. Beginning with my very first day at school, and continuing throughout my years there, I busked (performed for the public, on the sidewalk).
My first coffeehouse performance (in a place called The Grotto) took place during those first few weeks of my freshman year. I played at that coffeehouse many times after that, and eventually became one of the managers. Additionally, somewhere in my undergraduate years (don’t recall exactly when) I was cast as a street minstrel, playing my guitar and singing in a street scene in Bertolt Brecht’s play Galileo. That was my first experience playing before a large audience.
Post-College
In the mid-1970s I performed briefly on a local Salisbury, Maryland, TV station for a charity event