Nature's Table was a whole food restaurant and live music venue in Urbana, Illinois from the 1979 until May, 1991.

Fourth Annual Nature's Table scheduled for Friday, 7/31/2010 and Saturday, 8/1/2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Jeff Machota
Cell: 217/722-8601
Email: thetable@naturestable.net

7/01/2009

IRON POST AND COWBOY MONKEY TO HOST NATURE'S TABLE 2010 REUNION CONCERTS

Performances in Downtown Urbana to Feature Jazz Artists and Blues
Performers from Music Venue's Past

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The fourth annual Nature's Table reunion is scheduled to be held Friday,
July 30 at The Iron Post in Urbana, Illinois, and Saturday, July 31,
at Cowboy Monkey in Champaign, Illinois..

Nature's Table was a whole food restaurant and live music venue in
Urbana, Illinois from the 1979 to 1991. The restaurant featured live
music seven nights a week, including an eclectic mix of jazz, folk,
blues, bluegrass, and experimental music. Besides providing a space for
local acts, Nature's Table also featured national touring artists.

When the University of Illinois reclaimed the property in 1991, the
community lost a unique local resource.

Terry Masar, former owner of the restaurant, felt that the time had come
to reunite some of the artists who had performed at the venue many years
ago, and in 2007 organized the first reunion concert in Champaign.

This year's Friday jazz reunion event is being held at The Iron
Post in downtown Urbana, the venue most actively hosting jazz in the
Champaign-Urbana community for the past several years.

Scheduled to perform for the Saturday event is a reunion of the blues
band The Mudhens.  Cowboy Monkey is on the site of the original Blind
Pig, which featured live jazz and blues music in the 1990s.

"Based on the success of last year's reunion, we think this year's event
will be even better," Masar says.



Additional information is available at the following website:

http://www.naturestable.net/

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If you'd like more information about this topic, or to schedule
an interview, please call Jeff Machota at 217/722-8601 or e-mail
thetable@naturestable.net.

The Iron Post is located at 120 South Race Street in Urbana,
Illinois.

Cowboy Monkey is located at 6 Taylor Street in Champaign, Illinois.

Blasts from the past . . .

• Pictures!
• The schedule. A work in progress.
• The menu. Mmmmm.
• Jazz Threads page on Nature's Table
• Remembering Nature's Table in Urbana - From WILL-TV's premiere episode of "Prairie Fire", aired 4/9/1992