Susanna's Kitchen Coffeehouse
Live music every third Thursday
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Great music! Wonderful musicians, great volunteers and a great cause. Proceeds from the Susanna's Kitchen concerts go to help people in our community who are in need, through Barnabas Connection, Wimberley Community Assistance Fund, and other Wimberley-area nonprofits, plus scholarships for pre-schoolers at Bright Beginnings.
Great food! Delicious pies, tamales, pizza, coffee, and soft drinks available. Doors open by 7:00 pm. Concerts start at 7:30 pm and are held in the Fellowship Hall at Wimberley United Methodist Church.
Great Cause! We all benefit – those who come to hear the best music in Wimberley, those who have a great time volunteering their talents to produce the concerts, and the people who are helped by our donations. Mark your calendars for every Third Thursday year round.
Tickets are sold ONLY AT THE DOOR. Tickets range in price from $20-$25 depending on the musician. Cash and checks are currently accepted. Students under 18 are $5. Concerts are not appropriate for small children, as there is no childcare.
To ensure a good seat, and as some concerts sell out, come early! Ticket sales begin by 6:30 pm. Arrival between 6:30 pm and 6:45 pm is suggested, especially for very popular musicians. Doors open by 7 pm. and performances are in the community room (Fellowship Hall). Come early, enjoy dinner with us and enjoy the concert experience in a small, intimate environment. Oh, and don't forget that Susanna's Kitchen Concerts take cash or checks at the gate, but not credit cards or other methods of payment.
For inquiries about Susanna's Kitchen, contact the church office at office@wimberleyumc.org.
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Upcoming Shows:
2026
October 15 Jeff Black
November 19 Adam & Chris Carroll
December 17 Hill Country Honeys
2027
January 21 Warren Hood
February 18 Del Castillo
March 18 Susan Gibson
Jeff Black
October 15, 2026
"Jeff Black has the troubadour quality of a Steve
Goodman, the poetic dignity of a Bruce
Springsteen, and the outer-fringe edge of
Townes Van Zandt. We kid you not."
~Steve Morse, The Boston Globe
Missouri native Jeff Black knew he wanted a career in music even before he hit his teens. When he was only ten years old, he persuaded his parents to buy him a guitar. In between school, and then later work, Black learned to play that guitar, to write songs, and to sing. Before he started his professional career in the music business, he worked at a gas station, a car wash, a warehouse, and even in a club as a bouncer. In his early twenties, Black began performing at Blayney's, the blues club where he worked as a bouncer. His fan base slowly expanded, and he left the club and toured across the United States, stepping in as an opening act for artists like Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine, and Maria McKee.
Black’s connection to the Lone Star State stems from when his brother brought home Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, and Townes Van Zandt albums from when he was stationed in Okinawa when Jeff was around 12. That's when he started dreaming about Texas.
He was a NewFolk finalist in 1988 at Kerrville Folk Festival and returned to the Main Stage in 2017-18 to double encores. He lived at Shady Grove trailer park for a bit in Austin in his ‘72 Winnebago back in the late 90s, and SXSW was a staple pilgrimage all through the 90’s as well.
By 1996, Black's career began taking wings of its own. And in 1998, he recorded his first album at Willie Nelson‘s Pedernales Country Club outside of Austin for Arista/Austin records.
Now he's getting ready to record his next album in Rockport TX.
His songs appear on recordings by Alison Krauss, Waylon Jennings, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, John Oates, Dierks Bently, Blackhawk, Jo-el Sonnier and more. Sam Bush has championed him with recording many of his songs including "Same Ol' River" and "Gold Heart Locket." Jeff co-wrote the title track to Sam's Grammy nominated album, Circles Around Me. His music can be heard on the soundtracks of "The Thing Called Love," The acclaimed PBS documentary "The Appalachians" and Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize Winner for Best Drama "Steel City," BlackHawk's cover of Black's song, "That's Just About Right," was a Top 10 Country single, while their cover of his song, "King Of The World" was a Top 30 Country single.
A master songwriter and performer, Black was voted one of the top 100 Folk artists of the last 25 years by Boston's WUMB listeners.
2024 started off in Muscle Shoals at FAME studios to begin work on the recording of all new compositions with a handpicked family of musicians and engineers. This new album has been 25 years in the making since recording "Birmingham Road" with Wilco at Willie Nelson's Pedernales Studios outside of Austin. Reuniting with "Birmingham Road" producer, six-time Grammy nominee and three-time Juno nominee Susan Rogers, Jeff Black spent session days recording new songs January 16-18, 2024. Production continues in Nashville Spring 2025. Anthology, a retrospective of songs recorded 1998-2020 was released March 2025.
In the tradition of the great storytellers, his passionate, soul-driven live performances of songs from his vast catalog are not to be missed.
When Jeff is not on the road, he lives in Nashville.
“His words and voice hold down center stage with a craft so deeply in the artistic pocket that it obscures anything outside" ~ No Depression
"Nothing short of brilliant. Top to bottom, this stuff is special. Black is an artist of substance."
~ Billboard Magazine
Join us for a wonderful night of music with Jeff Black at Wimberley UMC, 1200 County Road 1492 at Ranch Rd 12, Wimberley. Tickets on sale at the door at 6:30, doors open by 7:00. Concert starts at 7:30 pm. Pizza, pie, nachos, tamales available for purchase. Cost is $25 for adults, $5 for students 18 and under(cash or check at the door).
Jeff Black