UPCOMING EVENTS:
Thursday, November 3:
Infinity Hall Big Stage Open Mic Competition
Open Mic Big Stage Competition at Infinity Hall Norfolk CT, Thursday, November 3, 2016, at 8:00 P.M. Very, very cool concert space in an antique concert hall. There will be 12 performers doing two songs each. And it is a FREE show. I could use at least one person cheering. The open mics are usually held in the Bistro which is a nice restaurant downstairs. They have invited 12 of us to play upstairs in the hall which has amazing acoustics. It is a competition with prizes.
Friday, November 4: Open Mic Feature.
The Vanilla Bean, Pomfret, CT. I’ll be performing as the open mic feature act at the Vanilla Bean Café in Pomfret CT. This was one of the first places I performed at back in the late 90s. Great food too. Bring your instruments. I have vivid memories of the first time I performed at the Vanilla Bean. I was the open mic feature and it was the same weekend we were volunteering at Falcon Ridge. It was probably in the mid-1990s. Right before we arrived Kathy and I came on an overturned station wagon in the middle of the road. It was full of student musicians from the prep school in Woodstock, CT, I think. Kathy and I started helping the kids wiggle out of the car. I remember smelling gasoline and anti-freeze. Lots of broken glass, but the kids were all right. We got them all out. Then three of them wiggled back into the car. “My violin!” “My viola!” I would have done the same thing. Once Kathy and I got to the Vanilla Bean down the road a waitress gave me a few band aids for the scrapes on my hands and the show went on.