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Open Mic Monday at McNamara's

By all appearances Jim Snively has - in a only a short period of time (about a month) - managed to create a respectable buzz around McNamara's Open Mic Monday Night - no small feat in this Northeast rust belt town full of hardened unemployed steel workers, hard weather, and harder nosed rock and rollers. And although McNamara's does host weekend live music, it's the Monday Night Open Mic event that pulls in the artistic bleeding-edge of plank spankers, finger pickers, singer songwriters, and poets from around the Cleveland metropolitan area that otherwise might never come out to the place - and these scensters are not your generic light weight Pepsi sipping peeps either, they constitute the caliber of clientele that bar owners love to see packin' a place: Guitar crazy beer lovin' singer songwriter types who like nothing more than to get together, talk shop, swap chops, and occasionally dance on the bar. If last nights attendance (a veritable who's who of Open Mic performers with Ryan Anderson, Kevin McCarthy, Tim Keo, Brad Kinney and John Bella to name a few ) is any indication of what's to come, then the continued success of this event is practically guaranteed.

Thank you and congratulations to both Jim and the bar owner (a local firefighter) on the effort required to put together a successful and happening Open Mic event!

Let's Keep up the good work!!


XELA to begin hosting Wilbert's Downtown Wednesday Night Open Mic

With Kevin McCarthy's imminent relocation to Sunny California (who can blame him - enough already of the harsh CLE winter salt), the reins to the Wilbert's Wednesday Night Open Mic at 812 Huron Rd E Cleveland, OH 44115-1123 (216) 902-4663 have been passed to the king of Open Mic night, Alex Alverez (aka: Xela)! As you probably already know, Alverez is well equipped to take this Wednesday night gig and turn it into a Jam Session Supreme-O to rival any in town - yeah, the lovely LuvMutha is getting plenty of practice at this kind of open mic revelry hosting no less than five nights a week of Open Mike Mayhem (see his website link for the complete schedule) at various locations around town.

Whew, Xela gonna be breaking out a big sweet sweat with all that singin' and sawin' goin' on!! I can already hear the crystal clear sounds of bronze acoustic strings snappin' and crackin' through that enormous PA !