UCA in MAY 2005 : Open Mic Nights : Guitars

There was a good crowd of guys (and one woman singer songwriter, Chelsea Ryan) for the last Open Mike at UCA - thanks all of you for coming out - thanks Dave for blowing that cross harp with me, that made my night, I hope we can do that again soon!

I want to alert all of you to a new Wednesday night happening at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Lyndhurst on - heh, I don't want the whole UCA open mic crowd dodging over there at once, but you all know that we only do open mic twice a month so there are two other nights - anyhow, they have beer and sports TV heh, whatever, it's shapping up to be a decent event, nice PA, MC is Robin Stone, signup between 7 and 8 for a spot to play - and AND - they give away prizes!! Yup, it's a sponsored event, Guitar Center and Budwieser ganging up on the whole thing. Go on up there, BUT WHATEVER YOU DO DONT GO ON WED. 27TH BECAUSE RACHEAL SAGE IS COMING TO UCA!! All of you should come out to this show.

ON THE EAST SIDE Monday nights belong to XELA and the open jam night at the B-Side lounge below the grog shop - heh, you know where that is, dontcha? Anyhow, they have (litteraly) PILES of AMPS and they have drums and mics and everything - just bring an instrument wit you.

ON THE WEST SIDE Monday night jam session and open mic belongs to JIM SNIVELY hosting open mike night at McNamaras 8611 Lake Ave. Cleveland Ohio 44102 216-939-9346

ON THE WEST SIDE on Tuesday night we are back with the Phoenix open mic in Lakewood Ohio on Detroit - a younger crowd, lots of street side action and tea sippin.

I am hammering out the music calendar for MAY and it will be posted soon - briefly we got Zach, Xela, Kate Morrisey, Randy Martin, Brent Kirby (welcome back dude), John Toula and Justin Markert (who BETTER make his gig this time - heh) and we are doing the strangenight again: Adam Probert comes to the cafe and records for two and a half hours. Musicians dont pay anything up front, but if you want your tracks, you gotta go to strangelove recording and sit with Adam for a few minutes while he chats up the studio - generally, tracks recorded at the strangenight can be had on CD for about ten to fifteen bucks for the musicians. Last time we made a CD from the whole night. It was allot of work.