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Hosted by Two for the Show
Jake Kensinger & Ellen Schmidt

New Open Mike Venue For Our Tuesday Open Mikes: Savoury Lane!

We are happy to announce that effective immediately we have a new home for our Tuesday open mikes. Our open mike will now be called the Savoury Lane Open Mike. We are grateful to the owners, Rick and Paula Gordon, for welcoming us. Savoury Lane is a restaurant and catering establishment with a wide array of offerings including speciatlty sandwiches, salads, vegetable-based soups, dinners, desserts, and wine & beer! Check out all of their offerings on www.savourylane.com.

The open mike will continue to be held on the 1st, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Savoury Lane is located at 251 Arlington St. in West Acton, only 2 blocks from our prior Sweet Bites location. 978- 263-8743. Featured performers go on at 8pm. Open mike performers may sign up by email or by phone - by noon of the day of the open mike - at eschmidt01742@yahoo.com or at 978-369-8090. (Please don't call the venue to sign up.) Performers may sign up at the door before 6:15 if they wish to be in the lottery for order). Admission is $5.

Directions:

From the East: Route 2 West to Exit 43 / Rt. 111 West (Mass. Ave.) to second light (Village of West Acton), right on Central St., immediate right on Arlington St. to #251.

From the West: Route 495 to Exit 28 / Rt. 111 towards Boxborough (East) 3.5 miles to Village of West Acton. Turn left at first intersection on Central St., and immediate right on Arlington St. to #251.

Featured Artists
(mini-sets in parentheses)
December 8 Steve Howard and Fran Reagan (Ben Blum)
January 5 Betsy Binstock and Dawn Kenney (Sarah Noyovitz)
January 12 Alex Solomonov and Loose Change (The Pavao Band)
January 26 Tom Hanlon and Jon McAuliffe (Frank Ruzzano)
February 2 Charlie Cover and Suzanne Owens (Sam Pitino)
February 9 Ellen - BNAN benefit night (Walter Crockett)
February 23 Terence Hegarty and Mary Pratt (Carolyn Waters Obin)
March 2 Kim Jennings and Bernadette Wiemer (Sanghi Erlich)
March 9 Snow Date
March 23 Lori Diamond and Fred Abatelli (Dan Tappan)
April 6 Randall Kromm and Dan Margarita (Jenny Jones)
April 13 Jon Waterman and John MacLean (Dawn Frost)
April 27 Barry Spiro and Bo Veaner (Roland Blair)
May 4 mfdaisy and Ana Eder-Mulhane
May 11 Mike Campo and Mike Delaney & Ken Porter
May 25 John Olivere and Nadia Swartz
June 1 Seth Connelly
June 8 Mark Hastings and Jenny Jones
June 22 Al Gould
June 29 Paul Rogoschewski and Craig Sonnenfeld
July 6 Leslie Lee and Steve Gretz
July 13 Perry Desmond-Davies and Rich Eilbert
July 27 Ruth Canonico and tba

The Emerson Umbrella, Concord, (note new location) 7:30 - 10:30, $5, refreshments available

First and third Mondays except for July and August vacation months. Note - only in September and January - we will run on the 2nd and 4th Mondays!

40 Stow St., Concord
Sign up by phone 978-369-8090 or email eschmidt01742@yahoo.com by noon of the day of the open mike, or arrive by 7:15 for lottery. Featured artists go on at 8:30.

Directions:

Emerson Umbrella is located in Concord Center, reachable by Route 126, Route 2, and Route 62.

From Concord Center, stay on Main St. (route 62) until the Concord Library is directly ahead of you. Take the left fork onto Sudbury Rd. Take your first left onto Stow St.

From Route 2, take Route 62 towards Concord Center. Turn right onto Thoreau Street, and take your first left at the light onto Sudbury Rd. Take your second right onto Stow St.

Featured Artists
December 7 Tom and Mally Smith
December 14 Susan and Dan Master
January 11 Camille Breeze CD Release
January 25 Ergo Canto CD Release
February 1 Tim Mason
February 15 Folk Song Society Night
March 1 Ben Blum and Howie Rashba
March 15 Kate Chadbourne - Irish night
April 5 Angela Masciale and Dan Zampino
April 19 Jane Fallon CD Release
May 3 Cheryl Perreault and Friends
May 17 Walter Crockett and Friends
June 7 Howard Cannon and George Deliyiannis
June 21 Oen Kennedy