Greetings Dear friends,
For tonight may I wish those that celebrate Christmas a Merry Christmas Eve and Christmas Day tomorrow!!! I do also wish to say Happy Chanukah, Kwanza and all the Holidays or Everdays any and all celebrations. I have always kept it easy by saying MERRY EVERYDAY as that is exactly how I feel.
I do want to thank each & every one of you that joined us at our ROM-2011 Grand Finale Show with our fantastic feature by Walnut!!! Walnut, I would like to thank you for a fabulous Finale show. I do want to take this opportunity to thank everyone one of our Features for ROM-2011. It was an incredible year and an always changing format! For those of you that have seen the ROM-2012 listing now on our Schedule page of our Website we have a ROM 2012 that Mike and I are so very excited about for so many reasons. Please do make sure to take a look at our website www.roslindaleopenmike.org for all updates.
OUR most profound thanks we do want to get out is to: all of you that have joined us at ROM as performers, as listeners and our very special and important helpers in so many area's! It is each one of YOU that have made this Community we called ROM so heartwarming and ever growing, we thank all of you for being the Foundation that is our ROMulin Community.
We do have an incredible ROM-2012 to look forward to. WE start with our Anniversary Show on 1-9-12 and as per norm have a different type of feature for that Anniversary show. WE are calling it our, ROMAPALOZZA ANNIVERSAY SHOW. The feature will be our very first ALL PERCUSSION FEATURE!! it will be called The Ken Porter Percussion Experience!! Joining Ken will be other wonderful folks we know from the Percussion all have added to ROM at different times, The performer list is still having some add on's, those definitely on the roster for this moment are, Rob Norberg, Tara Greenblatt, Tom Symancyk & Neal Braverman.
We look forward to having you join us at ROM whenever possible!!! There is never any pressure for you to be with us but know you are always welcome!!! Please do take a peak at the websites links that I am always adding to my blog. If by chance they have changed please do let me know and I will update them. That also does go for your own email address's if there are changes please do drop me a note and I will share them with that dear and Most wondeful Host of Roslindale Open Mike, Mike Delaney who has always been there for everything and he is the reason the website is kept up, all the audio is facilitated and just all the musical blessings he brings to ROM each time he walks through our doorway. I must also once again thank The Roslindale Congregational Church for their never ending support of ROM, our home! Finally my sincere thanks to my dear friend from Childhood, Sam Schneiderman of the Greater Boston Home Team for his financial support and sponsoring our website and my ROM email address since our very beginning!!!
We'll hope to see you all next year and as always please remember to bring a family member and/or friends, both etc. We love talent of all ages!!!!
Until we meet again my friends, in music and thru the Art's Always, Neal :)))
Free and Family Friendly Open Mike and the Museum of Fine Artists at Roslindale Open Mike held in the Historic, Roslindale Congregational Church
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
OUR Thanks to Ed Banatt for a Memorable Feature at ROM on 11-28-11
Dear Friends,
Before I forget, (if you know me, you know I will) Tomorrow eve:
12-6-11 my dear friends, Mike Delaney, Ken Porter & Licia Sky will be The Feature Performer's at dear Friend Ellen Schmidt's wonderful Nourish Rest. Open Mike in Lexington, please do come! Mel Green with be doing a great mini set and the Open Mike Community that Ellen has estsablished, well you just need to come and be part of it as words cannot express how wonderful it is!!! Thanks Ellen!!!
For further info please visit Ellen's incredible website at:
www.ellenshcmidt.com/openmike.html
Thursday 12-8-11 as part of the Friends of the Roslindale Public Library, a Concert for you to come & join in the fun at an event called Yeah Yeah Yeah!!! a night in celebration of the Music of The Beatles. Some of the Featured acts will be, Terry Kitchen, Bird Mancini, Dr. X, Glenn Williams, MC3, Andy Hollinger and other possible guest's. (www.friendsofroslindalelibrary.org), the event will be at the Roslindale Branch Library 7-10 PM. C ya there!!!
Friday 12-9-11 3 members of our very own home of ROM are members of the Dedham Choral Society www.dedhamchoral.org, will be performing in an event called
"i Fiesta de Navidad", Chrsitmas music from Spain, Mexico and South America. Please see website for tix.
What a great show we had a ROM for Ed Banatt's Feature on
11-28-11. Not only was Ed's feature heartwarming, entertaining and so well coordinated & thoughtout and caring, it was wonderful for all of us to be a part of!! WE all did leave as Ed our Walking Minstrel has said he goal was for us to leave with smile on our face and Love in our hearts. Ed my friend, WE all DID!!! Thanks so much!!
MY thanks to to each and everyone one of you that peroformed at ROM that night as well those of you that came simply to be part of this incredible and wonderful COMMUNITY, in place because of YOU!!!! There would be NO ROM without all of you & your imput. Our hope as we look forward to very Final Feature for our ROM-2011 Season this coming Monday 12-12-11 when our feature will be the multi-talented "Walnut" to many of his older dear friends and we number large in the "Old friends" category or now with the Release of his Fabulous New CD entitled "LOVE IS IN YOUR FACE". Walnut has opened his audience appeal to an even greater level than he has always has as his doorway to. One of the item of great importance Walnut has successfully done on the part of this authors writing is to open that door to a culture, in this case "Hip Hop" music poetry, to Walnut's philosophy of about what so many people do in fact miss. Walnut does say " What Better a way to have them understand the Hip Hop culture than to have them be a part of the culture itself" After over 3 years of putting this CD together Walnut has taken pieces of ALL of our many Multi-cultural, Multi-ethnic and multi National Cultures that make up this wonderful Community of ours open mike families come and join us Monday at ROM 12-12-11!!!!
Please remember we only hold 1 ROM in December
Mike & I have what we feel will a an incredible year of most wonderful Features but also the most important part in our lives is to meet and greet new faces to our doorway at ROM. Please do pass the word about ROM to frriends and family of all ages, as well as the many other Open Mikes and performers represented by my very infrequent Blog. Please see our ROM website for some of the incredible features already on our website for all of ROM- 2012. It is going to be a fun year with some ever changing idea's on our part. After a meeting with the Church board this past Sunday, we will be beginning something Mike and I had spoken about for a while now but now with the permission of the Church board we now have the use of the entire church for what we will be pursuing as part of our upcoming Roslindale Open Mike Concert Series. These will need to be events to help raise some monies for this very special Roslindale Congregational Church. Nothing in place at this point but please do all you can to join us to these special weekend Venues once they are adverttised as we will have a seating limit and you will want to join us and puchase tix as this will be Fundraising for this Church our Home of ROM!!!
If by chance my "Infrequent Blog" does NOT appear before the begining of the Holiday Season. Mike & I wish you all a most wonderful, Happy, Safe and Healthy Holiday Season.
Two quick thought's please do take a look at 2 websites for additions and changes to some of these sites as the Holiday Season approaches!
One is Chris Gerstner's Fireside Coffee House, Please contact Chris at: firesidecoffeehouse@gmail.com
Also Junko Ogawa's wonderful site which is: www.junkosings.com
Love to you all, Always, Neal :)))
Before I forget, (if you know me, you know I will) Tomorrow eve:
12-6-11 my dear friends, Mike Delaney, Ken Porter & Licia Sky will be The Feature Performer's at dear Friend Ellen Schmidt's wonderful Nourish Rest. Open Mike in Lexington, please do come! Mel Green with be doing a great mini set and the Open Mike Community that Ellen has estsablished, well you just need to come and be part of it as words cannot express how wonderful it is!!! Thanks Ellen!!!
For further info please visit Ellen's incredible website at:
www.ellenshcmidt.com/openmike.html
Thursday 12-8-11 as part of the Friends of the Roslindale Public Library, a Concert for you to come & join in the fun at an event called Yeah Yeah Yeah!!! a night in celebration of the Music of The Beatles. Some of the Featured acts will be, Terry Kitchen, Bird Mancini, Dr. X, Glenn Williams, MC3, Andy Hollinger and other possible guest's. (www.friendsofroslindalelibrary.org), the event will be at the Roslindale Branch Library 7-10 PM. C ya there!!!
Friday 12-9-11 3 members of our very own home of ROM are members of the Dedham Choral Society www.dedhamchoral.org, will be performing in an event called
"i Fiesta de Navidad", Chrsitmas music from Spain, Mexico and South America. Please see website for tix.
What a great show we had a ROM for Ed Banatt's Feature on
11-28-11. Not only was Ed's feature heartwarming, entertaining and so well coordinated & thoughtout and caring, it was wonderful for all of us to be a part of!! WE all did leave as Ed our Walking Minstrel has said he goal was for us to leave with smile on our face and Love in our hearts. Ed my friend, WE all DID!!! Thanks so much!!
MY thanks to to each and everyone one of you that peroformed at ROM that night as well those of you that came simply to be part of this incredible and wonderful COMMUNITY, in place because of YOU!!!! There would be NO ROM without all of you & your imput. Our hope as we look forward to very Final Feature for our ROM-2011 Season this coming Monday 12-12-11 when our feature will be the multi-talented "Walnut" to many of his older dear friends and we number large in the "Old friends" category or now with the Release of his Fabulous New CD entitled "LOVE IS IN YOUR FACE". Walnut has opened his audience appeal to an even greater level than he has always has as his doorway to. One of the item of great importance Walnut has successfully done on the part of this authors writing is to open that door to a culture, in this case "Hip Hop" music poetry, to Walnut's philosophy of about what so many people do in fact miss. Walnut does say " What Better a way to have them understand the Hip Hop culture than to have them be a part of the culture itself" After over 3 years of putting this CD together Walnut has taken pieces of ALL of our many Multi-cultural, Multi-ethnic and multi National Cultures that make up this wonderful Community of ours open mike families come and join us Monday at ROM 12-12-11!!!!
Please remember we only hold 1 ROM in December
Mike & I have what we feel will a an incredible year of most wonderful Features but also the most important part in our lives is to meet and greet new faces to our doorway at ROM. Please do pass the word about ROM to frriends and family of all ages, as well as the many other Open Mikes and performers represented by my very infrequent Blog. Please see our ROM website for some of the incredible features already on our website for all of ROM- 2012. It is going to be a fun year with some ever changing idea's on our part. After a meeting with the Church board this past Sunday, we will be beginning something Mike and I had spoken about for a while now but now with the permission of the Church board we now have the use of the entire church for what we will be pursuing as part of our upcoming Roslindale Open Mike Concert Series. These will need to be events to help raise some monies for this very special Roslindale Congregational Church. Nothing in place at this point but please do all you can to join us to these special weekend Venues once they are adverttised as we will have a seating limit and you will want to join us and puchase tix as this will be Fundraising for this Church our Home of ROM!!!
If by chance my "Infrequent Blog" does NOT appear before the begining of the Holiday Season. Mike & I wish you all a most wonderful, Happy, Safe and Healthy Holiday Season.
Two quick thought's please do take a look at 2 websites for additions and changes to some of these sites as the Holiday Season approaches!
One is Chris Gerstner's Fireside Coffee House, Please contact Chris at: firesidecoffeehouse@gmail.com
Also Junko Ogawa's wonderful site which is: www.junkosings.com
Love to you all, Always, Neal :)))
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
A most Wonderful Thanksgiving to all and how you celebrate it and a NEVER TOO late Tribute and THANKS to our VETERAN's, PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE!
To all our Dear friends of ROM,
A short thank you note to one and all who have been so much a wonderful and caring part of our ROMulin Family. Our most heartfelt thanks goes out to our most recent and fabulous ROM Feature Licia Sky. Licia was a gem of a feature and I feel as if we had our very own "Licia in our sky with Diamonds", Thanks Licia for an incredible evening we were all treated to by YOU!!!!
WE do have a wonderful upcoming feature this coming Monday 11-28-11 or (ROMday) as it is known in the Church. Our very own favorite, "The Walking Minstrel" MR. Ed (HELLOOO Roslindale) Banatt will be our next fabulous feature at ROM. I already know that Ed has a wonderful set already for us and I cannot wait for it to happen!!!!
I do want to mention some special & important notes.
Harvey Rudman who was feeling a bit under the weather at our last ROM has asked me to let you know how important each & everyone of you in our ROM Community mean to him. I have had a ton of emails & calls to see how Harvey is doing. I just spoke to Harvey and he is doing much better and is eagerly awaiting to see all at our very next ROM.
I also just got a call from Ginny Gibson who has not made to the past couple of ROM events as she is so busy at her own Church. Both she and Harvey asked me to relay their wishes for a most wonderful Thanksgiving to one and all.
As I mentioned in our Subject line it is never too Late to Thank our Veteran's!!! I do want to say a special thanks to John Olivere and Roland Blair for their personal tribute Concert for all Vets and their families as they have with the great help of Stephen Martin by hostng a wonderful Tribute to Veteran's Concert which I was honored to be in attendance for at the most welcoming Catbird Cafe in Weymouth on 11-11-11. What a great event and a great group of folks that paid Tribute to all our Vets and their Families.
From Ron Israel:
A short thank you note to one and all who have been so much a wonderful and caring part of our ROMulin Family. Our most heartfelt thanks goes out to our most recent and fabulous ROM Feature Licia Sky. Licia was a gem of a feature and I feel as if we had our very own "Licia in our sky with Diamonds", Thanks Licia for an incredible evening we were all treated to by YOU!!!!
WE do have a wonderful upcoming feature this coming Monday 11-28-11 or (ROMday) as it is known in the Church. Our very own favorite, "The Walking Minstrel" MR. Ed (HELLOOO Roslindale) Banatt will be our next fabulous feature at ROM. I already know that Ed has a wonderful set already for us and I cannot wait for it to happen!!!!
I do want to mention some special & important notes.
Harvey Rudman who was feeling a bit under the weather at our last ROM has asked me to let you know how important each & everyone of you in our ROM Community mean to him. I have had a ton of emails & calls to see how Harvey is doing. I just spoke to Harvey and he is doing much better and is eagerly awaiting to see all at our very next ROM.
I also just got a call from Ginny Gibson who has not made to the past couple of ROM events as she is so busy at her own Church. Both she and Harvey asked me to relay their wishes for a most wonderful Thanksgiving to one and all.
As I mentioned in our Subject line it is never too Late to Thank our Veteran's!!! I do want to say a special thanks to John Olivere and Roland Blair for their personal tribute Concert for all Vets and their families as they have with the great help of Stephen Martin by hostng a wonderful Tribute to Veteran's Concert which I was honored to be in attendance for at the most welcoming Catbird Cafe in Weymouth on 11-11-11. What a great event and a great group of folks that paid Tribute to all our Vets and their Families.
From Ron Israel:
A reminder about a very special benefit on Thanksgiving Weekend:
3rd Annual Folk Musicians Versus Cancer Concert to benefit the Massachusetts Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Featured Artists: John Boehmer, Camille Breeze, Ron Israel, Oen Kennedy,
and special guest Judith Christianson
Saturday November 26: 8:00-10:00PM
1st Parish Unitarian Church, 327 Concord Road, Sudbury, Mass
Admission by Donation (no amount specified)
Saturday November 26: 8:00-10:00PM
1st Parish Unitarian Church, 327 Concord Road, Sudbury, Mass
Admission by Donation (no amount specified)
To keep alerted to nearly the entire immediate world of our Open Mike Communities I would highly recommend not only being an addition to any of our dear friend Ellen Schmidt's Emerson Umbrella as well as her Nourish Open Mike venues but also for more detailed info about most open mikes please feel free to take a look a t Ellen's all encompassing website which is: www.ellenschmidt.com/openmike.html
You will find more info there about open mikes than you thought was possible!!!
I do also want to throw in a plug for our around the corner neighbor Open Mike, the Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Open Mike held the last Saturday of each month. There website is located on the email linksection of this blog!!!
Lastly, it is absolutely beyond me where 2011 has gone. Our final show for ROM-2011 will be held on 12-12 -11 our grand Finale feature for this very special year closing show will be the imcomparable "Walnut".
Please remember!!! In December due to respect for all the Holidays there will be only ONE ROM Venue!!!
Mike & I have worked very hard and have put together a Feature list that now apppears for your viewing pleasure on our webstie at www.roslindaleopenmike.org. Mike & I feel ROM-2012 will be absolutely fantastic and there are even more special events that are yet to be mentioned. WE'll be in touch so you be in touch and we'll see ya at our next ROM this coming Monday on 11-28-11 for ED Banatt.
My love and thanks to all, Always, Neal :)))
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
"It's Now the time of the Foliage" SO many thanks!!!!
To all of our Dear ROM Community,
Thank you all so much for the genuine Support of Roslindae Open Mike that both Mike Delaney and I have been so very blessed with. This is, as you may already figure, (for those that know my technology talents = NONE), my attempt to jot my infrequent ROM Community Blog.
I do want to begin by thanking our most recent past Features at ROM which begins when I last jotted with, David Hoffman, Diane Brown, Harvey Rudman, Randall Kromm, Dan and Faith Senie and just last night, Stephen & The Snake!!!!
To all of you, thanks for being who you are and what you offered to our audiences in so many varying types of the performance skills yet always riveting and helping us secure the Foundation of what the ROM Community is. WE are so totally blessed in our little spot on this big Globe to have so very many wonderful artist's that do always come and play at ROM but also, we are additionally blessed by so many remarkable, Open Mike/Coffehouse/spoken word and the like Host's that make all of our Local music/spoken word artists heard and heard every day of every week!! Mike & I know that you cannot always be with us on Monday as there as so many others Venues on that very same night. WE do our best to help advertise at ROM for each and evry Venue even if they are on the same night. This is NOT about competition it is about spreading the word of the Arts!!
If any of you reading this may have a flier you like us to display at ROM please simply send it to my attention to neal@roslindaleopenmike.org and it will be displayed. I do have several important and upcoming announcements and Fundraiser info I will put at the end of this note.
Our next feature at ROM will be on 10-24-11. This will be a Feature by a performer that many of you know and have been to his very own recording studio, Melville Park Studio to record your own Cd's.
Our next Feature is none other than STEVE FRIEDMAN. This will be a first in a long time for Steve to be performing at ROM as he is always behind the console doing recordings of each and every performer that comes to ROM. For those of you who have not had a chance to hear Steve Friedman on stage performing this is a show NOT to miss!!! ( I wonder if Steve will let me touch his recording stuff so we can have a Steve friedman CD????)
I NEED HELP!!! We now do have a ROM stage lighting set. WE DO NOT HAVE a Stage lighting Volunteer at this time. Though we have gone this many years without, (I feel it adds a sense of FOCUS more on the Performers on stage ). If anyone out there is willing to Volunteer their services to do the lighting set up and take down to get in touch with me.
Our ROMuhost Mentorship Program This is a wonderful idea that I stole/borrowed from my dear friend Ellen Schmidt. Ellen has had great success with having Volunteers do some hosting for parts of her many Venues. I only have one that I am trying to get Volunteers for and it is very simple and Open to anyone to try. It is simply giving our dear host at ROM, Mike Delaney a break and let him do more music, (we like that)!!! It is just introducing the next performer or a series of performers you may feel comfortable in presenting. Most of you would love to NOT hear me babble on so I am trying to get the help for me too!!! I am NOT a host at all, I am just the pix guy!!!
I will close this part of the Blog with those thought's Please do come and join us at ROM whenever possible. Please continue to go to the many other venues that support local music/spoken word and all the Arts as well!!!
Upcoming announcements: I will do my best to remember these in order by date. I encourage you to seek out as many of these wonderful venues as possible for our dear friends as well as the causes that are most important and represented.
On Saturday Oct 15th at Amazing Things Art Ctr: Dan Cloutier will be having his "Blind Willie's Lighthouse" CD Release Party at 8 PM for tix please go to www.amazingthings.org I have the CD it is
a masterpiece of Great artistry & listening.
On Sunday Oct 16th at Passims: Tom Smith and Randall Kromm and their daughters, Mally, Emma & Grace will split the bill at 8PM for tix and info please go to either the Passim website and or Tom Smith or Randall's website listed on the right side of this Blog. Also this show will be THE CD release party for Tom Smith's first studio CD called "Journey Home", it will be an amazing show and as an added attraction Seth Connelly will be playing with these amazing singersongwriter friends of ours!
On Thursday October 20th at the Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley,Ma: Jane Fallon will be Hosting, playing and running a wonderful show which will be a combined, Tribute to our gone too soon friend Bill Morrissey as well as her Fundraising goal to help suport her walk in California Walk for Suicide Prevention and Depression Awareness. It will be an incredible show with a large group of well know local singersongwriters! Tix are only $10.00 and for a great cause please go to Jane's website for all the details at: www.janefallon.com/tribute.html
On Thursday Oct 27th at St. Columbkille Church: there will be a benefit for Saint Columbkille Partnership School Our dear friend of ROM Michael James - Violinist, will be performing along with Brazilain Guitarist & Composer Rogerio Dentello. Also on the bill will be Celtic Harpist & Composer Maeve Gilchrist as well as Libby Wu who is a 4th grade student at the Saint Columbkille Partnership school on piano. For tix and info please call Mary Battles at 617-254-3110 ext 105.
All my best to each and every one of you. Thanks so much for your continued support of ROM and all the Arts. We need so much to keep all the Arts Alive!!!
Always, Neal :))))
Thank you all so much for the genuine Support of Roslindae Open Mike that both Mike Delaney and I have been so very blessed with. This is, as you may already figure, (for those that know my technology talents = NONE), my attempt to jot my infrequent ROM Community Blog.
I do want to begin by thanking our most recent past Features at ROM which begins when I last jotted with, David Hoffman, Diane Brown, Harvey Rudman, Randall Kromm, Dan and Faith Senie and just last night, Stephen & The Snake!!!!
To all of you, thanks for being who you are and what you offered to our audiences in so many varying types of the performance skills yet always riveting and helping us secure the Foundation of what the ROM Community is. WE are so totally blessed in our little spot on this big Globe to have so very many wonderful artist's that do always come and play at ROM but also, we are additionally blessed by so many remarkable, Open Mike/Coffehouse/spoken word and the like Host's that make all of our Local music/spoken word artists heard and heard every day of every week!! Mike & I know that you cannot always be with us on Monday as there as so many others Venues on that very same night. WE do our best to help advertise at ROM for each and evry Venue even if they are on the same night. This is NOT about competition it is about spreading the word of the Arts!!
If any of you reading this may have a flier you like us to display at ROM please simply send it to my attention to neal@roslindaleopenmike.org and it will be displayed. I do have several important and upcoming announcements and Fundraiser info I will put at the end of this note.
Our next feature at ROM will be on 10-24-11. This will be a Feature by a performer that many of you know and have been to his very own recording studio, Melville Park Studio to record your own Cd's.
Our next Feature is none other than STEVE FRIEDMAN. This will be a first in a long time for Steve to be performing at ROM as he is always behind the console doing recordings of each and every performer that comes to ROM. For those of you who have not had a chance to hear Steve Friedman on stage performing this is a show NOT to miss!!! ( I wonder if Steve will let me touch his recording stuff so we can have a Steve friedman CD????)
I NEED HELP!!! We now do have a ROM stage lighting set. WE DO NOT HAVE a Stage lighting Volunteer at this time. Though we have gone this many years without, (I feel it adds a sense of FOCUS more on the Performers on stage ). If anyone out there is willing to Volunteer their services to do the lighting set up and take down to get in touch with me.
Our ROMuhost Mentorship Program This is a wonderful idea that I stole/borrowed from my dear friend Ellen Schmidt. Ellen has had great success with having Volunteers do some hosting for parts of her many Venues. I only have one that I am trying to get Volunteers for and it is very simple and Open to anyone to try. It is simply giving our dear host at ROM, Mike Delaney a break and let him do more music, (we like that)!!! It is just introducing the next performer or a series of performers you may feel comfortable in presenting. Most of you would love to NOT hear me babble on so I am trying to get the help for me too!!! I am NOT a host at all, I am just the pix guy!!!
I will close this part of the Blog with those thought's Please do come and join us at ROM whenever possible. Please continue to go to the many other venues that support local music/spoken word and all the Arts as well!!!
Upcoming announcements: I will do my best to remember these in order by date. I encourage you to seek out as many of these wonderful venues as possible for our dear friends as well as the causes that are most important and represented.
On Saturday Oct 15th at Amazing Things Art Ctr: Dan Cloutier will be having his "Blind Willie's Lighthouse" CD Release Party at 8 PM for tix please go to www.amazingthings.org I have the CD it is
a masterpiece of Great artistry & listening.
On Sunday Oct 16th at Passims: Tom Smith and Randall Kromm and their daughters, Mally, Emma & Grace will split the bill at 8PM for tix and info please go to either the Passim website and or Tom Smith or Randall's website listed on the right side of this Blog. Also this show will be THE CD release party for Tom Smith's first studio CD called "Journey Home", it will be an amazing show and as an added attraction Seth Connelly will be playing with these amazing singersongwriter friends of ours!
On Thursday October 20th at the Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley,Ma: Jane Fallon will be Hosting, playing and running a wonderful show which will be a combined, Tribute to our gone too soon friend Bill Morrissey as well as her Fundraising goal to help suport her walk in California Walk for Suicide Prevention and Depression Awareness. It will be an incredible show with a large group of well know local singersongwriters! Tix are only $10.00 and for a great cause please go to Jane's website for all the details at: www.janefallon.com/tribute.html
On Thursday Oct 27th at St. Columbkille Church: there will be a benefit for Saint Columbkille Partnership School Our dear friend of ROM Michael James - Violinist, will be performing along with Brazilain Guitarist & Composer Rogerio Dentello. Also on the bill will be Celtic Harpist & Composer Maeve Gilchrist as well as Libby Wu who is a 4th grade student at the Saint Columbkille Partnership school on piano. For tix and info please call Mary Battles at 617-254-3110 ext 105.
All my best to each and every one of you. Thanks so much for your continued support of ROM and all the Arts. We need so much to keep all the Arts Alive!!!
Always, Neal :))))
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Happy New England Fall Everyone!!
Dear Friends,
I know my Blogs are at best infequent but I do my best to keep up! Before I say anything, I do truly want to thank, Carolyn Waters, David Hoffman, Diane Brown, Harvey Rudman and Randall Kromm for such incredible Features at ROM most recently. All the shows were, (thanks to each & everyone of you), well attended and the Community of Artist's were in the house!!!.
Mike & I are looking forward to our upcoming ROM this Monday
9-26-11 when our Feature will be the most talented Dan & Faith Senie. If you have NOT seen these 2 in concert, this is one show you do NOT want to miss! Hope to see you soon!!
I do have some requested annoucements for dear friends and wonderful causes!! Before I do go there I do ask that you please take a look at your websites to the right side of the screen and if I am missing any, or they are no longer accurate please do feel free to jot to me as I do want as much cutting edge info on all our dear friends of ROM. I do have a some Volunteer needs. Our thanks to Darwin MacDonald who was our stage lighting Volunteer. Darwin's job does now require him to be working durng our times of ROM. Thanks for all you did for us Darwin but now we are seeking someone to Volunteer to manage our Lighting board with both set up and take down. If you may be tech savvy which you all know, I am NOT!! Please do let me know. Even if we set up a rotating schedule, any help will be great help!!!
We, at the Museum of Fine Artist's at Roslsindale Open Mike have really out-grown our wall space and tables! If anyone may know where I may be able to get a table top, light -weight swivel Poster holder donated/used ect that would save me so much set up and break down time as well as funds.
We do have several upcoming wonderful shows of dear friends of ROM. I will do my best to copy & paste as I am bad at paraphrasing. I will add these, I hope by the earliest date and onward.
The first of these is our Dear friend and very talented Tom Smith will be getting ready to release his first studio CD!!! I will start Toms note here:
Tom Smith The Kitchen Musician ~ Sept. 2011
I know my Blogs are at best infequent but I do my best to keep up! Before I say anything, I do truly want to thank, Carolyn Waters, David Hoffman, Diane Brown, Harvey Rudman and Randall Kromm for such incredible Features at ROM most recently. All the shows were, (thanks to each & everyone of you), well attended and the Community of Artist's were in the house!!!.
Mike & I are looking forward to our upcoming ROM this Monday
9-26-11 when our Feature will be the most talented Dan & Faith Senie. If you have NOT seen these 2 in concert, this is one show you do NOT want to miss! Hope to see you soon!!
I do have some requested annoucements for dear friends and wonderful causes!! Before I do go there I do ask that you please take a look at your websites to the right side of the screen and if I am missing any, or they are no longer accurate please do feel free to jot to me as I do want as much cutting edge info on all our dear friends of ROM. I do have a some Volunteer needs. Our thanks to Darwin MacDonald who was our stage lighting Volunteer. Darwin's job does now require him to be working durng our times of ROM. Thanks for all you did for us Darwin but now we are seeking someone to Volunteer to manage our Lighting board with both set up and take down. If you may be tech savvy which you all know, I am NOT!! Please do let me know. Even if we set up a rotating schedule, any help will be great help!!!
We, at the Museum of Fine Artist's at Roslsindale Open Mike have really out-grown our wall space and tables! If anyone may know where I may be able to get a table top, light -weight swivel Poster holder donated/used ect that would save me so much set up and break down time as well as funds.
We do have several upcoming wonderful shows of dear friends of ROM. I will do my best to copy & paste as I am bad at paraphrasing. I will add these, I hope by the earliest date and onward.
The first of these is our Dear friend and very talented Tom Smith will be getting ready to release his first studio CD!!! I will start Toms note here:
Tom Smith The Kitchen Musician ~ Sept. 2011
Hello Friends,
Big musical news this month. Announcing Journey Home, my first studio album of original songs, to be distributed by Birch Beer Records. And several big shows coming up, including my first feature show at Club Passim on Oct 16th, my CD release celebration at Amazing Things Arts Center on Nov 6th, and the launch of my kickstarter campaign to support the new CD. Come into the kitchen, and I’ll fill you in on all of the exciting details!
Index:
News: My New CD!
This Month’s Music: “Journey Home” (The kickstarter video)
Upcoming Shows
Featured Non-Profit: Ample Harvest (Using nature’s bounty to feed the hungry)
News: My New CD!
This Month’s Music: “Journey Home” (The kickstarter video)
Upcoming Shows
Featured Non-Profit: Ample Harvest (Using nature’s bounty to feed the hungry)
News:
It is with great pleasure that I announce that my new CD Journey Home is finished and sent to manufacturing. I am extremely proud of the songwriting and musicianship on this album. It was a labor of love. It sounds great, in part because of the superior talents of the folks who have collaborated with me. Most importantly Seth Connelly, who produced, recorded, edited and mixed it with great care. Equally important, Seth has been my creative partner. I left each studio session telling myself that I am so fortunate to work with such a talented man.
Joining me on this album are some stellar musicians, including Mally Smith and Alle Santiago (vocals), Oen Kennedy (vocals and whistling), Joyce Andersen (fiddle and viola), Sean Staples (mandolin), Eric Royer (banjo), Billy Novick (clarinet) and Seth Connelly (vocals, guitar, upright bass, mandolin, banjo and bouzouki).
To help me share this album with the world, Birch Beer Records will be doing the distribution. You can purchase my CD from Birch Beer records starting Nov. 8, 2011. It is an honor to be included as a Birch Beer Records artist. Although a young company, BBR has a strong track record and growing presence in supporting the best of local music in my home state of Massachusetts. My new album “Journey Home” is a perfect fit. Although each BBR title is unique, all have a common respect for what I call music that is on a human scale. No big dollar productions here – just great songwriting delivered by top notch musicians in warm acoustic settings. It is wonderful to be in such company.
Now I am asking for your help to take this project across the finish line. The post-production tasks of graphic design, disc mastering and manufacturing will cost over $2500. I have created a Kickstarter campaign to help me reach that goal. Via the Kickstarter project page you can pre-order the CD (to be received BEFORE the CD release celebration). There are also other rewards if you pledge even more to the campaign. The following video was created to tell you a little bit about the campaign, and how you can help.
This Month’s Music “Journey Home (The Kickstarter video)”
© 2010 Tom Smith, Peabody Hill Publishing
© 2010 Tom Smith, Peabody Hill Publishing
Click the image above to play the video.
To visit my Kickstarter page, pre-order Journey Home and learn about other ways to support the release of my CD, please click the link below.
Thank you for your support, encouragement and friendship!
Peace and music,
- Tom
Next is: Michael James Violinist and has been to ROM and played most recently with Bill Duncan on his CD Release Party and has played with severall other folks will be part of a Benefit Concert for Saint Columbkille Partenrship School 321 Market St, Brighton Ma. on October 27, 2011 froim 7-10PM the fee is $10.00 For additional Concert info please contact Mary Battles at 617-254-3110 ext 105. This show will feature Brazilian Guitarist & Composer Rogerio Dentello & Michael James, Celtic Harpist & Composer Maeve Gilchrist and also Featuring Local artist, Libby Wu, a 4th grade student at Saint Columkilles Partnership school.
The Final note is on behalf of our dear friend Jane Fallon, Jane has been working so very hard on a multi-focal Tribute Show for the Late Bill Morrissey as well as her overnight walk and Fundraiser for Suicide Prevention and Depression. Janes walk will take place in San Francisco but this tribute show will take place on Oct 20,2011 at the Bull Run Restauraunt in Shirley, Ma. The entry fee for this event is only $10.00 and all monies are going for these great causes and the entry fee will also enter each purchaser to Raffles, Door Prizes and many other things being added. I will add the following link for Jane's ceaseless work and do wish to say, I do hope to see you at this wonderful event on Thursday eve, 10-20-11. www.janefallon.com/treibute.html
We are so blessed with all around us in the greater Boston area with some of the finest music and spoken word Venues anywhere!!! We at ROM of course are partial and would love to see you when able, to join us at ROM but if ROM is for the moment, this week too far for you to travel, just look around in your local area to help support all local artist of all variety's that is what Community is and does!!
Please know when you are able to join us at ROM, you are all always welcome and please, remember that we are all Volunteer and a NO Cost Venue where food and beverage are supplied at no cost at well. Whether you sing, play any musical instrument, spoken word, do magic, comedy or anything that is family friendly, we are open to having you join us. We also try each venue to have a newer and ever changing audience that may even just come to join us to listen. Whichever category you may fit, you will be welcomed at Roslindale Open Mike!
To all our composers please remember the Songwritier/Spoken word Challenge is over the coming year come up with a themed piece which may be inclusive of the idea of "You are the Reason". There is no specific YOU or REASON!! We of course would love you to perform this at ROM but play it elsewhere as well and please do spread the word!!
Hope to see & hear you all soon, Always, Neal :)))
Friday, August 19, 2011
Plenty of great music and entertainment at ROM upcoming!!!
Hello dear friends,
This will be a brief note just to remind you of few special items!!!
The first one of course is to HAVE AN AWESOME SUMMER!!!!
2ND - TO ALL OUR SAMW CAMP KIDZ PAST AND THIS COMING WEEK HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT WEEK 1 AND WILL HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK 2.
Speaking of week 2 at SAMW. While our wonderful HOST Mike Delaney will be away at Camp, Bill Duncan has gracioulsy again this year offered to fill in for Mike in the Host and audio portion of this week's upcoming Feature on 8-22- 11 and our ROM Feature will be HARVEY RUDMAN!!!!!
We hope to see you there and again my thanks go out to Bill Duncan for helping out with our audio/host setting while Mike is away.
Speaking of host's, our ROMuhost Mentorship Program has been a wonderful success!! For those that may have missed it, it is simply volunteering to introduce upcoming performers as Mike usually does as well as make announcements ect. This is a NO Pressure involvement and if at the beginning of any show you would be interested in doing this please just see me and you can do it for 1 intro or for several. It is completely flexible and we try to be user friendly in mentoring as you go along!! I must tell you this os NOT my idea, I saw it work so very well at my dear friend Ellen Schmidt's venues which I highly would highly recommend if you have NOT been to one please take a look at Ellen's website which is: www.ellenschmidt.com
Also for those of you who may be going away to camp and for those of you "In the Mood" for a songwriter/artist challenge, I have added a new title which I would love to see folks start writng songs. poetry, artwork ect about and this will be for a Future project, but would love to hear new pieces written or interpreted by you or one you know of which contains the theme of
"YOU ARE THE REASON". It is a non specific YOU as well as REASON. It can be about a loved one, a caring anybody, a nod to any Military and or any folks in all our Emergency Services Professions that place themselves in harms way to care for all of us and our families. If you can think of anything you could jot on the topic, we would love to hear it at ROM...
I look forward to seeing and hearing you all on Monday!! Have a great weekend and Until we meet again.... Always, Neal :))))
This will be a brief note just to remind you of few special items!!!
The first one of course is to HAVE AN AWESOME SUMMER!!!!
2ND - TO ALL OUR SAMW CAMP KIDZ PAST AND THIS COMING WEEK HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT WEEK 1 AND WILL HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK 2.
Speaking of week 2 at SAMW. While our wonderful HOST Mike Delaney will be away at Camp, Bill Duncan has gracioulsy again this year offered to fill in for Mike in the Host and audio portion of this week's upcoming Feature on 8-22- 11 and our ROM Feature will be HARVEY RUDMAN!!!!!
We hope to see you there and again my thanks go out to Bill Duncan for helping out with our audio/host setting while Mike is away.
Speaking of host's, our ROMuhost Mentorship Program has been a wonderful success!! For those that may have missed it, it is simply volunteering to introduce upcoming performers as Mike usually does as well as make announcements ect. This is a NO Pressure involvement and if at the beginning of any show you would be interested in doing this please just see me and you can do it for 1 intro or for several. It is completely flexible and we try to be user friendly in mentoring as you go along!! I must tell you this os NOT my idea, I saw it work so very well at my dear friend Ellen Schmidt's venues which I highly would highly recommend if you have NOT been to one please take a look at Ellen's website which is: www.ellenschmidt.com
Also for those of you who may be going away to camp and for those of you "In the Mood" for a songwriter/artist challenge, I have added a new title which I would love to see folks start writng songs. poetry, artwork ect about and this will be for a Future project, but would love to hear new pieces written or interpreted by you or one you know of which contains the theme of
"YOU ARE THE REASON". It is a non specific YOU as well as REASON. It can be about a loved one, a caring anybody, a nod to any Military and or any folks in all our Emergency Services Professions that place themselves in harms way to care for all of us and our families. If you can think of anything you could jot on the topic, we would love to hear it at ROM...
I look forward to seeing and hearing you all on Monday!! Have a great weekend and Until we meet again.... Always, Neal :))))
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Happy belated August to one and all!!!!
Hi Folks,
I do hope you are all enjoying as much of this New England Weather Summer that we are all too used to around here!! The heat cannot and has NOT deterred out incredible ROMulin Community as our shows are and will continue to be so much fun. I/we do want to thank each and every one of you that join us at ROM for each Venue we hold and with each Venue we go home smiling having just witnessed a wonderful Community of Artist's at work!!! We had 2 totally wonderful features since my previous Blog as Computer issues and my lack of computer knowledge holds me from being a dependable blogger!!!
Let me wholeheartedly thank Carolyn Waters for her fabulous feature on 7-11-11 and David Hoffman for his Feature which he chose to call, an Evening of Flamingo vs Classical gutar playing. Both Carolyn and David did a fantastic job at entertaining our audience at ROM with totally different and both totally wonderful styles and artforms. I do believe that is the beauty of The Comunity and the Museum of Fine Artist's at Roslindale Mike that keeps us an ever changing venue which is what the Arts are all about and we are so blessed in our area to have some of the finest venues for Music & the Arts right here in New England and in our case more specifically the Greater Boston Area!!!
Using that as a segway I do want to make mention of a few Venues of folks very near and dear to us at ROM. I will add what they have said and ask you to contact them directly for any follow up questions.
The first of mention will be 2 of our very dear ROMulins, (Junko Ogawa & Craig Sonnenfeld), will be taking their artform to CT. this weekend and here is the info:
This info is from Junko's website which is www.junkosings.com
8/06/2011 Saturday
Friday, 8/19/11 Noon - with Beth DeSombre; Kicking off the Eco-Stage; 2 pm - with Ken Porter; Opening for Mayor Menino
I do hope you are all enjoying as much of this New England Weather Summer that we are all too used to around here!! The heat cannot and has NOT deterred out incredible ROMulin Community as our shows are and will continue to be so much fun. I/we do want to thank each and every one of you that join us at ROM for each Venue we hold and with each Venue we go home smiling having just witnessed a wonderful Community of Artist's at work!!! We had 2 totally wonderful features since my previous Blog as Computer issues and my lack of computer knowledge holds me from being a dependable blogger!!!
Let me wholeheartedly thank Carolyn Waters for her fabulous feature on 7-11-11 and David Hoffman for his Feature which he chose to call, an Evening of Flamingo vs Classical gutar playing. Both Carolyn and David did a fantastic job at entertaining our audience at ROM with totally different and both totally wonderful styles and artforms. I do believe that is the beauty of The Comunity and the Museum of Fine Artist's at Roslindale Mike that keeps us an ever changing venue which is what the Arts are all about and we are so blessed in our area to have some of the finest venues for Music & the Arts right here in New England and in our case more specifically the Greater Boston Area!!!
Using that as a segway I do want to make mention of a few Venues of folks very near and dear to us at ROM. I will add what they have said and ask you to contact them directly for any follow up questions.
The first of mention will be 2 of our very dear ROMulins, (Junko Ogawa & Craig Sonnenfeld), will be taking their artform to CT. this weekend and here is the info:
This info is from Junko's website which is www.junkosings.com
8/06/2011 Saturday
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Jitters Coffee House
W/ Craig Sonnenfeld
1273 Queen Street
Southington, CT 06469
860 – 747 – 1100
www.Jittersclub.com
Jitters Coffee House
W/ Craig Sonnenfeld
1273 Queen Street
Southington, CT 06469
860 – 747 – 1100
www.Jittersclub.com
8/20/2011 Saturday 8:00PM – 10:00PM
Somerville Songwriter Sessions with John Fuzek
Cafe at Arts at the Amory Center
191 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA
Somerville Songwriter Sessions with John Fuzek
Cafe at Arts at the Amory Center
191 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA
After this weekend event in Ct. we want you all to come right back home to ROM as you know the old saying, all roads lead to ROM. Our next incredible feature on Monday, (aka ROMDAY ) on 8-8-11 will be Diane Brown I know Diane has been rehearsing for a fabulous feature and would be delighted to see all of you, even those week 1 SAMW folks that just spent a wonderful week together of, learning, networking and the most musical week of their lives, to join us. Then of course we are looking for those of you going along to week 2 of SAMW along with my dear Mike Delaney for his annual sabbatical away from ROM!! Diane will do a super show for us at ROM and we are totally looking forward to it!!!
Special note to all: There is construction on going along Cummings Highway. Thus far they are NOT down to the Church but please do use caution as part of the roadway leading to the Church has grooved pavement. I was unable to find out how close to the church they will be by Monday. Please just use caution on approach and all will be fine!!!
The very next night after ROM this week will be Ellen Schmidt's Nourish venue whith the info is enclosed here;
Upcoming performers in August at Nourish August 9 Jake Kensinger BNAN benefit and birthday night. (“Loose Change")
August 23 - Kate Frassinelli and Dan & Faith Senie (John Loretz and Mary White)
August 30 - Rob carlson and Jane Fallon (Jeff Root)
Note: The names in parentheses are mini-set artists.
Final on the the reminder list is Mike Delaney with be playing a wondeful event as listed below!!!
Friday, 8/19/11 Noon - with Beth DeSombre; Kicking off the Eco-Stage; 2 pm - with Ken Porter; Opening for Mayor Menino
Boston City Hall Plaza
Boston, MA 02109
Free
The region's largest multicultral environmental festival, and I'll be the first music performer of the event. Stop by to hear some great music and learn ways to green our lives and our communities.For any info Mike's website is: www.mikedelaney.org
That's it for now folks, we totally look forward to seeing and hearing you this coming Monday for Diane Brown's Feature at ROM. Please remember to support all of our wonderful local Venue for the Arts, Please be happy and be safe!!
C ya, soon, Always, Neal :)))
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