Saturday, December 24, 2011

Season's Greeting one and all in our ROM FAMILY!!!!

 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 :)))

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 :)))