Thanks to each and every one of you that literally & figuratively spent a very HOT & HUMID summer with Mike & myself as our guest's at Roslindale Open Mike at an undeniably uncomfortable summer! It was the Warmth of the Community within ROM that kept all of you joining venue after venue and we both wish to simply say thank you!!!!
Thanks also to our past 2 Features since my last Blog, Our thanks to Chief Noda for an incredible evening of artistic mastery of the guitar and of course his wonderful humor. Also many thanks to Kim Jennings for a fabulous Feature at ROM and all that she does to help advocate for Live, Local Music & all the Arts. We have been very honored by these feature performers most certainly but our Foundation at ROM is ALL of YOU that join us for our Open Mike both as performers as well as great listeners that do in some cases become most wonderful performers.
HOT OFF THE ROMUPRESS!!!!!! ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 from
2 -5 PM WILL BE OUR LONG ANTICIPATED FUNDRAISER FOR HELPING ROSLINDALE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, "HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE". PLEASE SEE THE INCLUDED FLIER! Please note new time above!! OOPS!!!
Please do come to this day time Fundraiser for this wonderful Church that has continued to recognize the importance of all the Arts and has continued to offer their Home of ROM to others for many Fundraisers throughout our many years of involvement. This Fundraiser is very important in the goal of achieving complete access to ALL to this Beautiful building that can be found in the National book of Historic Buildings. WE do ask that you ALL join us and bring the family, kids, young and old. If day care needs are requested please contact me at neal@rolsindaleopenmike.org. My daughter has offered to help out with this and depending on the numbers will have the help of girls from her Girls Leadership Corps she is part of. Face-painting and other surprises may be possible. The kids will be in good care within the same building. The entry fee to see these fabulous Performers will be from your heart. Whatever you can afford is what we will accept. We of course hope you are able to join us and we will have refreshments available. Both our sets of Performers will be coming with CD's which are fabulous, I can say that as I have them all!!! Leslie & Steve just released their new CD!! To make the point, please do join us, if cost is a reason you may not come, please come, no one will question that but we will welcome all that join us to hear some absolutely incredible performers!!! See You there!!!!!!!!
Our upcoming ROM is this coming Monday 9-10-12. Our Feature Performer will be the multi-talented singer/songwriter MARK STEPAKOFF (www.markstepakoff.com) Mark is the host of yet another wonderful Open Mike TCAN in Natick. Please come and join us at ROM for this long anticipated show.
WE have lots of great music coming up as always all around us!!!!
Tomorrow night 9-6-12 ,we have our dear friend Craig Sonnenfeld featuring out at Amazing Things in Framingham please see Craig's website to the right of this Blog. Amazing Things has many incredible upcoming Features on their Thursday Venues. Dan Cloutier the host of Amazing Things Open Mike,
just keeps getting it done for Live Local Music. The following week new friend of ROM, Al Cath with dear friend of ROM Steve Rapson and a list of others will Feature. I do also know there are special upcoming shows which Features other ROMulins please see Tom Smith's website to the side of this blog as he will be opening for David Mallet at same location. All times and dates for so many events are available on all the websites that are on this Blog page.
Very close to home, Our dear Host of ROM Mike Delaney will be performing at the Carver Farmers Market with friends on 9-9-12 from NOON to 4PM and Mike has many other upcoming Gigs 2 other will be at the Norwood Farmers Market with Patti DeRosa. Please see Mike's website on this page for all shows times and locations or ask him about future ones when you come to ROM this coming Monday!!!!
Junko Ogawa will be Performing at Main Sts. Market & Cafe on 9-12-12, 8-11 PM Please see Junko's website as well as Licia Sky & Ron Hertz for this very wonderful show!!
Last schedule note for this Blog, Our dear friend Ellen Schmidt begins her new season of the Emerson Umbrella, VERY IMPORTANT for all of us that have always supported Ellen's Umbrella Venue. The Venue will now be on Sunday nights! Ellen's first show will be on Sunday 9-16-12. It will be a fabulous season kick off with my dear and very talented friends Seth Connelly & Jackie Damsky as the feature and NO doubt so many of us for our ROM Community will be in the house and performing as well. Please see Ellen's website on this page for all times and events!!!
Thanks for listening to my earful, Please also remember if we are transitioning from ROM being an ALL junk-food venue to bringing in veggies and fruits. There will still be a few sweets for our crowd but we want to make sure we address any and all Community needs as best we can. If you can bring any Veggies for our next ROM or a bag of apples, fruits etc. please feel free to jot me and we would love to have the Community feed the Community especially if it comes out of your own very special gardens!!!
Many thanks to one and all and we'll C ya at ROM this coming Monday 9-12-12
All my best, Always, Neal :))))
