A most Happy upcoming Father's Day to ALL our Fathers in our Community as well as HAPPY EVERYDAY!! TO ALL!!!

Greetings to ALL my Dear friends of ROM since my last of my series of Very "Infrequent Blogs". There are so many thanks and accolades to pass on I do not know where to start but I will do my best.

Since my Last Blog, Please accept my heartfelt thanks and admiration for our past Features beginning with Roberto and Kathryn who did a stunning job at ROM and are now doing show in NYC and places beyond as they so deserve!!! Thanks to  dear friend Jim Palana who from the very invite to Feature, did accept the Feature at ROM on the basis that ALL the monies that he did collect for his part of his pass the "NOT HAT" would go directly to helping ROM stay on it's feet. Due to Jim's Kind offer, for those of you that may not have been able to join us at ROM recently, we have a brand new Exterior ROM sign, multi-color and really classy that now adorns the outside of the Church of ROM on our ROM nights. This is something I had wanted to get for several years now and it is thanks to Jim Palana for NOT only a Fabulous Feature but also now a brand new sign to help promote ROM to our Community and those that are new as well as those who are  HUGE parts of our always growing ROMulin Community! Thanks Jim!!!
Another HUGE thanks to Gerry Ryan, Charlie Ortolani and Melissa Fleming for a great Feature at ROM and being on heels  of the Boston Marathon Tragedy  brought with their Feature more joy hope and a sense of what we all now know of "Boston Strong"!!!! Ryan , Ortolani and Fleming also donated their Pass the "NOT HAT" to the Church, ROM for whatever we felt was needed and appropriate!! I do want you to know that we did send a large Donation to "ONE FUND BOSTON" in the name of these 3 wonderful people as we felt this would be such a very important and needed time to show our Community at ROM supporting a Community that never should have been and I/we do so hope that this donation along with so much else that has and will continue to go on thru Music, Spoken Word and the Arts in general for ALL this that were in any way affected by the Marathon Day Tragedy.  That being said I do want to add something here that I am so very proud of and that is our most wonderful Host of ROM Mike Delaney, what he always does and continues to do so here are a few words from Mike.


 I'm honored that my "Boston Strong" Song is helping out the One Fund Boston effort for the Boston Marathon victims. A total of 41 artists have donated their efforts for this most worthy project. The compilation includes local favorites David Roth, Chuck Williams, and Colette O'Connor. Please check it out at www.holdonanotherday.org, make a donation, and download the music. I even wrote the title track!

YEAH and thanks so much for your always giving, Mike!!!

Ruthann Baler came along with her most wonderfully talented son Sam Baler, Oen Kennedy and Joe Fredette, what an incredible show we had that night and just so many people continue simply to come and pay tribute to each and every one of you that honor us NOT only as Features but even more so, our very honored and very essential Foundation to our wonderful success at ROM our Open Mike Performers!!!!! Many thanks To Suzanne Mrozak and Brian Cartwright for an incredible show of great Traditional Folk Music and also for bringing out so many and varied different folks in our audience who sang, I do believe along with each and every one of your songs!!!!! To Suzanne & Brian another thank you for your kind gift of your "Pass the NOT HAT" to Roslindale Congregational Church the place we call the Church of ROM for allowing us now well into year 5 of ROM!!! Most recently just this past Monday are great thanks to J. Johnson and Chris Reckling (AKA The Splinters), for a great show that brought all in the house to their feet in both song and dance and just such a most wonderful feel good Feature time!!!  WE are just halfway into our ROM-2013 Season and I cannot thank all our past Features of this and other years as well as all our Features yet to come as part of ROM-2013. Mike & I have been so honored to have each of you so close to us within this tiny place we call ROM WE have another great half a year to come with our next Feature being the Fabulous Bob Bloom who with be a real treat so please come ready to be an active part of this wonderful percussion extrodinare's Feature as he will be bringing things for each one of us to be part of his Feature and as many of you know we always have back up percussion instruments available at ROM for any one to use please do visit Bob Bloom's website as Bob is NOT too local as he is trucking in from Ct. on his Feature night but you will go home with a participatory smile on your face. Visit Bob's website to get an idea of what we are all in for on this wonderful night on 6-24-13. 
www.drumming-about-you.com

Please do take a look at ALL the websites to the right of this Blog as we are blessed with so many wonderful Artist's within our ever growing ROMulin Community!

All That being said, I do want to thanks each & everyone of you for you continue support and kind words and constructive thoughts about ROM throughout these many years now. Each year Mike and I have recd more and more Requests for Features at ROM. Last year I cut off the Feature request's for this year in the latter part of August or September, so recent yet I cannot remember. WE cut it off with close to 180 requests for only 23 Venues. As of this jotting we are just  6 months into our ROM year and have already exceeded 200 requests for Features. This is so totally an honor to both Mike & myself!!! Thank you to all for your non stop interest in ROM. Mike & I try to be as fair as we can when deciding on our always changing but following years Features as well as always open to ROM Format Changes by constructive comments by any and ALL of you. Please feel free to send any of these idea pro or con but Constructive to our Website Homepage, GUESTbook section and feel free to make your thoughts known to our community!!! The most frequently asked question that Mike & I as well as many of your friends may well ask is: How does one get a feature at ROM. Those of you who are part of our ROMulin Community are the example of how one does that. It is quite simple, You come as often as possible to ROM. WE have in the past 5 years had very few repeat Features and I do hope this Blog does explain why that is the case. WE have been so very blessed with folks that seldom step down from a committed Feature as well as an always changing atmosphere within our ROMulin Community. To those of you who have Featured at ROM in the past and since then, may have featured multiple times at other venues, please do understand this is in NO WAY a slight toward YOU but rather a fairness attempt to fill our mere 23 slots with folks that Mike & I ultimately decide are our Choices to Feature for next or any particular year at ROM. WE cannot thank you enough for the Ultimate Tribute you pay us at ROM and that is Showing up, knowing full well, the likelihood of getting another feature at ROM, any time soon, is slim yet you continue to come to enjoy and be part of this most wonderful Community!
 Mike & I will now be cutting off any further requests for ROM-2014. WE always do maintain a back up list for folks that for whatever reason are unable to make it the night of their Feature. Also I did want to let everyone know. Each year at ROM, we restart our ROM Feature request List! This is to NOT to dismiss anyone but to make sure whomever was on the list the year before is still interested.

Thanks for all each and every one of you do to continue to make ROM what it is, has been and will be re-shaped into the Future to be!!! Hope to C you all soon, Please be Safe, Happy & Healthy and we ALWAYS Love to See you at ROM whether you perform or are part of listening audience!! Also and lastly please remember, we are ALL so very blessed to be surrounded by so many incredible Live Local Music and Spoken Word Venues, Get out there and check them all out even if they fall on a ROM night. You will always be welcome back to ROM!! Go out and see how other venues run their venues and bring back any great idea's you may get from them and talk to Mike or myself or anyone at ROM as we are always open to constructive thought and will always do our best to be fair to all!!!

Happy Everday to each of you and may the lights of all of your lives continue to shine on & warm the hearts each other!!!

Always, Neal :))))