Our thanks to you, Our multiple rays of Light sent throughout our ROMulin Community of Artists!!!!

Hello Dear Friends

 I have continued this very Infrequent Blog for the 1st time January of this year of 2016. I am sending this brief note to  just thanks ALL of you that may receive this note. I know some of you have & have not been  able to be with us at ROM of late!  I also know how very much care and Love you have shared with me about so many within our Great Community of Artist's that have been so affected by everything that Life comes with each and Everyday!!

 I have always said, from my Dear Grandma at age 99  when she shared this special piece of Knowledge that , "Betta Days is Coming Honey"!

 I have always believed and Lived by this creed  gifted to me by my Grandma many years ago.

 I do wanted to add a note about a very Special Event our Community is holding this coming Saturday for one of our Dearest ROMulin Community members  who is a Dear Friend to all within our Community of Artists. That most wonderful person is Rick Goggin. i will insert here a note from Junko Ogawa who has led all that is going on for this weeks Rick Goggin Benefit. I do hope to see any and all of you that can make it there! If you cannot make the Benefit show  and you are able, Junko has left a way for you to still Contribute to this great event. Please consider anything you can offer. It will be a great night for a Great Cause for a Dear Friend. Here is how Junko has put it!!!!


Rick Goggin Benefit -Fundraising, this Saturday, Oct.1st , 7PM - 11PM at Elks Hall West Roxbury. 1 Morrell Street, West Roxbury, MA 02132. ( the corner of Spring St. and Morrell St.), Ticket:$35, Buffet Dinner, Cash Bar, Open Mic ( Sorry, the sign up is already closed ), Raffle, and Silent Auction. Please support and purchase your tickets on line https:www.eventbrite.com/e/rick-goggin-benefit-fundraising-tickets-27756315888    or E-mail Junko Ogawa, Junkosings@gmail.com to reserve your tickets. 

If you cannot make it to the fundraiser benefit  this Saturday, Oct.1st but still would like to contribute, please visit https://igg.me/at/aZKerqKqbCs

or please mail your contribution check (payable to Rick Goggin Benefit) to:

             Rick Goggin Benefit, PO Box 590625, Newton Centre, MA 02459

                                                 Thank you very much.

                                           I do still have tickets myself!!

 One  of my Favorite quotes that I so enjoy and I find is so appropriate for this note It reminds me so much of each and every one of you within our Communities that are vast and this outreach is International on this tiny Globe we all call and Love as our Home!!

 The quote is as follows: People, ( All of you), are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine  with Light when the Sun is Out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only of there is a Light from Within!!

Even at this writing so many of you have given of your time, energies, Funds and that go so very far in this great event for our Friend Rick Goggin who has brought so much Light and Love to ALL of us that know and Love him and know too that Rick is planning to be a part of the wonderful Open Mike for this coming Saturday!! Hope to see you all there in person and in Spirit if Unable to make it.

 I do wan tot thank each and everyone of of OUR ROMulin Community for coming together all this year to help MIke and I to keep ROM running and  expanding our Horizons for what ROM is and continues to expand and develop into going into our 9th wonderful Season of Artists coming together on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month. For ROM-2017 we will be doing away with our infrequent 5th Monday ROM events so all the more for you and Families and Friends to come to us whenever the times for all of us align. You are always welcome at ROM.

 Our thanks to ALL our Features and our ROMulin Open Mike Performing Artist's, Family and Friends and of course all of you that continue your Support of ROM as audience members!!

Thanks to All that made this past ROMday such an incredible success and allowed me the wee bit of down time I needed. From the bottom of my heart. Thanks you ALL for being the Lights in my Heart!!

  Always, Love Neal :))))

"Be Yourself; Everyone else os Already Taken... Oscar Wilde

Happy New Year & Merry Everyday to ALL within and this new to OUR ROMulin Community

Mike and I would like to  wish you ALL a Wonderful 2016 and thank each and everyone one of you for your Continued Support of ROM!!!


It is so very hard to believe that once again, this is my 1st update to my duly named "Infrequent Blog", since 1-1-15!!!  That being said, I do now recall that since that time I did have some minor cervical spine surgery on 2-25-15. I do want to take this moment in time to thank the many of you that brought your concerns to me through your very varied and unique means. I feel very Honored and Blessed to have had you in my corner and my Love, Hugs and Thanks to ALL and now let's get back to ROM!!!

ROM-2015 was a most Incredible year of Incomparable year of Wonderful new folks to ROM and the continuation of the people that have been with us since our very first ROM on 1-12-09, Yikes that means we are now going into our 8th year of ROM and that is ALL thanks to ALL of you whether occasional visitors, audience members, music and spoken words Artist's as always and of course the never surprise  what or who walks though our  doorway but always entertaining and always a most wonderful night at ROM!!

As usual, ROM remains Flexible and always open to suggestions, change and ALWAYS being Fair to ALL that join us!!! That being said, I do want to take a moment to pay Tribute to my Dear Partner here at ROM, my Dear Friend and Incredible Singer-Songwriter and soon to be Director of a new show he has been working on for a good while now but I will let him tell you more about it!! Mike Delaney

Mike Delaney is the essential part of ROM in many respects that many of you may not have truly noticed!! Mike's Love of Open Mikes' from when we first met many years ago was his total Love of Music and Playing music regardless of the instrument du jour or multiples you have ALL seen at ROM!!!! Mike has been keeping up our website that is and has been sponsored by my Friend from our early teens, or younger, Sam Schneiderman Principle Broker of the Greater Boston Home Team since Day 1. Mike also sends out our ROM Reverberation reminder email you will all likely see before I get this Blog out. He does an amazing job at all he does. 

What Mike and I have been talking about is something I have been hoping for a long while now. That is seeing and hearing more of Mike performing music and doing less on the audio front. Mike will be away for the entire month of February this year so we are seeking some new volunteers that have sound systems to join in by contacting Mike at mike@mikedelaney.org. I suggest Mike as I know nada about audio, video or anything beyond turning on the TV with hopefully a "Working Remote"!!

Beyond February we would like to see someone pick up at least once a month to do the sound at ROM so Mike can play more music and can get home for his early wakeup time around 4 AM for his day Dr Delaney job! Please do step up if you can to help with our audio in any manner you can!!

I do want to Thank each one of you that are the Foundation of ROM for ALL you have added to ROM-2015. The most wonderful part  that did change in 2015 is our ROM change to being an ALL Volunteer Potluck Venue! Our Thanks to ALL of you that have stepped up to bringing foods both Homemade, purchased and all things in between!  This change has been such a great success and such a special yummy one! Thanks to ALL who have and will become food and beverage bringers to ROM!

To Our ROM-2015 Features for the entire year, WE can not thank you enough for the special part of OUR show you were at ROM and we will not forget! As part of our ROM-2016 Feature list, Mike and I feel we have been giving most of our Feature slots to so many of you that are part of our ROMulin Community and also bringing in a few  and wonderful Old Friends of ROM!! It is going to be a great year at ROM-2016, ALL because of each of YOU as Individuals or performing with others in so many different ways!!

WE did leave 2015 with as ALL Communities go through, the good times as well as the not so good times. WE were Blessed to know that our Dear Bo Veaner is now in "Remission" and now has only 4 more chemo dates for now and we ALL hope to see & hear you Bo back at ROM whenever the star align! WE also have been following the health of Dear Friend Peter Neuendorffer  he has been in an out of the hospital, Rehabs and does have a way to go but he is sounding great and Positive and has told me he just finished his most recent CD!! I asked him to put me in a spot to purchase an autographed copy of his new CD. Will Hope to seen and hear him soon!! To Dear Friend Don White who has gone through a difficult health time since last July but now is doing well and free of ALL the "Blue Meanies" that were affecting his body!! WE are so happy to hear that DON and we are ALL looking forward to seeing and hearing you soon! To all others May you have a Happy and Health Filled 2016!!

We did have 1 very special Community member Loss this year of Michael Troy this year shortly after the release of his really wonderful new CD entitled "I AM AMERICAN",  if you do not yet have it, it is a great work by a great Human being and a very dear Friend. WE will continue to Celebrate your Life Michael  and we know you are up there Smiling at ALL of us Continuing our music and Spoken Word at ALL the wonderful Venues you have been part of and other that will soon be performing the music of their Favorite Fall River wonderful Michael Troy!!!

To see ALL Our very special Features for our upcoming ROM-2016 year which kicks off this coming Monday 1-11-16 with our 8th Anniversary Show Feature being Charlie Ortolani a Feature not to be missed. For ALL other dates and Featured performers please go to our Schedule page on our website which is: www.roslindaleopenmike.org. Please also look at the previous year and say thanks to ALL those who Featured as part of ROM-2015. Let us hope that our previous 7 years of never having to cancel a show due to snow returns for many more years!! Last year we did have to cancel 2 ROMs in a ROW!!     No more please!!!

I AM BEING TRULY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ROM-2016 IN ALL RESPECTS!!!
THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALWAYS BEING THERE FOR US AT OUR COMMUNITY OF ARTIST'S THAT WE CALL ROM!

All my heartfelt Love and Thanks to each and every one of you!!! 

Big Hugs and hoping to C ya soon!

Always, Neal :))))