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Hosted by Two for the Show
Jake Kensinger & Ellen Schmidt

New Open Mike Venue For Our Tuesday Open Mikes: Savoury Lane!

We are happy to announce that effective immediately we have a new home for our Tuesday open mikes. Our open mike will now be called the Savoury Lane Open Mike. We are grateful to the owners, Rick and Paula Gordon, for welcoming us. Savoury Lane is a restaurant and catering establishment with a wide array of offerings including speciatlty sandwiches, salads, vegetable-based soups, dinners, desserts, and wine & beer! Check out all of their offerings on www.savourylane.com.

The open mike will continue to be held on the 1st, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Savoury Lane is located at 251 Arlington St. in West Acton, only 2 blocks from our prior Sweet Bites location. 978- 263-8743. Featured performers go on at 8pm. Open mike performers may sign up by email or by phone - by noon of the day of the open mike - at eschmidt01742@yahoo.com or at 978-369-8090. (Please don't call the venue to sign up.) Performers may sign up at the door before 6:15 if they wish to be in the lottery for order). Admission is $5.

Directions:

From the East: Route 2 West to Exit 43 / Rt. 111 West (Mass. Ave.) to second light (Village of West Acton), right on Central St., immediate right on Arlington St. to #251.

From the West: Route 495 to Exit 28 / Rt. 111 towards Boxborough (East) 3.5 miles to Village of West Acton. Turn left at first intersection on Central St., and immediate right on Arlington St. to #251.

Featured Artists
(mini-sets in parentheses)
May 12th Joe Fredette and Michele Boulé
May 26th Rich Mungo and Howie Rashba (Marie Gonzalez)
June 2 Chris Thompson (Hayley Reardon)
June 9 Paul Rogoshewski and Carrie Rowan & Jim Wyse (Barry Spiro)
June 23 Al Gould (Bo Veaner)
June 30 Mike Santoro and Bill Thibodeau (Loose Change)
July 7 Carla Schwartz and Dan & Faith Senie (Dorothea Juno-Johnston)
July 14 George Deliyiannis and Lloyd Thayer (Steve Howard)
July 28 Sandra Waddock and Mel Green (Peter Nuendorffer)
August 4 Allied Folk and Two Cat Folk (Fran Reagan)
August 11 BNAN night - Jake features
August 25 JB Sweeney and Duane D'Agnese
September 1 Beth DeSombre and Levi Schmidt
September 8 Nancy Beaudette and Chris Hatch
September 22 Hayley Reardon and Valdisa Moura
October 6 Marc Bridge and Mark Stepakoff
October 13 special guest tba
October 27 Harriet Hart and The Proper Ladies
November 3 Drew Stevens and tba
November 10 Maury Stauffer and tba (John Olvere)
November 24 John Boehmer and Peter Nuendorrfer
December 1 Stuart Ferguson and the Fashionistas

The Emerson Umbrella, Concord, (note new location) 7:30 - 10:30, $5, refreshments available

First and third Mondays except for July and August vacation months. Note - only in September and January - we will run on the 2nd and 4th Mondays!

40 Stow St., Concord
Sign up by phone 978-369-8090 or email eschmidt01742@yahoo.com by noon of the day of the open mike, or arrive by 7:15 for lottery. Featured artists go on at 8:30.

Directions:

Emerson Umbrella is located in Concord Center, reachable by Route 126, Route 2, and Route 62.

From Concord Center, stay on Main St. (route 62) until the Concord Library is directly ahead of you. Take the left fork onto Sudbury Rd. Take your first left onto Stow St.

From Route 2, take Route 62 towards Concord Center. Turn right onto Thoreau Street, and take your first left at the light onto Sudbury Rd. Take your second right onto Stow St.

Featured Artists
May 11 Cooper & Kenneally and Jane Fallon
May 18 The Graybeards, Brian Cartwright & Suzanne Mrozak, and The Dawn Kenney Band
June 1 Howard Cannon and John Olivere
June 15 Oen Kennedy and Felicia Brady
Summer Break
September 14 Seth Connelly, John Fitzsimmons and Hatrack Gallagher (2nd Monday because of Labor Day)
September 21 Steve Sadler and Jamie Walker
October 5 tba
October 19 Marie Gonzalez and Jon Swenson
November 2 tba
November 16 tba
December 7 Tom and Mally Smith
December 14 tba