We Had a Great Open Microphone Saturday Night!

We had a pretty good turnout at open microphone at Valley Music tonight. Folks seem to like it here pretty well because they don’t have to compete with the hissing of cappuccino machines or diners eating and talking. Here it is about the music. It doesn’t matter how talented you are, if you have the guts to get up and perform, the audience is always appreciative. We have local artists from early teens on up to our favorite octogenarian, Lee, who is eighty eight years young. He starts our open microphone every week by blowing a conch shell from Hawaii, and launching into his theme song, Hanalei Moon. .  We usually have our core of regulars every week, but happily we have been getting more and more new performers each week. Our usual host, Hub Thompson and his wife Anne, who video tapes the whole thing, were absent this week to attend to some family business in New York so David (Wildman) Farrell took over the duties of host this week.

Our audience is pretty laid back, usually quips jokes back and forth between performers, each one trying to outdo the other…..but always “G” rated, making it a wonderful venue to bring the kids as well. We always have coffee, pizza, water, fruit and cookies for a small donation and the evening generally ends up in a jam session were EVERYONE gets up and plays, leaving the audience to dwindle to just a few people snapping their fingers and humming along. We have the open microphone every Saturday night at 7PM, but when the time changes at the end of October, we will move the start time to 6PM.