April 21st, 2024. The Music City Open Mic.

Very glad I got a photo of this new-to-me artist Paul and his home made electric “veena”. Randomly Dave Eisner popped up – and I’m grateful he did as Matt Pless, legendary Baltimore punk-folk artist randomly popped out as well – and I’d ALWAYS known Eisner would dig him. In general it was odd that I was missing a lot of my locals and a bunch of my Takoma Parkers came up again – including Sarah who’s lurked around in the audience plenty but had never made it to the stage before. So proud of her!

We do this every Sunday night at Morsbergers at 713 Frederick Rd, Catonsville, MD, 21228. Signup at 6.30, music at 7pm. Enter through the back at the LARGER of the two doors! (the other entrances are straight to the bar side and Boba Fett won’t always point the way!) For information about the photos and videos and usage thereof, please visit https://www.ilyaimy.com/robsopenmics/#videosAndPhotos!

A special note to DRUMMERS : we’d Love for you to join us and have a house kit (please bring your own snare, cymbals and – of course – sticks / hotrods), however I need you to show up early to set it up (6pm) and we HOPE you’ll be comfortable sitting in with other performers if they ask you to! Time is generally pretty tight and we don’t have time to set up the kit, play two songs for one act, and get your kit back off stage again. It’s gotta be there the whole night! Though Morsbergers has a lot of metal bands on weekends, the open mic night tends to be more singer/songwriter – please be prepared to play accordingly (hot rods encouraged).

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