December 2011
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So This is Happening!
I have some Austin blogging to catch up on, but I thought I better post this to start getting the word out. Hope you Fairfield peeps will come have a sweet after-Christmas night out and hear some songs! (I shall be posting more about it soon methinks!)
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Countdown to 100: 1 - Flipnotics
Chronicling the final 10 out of 100 Open Mic and Showcase performances I have done since June 2011. This is #100.
Lisa Kettyle plays a mean uke! And her outfit happens to match the venue. :-)
Perhaps one of my favorite open mic stories to tell is about the sign-up process for the Flipnotics Open Mic. Probably because it’s the most dramatic. It’s pretty standard that sign up is...
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Countdown to 100: 2 - Backroads
Chronicling the final 10 out of 100 Open Mic and Showcase performances I have done since June 2011. This is #99.
Raul writes awesome songs and can play killer mashups.
All right, I admit the first time I walked into Backroads earlier this summer with Amy Z, I was a little nervous about the place, especially because there were pool tables on a raised area behind the stage. Would I get knocked...
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Countdown to 100: 3 - OPA! Coffee & Wine Bar
Chronicling the final 10 out of 100 Open Mic and Showcase performances I have done since June 2011. This is #98.
I’ve been telling the Texans all Autumn long that they don’t actually know what cold is. Back in Iowa, they’ve had snow already and have been wearing winter coats for a while. Tuesday night was actually, definitely cold here in Austin though. There was frost on...
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Countdown to 100: 4 - Baker Street Pub
Chronicling the final 10 out of 100 Open Mic and Showcase performances I have done since June 2011. This is #97.
It was a dark and rainy night when I set out for Baker Street… OK, that’s cheesy and ominous sounding. Or it might be ominous if it wasn’t so cheesy! But it WAS dark, cold and drizzling when I headed out for the bus last night to go back to the Sherlock Holmes...
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Countdown to 100: 5 - Pecan Street Brewing
Chronicling the final 10 out of 100 Open Mic and Showcase performances I have done since June 2011. This is #96
photo by Mike Shirley I suppose it’s time for a couple of small confessions.
#1) Not EVERY one of these performances I’m tracking has been an actual open mic per say. But the majority of them are, and it’s a lot easier to say “100 open mics in Austin since...
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Countdown to 100: 6 - Fair Bean Coffee
Chronicling the final 10 out of 100 Open Mic and Showcase performances I have done since June 2011. This is #95
photo by Amy Zamarripa Tonight I set out to catch the bus at 4:45, expecting to be at Fair Bean just a few minutes after 5pm. There have been a couple times in the past few weeks where one of the scheduled busses just doesn’t seem to show up - two will pass by in the other...
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Countdown to 100: 7 - Kick Butt Coffee Triangle
Chronicling the final 10 out of 100 Open Mic and Showcase performances I have done since June 2011. This is #94.
There are two Kick Butt Coffee locations but both are a little bit far North for me to get to either on a regular basis. I had a Groupon to the Triangle location that expires at the end of the month so I figured it was doubly worth going on Wednesday. I made sure to get there early...
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Countdown to 100: 8 - Whip In
Chronicling the final 10 out of 100 Open Mic and Showcase performances I have done since June 2011. This is #93
photo by Amy Zamarripa
When they say “Keep Austin Weird”, Whip In is maybe one of my favorite examples. Perhaps it’s because it was the first place I saw a show in Austin when I came down to check out Rubicon Recording Studios in February. Two of their slogans are...
