Usual date, time and place. Last Thursday of the month, so April 25. Press Club bar at Marks Park, Emmarentia. Music starts at 20:00. Admission (playing or not) is R25.
TJ's provide the PA. You need to bring your guitar, mandolin, dobro etc. Or you can do an a capella set.
The core audience is attentive and supportive. This is a great place to dip your toes into the waters of live performance. You can do originals or covers. You can do instrumentals. You can do folk or flamenco or anything in between or either side.
I really try to make open mic nights that I host as "open" as possible - which means you turn up on the night and put your name down. If the night is oversubscribed I try to keep things moving briskly so that we can fit in as many performances as possible. As host I have a reserved spot, but I will sacrifice that or cut it short if the evening is busy and we have people who have not played at TJ's before.
So come along. Unless we get oversubscribed the spots are 15 minutes (you can play short if you want) which includes you getting on stage, plugging in etc. So tune up BEFORE you get up there.
We can't accommodate drum kits, amplifiers etc. With a schedule of 10 15 minute spots in a small venue there's not enough time to set this kind of equipment up. Backing tracks are ruled out - the audience usually don't take kindly to them, and again it's a lot of PT for the sound guy to have to accommodate your CD player, DVD player or whatever.
TJ's provide the PA. You need to bring your guitar, mandolin, dobro etc. Or you can do an a capella set.
The core audience is attentive and supportive. This is a great place to dip your toes into the waters of live performance. You can do originals or covers. You can do instrumentals. You can do folk or flamenco or anything in between or either side.
I really try to make open mic nights that I host as "open" as possible - which means you turn up on the night and put your name down. If the night is oversubscribed I try to keep things moving briskly so that we can fit in as many performances as possible. As host I have a reserved spot, but I will sacrifice that or cut it short if the evening is busy and we have people who have not played at TJ's before.
So come along. Unless we get oversubscribed the spots are 15 minutes (you can play short if you want) which includes you getting on stage, plugging in etc. So tune up BEFORE you get up there.
We can't accommodate drum kits, amplifiers etc. With a schedule of 10 15 minute spots in a small venue there's not enough time to set this kind of equipment up. Backing tracks are ruled out - the audience usually don't take kindly to them, and again it's a lot of PT for the sound guy to have to accommodate your CD player, DVD player or whatever.
