I have decided to show excerpts from the series for the first time anywhere, at TAC Teatro, and then hold our own huge open mic. In the coming weeks I will post more information about it all, including more details about the location β it will be a night to remember, as we will be able to play and celebrate in the theater, in the cabaret and in the courtyard.
I want to give a few little tours of those spaces by video when and as I can. There will be beer and wine to drink for real cheap β a key to the success of any open mic β and I will create the best sound system I can.
And I want as many new faces, musicians and fans of open mics to attend as possible! This evening will be devoted to the open mic, and I will keep the film part to a minimum β unless people want more and more and more! That said, this series will be a real nostalgia trip for many of you, and the most complete look at the open mic phenomenon that I know of. Inside the theater at TAC Teatro where the main stage of the open mic will be and the film will be screened. A look at the courtyard at TAC Teatro during a recent event, and where the open mic participants can go to talk and drink and smoke while not wanting to disturb musicians singing!
Follow BradSpurgeon. A year and more before I started writing this blog, I had already begun my musical open mic adventures.
It started in a bar in Paris, called the Aveyronnais, where I first attended, and then moved on to Aubervilliers, which is a town with a large Kabyle population. Kabyle musician Malik Kazeoui in Aubervilliers open mic. I attended open mics there weekly for around six months β sometimes even twice per week β and had all sorts of interesting experiences, including once when the mayors of the twinned cities of Iena in Germany and Aubervilliers attended one of the open mics. Zayen had a small success with a song called Baden-Baden, about a Kabyle refusing to fight in WWII, and then returning to his country and passing on his story there.
