Tonight was a slow night, but it filled in, but it filled in slowly, but it filled in with the perfect people. No offense to all y’all that weren’t there, but it really was a Lovely night. A couple of new performers (though unfortunately, my list went AWOL at the end of the night, so I’d have to comb through room mics for their names, which I ain’t gonna do) and a few regulars, and a couple of long-lost souls who I’d forgotten how much I’d missed.
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The Teavolve Café & Lounge open mic happens just about every Monday at Teavolve, signup at 6pm, performances from 7-10pm. 2 songs / 10 minutes whichever’s shorter, with a PG13 environment – and is hosted by rob Hinkal of the band ilyAIMY. Rob’s Open Mics were declared a National Open Mic by Shure Microphones, “Best of DC” from Dcmusicdownload.com and have received recognition from the Library of Congress. Check in at http://www.ilyaimy.com/robsOpenMics/index.html for more information.
Tonight we were graced with: (lost the list so reconstructing)
- rob
- Mark James
- Ross Martin
- Richard
- Max
- Gino Abellanosa
- Lacey
- Damian
- Jimmy Stewart
- Ashleigh Chevalier
- rob
- Richard
- Gino Abellanosa
- Max
- Maura Cispo
- Damian
- Jimmy Stewart
- rob
I forget that Max is an absolute bad-ass. I NEVER forget that Gino’s one too. Gino’s song tonight about Trying Times is the perfect foil to my own new song “Dead of It”.
Lacey w her ukulele. Damien. Jimmy Stewart – playing on a new (to him) Taylor that he JUST bought from Ashleigh!
Ashleigh Chevalier:
I think I first stumbled across Ashleigh being an absolute FORCE at Gypsy Sally’s. We’d played our set and were taking our time loading out, and she leapt right into her set with a ferocious voice, passionate lyrics, and a fierce sapphire gaze (damn it, should’ve set up the BRIGHT light tonight!)
Since then I got to have her first at the Takoma Park Folk Festival Sneak Preview show and then at the Takoma Park Folk Festival, where she casually strolled in with a laundry list of local legends as her backing band. An excellent blues writer who is seemingly verging into the sound of Americana and country, she’s an honest writer in a way that you just don’t hear very often. Unlike a lot of my poppier performers, I absolutely BELIEVE the words coming out of her mouth.
Another new-to-me player who’s name isn’t in my head but was on the list that’s now gone… maybe THIS was Steve? Maura Cispo.
