Was it a good night? Yes. Yes it was. Did I decide I really freakin’ need to always bring my DSLR? Yes. Yes I did.
We’re doing a good job of “selling out” the Sandy Spring’s Bird Room, and with the way people still cancel at the last second (we are trying to figure out a viable way to create a waiting list) it never gets crowded. At the moment the really weird bit though is the fact that a kid’s ballet class is slated to be with us across the hall for the next month and a half. Since we don’t really have concrete funding for the open mic, that’s a foreseeable “permanent” fixture for the remaining events…
I’m hoping we’ll figure SOMETHING out because we’re having a LOT of fun, and it’s going to explode when we get to be back outside.
Tonight’s featured artist, Michelle Swan, is someone I’ve known for a long time, and known OF for a much LONGER time (like, I think I remember Audrey talking about her back in the Okay Cafe days of the late 90s?!?). In addition to just being a great performer and writer, she’s another community-oriented performer for whom a lot of the best-and-brightest local artists will come out and show their support. I met a couple of new players tonight who really blew my mind, and watching them all super-group around Swan was worth the price of admission.
Not that there’s genuinely a price of admission – but worth my trouble of driving out, setting up sound, setting up streaming gear, dealing with registrations, dealing with questions, not eating all night, double-masking with my KN-95 and a bunny mask, and actually running the open mic night. All worth it!
