July 2025
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July 29th, 2025. THe SPARK w Song Riot.
We do this every Tuesday. Signup before 7. I start at 7. 7112 Willow Avenue in Takoma Park, MD. robsopenmics.ilyaimy.com for more information. For information about the photos and videos and usage thereof, please click here! Tonight was a rare special ROWAN CORBETT night! I wasn’t absolutely sure he was showing up – but with his…
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July 24th, 2025. Watching too much X Files. Or not enough.
Maybe it was an aaaaaaangel. Snert. I saw my first legit UFO tonight. Over the many many years I’ve been watching the skies, I’ve seen planes and strange helicopters. I’ve literally gotten to see space lasers and the Space Shuttle. I’ve watched satellites and I’ve seen drones and of COURSE I’ve seen Venus, heat lightning,…
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July 22nd, 2025. The SPARK w Andrew Delaney.
We do this every Tuesday. Signup before 7. I start at 7. 7112 Willow Avenue in Takoma Park, MD. robsopenmics.ilyaimy.com for more information. For information about the photos and videos and usage thereof, please click here! Tonight w ilyAIMY Joseph Isaacs Sara Curtin Laura Tsaggaris David Keplinger David Feldmann Patrick Smith Michael Andrew Delaney DC David…
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July 20th, 2025. The Music City Open Mic.
With the on-again off-again will-they won’t-they nature of the Morsbergers open mic this summer, AND with the short night at the SPARK this week, I’d actually gone into the night thinking I might be done before 10pm. I went in with an upset stomach and vague hopes that it would be the case. Nope. It…
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July 14th, 2025. I just wanna hide under the bed, some days.
You try to focus on the positives. At the last second Jay Bellamy asked us to come play his birthday party at the New Deal Cafe – and so Monday, June 30th found us going on down to the New Deal Cafe and having a really good time rather than sitting and worrying about the…
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July 15th, 2025. The SPARK w Joseph Friend.
A new-to-me artist kicking off the night at the Takoma Spark – Rugan Lewis will return as our featured artist on December 2nd! Tonight I dropped by House of Musical Traditions to drop some money (and Mosno’s djembe) before heading over the SPARK. Was very pleased to see some traditional protest music in the front…
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July 8th, 2025. Goodnight Shirley.
Shirley always had a birdcam on at her computer. I was curious about setting up cameras at HER bird feeder just to see her local critters up close and I hoped she’d think it was cool. As I think about cameras and Shirley’s home in Glastonbury, CT – I realize our first experiment in webcasting…
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July 7th, 2025. The Music City Open Mic.
We do this (almost) every Sunday night at Morsbergers at 713 Frederick Rd, Catonsville, MD, 21228. (but not next week) Signup at 6.30, music at 7pm. Enter through the back at the LARGER of the two doors! (the other entrances are straight to the bar side and Boba Fett won’t always point the way!) For information…
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July 6th, 2025. Just a lot of thoughts.
Setting up in Berkeley Springs, WV for a show at the MAC Ice House. A beautiful arts centre that actual David Eisner had a hand in back when it started in the 80s. He was really surprised to a) hear we were playing there and b) that they now had a real budget! Art at…
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July 1st, 2025. The SPARK w Mike Bragg.
&Maddie learns about GOOD guitars… So – my description of featured artist Mike Bragg holds true: I’ve been hosting open mics for a long time. We’ve been through family deaths, marriages, fights. We’ve been through wars and terrorist assaults and natural disasters, protests and contentious election after contentious election. We played at Teavolve as riots…