Year #19 of the “Full Moon Open Mic” begins to wind down – we’re getting together again and gathering in Chatham! We’ll assemble once more to sing, speak, regale, and reaffirm the beauty of organic and authentic community talent.
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 ~ 7 PM
and for the third consecutive time at the Cape Cod Center for the Spiritual Journey
880 Main St, Munson Meeting Way, Chatham, MA
…a beautiful and breathtaking place to continue our tradition.
The recipient of our voluntary donation bucket this month will be
the World Central Kitchen
based in Washington DC who works tirelessly around the globe to get food to hungry people with as little red tape as humanly possible. This amazing org currently has teams in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mexico, Gaza, Lebanon, Israel and Ukraine.
With your generosity we’ll add to our cumulative total of more than $17,000 collected in our bucket for non-profits over the years. This time we reach “beyond the bridge” in solidarity with our Human Family struggling elsewhere. The event is utterly free, but if you have a few bucks to spare, there’s never a shortage of neighbors in need.
Write me @ davidrothmusic@gmail.com for a PDF copy of a flyer you can print, post, Facebook, foist! Thanks in advance for helping the causes!
Background/history:
In 2005 Tricia and I had been frequenting a cool general store in South Orleans called the Eldia Market and Coffee House. One morning that fall I looked around and said “this would be a fine place for some live music”! I approached the owners and suggested that if they were willing to stay open late one night, we could put the word out on a very grass roots level (translation: no advertising, simply word of mouth) to invite anyone interested to come play a song, read a poem, tell a story, or simply watch and listen. We had no idea what kind of turnout to expect. When 7 PM rolled around, the place was packed to overflowing, 16 artists each did a slot, and my little “free will donation bucket” (created on the spot when I saw so many people pouring in) for Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod had $208 in it! I decided this was something worth continuing.. Each of our 50 + subsequent events has had a donation bucket for a different non-profit org on the Cape or in New England, and our cumulative collection is now more than $17,000 … all started on Thursday, December 15th, 2005, the same month I saw my last Peter, Paul, & Mary concert (12/9/05 at Carnegie Hall in NYC) and had my thyroid surgically removed on the Winter Solstice (12/21/05) for papillary thyroid carcinoma. THAT was a month.
