Welcome to year #19 of the “Full Moon Open Mic” – we’re getting together again and moving to Chatham! We’ll gather once more to sing, speak, regale, and reaffirm the beauty of organic and authentic community talent.
Tuesday, August 20th, 2024 ~ 7 PM
and for the second 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. And we’ll once again add to our cumulative total of more than $17,000 collected in our voluntary donation bucket for local non-profits over the years. The event is utterly free, but if you have a few bucks to spare, it all goes right into the coffers of orgs who put goods and services into the hands of our neighbors who need them.
And write me @ davidrothmusic@gmail.com for a PDF copy of the flyer in case you can print, post, Facebook, foist! Thanks in advance for helping the cause.
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 $16,000 … 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.