Outside of Gregorio's Market in Mays Landing
Here are the pictures & video from the Gregorio’s Market open mic night on Wednesdays:
This time there were bongos!
Bongos and more!
Posts Tagged poetry
JerseyMic.com is coming up on being live for 2 months and we are EXPLODING!
JerseyMic.com is EXPLODING!
Thanks to the readers of the blog, we have been expanding way past expectations. The newest additions are:
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The Flickr Account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38892591@N08/ If you want to catch the photos from the open mics in one convenient location, check out JerseyMic.com’s Flickr stream! We’re testing using it for most of our photos! It’s speeding up the site and people are loving it.
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The Google Map of Open Mics: You can now see where every open mic is located on our custom Google map of open mics! http://jerseymic.com/index.php/map-of-open-mics/ Each pinpoint location contains a link to the review for that open mic, and the list is only growing!
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The New Look! You’re looking at it now, and it’ll only get better. Contact me if you think you can do better, or if you have any comments on it!
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Increased YouTube videos! Check out our Youtube channel, we’re putting more content up with every open mic!
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Interviews with local artists are in the works!
Keep checking out JerseyMic.com! We were at Gregorio’s on Wednesday, with pictures soon, as well as pictures from last night at Alternative Soul!
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We’re going to be having a PARTY in the future to celebrate! Keep your eyes peeled for updates!
Front of Sherlock's
Here’s what happened on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 at Sherlock’s Books & Cafe. Host Ray Tyler (Host of Alternative Soul, reviewed here) started the night off with some jokes and mature discussion topics:
Ray Tyler
In case you didn’t read the overview of the night, you can check it out here. It’s every Tuesday and it’s primarily poetry based. It’s also an Adult night, so don’t bring children. Ray also started off the open mic with his poem, “The Truth 2.0”, shown in video at the bottom of the post.
Sherlock's Books & Cafe
Unrestricted.
“Unrestricted” is the new open mic being hosted by Ray Tyler at Sherlock’s Books and Cafe in Galloway/Smithville. It’s on Tueday nights from 8-whenever it ends. We went on the very first night and got pictures of everything in action.
As the name implies, this event is not for children. It’s not for children. The primary focus of the night was poetry, where “Unresctricted” was the focus. In-between acts, Ray would guide discussion with a primary focus on the unrestricted theme. Mostly relationship questions.
Host Ray Tyler
As mentioned before, Poetry was the main focus. Music was encouraged too, as the event is billed as an “open mic”, but poets will feel welcomed here.The mood is laid back with regards to playing times, and Ray himself said, “You can say what you want. If someone doesn’t agree, you can find a way to contact them and continue your discussion about it later.”
Ron and Susan O’Toole run Sherlock’s Books and Cafe, a really different book store. If you aren’t into poetry, and you’re in the Galloway/Smithville area, stop by to check it out. They have a 
great selection of books, good prices, and cheap coffee. They also have a large selection of different teas.If you want to check out the books with your kids, you might want to go a different night!
But for those just dying to get what they need to say out of them, give “Unrestricted” a shot. You’ll be in good company.
You’ll also be completely unrestricted.
(Feel free to check out pictures of the new construction over here: New construction at Sherlock’s Books and Cafe
Outside of Gregorio's Market in Mays Landing
If you haven’t read or heard about Gregorio’s Market’s new open mic, check out our review: Gregorio’s Market in Mays Landing, NJ – Open Mic on Wednesdays
This also happened to be the very first night. It started off with the host, Sarah Bucknam announcing the beginning of the first night at Gregorio’s.
The host, Sarah Bucknam
It’s all over. Lots of money has been raised. Tunes Against Turmoil 2 (Or Tunes Against Turmoil II) has been a great success and it’s been over for days now. Every post is complete, and just about everyone involved is resting now. In case you missed it, or if you just wanted an easy listing of what each post did, here it goes:
The first post– explains the goals of Tunes Against Turmoil 2 and the pictures were of people there and events going on
The second post– explains more of what people did, along with the Committee of Conscience table, Dr. Jerry Ehrlich, and Leon Sangster’s poem, “What Courage with Ink and Blood Spilt”
The (intermediate) post– a link to a YouTube video of all of the pictures from the event (made by JerseyMic.com). Unfortunately, Google cut out the song I had in the background. How does everyone else get away with it?
The third post– was the first one to cover bands from the event. Total Failure, Class 6, and Ocean the Legend
The fourth post– was the last coverage posting and covered Marc Ribler, My Name is August, and Alex Siniari & Christian Glomb
That’s all folks.