Erica,

You missed a really great session, but a truly atypical one. The Triad booked a jazz combo into the lounge, so they moved the open mic into the theatre upstairs, a very classy place. No one bothered enforcing the 2-drink minimum, but I turned up buying three (soft) drinks anyway over the course of the evening. At 7 PM, there were only a handful of us there -- David K., Bob M., Rich F., myself, and a guy from the Bronx also named Steve -- so we started a song circle jam session. It was lots of fun. Over the next hour about a dozen more people drifted in, but David kept as a song circle rather than as a true open mic, a good move on his part. Mostly newcomers, including a young fiddler named Hannah. On one go around we had to sing a song out of our typical genre. For example, Bob did an a capella Scottish drinking song, I did Statesboro Blues, and David sang a song in Hebrew. Towards the end, Ellen W. came with some folks from her songwriters, including Dennis and Val.

We missed you. :-(

--- Steve