Monday, January 22, 2007

Shawnee Boyeee & Norm Davis

This week at the Blue Dahlia Open Mic: Shawnee Boyeee!!!




Check out www.myspace.com/shawneefool for more info ...


Wednesday, January 24 from 8 pm - 10 pm
Blue Dahlia Coffee, Tea, & Gifts
92 South Main Street, Canandaigua


And this week at the Pure Kona Open Mic: Norm Davis!




Two great people, two great shows!



Thursday, January 25 from 8 pm - 10 pm
Daily Perks Coffee House
389 Gregory Street, Rochester

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Thursday, Jan. 18th: 9-11 Truth Concert

Meet-the-Editors Party for ByLine Magazine

Here's a Press Release from Donna Marbach:

What: A Welcome to Rochester and Meet-the-Editors Party. The twenty-five year old national magazine for writers, ByLine has changed ownership and is moving to the Rochester area.

When: Friday January 19, from 6:30 -9:30 P.M.

Where: Barnes & Nobles, Pittsford Plaza. 3349 Monroe Ave, Pittsford. (585) 586-6020

Contact: Robbi Hess, Editor ByLine , proedge@rochester.rr.com 585-355-8172 or Donna M. Marbach, Poetry Editor, ByLine dmarbach@rochester.rr.com 585-383-0812 or (cell phone: 585-314-4037)


Twenty-five year old ByLine. an internationally distributed magazine, has recently changed owners and is relocating its headquarters from Edmonds, Oklahoma to Albion, New York. In celebration of By-Line’s move to the Rochester Area, Barnes & Noble in Pittsford is hosting a “Welcome to Rochester” party for key editorial staff.

Robbi Hess, co-owner and editor, as well as Donna M. Marbach, poetry editor, will be in the Community Room of the Pittsford Barnes & Noble on Friday, January 19th from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. The two will answer questions about submissions, subscriptions, and ways in which local writers can take advantage of this unique opportunity of having a major magazine produced locally. During the event. there will also be drawings for prizes, sample copies of the magazine, and some time spent on trying out some writing exercises to get those creative juices flowing. Local writers and wannabe writers of all sorts—fiction, creative non-fiction, screenplay, poetry, and more are encouraged to attend.

The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

John Sinclair & Dorothy Goodman



BLUES POET JOHN SINCLAIR
& SINGER DR. DOROTHY GOODMAN

7:30 pm Wednesday, January 17, 2007:
“A Conversation with John Sinclair”
Writers & Books
740 University Ave., Rochester

7:30 pm Thursday, Jan. 18:
Performing with Dream Engine
Daily Perks Coffeehouse
389 Gregory St., Rochester

8:30 pm Friday, Jan. 19:
Performing with Joe Fornieri & the Railsplitters
RIT’s Ritskeller (SAU)

John Sinclair’s visit is made possible, in part, by Poets and Writers, Inc., through a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

(Note: This is from a flyer sent out by John Roche and the photo included, unlike the other photos on this site, is not a photo I took)

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Last Minute Feature

If any of you are looking for information on our last minute feature, here it is: my son Ayden heard me say something today about not having found a feature for tonight so he volunteered. Now Ayden is only 4, and admittedly does not write poetry (adittedly does not write anything except Ayden & Mom) but he is a fine dancer and has been working all day on some improvosational music pieces.

You can check out my MySpace page for a video of the kids doing their own version of toast: www.myspace.com/treescanrain.

And tomorrow night, at Pure Kona, will be The Years with Ed & Ian Downey and Chris, I think (I don't remember his last name & I'm not posisitive he still plays with them but last I knew he did).

Also, Shawnee Boyeee will be at Boulder Coffee tomorrow. I assumming around 8ish. You can check his MySpace page for more info: www.myspace.com/shawneefool.

Monday, January 01, 2007

New Year brings change ...

Well, the new year is bringing with it some changes in the Blue Dahlia schedule. I've got to focus more on making money somehow and getting this grant proposal written by Feb. 1st, so I've chiseled the Open Mic down to every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month. So this month it will be on January 10th & 24th and I wish I could tell you who the features would be but since I was thinking I was going to not be able to do it at all after December, I haven't yet booked anyone for the new year.

This will also give anyone interested the opportunity to check out the Open Mic held at FLCC on the first Wednesday of the month (while school's in session) so there won't be one this week (here nor there) but starting in February, the Open Mic will be going at FLCC the first Wednesday and we will still have the Blue Dahlia Open Mic on the second and fourth Wednesday.

There will still be Pure Kona at Daily Perks in the city every Thursday for those of you looking to feed your poetry addiction. This week, January 4th, will be guitarist, sitarist Jack Edward Smith. And next week, January 11 will be Ed Downey. Two weeks of music to start the Open Mic off right!

Also, keep Januray 18th open as international activist John Sinclair from Amsterdam (and not the one in NY) will be featuring along with the musicians from Dream Engine. And the month will round off with Sir Norm of Davis as the January 25th feature.

Daily Perks is also undergoing a bit of a management shift and renovation and James has added lots of lively, luscious foods to the menu (I especially like the portabello mushroom & artichoke sandwich with a nice chai latte - yum!). You can check out what else is new there by clicking the title of this post ...

Hope y'all enjoyed your New Year's festivities & I will see you around town (in or out of it somewhere, somehow - I'm sure). Feliz Nuevo Anos!