Blue Dahlia Feature: Maureen Owens

This Wednesday our feature will be Maureen Owens.



And Pure Kona's feature will be Rich (I have no idea how to spell his name - but phonetically speaking it sounds like Gone-yea (sorry Rich)).

Hope to see you there!

8- 10 pm, Wednesday, November 29
Blue Dahlia Open Mic @ Blue Dahlia Coffee House
92 South Main Street in Canandaigua, NY

8- 10 pm, Thursday, November 30
Pure Kona Open Mic @ Daily Perks Coffee House
389 Gregory Street in Rochester, NY

Blue Dahlia Open Mic & Art Show

There will be an Open Mic at Blue Dahlia this week on the eve of turkey day ... there will not be Pure Kona, as it actually is turkey day on thursday ...

I went back and forth on this one, so I didn’t actually book anyone … which means, if you come down you get to hear me read for a while and then I’ll pass the metaphorical mic around (since any of you who have been out this way know, we don’t have a literal mic … unless you count Mike Rae!)

Also, my art show is still on display. So, if you didn’t get a chance to come down for Art Walk and were interested in seeing some of my work, now’s a good time to do it! Hope to see you Wednesday … 8 pm (at Blue Dahlia Coffee House, 92 South Main Street, Canandaigua). Oh, and if you like sweet drinks (like you know I do) try the Casablanca … it’s sooooo good!

Here’s a pic of the art on display:



I know … now you’ve seen it … but it’s better in person … so come down if you can.

Hope to see you there!

Canandaigua Art Walk

This Friday I will be at the Canandaigua Art Walk, which runs from 2-9 pm and offers wine tastings, refreshments, and live entertainment. Along with holiday sales by the local businesses.

Here's a list of who's participating:

Adorn Jewelry and Accessories
All Things Art
Blue Dahlia Coffee House
Christopher Wheat Fine Art Studio
Coyote's Den
Finger Lakes Country Photography & Art
Finger Lakes Gallery & Frame
G. Jones Furniture Co.
Gallery 74
Gallery On Main Street
Nadal Glass
Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery
Vagabond Gallery
Wickedly Sent Soap & Candle Co.

I'll have a couple new pieces I've been working on ready for this show, so I hope you can come check it out! It may be chilly, but lucky for you (and me) I'll be at a coffee shop, where you can come in and get some nice, hot beverages ... mmmm ... see you there?

Alex Dedicke & BADEA

This week (Wednesday, November 15) at Blue Dahlia, don't miss Alex Dedicke's first feature!



Haha! I liked the abstract one best!

And Thursday, November 16th: Don't miss BADEA at Pure Kona Open Mic!

Matt Shackelford & Ian Downey

You know that guy singing on my MySpace page? Ian Downey of the notorious Ian Downey is Famous variety? He's featuring this week at Pure Kona! That's right, if you come one down to Daily Perks Thursday night at 8, you get to see him! Maybe he'll even do some standing bits like he did for Blue Dahlia ... like so:



Speaking of Blue Dahlia ... it's worth the drive out to the shady streets of Canandaigua to see the likes of Matt Shackelford. I swear you won't regret it ... this man can twist some lines and conceptualize some pretty esoteric notions all while standing on his head! I've seen him do it! So, I don't know if he'll necessarily be standing on his head this time (that was a special occasion: hugest protest I eva' been to!) but he will still impress you with his poetry, fo' sho' ... 7:30 ish pm Wednesday, November 1 at Blue Dahlia Coffee House in Canandaigua.



You can check out Ian at: http://www.myspace.com/iandowneyisfamous
And Matt at: http://www.myspace.com/rockumental

Go ahead, check them out! If you are so inclined, that is ...

There are alos MySpace Group Pages for both Pure Kona @ Blue Dahlia - so if you're on, join up! That is, also, if you are so inclined ...

http://groups.myspace.com/purekona
http://groups.myspace.com/bluedahliaopenmic

Pathways & Doors

No Blue Dahlia Open Mic this week ... I'll be at Writers & Books for the kick-off event of the RochesterInk Poetry In Fusion Festival this year.



This Wednesday will be a combination of poetry and photography, with a reading and mixer and musical accompaniment by Laura Cat (of Acoustic Soul).

There will be many other events this week with combinations of dance & poetry, music & poetry, and the winners of the kid's and adult's art & poetry contests.

Here's an overview of the schedule. For more information click the link above or visit http://rochesterink.org and click on Fesival-at-a-glance.

Wednesday, October 18:

Pathways & Doors Reading from 7 - 9 pm at Writers & Books.
FREE.

Thursday, October 19:

Moving Poems: Dances Inspired by and Infusing Poetry from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. St. John Fisher. Cleary Family Auditorium.
$5 admission fee.

Dream Engine from 9:00 - 10:00 p.m. at St. John Fisher. Cleary Family Auditorium.
FREE.

Friday, October 20:

RochesterInk's Reading and Open Mic from 7:00 p.m.- 9 p.m at Barnes and Noble at 1070 Ridge Road, Webster, NY 14580.
FREE

Saturday, October 21:

A Matter of Blue from Noon - 1:30 p.m at St. John Fisher. Wilson Formal Lounge.
FREE

Kids' Contest Winners from Noon - 3:30 p.m. at Barnes and Noble in Pittsford Plaza. Community Room.
FREE

The Creative Spark from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. at St. John Fisher: Wilson Formal Lounge. The discussion panel will include: Marie Starr, Sally Wood Winslow, Len Messineo, and Michael Arve.
FREE

A Reading of Local Poets from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. atSt. John Fisher: Wilson Formal Lounge. Poets Tony Leuzzi and Anne Coon will be reading.
FREE

Adult Poetry Contest Winners Reading from 6:15 - 7:00 p.m. at St. John Fisher: 135 Basil Hall.
FREE

Broadside Signing and Raffle from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. at St. John Fisher: Foyer outside 135 Basil Hall.
FREE

The Headline Poet Michael Burkard is unable to make it, but they will be screening Il Postino from 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. (followed by a Dessert Bar) at St. John Fisher. 135 Basil Hall.
FREE

Sunday, October 22:

A Reading of 12 Local Poets from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at St. John Fisher: 135 Basil Hall.
FREE

Poetry's Power via the Translation Relay with Th. Emil Homerin from 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. at St. John Fisher: 135 Basil Hall.
FREE

Discussion of the Use of Paul Celan's Poetry in The Memory Room from Noon - 2:00 p.m. at Barnes and Noble in Pittsford Plaza: Community Room.
FREE

Paul Celan & Music from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. at St. John Fisher: 135 Basil Hall. FREE

I know I'll be at the Kid's Poetry Reading Saturday at Barnes & Noble. Arianna will be reading her poem "Her Storm" somewhere between 1:00 and 1:30. Her painting "Kerplooie" is also on display there. Then I'll be running over to Saint John Fisher to take part in The Creative Spark panel.

I'm also going to try to get out for Dream Engine on Thursday and the Open Mic on Friday. I'm not sure what else I'll be able to make but I'll be getting to as much of this as possible. It's not everyday we get such a plethora of poetry, art, music & dance. Let's enjoy it while we can!

What a week!

This week's feature at Blue Dahlia will be BADEA (formerly Bill & Djed's Excellent Adventure) who gave us a fabulous finale to the poetic portion of our Poetry Festival this year. It seems they are never the same combo twice, but there's always a nice blend of drums, guitar, voice, and other percussion.

Djed's told me to tell you all to bring a drum with you this week, as they'd like to make a drum circle part of their feature ... how fabulous is that? Pretty fabulous, I know ... at least I think so!



Blue Dahlia Coffe
92 South Main Street
Canandaigua
7:30 (ish) - 10 pm

Caution: these guys are likely to start on time, so if you don't want to miss a thing - hurry down ...

And Thursday at Pure Kona Open Mic: MJ Iuppa, who not only happens to be one of my favorite poets, but also one of my favorite people! Whatever you do ... you don't want to miss her!



Daily Perks Coffee House
369 Gregory Street
Rochester - this one really is more 8 - 10 pm ...

Hope to see you there!

This week: Urknee & Bjurton

This week at the Blue Dahlia Open Mic,
don't miss the stylin's of Urknee & Bjurton Russell.

And Thursday, October 5th brings you Christopher Robin
& his band for the Pure Kona Feature.

Figure on starting at 8pm for either one.

Blue Dahlia is, as always, located out here in the boondocks:
92 South Main Street in Canandaigua
and Daily Perks is up there in the city
369 Gregory Street, Rochester.

Hope to see you there!

This Week at Blue Dahlia: Lizzy Greenhood

Wednesday, September 27th the feature will be: Lizzy Greenhood

(a.k.a. DJ Jazzy Jizzy for no other reason than I made it up one night and think it's funny - speaking of funny, I didn't have a performance pic of Lizzy so instead you get this silly candid of Lizzy & I squishin' Jerry - she looks pretty cute - but I'm looking rather maniacal)



Blue Dahlia Open Mic
@ 7:30ish til 10 pm
92 South Main Street
Canandaigua, NY

And Pure Kona's Feature for Thursday, September 28th will be Old Soul, who I have no pics of but I have heard and he's worth checking out.

Pure Kona Open Mic
8 - 10 pm
Daily Perks
369 Gregory Street
Rochester, NY

Ed Downey at Pure Kona

Hello all ... just wanted to let you know there will be no Blue Dahlia this Wednesday, Spetember 20. I have an Open House to go to at my daughter's school.

But Thursday, September 21: Don't Miss Ed Downey at Pure Kona Open Mic!

Look, he's smiling!

Canandaigua Poetry Festival

Well, we did it! We pulled it off!

Never did I imagine, when Don suggested we do a Poetry Festival in Canandaigua, that it would get so big. But here we are, after a full day of poetry that segued nicely into a whole night of music and I couldn't be happier with the outcome!

A tremendous thank you to all the poets and musicians who came out to read and all of you who came out to listen or stayed to listen. I have never heard of large events such as this going off without so much as a glitch, but this one did. Not once did I have to resort to a Plan B ... everyone was there, on time, ready to go ... it was beyond my expectations, which makes me all the more grateful.

My one regret was that I didn't get to photograph everyone ... I felt a bit like a jumping bean most of the day flitting back up to the stage every fifteen minutes to announce the next poet. Maybe next year we should have everyone introduce themselves ... it's a thought I had ... what do you think? I think it would it make it flow better.

Scott and Don have heard nothing but good comments from the community & businesses in the area. There's even talk of moving the poetry festival up next year so we are less likely to run into the chilly evening we encountered last Saturday. Of course we don't want to run into steaming hot weather either, so it's a balance we'll have to work out. There's also talk of having a poetry stage at the Art Festival in Canandaigua to give people a preview.

Thanks so much to Don & Scott for all their hard work on the festival and to all the businesses and vendors who supported this event. Thanks to the city of Canandaigua for hosting this event. And thanks again to all the readers & musicians who put their time and energy into making this festival a smashing success!

I truly enjoyed getting to see this veritable smorgasbord of talent and passion. It was wonderful to be able to see and hear those of you I don't see very much, as well as those of you I see quite often. I feel like one of my main goals for the festival was to get poets together who don't always get to hear each other's work and I think that goal was accomplished beautifully.

Here's to next year!

Some Pics of the Poetry Festival

Pat

Sherry

Ayden

Maureen (from a distance)

Norm

More Pics from the Poetry Festival

Justice

Ethic

Wanda

Shawnee & Emily Dancin'

Nick & Brendan

Kitty

Arianna

Bob

BADEA

Canandaigua Poetry Festival

It's finally here! The Canandaigua Poetry Festival!
Tomorrow, Septemeber 9th, beginning at 12 noon and lasting till 9pm ... woohoo! It's going to be absolutely fabulous ... I so hope you can come!

Canandaigua Poetry Festival Schedule:

Poetry

12:00 – 12:30
12:15 - 12:30 Dee Hogan
12:30 – 12:45 Matt Shackelford
12:45 – 1:00 Todd Vail
1:00 – 1:15 Anthony Church
1:15 – 1:30 Merle Heath
1:30 – 1:45 Dwain Wilder
1:45 – 2:00 Sherry
2:00 – 2:15 Ethic
2:15 – 2:30 Justice Peace
2:30 – 2:45 Norm Davis
2:45 – 3:00 David White
3:00 – 3:30 Nick Hogan & Brendan Giusti
3:30 – 3:45 Wanda Schubmehl
3:45 – 4:00 Colleen Powderly
4:00 – 4:15 Maureen Owens
4:15 – 4:30 Kitty Jospe
4:30 – 4:45 Patricia Roth Schwartz
4:45 – 5:00 Arianna Barry
5:00 – 5:15 Kaeri Carroll
5:15 – 5:30 Bob Carroll
5:30 – 5:45 MJ Iuppa
5:45 – 6:00 Marie Starr
6:00 – 6:30 BADEA (Bill & Djed)

Music

6:30 – 7:00 Ed Downey
7:00 – 7:30 CHEA
7:30 – 8:00 Josh Knapp
8:00 – 8:30 Gregory Paul
8:30 – 9:00 Shawnee Boyeee

This week's features: Two of my favorite people!

Wednesday the 30th

at Blue Dahlia Open Mic: Shawnee Boyeee will feature ...

catch him now, before he begins wandering again.

92 South Main Street, Canandaigua, NY
7:30 - 10 pm



And Thursday August 31, Arianna Barry will become the youngest feature ever at Pure Kona Open Mic!

in her 11 years, she has amassed a great amount of wisdom, a punchy sense of humor, and an impressive stage presence ...


Daily Perks Coffee House at 369 Gregory Street, Rochester, NY
8-10pm

Sherry & Laughing Larry

This week at Blue Dahlia: Sherry :D
Wednesday, August 23 at 7:30(ish) pm

And Thursday at Pure Kona is Laughing Larry Berger!

Features for Pure Kona & Blue Dahlia

This week at Blue Dahlia Open Mic:
Brendan Giusti & Nick Hogan, who will be our half-time duet
at the Canandaigua Poetry Festival on Saturday, September 9th,
will be our feature for this week --> Wednesday, August 16.
7:30 -10 pm
Blue Dahlia Coffe House
92 South Main Street
Canandaigua, NY


And Thursday, August 17th, the Pure Kona Feature
will be me, Marie Starr … 8pm at Daily Perks Coffee House,
on the corner of Gregory & Cayuga Streets in Rochester
for more info, go to … www.dailyperkscoffeehouse.com

Art Show Opening & Open Mic

Art Show Opening: Tuesday, August 8
"The Rochester Landscape" by Plein Air Pastellist, Colette Savage.

Colette tries to search out the beauty in the ordinary scenes of Rochester through her award-winning pastel paintings. All work is done on location and the whole sensory experience of painting outside is translated onto paper. Come and experience the wonderful scenes found here in the Rochester area, as seen through the eyes of life-long Rochesterian and artist, Colette Savage.



Reception with Artist’s Talk from 7 – 8: 30 pm,
followed by an Open Mic: Hosted this week by Shannon
& held every Tuesday from 8:30 – 10 pm.



Where: Flat Iron Café, 561 State Street, Rochester
(corner of Lyell & State): 454 –4830.


Hope to see you there!

Canandaigua Poetry Festival

All right! This is really coming along ... we have our full line up for the first annual Canandaigua Poetry Festival, which begins at noon with Acoustic Soul and features the talents of Matt Shackelford, Todd Vail, Anthony Church, Merle Heath, Dwain Wilder, Sherry, Ethic, Justice Peace, David White, Nick Hogan & Brendan Giusti, Wanda Schubmehl, Colleen Powderly, Maureen Owens, Kitty Jospe, Pat Schwartz, Nanette Hiller, Kaeri Carroll, Bob Carroll, MJ Iuppa, Marie Starr, BEDEA, Ed Downey, CHEA, Josh Knapp, Gregory Paul, & Shawnee Boyeee ... so much talent and vitality packed into one day - you don't want to miss this!

Poetry runs from Noon - 6:30, followed by Music from 6:30 - 9pm.
Held at The Commons on Main Street Canandaigua, this will be an outdoor festival with food & craft vendors and words, words, words!

Please feel free to contact me for information: serendipity3.marie@gmail.com.

This Week at Blue Dahlia: Gavin

Gavin will be our feature this week at Blue Dahlia Open Mic

(And as an added extra bonus it is Arianna's Birthday!!
She'll be eleven - which I can hardly believe - and most of you know how she went out of her way to make my birthday fun, fabulous, and slightly embarrassing - so we must do the same for her)

Wednesday, August 9th
Blue Dahlia Coffee House
92 South Main Street
Canandaigua
7:30 - 10 pm