Name: Desiree

What do you do at open mic?: lead singer

What are your favorite open mic venues? soft and classic rock

What are your musical influences?: Stevie Nicks, Joni Mitchell

How would you describe your style?: soft and classic rock covers and originals

Are you available for gigs: yes

Contact Email: dhausler@cox.net

Contact URL: www.insessionblues.com

Name: Derrick Mendoca

What do you do at open mic?: Acoustic guitar performance of original songs and covers, mostly by the Beatles

What are your favorite open mic venues? Desert Ridge District Stage, Chasers, The Live and Let Live Cafe

What are your musical influences?: The Beatles, Megadeth, ELO and whatever else I'm listening to at any given time

How would you describe your style?: Acoustic/soft rock/folk rock

Are you available for gigs: any evening of the week, absolutely

Contact Email: Guitar_in_Black@yahoo.com

Name: Ian Suchman

What do you do at open mic?: mostly covers of the 80's and 90's with the occasional original tune. I live to try daring covers too; changing the feel of a song or playing a cover that no one else does.

What are your favorite open mic venues? haven't done any in AZ yet though I did plenty of open mic playing and solo gigs on Long Island. Currently I'm appearing every other Friday evening at Sluggo's east Mesa location.

What are your musical influences?: All over the map. From Zepplin to Dave Matthews to Alice in Chains to Bela Fleck. I have wide tastes

How would you describe your style?: mostly strum playing. I like to have a good time on stage and entertain.

Are you available for gigs: absolutely!

Contact Email: hihoslva@cox.net

Contact URL: http://www.myspace.com/hihoslva

Name: Paul Raia

What do you do at open mic?: host and play

What are your favorite open mic venues? Coffee Talk, Coffee Cabana, Essenza, Paisley Violin

What are your musical influences?: Jerry Garcia, Bob Marley, Keller Williams, Ani Defranco

How would you describe your style?: laid back granola rock

Are you available for gigs: yes

Contact Email: paulstaz@yahoo.com

 

Name: Micah Beverly

What do you do at open mic?: host StudioOpenMic.com and guitar/vocal

What are your favorite open mic venues? Into the Bean, Coffee Shark

What are your musical influences?: Eric Clapton, SRV, Hendrix, Satriani, Old Blues Artists, John Mayer, Howie Day, Toad the Wet Sprocket

How would you describe your style?: acoustic/electric folk rock

Are you available for gigs: yes

Contact Email: micah@micahbeverly.com

Contact URL: www.michabeverly.com

Name: Katrina DeLaFonte

What do you do at open mic?: Sing R&B, Jazz and Blues

What are your favorite open mic venues? have yet to find one

What are your musical influences?: Billy Holiday, Stevie Wonder,Andia Irie, Raheem Dauvaghn, Ray Charles, Joss Stone

How would you describe your style?: R&B

Are you available for gigs: yes, after April 1st

Contact Email: delafonte@juno.com

Name: Antwan Baer

What do you do at open mic?: sing and play mostly originals

What are your favorite open mic venues? I guess Inside the Bungalow even though I liked it better as Coffee Talk

What are your musical influences?: I really don't know

How would you describe your style?: alternative (I know that really doesn't mean anything so I guess that's the point)

Are you available for gigs: yes, and I do recordings so call me.

Contact Email: grizzly540@msn.com

 

Name: Abraham Friend

What do you do at open mic?: Rock

What are your favorite open mic venues? the places that let us rock

What are your musical influences?: Rockin' bands

How would you describe your style?: Rock

Are you available for gigs: indeed

Contact Email: burns311@yahoo.com

Contact URL: www.myspace/abrahamfriend

 

Name: Gina Reynolds

What do you do at open mic?: sing and play guitar

What are your favorite open mic venues? any I can get to

What are your musical influences?: Neil Young and host of others

How would you describe your style?: non-traditional folk

Are you available for gigs: yes

Contact Email: motomusic@hotmail.com