Ash and Richie at Four Kings Central open mic
Genevive at Four Kings Central open mic
Richie at Four Kings Central open mic
Lonna at Four Kings Central open mic
Jordon Taylor at Boston's Gourmet Pizza, 2/15/05
Unidentified performer at Boston's (sorry dude...remind me next time I see you...)
Chris and Paul playing at the Wrigley Mansion open mic.
Cash at Boston's...just before he got kicked off the stage for umm...bad words.
Sandy Lundell, host at Caffe Rio.
Chris May, Kendra and Bryce at The Blooze
Chase and Derek playing at Coffee Cabana
Jordon Taylor at Coffee Cabana
Julia (yeah...and me) at the Coffee Bean
Tara performing at Coffee Bean on a friday night. Lots of potential in this 13 yr old young lady.
Sugarnaught, a duo, hosts open mic at Ziggy's in Tempe on Sunday night. Their harmonies and blend and will get your attention
Alex playing at Ziggy's in Tempe.
Kevin, age 11, guitarist/singer performing at the Coffee Bean in Mesa. Umm..he already plays barre chords and uses complex strumming patterns.
Lonesome Pete, everybody's warm up act, here performing at Rula Bula.
Walt Richardson hosts at Rula Bula and the Zoom Room in Tempe. He's a local legend/performer/singer/songwriter/cool dude.
Dollfun playing at Coffee Cabana (and my comments)
Lindsey and Pat playing at Coffee Cabana. Their support for local open mic has shown up in her writing and in his photography for the Az Republic.
The band "Dollfun" at a recent open mic at Coffee Cabana. Great original material and sound. Nice ladies too by golly.
Dave playing at Coffee Cabana is an amazing jazz guitarist as well as a singer/songwriter.
Scott with Dave sitting in for his set at Coffee Cabana. The combination was great.
Benny performing at Coffee Cabana keeps us culturally diverse with great spanish music.
Amy performing at Coffee Cabana. Umm...this talented young lady is only 15!
John Wilkes performing at Coffee Cabana. John hosts open mic out in Apache Jct. on Thursday nights and is a great performer.
Gregg Myers at Coffee Cabana. (He should play THAT guitar more!)
Jason Cunningham at his open mic at The Vine in Ahwatukee. They play great originals and rockin' covers.
Ed is a great singer/songwriter who hosts open mic at Falcon's Roost on Sunday nights. Umm...I think he is whistling in this pic.
Steve Richards also hosts at Falcon's Roost. Check out his website for his amazing resume at www.steverichards.net
Jeff Carter, a rare open-mic slide guitarist performs at Coffee Cabana often. Enjoying this performance are an iced latte and an expresso at table #1.
John Williams is a cult favorite. He writes awesome originals and has an aurally and visually interesting performance.
Jake Grieder, singer/songwriter/guitarist/good dude.
Larry Davidson plays solo guitar frequently at Coffee Cabana. He is gonna help me build a resonator guitar...right Larry?
Tara Glazier, singer/songwriter/keyboardist plays often at Coffee Cabana. She's 19 and is going places.
Smith Graham, 13 yr old singer/guitarist is the youngest reg I know of at any open mic. He frequents Coffee Cabana.
Bob Villa (yeah...yeah...he's heard it alot) is a great singer/songwriter/guitarist with a style and voice that are very easy to listen to.
Hey, it's Jeff. A roommate of Marconias and performer at Coffee Cabana, Jeff is a wild, crazy and talented guy.
Gregg, performing at Coffee Talk August 22nd. He is one of the best singer/songwriters you will find out in the open-mic world.
Marconias and Gregg performing at open mic at Coffee Cabana.
Chris and the Steve's at Coffee Talk in Mesa
Patrick performing at Coffee Grounds
Chris, Steve and Paul at Essenza
Marconias, Chris, Paul and 3 Steves at Coffee Cabana
Chris and Steves at Coffee Talk on hot August night
The band "Halfmute" playing at Inza Coffee House's open mic night
Singer/Songwriter Jayme playing at Inza's open mic
Gina Loes, host of open mic at the Coffee Bean in Scottsdale, hanging out with her sisters at Inza's open mic
Scott Walter at Coffee Buzz in May 2006
Sweet Tooth at Coffee Buzz in May 2006
A group performing at the Scottsdale Promenade Coffee Bean Open Mic
Scott Walter at Coffee Bean in Scottsdale
Pete De Souza at Cruiser's open mic
Bob Villa at Four Kings open mic
Tyler and Steve at Blue Agave open mic.
Scott Worstell at Four Kings open mic
Jay and Ashley, the hosts of Four Kings open mic
This is Chris who I like to call "Chris from New Jersey". Great voice and great sounding guitar work on a vintage Guild guitar.
Peter at Coffee Talk's open mic. He is an excellent singer/songwriter...kinda Harry Chapin flavored.
Krystal performing at Coffee Talk. She is 21 and writes music on guitar and keyboard.
Falling from Trees playing at the Relay for Life at Tumbleweed park.
Gregg Meyers playing at the Relay for Life. He had the 5am slot...that's dedication.
"Below Me" playing at Big Benny's open mic in Mesa.
Bill Bailey playing at the open mic that he hosts at Coffee Cricket in Mesa.
Chie playing at Coffee Talk. He has a killer voice.
Jake Grieder playing at Uncle Bears open mic.
School for the Blind's acoustic set at Coffee Talk
School for the Blinds' electric set at Lost Dutchman Days open mic.
Tyler Wilson playing at Geordie's/Wrigley Mansion open mic.
Host, Manny Moonz and his wife performing at Boston's Gourmet Pizza open mic, Feb. 2005.
Chris and Steve at Lost Dutchman Days open mic
John and Billy at the Apache Jct. Courthouse open mic.
Bobbie Joe Smith playing some serious blues at Coffee Talk
Arrrgh...I don't remember his name!!!
Comedic Music Duo, "The Meat Department" performing at Coffee Cabana.
I can't remember his name but he kicked butt on refreshments tunes at open mic at the Monastery.
The host band at open mic at the Monastery in Mesa.
Steve and Mike at The Satisfied Frog. Their mom's called each other to make sure the boys were dressed alike for their open mic performance. Okay...maybe coincidence.
Joe and Mike at The Satisfied Frog.
Blair and Mike, hosts of The Satisfied Frog. Blair also hosts at Territorial Bar and Grill in Cave Creek.
Collin, an excellent singer/songwriter performing at Fibber Magees
Don playing at Fibber Magees. He helped me out with words to Refreshments tunes I sang. Good man.
Tye at Fibber Magees. I had not met him before but he knows alot of open mic junkies that I know. A good dude.
Bob Villa and Susan L who sang killer blues at The Blooze
Steve sings at Fatso's while host Lisa tweaks the sound.
Chris and the Steves at Fatso's
Joel and Brent at the Zoom Room. Very cool sound somewhere between Jason Mraz and James Taylor.
Chris May and Kendra at the Zoom Room. Walt Richardson is in the back tweaking their sound.
Chris May at Rula Bula. Not pictured: his huge fan club.
Bob Villa at the Zoom Room
Jen at Rula Bula. Wow...great voice.
Bob at Caffe' Rio. He made THIS guitar!
Derek Taylor, host of the Caffe' Rio open mic.
Derek Taylor (unrelated) helps promote Jordon Taylor's new CD.
Bill at Caffe' Rio doing one of his cool original tunes.
Jordon Taylor at Caffe' Rio. I am currently upset with his parents for not properly spelling his first name.
Bob at Caffe' Rio. He builds guitars...umm...that is Derek Taylor's Larrivee he is playing though.
Coffee Talk may very well be the best open mic in the valley. Great atmosphere, great crowd, great performances every week. Drawback: the list often has 30+ performers on it and you may wait awhile to hit the stage. The wait, however, is well worth it.
I have seen Mike and Brian at many open mic venues. They have an excellent collection of originals as well as some covers that you do not expect to hear.
Dave is in the witness relocation program....wait...no...the mic is in the way. Dave is a reg at many open mic spots and has a forte of Croce-type mellow guitar classics.
Greg knows 1.5 million cover tunes and gets more sing-along stuff going than anyone I have seen at open mic. He also sings great harmonies.
I originally met Billy at the Coffee Bean in east mesa. He has a really strong voice and some great original music.
These are some great friends of mine and I finally convinced them to join me at an open mic. Paul is a big time drummer and Steve a fancy fiddle champ as a youth in the state of Oregon.
This guy plays serious fiddle and am glad he could be drug out to open mic.
This is an awesome young poet/analyst/screamer with a strong political bent. I very much enjoy his material.
Yes, it was Austin City Limits.
The band "Below Me" playing at the Coffee Talk open mic. I am fond of saying their name.
Chris at Sonoran Coffee Company
