Party: B.Y.O.C. OPEN MIC w/ LIVE BACKING BAND!

Party: B.Y.O.C. OPEN MIC w/ LIVE BACKING BAND!

ACOUSTIC MUSIC 'OPEN MIC NIGHT' for POETS & SINGER SONGWRITERS with LIVE BACKING BAND! B.Y.O.C. (Bring your Own Chords) Every first thursday of the month!

Lovers of acoustic music, new songwriting and new poetry - make your way down to Ronson's at 9pm for a candle lit night that will be both engaging, humorous, beautiful and emotional.

SONGWRITERS & POETS : Come with your acoustic guitar, your ukulele! your accordion! even your cello and sing 3 of your own songs - 1 solo, and 2 accompanied by our live in-house band. Just bring a chord chart at 8pm and the band will accompany you live. If you're a poet, let us hear your words, accompanied by a score improvised right then and there by the band! Please make sure all chord charts / poems are in LARGE PRINT and easily readable for our musicians. (If you’re unsure what to do as a musician have look here at the simplest version of SLASH NOTATION: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_chart#Slash_notation.
Stage fright? Performers get a drink on the house!

The Rules - for the performers and audience: No cover versions, only original songs allowed. Audience must be respectful to the performers and therefore quiet during performances. There will be an interval. Songs should be no longer than 8 minutes.

Hosted by Jon Campbell

THE HOUSE BAND!

Nikolai Petersen - Drums
Simon Meyer - Keyboards / electric guitar
Niko Scharnofske - Double Bass

TIMES

8pm - Songwriters and Poets arrive with chord charts / words for the live band.
9pm - audience arrives.
9 - 10pm - Open Mic (solo, without band)
10 - 11.30 - Open Mic with Band.

Entry: Free for performers, €3 for non-performers.

AFTERSHOW! 11:30 onwards: DJ + karaoke