If a few drinks in, or with a few mocktails down the trap, or totally sober, you’re ready to show off your stuff, open mic nights are a great way for musicians to get their reps in and receive ...

"We had a similar start,” Dillon Brown said, amused to compare his own initiation as a poet with that of Langston Hughes, a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance and a frequent visitor to Long ...

The open mics section of Backstage’s Call Sheet entertainment industry database contains popular open mics across the country. The directory can be searched by performance type, cover charge ...

Wearing a flannel shirt and toting a guitar case, Nicholas Lopardo walked into the Amityville Music Hall on a recent Wednesday night and jotted his name on a list. The 37-year-old HVAC technician, who ...

You’re a musician and you want to get out there and share your music. How do you get heard? Turn up the microphone. Or the mic, that is. Throughout Lancaster County, clubs, restaurants, taverns and ...

An "open mic" is defined as a session in a club or other venue that invites anyone to perform in front of an audience. The concept is simple: Show up, sign up and show off. Yet, for those new to ...

The mark of a good open mic is its applause, but not in the way you might think. Of course, an audience might cheer for a singer’s perfect high note or a guitarist’s complex riff, when the musicians ...