Welcome to year #18 of the “Full Moon Open Mic” – we’re getting together again! After a pandemic hiatus we gathered once more in February of 2023 to sing, speak, regale, and reaffirm the beauty of organic and authentic community talent.
Our most recent gathering happened on August 16th and we raised a few more $$, this time for the Cape Cod Foster Closet, helping foster families and kids get things they need.
The next date and recipient will be announced soon. And we’ll once again add to our cumulative total of nearly $17,000 collected for local non-profits over the years. Write me @ davidrothmusic@gmail.com for a PDF copy of the flyer in case you can print, post, Facebook, foist! Thanks in advance for helping the cause.
Background/history:
In 2005 Tricia and I had been frequenting a cool general store in South Orleans called the Eldia Market and Coffee House. One morning that fall I looked around and said “this would be a fine place for some live music”! I approached the owners and suggested that if they were willing to stay open late one night, we could put the word out on a very grass roots level (translation: no advertising, simply word of mouth) to invite anyone interested to come play a song, read a poem, tell a story, or simply watch and listen. We had no idea what kind of turnout to expect. When 7 PM rolled around, the place was packed to overflowing, 16 artists each did a slot, and my little “free will donation bucket” (created on the spot when I saw so many people pouring in) for Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod had $208 in it! I decided this was something worth continuing.. Each of our 50 subsequent events has had a donation bucket for a different non-profit org on the Cape or in New England, and our cumulative collection is now more than $16,000 … all started on Thursday, December 15th, 2005, the same month I saw my last Peter, Paul, & Mary concert (12/9/05 at Carnegie Hall in NYC) and had my thyroid surgically removed on the Winter Solstice (12/21/05) for papillary thyroid carcinoma. THAT was a month.