Act now to get on the Acoustic Cafe fea­ture artist calendar

The Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe is book­ing artists for fea­ture pre­sen­ta­tions through the end of the sea­son in June.

Our 65-seat art­space has choice acoustics for a small house and is suit­able for Acoustic, Alter­na­tive, Blues, Clas­si­cal, Coun­try, Funk, Gospel, Jazz, R&B, Soul, Reg­gae, Trance, World, and any other eclec­tic mix that can be per­formed with a small ensem­ble. As you can see, the venue is pretty wide open to tal­ent across genres.

We are inter­view­ing and book­ing artists now. If you’d like to be con­sid­ered as a fea­ture artist at ASWC select a first and second-choice for  avail­able dates, include a one-paragraph bio and pro­mo­tional photo. Also, please include a link to a web­site where your art form can be seen or heard, or attach an MP3 with your submission.

Tra­di­tion­ally we pair a musi­cian with a poet/spokenword artist. As you can see most of the dates are open but I’m con­tact­ing artists and plan to have the cal­en­dar filled by the end of the week. The music set tra­di­tion­ally opens the evening, play­ing from 7:15 to 8:05; fol­lowed by spo­ken­word from 8:20 to 9. The Open Mic fol­lows last­ing 45–60 minutes.  

We offer artists 10% of the gate. Pro­mo­tion on our web­site, FB page, local media and post­ings in cof­fee­houses and other places of inter­est. Of course, we expect that the artist will pro­mote their appear­ance at the venue, as well.  

What we’re work­ing to build is a venue that is a launch pad and lab space for artists. A venue where they come to be heard and to test new cre­ations. Our mis­sion is the cre­ation of an artist-friendly venue downtown.

Here is the cal­en­dar as of Jan­u­ary 1. Peace!

Jan­u­ary            12       Michael Pat­ter­son & Jor­dan Chaney

                          26       Grey Gor­don & Adrian Curry

Feb­ru­ary        9         Tyrone Cato & Karla Doty

                          23       Duane Eby & Larry McFadden

March              9       Steve Lup­kin & Ketu Oladuwa

                          23       Joe Baugh­man & Keith Beaudin

April                 13       Mark Hutchins

                          27       Marsi Lawson

May                  11

                           25      P.J. Sauertig

June                  8

                           22       

You can join the drive to reclaim Down­town art­space. Artists work needs to be heard and we’re the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe is in the van­guard that intends to clear and claim that space. Join us! Down­load the form and get it back to us. Peace…