by Anna Weaver | Dec 19, 2020 | tips for open mic hosts, virtual open mics
Open mic hosts, if you’re impatient to get back to doing your thing in a roomful of real live poets and musicians… If you miss the snapping, the clapping, the amen chorus, and even that one guy who saunters in late and runs over his slot every week… If you’re...
by Anna Weaver | Jul 25, 2020 | All Posts, tips for open mic hosts, tips for open mic performers, virtual open mics
One of the things I say a lot when I try—and I try often—to convey just how great an open mic is (or was) is that you just had to be there. In the room. In the space. With all the other people. Breathing in the poems and the music… …and the air. Which in most states...
by Anna Weaver | Sep 5, 2017 | All Posts, tips for open mic hosts
Let’s say you host an open mic, or you will soon, or you want to. I’m gonna assume you’ve done your time as a performer: You’ve seen good hosts (let’s hope) and maybe a few bad ones (equally instructive). You’ve got ideas. You’ve got opinions. But maybe...
by Anna Weaver | Apr 30, 2017 | All Posts, tips for open mic hosts
This is the sixth in a series of interviews with some of the best hosts I’ve seen on my informal tour of open mics across America. This week, it’s the host of Tongue & Groove in Raleigh (which I co-organize): Benjamin Molini. Ben and I met at an open mic and...
by Anna Weaver | Apr 8, 2017 | All Posts, tips for open mic hosts
This is the fifth in a series of interviews with some of the best open mic hosts I’ve seen on my informal tour of open mics across America. This week is a bit different. John Dancy-Jones hosted an iconic open mic at The Paper Plant in downtown Raleigh, NC, for eight...
by Anna Weaver | Mar 31, 2017 | All Posts, tips for open mic hosts
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with some of the best open mic hosts I’ve seen on my informal tour of open mics across America. The idea is to pull back the curtain on what it takes to be a host, what hosts want out of an open mic, and how to make an...
