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Artistic Touch Entertainment​ presents Open MIC Thirsty Thursday 7pm til Close​ ******FREE EVENT*******

Starts 3/19 and runs every other Thursday on 4/2, 4/16 and 4/30
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****4/30 Grand Finally best Artist compete for the prize***
Hosted by Tanisha Atkins​

*****also appearing Live 4/30*** Understanding SOUL​

The Grand Finally only the best will walks away wit the prize

*******Tanisha Atkins new single Drops 4/30******

******FREE EVENT*************FREE EVENT*******

1/2 Drinks for Ladies & Cooley Students
$1 Sliders***$1 Small drafts***$5 Long Island

***$10 Register fee *** 7 Min on the MIC*****

Call all artist **Hip Hop**R&B**Poets***Comedians**
****************ALL ARE WELCOME********************

*******POWERED BY*****Artistic Touch Entertainment****

For more info (313) 218-9685

"Grand Finally"????

as in you were waiting for "grand" and it finally arrived?

or do you mean "finale"?

...or, is this perhaps an event that's gonna have sum kool soundz for the killah peeps?

"$10 register fee" - you make people pay $10 for $7 minutes of play time? Really? Good f***ing luck! The only thing I'v eever paid for at an open mic is my beer, and the only thing ever charged was the venue that I hosted at. Players never pay. I hope no one shows up at yours. Money making scheme for the clueless.

I despise this practice of club owners asking folks to pay them for the right to entertain them.
To pay someone for entertaining them is an insult.
Any time I've hit an open mike that wants to charge me to play, I leave, and tell everyone I know to avoid the place.
Why on earth anyone would PAY to play is beyond me . . .

the sad thing is there will always a large segment of "musicians" desperate to play out in front of people. for a long a time it's been folks willing to play for free for that op.....and this is just the next step in the DE-evolutionary scale.

obvious downside of it all is that it gets harder and harder for the real musicians to get a fair wage for what we do.

just earlier today i unloaded at someone at the gym. he's a wanna be half assed musician and a good enough guy. he was telling me about a freebie he's playing at tomorrow at a restaurant. he justified it w the usual "well, they won't PAY to have music...so this way i get to play in front of some people".

...and now, i must get packing for my two PAYING gigs this evening. (no thanks to the chumps who are gumming up the works)

Good suggestion, there, playing a churches, nursing homes, and social groups.

But note that even a nursing home needs PRO licenses if you are playing covers for free.

You don't want to get on the bad side of octogenarian ASCAP narc!

"But note that even a nursing home needs PRO licenses if you are playing covers for free."

I'm sure the song gestapo monitor those gigs very closely. We played them for years once every month.

It's one of those good old Marvel "No Prizes"!