REV. MARY’S BLUES JAM

PLAY. MEET. SING. DRINK. PLAY. NETWORK. SING. SOCIALIZE. PLAY. LEARN. SING. EXPERIMENT OR JUST HANG-OUT AND HAVE A HOT TIME! BRING YOUR VOICE … BRING YOUR INSTRUMENTS (acoustic only please) … BRING YOUR FRIENDS … BRING YOUR BLUES!!

Sunday night is the new hot night and the Upper west Side is the new hot spot thanks to Mary Elizabeth Micari and Rev. Mary’s Blues Jam at the The West End Lounge, 955 West End Avenue (at 107th Street), NYC.

Starting Sunday, February 18, Rev. Mary will host a monthly jam session with singers and acoustic musicians at the famed cabaret spot near Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University.

All acoustic musicians and singers are invited to come down and take to the stage and join singers Rev. Mary and Papa Sugar-Cane (singer/actor Mario Claudio) for a three hour jam session. Audiences are invited to come and hear and even sing-along. Sign-up starts at 7:30 p.m. The event is 8:00 – 11:00 p.m.

The Blues Jam is an acoustic blues open-mic featuring Rev. Mary as Emcee. The evening is open to all blues musicians and singers. Granny’s Blue-Mers will also be performing throughout the evening. Pianist Dan Furman and drummer Adam Weingarten will also be on hand.

REV. MARY’S BLUES JAM featuring Granny’s Blue-Mers will begin at the West End Lounge, one Sunday a month, starting Sunday, February 18 from 8:00 – 11:00 p.m.

$10 Admission for Musicians (20% Off Food/Drink for Musicians)

$15 General Admission w/2-drink minimum

Musicians “jam” all the time. It is a way for them to learn from each other, network and even as has been done over and again, create a new art form. The Blues has a long tradition of people getting together to just play and sing all sorts of songs and ideas. I had been away singing last summer at a Blues week at August Heritage in West Virginia. I had been part of “jams” before but not like these! We would play for hours starting the moment we woke up and some of us it seemed never slept. I would go to sleep at 4 or 5 AM listening to blues coming from all corners of the place and wake up at 9 hearing it still going on. I loved it so much that I wanted to find a way to recreate that here a little in NYC. Granny’s Blue-Mers is set to perform on a monthly basis now and I wanted to not only allow folks to come up and hear our funny, dirty songs but also to bring an instrument or their voice and play! Dan Furman is on piano and Adam Weingarten on Drums (that’s a loose term with The Blue-Mers, more like he’s playing washbasin, boxes and metal objects like would have been in the old days) and Mario Claudio on back up vocals. I am hoping that some amazing artists show up and bring their ideas, music and instruments! Acoustic only!