DFW has several regularly scheduled ongoing open mics. Here are a few to watch for, check our online calendar for a comprehensive listing! dfwopenmics.com
WHATS HAPPENING NOW, LISTINGS!!! (PROMO INFO!!)
MOCHALUX OPEN MIC! (Every Saturday! ARLINGTON, TX)
Another AWESOME DFWOPENMIC! ( www.dfwopenmics.com) Hosted by Paul Sexton and DEvorah Titunik. Come join a great group of artist in the Southern most regions of Arlinton! The space is great, and so is the coffee! Mic starts at 8pm, and is open to muscians, poets, spoken words artists, comedians, and all manner of interesting variety acts, come show us what you got and join in on this great Saturday night happening! MochaLux Coffee & Tea Co. 1101 E. Bardin Rd, Ste 101, Arlington, TX 76018
Voice: (817) 468-0488 Fax: (972) 237-2408 http://www.myspace.com/mochalux
THE MAD SWIRL! (FIRST WEDNESDAY of the month)
Another AWESOME DFWOPENMIC! (www.dfwopenmics.com) hosted by Johnny O! Mad Swirl whirls thru absinthe lounge on the 1st Wednesday each month. Join the next mad revolution: Are you a mad poet, musician, actor, singer and/or performer? (circus freaks, Tenacious D rip-offs and Elvis impersonators always welcome) Do you live in the Dallas -Ft. Worth area? Then come-n-strut-yo-stuff. Come one. Come all. Come to participate. Come to appreciate.Come to support your fellow mad ones. The mic opens up around 8:30 and closes when there's no one left standing. FEEL FREE TO SPREAD THE WORD! Mad Swirl Open Mic at Absinthe Lounge. It's THE place to be on the first Wednesday of the month! (It’s also THE place for 1st Wednesday's $2 drafts/$5 Absinthe's) Absinthe. The Lounge is locatedin the Southside on Lamar building. 1409 South Lamar Street • Dallas , TX 75215 http://www.madswirl.com
FUN CITY OPEN MIC! (Last Wednesday of the month in ARLINGTON TEXAS!!)
Another AWESOME DFWOPENMIC! ( www.dfwopenmics.com) Hosted by Paul Sexton and Josh Weir. This is the one that’s causing all the buzz, all the talk and fear. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! Fun City Open Mic is the monthly anything goes, no limits, wild ass crazy freaken open mic show in Arlington TX . The hosts go nuts, the poets go nuts, the musicians go nuts….The drinks are cheap, and the dames are wild and beautiful. If you have the insane need to share your art, and soak up the AWESOME art of others, and you are NOT a pussy, this is the place to be the last Wednesday of each month. If you are overly sensitive, easily offended, or politically correct, seriously, stay the hell home. Random bar patrons have mentioned something about, burning in hell, more than once. GOOD TIMES BAR 931 W. Division St Arlington,TX 76012 Phone: 817-277-8833 http://www.myspace.com/funcitypoets
About me:
DFWOPENMICS was born in early 2006 when Open Mic artists, poets/musicians and hosts around the Dallas Fort Worth Texas Metroplex, all of which had been involved in numerous variety style format open mics, decided to join forces to work together to produce and promote, helping make DFW a really great town for pure open poetry and variety (Poetry Spoken Word, Music,and pretty mich whatever you have for us!)open mics like it once was, hell...even better!! Where great local poets, singer songwriters, and other independent artists of all types, dispositions, and levels of experiance, can find venues that are open, inclusive, supportive and entertaining. Venues to do the overwhelmingly important job of creating and nurturing all types of poetry, music and art, making more beautiful and more real the human experiance. A PLACE in our cookie cutter, corpratized, conformist, lowest common denominator culture, for real art, real people, real voices, to be heard! It's evern MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER these days.. to have a real voice or art happening that is not fitered through the Corpocracy!! Some of our artsists have been doing what they love to do, hosting, organizing, reading at, playing, singing,featuring at, and supporting open format poetry/spoken word/music/variety open mics, for several years..some more than a decade. They all come together with one single common love and purpose, the purely open open mic.
The mission of DFWOPENMICS,is to create a vibrant,growing energetic and artistically enriching poetry, music, and variety pure open mic scene in DFW. That is brilliant, original artistic,supportive and a lot of fun!! Through networking, cooperative cross-promotion of existing open mics, and production of awesome new open mic venue locations throughout the DFW metroplex.
We are poets, writers, spoken word artists, muscians, singer songwriters, independent creators and thinkers, showmen and women... of all tastes, styles, ideas, philosophies, ages, genders, beliefs, experiences,and persuasions...our commonality being the OPEN MIC..... it's what we do! It's what we love!!
Please visit our DFWOPENMICS calandar and info site for regularly updated listings and details on open mic happenings:
www.dfwopenmics.com
Who I'd like to meet: The idea of this page is that several of our DWFOPENMICS POETS have access to it....we post lots of blogs, bulletins and such. Local people on Myspace check over here to see what's happening with the local poety/ music/variety open mics...and we meet LOTS AND LOTS of people at our local events who want to come hear the local poets, musicians and artists,and hopefully share their work as well.
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hey man, whats going on? check this out, i got the mixtape released already with local hip-hop and punk musicians showing people what the fuck REAL music is about, bridging worlds together. All featuring myself (doug funnie), Think Again (myspace.com/thinkagaintx) and Mr. Phantastik (myspace.com/phantastik1) and Jordan Harp . Im getting people to get a copy FOR FREE, if your interested in getting one. let me know. much love peace....SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC!!
Hey Paul I wanted to invite you out to my open mic in Arlington every Thursday night it is off of N. Collins 2301 in the landmark shopping ctr. ste 150 next rackdaddy's and golds gym.
I know your open mic isn't to far from it. We are needing more artists and people to come out to it since it is fairly new.
We have it every Thursday and a different feature everytime. We will be featuring the Poetry Grind on 10-22-09.
How do your schdeule look like for 10-15-09 we don't have a feature schdeuled for that day.
YOU ARE INVITED!! BOOK AND CD RELEASE PARTY FOR HER SOUL BLED OUT, by Paul Sexton Limited signed editions available $17 17 track companion spoken word CD $7 20 plus poets reading selected pieces! @ Mochalux, April 18th, 7:30 1101 E. Bardin Rd, Ste 101, Arlington, TX (1 blk south of I:20 on Collins) BE THERE!!! HER SOUL BLED OUT, A Post Modern Poetry Novel, NOW AVAILABLE, CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT!!..
With the most sincerest of praises and BEEEP's, Mad Swirl would like to thank you DFW Open Mics for supporting and helping make 1st Wednesdays what they were, are and shall be as the whole Mad Swirl of everything to come keeps on twirlin' and turnin' and swirlin'. Check out the pics at MadSwirl.com!
We hope to see you next 1st Wednesday (05.06. 09) at the same Mad Swirl time (8:00), the same Mad Swirl place (Absinthe Lounge) and the same mad ones (all y'all)
We started out playing Dallas open mics in the early 1980's. They are a great place to conquer stage fright, develop stage presence and polish your act. We highly recommend them as a crucial stepping stone for music acts.
Mad Swirl called all you beatniks, hipsters & ca-razy cats out there to open the mic at Absinthe Lounge this past 1st Wednesday. And open it we did! T'was the mostest as all the mad ones came gatherin' around to wail away on the mad, mad mic.
With the most sincerest of praises we would like to thank you DFW Open Mics, for your support of the glowing and flowing on the swirling mic on 03.04.09. Check out the pictures at MadSwirl. com!
We hope to see all y'all next month (04.01. 09) at the same Mad Swirl time (8:00), same Mad Swirl place (Absinthe Lounge), same Mad Swirling mad ones (you!)
Mad Swirlin' thanks to you and for your support DFW Open Mics for making this past Mad Swirl Open Mic what it was, what it is and what it will be! Check out the pics at our open mic page @ MadSwirl. com. And as you know, each 1st Wednesday is a unique madness all it's own. You just never know who or what you'll see and hear when you go to Mad Swirl Open Mic at Absinthe Lounge. Don’t wish you were there, JUST BE THERE on the next 1st Wednesday 03:04:09. You won't want to miss it. We promise!
Auld acquaintance were not forgot, And t'was definitely brought to mind. Auld acquaintance were not forgot, And we honored auld lang syne.
Auld acquaintances were not forgotten this past 1st Wednesday at Absinthe Lounge as Mad Swirl brought in the double-aught nine with a night of beat-utiful swirling madness! T'was a night to remember and embrace...with old and new mad acquaintances spreading the poetic and musical voo-doo that they do do...appreciators sharing their handclaps, fingersnaps, hootinations and affirmations...thank-you DFW Open Mics for helping bring in '09 with swirlin' vivacity on 01.07. 09!
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