Event Details
- Monday, August 1, 2011
- Acoustic Open Mic - Terry Gulley or Guest Host (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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- Terry Gulley (guitarist, vocalist, harmonica) hosts the Monday Night Acoustic Open Mic - every Monday at 8:00pm.
No Cover - Great Drink Specials All Night Long
$1 draft PBR all night long!
Event Details
- Tuesday, August 2, 2011
- Tuesday Open Jam with Reverend Hooch (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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- Wednesday, August 3, 2011
- Sit in with Featured Musician ~ Melanie Owen Padilla (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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- Melanie is originally from Great Falls, Montana, but has been in Denver since 1986. She has truly enjoyed growing up in and along side the Denver arts scene (as well as working every possible kind of customer service job available in order to pay the bills while doing so). She studied Theater at the University of Denver, spent some time in France at the University of Paris VIII and jumped into the Denver theatre scene in 1998. She is still involved in the theatre scene by way or her original holiday show, BALLS! A Holiday Spectacular, that will be re-written and performed again this year with Mare Trevathan and GerRee Hinshaw in December at Curious Theatre Company. In 2000, she joined the Slam Poetry scene for a while and found her love of writing. Somewhere along the line, she picked up a guitar and started songwriting seriously and going to open mics. In 2007 she met her songwriting partner, Emily Saunar, and began the acoustic rock duo, middleroad, who can be seen regularly in Denver. In 2010 she met John Weeks, blues guitar extraordinaire, who jokingly called her "Queen of the Blues" one night at an open mic. Little did she know that she would find her true voice there, deep in the Blues.They soon formed the band project that became Cedar Avenue Blues Band, and they continue as blues-writing partners and performers joined by Jay Ryan on bass and Ryan Kurtz on drums. A self-proclaimed open-mic whore, she hosted her own open mic at The White Owl May 2010-April 2011, and still bounces around to blues jams and open mics a few times a week.
Event Details
- Thursday, August 4, 2011
- Julie G and Friends ($3 cover)
- 8:00 pm
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- Julie Gussaroff, Chris Sauthoff, Al Laughlin, James Hambleton, Kristine Shafer, Ryan Waller! Gonna be a huge party in the house! Doors 6pm, music tonight starts 9pm and goes to 1am. Only $3 cover for the band. Buck draft PBR all night long. Free Parking.
You don't wanna miss this show. Whoot whoot!
Event Details
- Friday, August 5, 2011
- Waitin' on Ray ($5 Cover)
- 9:00 pm
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- Saturday, August 6, 2011
- BluesTorch ($5 Cover) Julie's Birthday Bash
- 8:00 pm
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- Sunday, August 7, 2011
- MHBS Sunday Blues Jam (Doc Brown Blues Band Host) FREE
- 7:00 pm
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- NOTE - this is a recurring event on our calendar. At times, due to scheduling conflicts Doc Brown and The Blues Allstars swap host dates or other bands are hosting the jam. Check home page for current hosting band for the week. Thanks.
Mile High Blues Society & Ziggies presents
Colorado's Longest Standing Blues Jam at Colorado's Oldest Blues Bar
Bring your instrument and come play some blues with the host band or with other local musicians. Doc Brown, your host, will get the jam started and provide all basic amps and PA.
NO COVER CHARGE.
Jam starts at 7:00 p.m.
www.docbrownsbluesband.com/
Event Details
- Monday, August 8, 2011
- Acoustic Open Mic - Terry Gulley or Guest Host (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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- Terry Gulley (guitarist, vocalist, harmonica) hosts the Monday Night Acoustic Open Mic - every Monday at 8:00pm.
No Cover - Great Drink Specials All Night Long
$1 draft PBR all night long!
Event Details
- Tuesday, August 9, 2011
- Tuesday Open Jam with Reverend Hooch (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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Event Details
- Wednesday, August 10, 2011
- Sit in with Featured Musician ~ Melanie Owen Padilla (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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- Thursday, August 11, 2011
- Mike Maurer & Friends ($3 Cover)
- 8:00 pm
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- Friday, August 12, 2011 – Sunday, August 14, 2011
- Ziggies First Annual Poetry Fest
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- Ziggies First Annual Poetry Fest
!!! THIS WEEK !!!
August 12, 13, 14 ~ 2011
Ziggies, while known as the Oldest Blues Bar in Colorado, has recently opened our doors to poetry every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month. With the great response from our poetry community we are proud to open our doors for the first annual Ziggies Poetry Fest.
Featured poets, workshops, pairing, performances, and live music!
All inclusive pass: $60 includes 5 workshops (presented by poets & musicians) , Open Mic, Art Compost and the Word Mechanics, 3 Nightly Poetry Performances, Randall Dubis Show Friday (Aug. 12), Doc Brown's Blues Band Show Saturday (Aug. 13), Coyote Poets of the Universe show Sunday (Aug. 14) and Continental Breakfast Sunday.
Westword's writeup by Jef Otte can be found at:
http://www.westword.com/events/ziggies-poetry-fest-1857830/
Poetry Gap
Jef Otte
Writing poetry and performing it are two different things, observes longtime local poet Julie Cummings — and with Denver’s unqualified success in the slam poetry world (both major Denver teams just went to the nationals), it pays to be well versed in the latter. To that end, the Ziggies Poetry Fest Cummings is organizing is a great place not only to see poets perform, but to learn how to do it yourself.
The idea came as an offshoot of an early-evening poetry open-mike night Cummings has been doing at Ziggies for some time, a night that allowed her to preserve her day job (teaching) by being “done by 7:30 and in bed.” But in the vacuum left in recent years by the death of two prominent Colorado poetry festivals — Sparrows, in Salida, and Talking Gourds, in Telluride — Cummings saw a niche to fill. “The first time I went to Sparrows, I wanted to be better at performing poetry,” she recalls. “That’s what I want this festival to do. There will be a lot of performance, but I think the workshops are the real meat of it.”
There are seven workshops altogether, on topics that range from word choice to channeling feminine energy, and while admission is a cool $60, it includes access to everything. Festivities kick off Friday, August 12 at 1:30 p.m., with a workshop on sounds of the English language, and continue through Sunday at Ziggies, 4923 West 38th Avenue. For more information, go to www.ziggieslivemusic.com.
~ Jef Otte, Denver Westword Events
The Agenda for the Poetry Festival
Friday August 12
12 P.M. Registration open (or come for any event, register and pay then)
... Meet and greet
1:30 P.M. Poetic Sounds Charles Nichols $5
This workshop will look at The Barrel Organ by Alfred Noyes as an example of the most beautiful sounds in present day spoken English for sight and sound and smell and touch and how best to make those sounds, and others like them, your own, and use them in your poetry.
3:45 P.M. Poetry and Songwriting Melanie Owen Padilla$5 Workshop with a professional musician- are poetry and song lyrics interchangeable? See how your poetry applies to music.
6 P.M. Open Mic Hosted by Neil Kelly
7:45 P.M. Evening Performances $5
Ken Greenley
Debi Brody
Lenny Chernila
Kathryn T.S. Bass
Free Radical Railroad
9:30 P.M. Randall Dubis Band $5
Saturday August 13
11 A.M. POEMS OF PRAISE, POEMS OF PASSION; To Dwell in Delight. Debbi Kapp Brody $5
As most creative people, it is easy for poets to fall into writing from gravitas. In this workshop, we will rise up and write from the joy of walking on the sunny side of Poetry Street. All levels of experience with any kind of writing or none at all are welcome to this fun and lightening-of-the-heart workshop.
11 A.M. Found Poems! Play that Makes Poetry Kathryn T.S. Bass $5
Though poetry is no game, there's plenty of playful ways to trigger great work. Join me for a series of exercises designed to jumpstart new pieces and galvanize unexpected connections. You'll feel like you just played a few parlor games with some friends, but walk away with fresh, juicy lines—or maybe even whole poems—in your pocket!
1:30 P.M. Unlocking the Anima Energy Within: A Poetry Writing Workshop with Anita Jepson-Gilbert $5
Psychologist Carl Jung has described the Anima as that Feminine energy, which both men and women can tap into if they're willing to step out of their controlling consciousness and into the unconscious realm of the imagination. During the workshop we will attempt to get in touch with the collective unconsciousness among us and to allow the Anima to reveal the hidden truths behind our words. If you're planning to attend this workshop, please start now to jot down any dream images you can remember from your dreams, and bring them with you.
1:30 P.M. Workshop with Celeste Labadie $5 Join Celeste in an amazing workshop featuring words and writing.
"Poetry: Receiving What We Need"
Poetry allows presence to greet us whenever we choose it.
Paying attention to both beauty and struggle, the poet questions and listens simultaneously.
Using music, movement and our voices, we will step into a space of wonder and freedom.
Like the child and the elder, we will explore on paper the whispers of truth that comfort us.
You just may receive (explore, expand, let go, dissolve) and welcome what you most need.
3:45 P.M. Performance Pairings and Planning (PPP) Workshop with SETH $ 10.00
Workshop and Performance!
Performance 6 PM-8PM You must sign up for the workshop to perform at 6 P.M. When you arrive for this workshop, you will be paired with another poet. Then you will create a performance with the other poet for the PPP readings details given at workshop Teachings by Seth
6 P.M. PPP performance Hosted by Art Compost and the Word Mechanics $5 (if not signed up for the workshop)
8 P.M. Evening Performances $10
Kit Muldoon
SETH
Celeste Labadie
Mark M.D. Friedman (harmonica and poetry)
9:30 PM Doc Brown Blues Band $5
Sunday August 14
$10
11 A.M. Coyote Poets of the Universe
Continental Breakfast
Ziggies Poetry Circle
All Events Pass $60
Individual Event Tickets also available
Event Details
- Friday, August 12, 2011
- Randall Dubis Band ($5 Cover)
- 9:30 pm
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Event Details
- Saturday, August 13, 2011
- Doc Brown's Blues Band ~ ($5 cover)
- 9:30 pm
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Event Details
- Sunday, August 14, 2011
- MHBS Sunday Blues Jam with The Blues Allstars (FREE)
- 7:00 pm
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- NOTE - this is a recurring event on our calendar. At times, due to scheduling conflicts Doc Brown and The Blues Allstars swap host dates or other bands are hosting the jam. Check home page for current hosting band for the week. Thanks.
Mile High Blues Society & Ziggies presents
Colorado's Longest Standing Blues Jam at Colorado's Oldest Blues Bar
Rick Davis and The Blues Allstars host the Sunday Blues Jam every other week.
Sunday at 7pm
No Cover
Free Parking
http://www.TheBluesAllstars.com
Backline - PA, amps, drumkit, and keyboard provided.
Event Details
- Monday, August 15, 2011
- Acoustic Open Mic - Terry Gulley or Guest Host (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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- Terry Gulley (guitarist, vocalist, harmonica) hosts the Monday Night Acoustic Open Mic - every Monday at 8:00pm.
No Cover - Great Drink Specials All Night Long
$1 draft PBR all night long!
Event Details
- Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- Tuesday Open Jam with Reverend Hooch (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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Event Details
- Wednesday, August 17, 2011
- Michael Hornbuckle Featured Musician you can sit in with - FREE
- 8:00 pm
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- Thursday, August 18, 2011
- TurnStyle ($5 Cover)
- 8:00 pm
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- Friday, August 19, 2011
- Cedar Avenue Blues Band ($5 Cover)
- 9:00 pm
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- Saturday, August 20, 2011
- Willie Houston & The Junkyard Dogs ($5 Cover)
- 9:00 pm
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Event Details
- Sunday, August 21, 2011
- MHBS Sunday Blues Jam (Doc Brown Blues Band Host) FREE
- 7:00 pm
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- NOTE - this is a recurring event on our calendar. At times, due to scheduling conflicts Doc Brown and The Blues Allstars swap host dates or other bands are hosting the jam. Check home page for current hosting band for the week. Thanks.
Mile High Blues Society & Ziggies presents
Colorado's Longest Standing Blues Jam at Colorado's Oldest Blues Bar
Bring your instrument and come play some blues with the host band or with other local musicians. Doc Brown, your host, will get the jam started and provide all basic amps and PA.
NO COVER CHARGE.
Jam starts at 7:00 p.m.
www.docbrownsbluesband.com/
Event Details
- Monday, August 22, 2011
- Acoustic Open Mic - Terry Gulley or Guest Host (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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- Terry Gulley (guitarist, vocalist, harmonica) hosts the Monday Night Acoustic Open Mic - every Monday at 8:00pm.
No Cover - Great Drink Specials All Night Long
$1 draft PBR all night long!
Event Details
- Tuesday, August 23, 2011
- Tuesday Open Jam with Reverend Hooch (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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- Wednesday, August 24, 2011
- Performance Poetry hosted by Julie Cummings
- 6:15 pm
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- Performance Poetry at Ziggies every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month. Hosted by Julie Cummings with open readings and featured poets. Everyone welcome. No Cover Charge.
Open daily at 6pm, poetry starts at 6:15pm and goes until the 7:30pm
Event Details
- Wednesday, August 24, 2011
- Mostly Joe Hawkins Featured Musician you can sit in with - FREE
- 8:00 pm
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- Thursday, August 25, 2011
- Blues Kickers ($4 Cover)
- 8:00 pm
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- Friday, August 26, 2011
- Brethren Fast ~ Carla's Birthday party ($5 Cover)
- 9:00 pm
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- Carla's birthday is today! Friday, August 26th and there will be a party in the Ziggies house.
Brethren Fast, Dynomite Don and the crew will confirm that yes, Carla is getting old!
Come for the party!
$5 cover for the band!
Event Details
- Saturday, August 27, 2011
- Duke Street Kings (NO Cover - Door donation show)
- 8:00 pm
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- Duke Street Kings - fan appreciation show **8pm to midnight**
No Cover - donations at the door accepted for the band!
Event Details
- Sunday, August 28, 2011
- JAM HOST DOC BROWN - Sunday Aug. 28. (FREE)
- 7:00 pm
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Event Details
- Sunday, August 28, 2011
- MHBS Sunday Blues Jam with The Blues Allstars (FREE)
- 7:00 pm
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- NOTE - this is a recurring event on our calendar. At times, due to scheduling conflicts Doc Brown and The Blues Allstars swap host dates or other bands are hosting the jam. Check home page for current hosting band for the week. Thanks.
Mile High Blues Society & Ziggies presents
Colorado's Longest Standing Blues Jam at Colorado's Oldest Blues Bar
Rick Davis and The Blues Allstars host the Sunday Blues Jam every other week.
Sunday at 7pm
No Cover
Free Parking
http://www.TheBluesAllstars.com
Backline - PA, amps, drumkit, and keyboard provided.
Event Details
- Monday, August 29, 2011
- Acoustic Open Mic - Terry Gulley or Guest Host (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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- Terry Gulley (guitarist, vocalist, harmonica) hosts the Monday Night Acoustic Open Mic - every Monday at 8:00pm.
No Cover - Great Drink Specials All Night Long
$1 draft PBR all night long!
Event Details
- Tuesday, August 30, 2011
- Tuesday Open Jam with Reverend Hooch (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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Event Details
- Wednesday, August 31, 2011
- Melanie Owen Padilla Featured Musician you can sit in with (FREE)
- 8:00 pm
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