Coos Bay is *way* farther south.

There aren't any open mikes around here--so years ago, we done something different. 8 years ago, a couple other musicians and myself got tired of there being no place to play, so we started getting together on Friday nights to play with each other. Other musicians kept showing up, and an audience, and now it's on the Dance Floor at Garibaldi City Hall (second-biggest meeting hall in the county--it'll hold 500 people, not that we get that many). 6-8 p.m. Fridays (we have to shut down by 8 so people can get to the Dairy Queen before it closes). We do the Circle Thing--each person leads something, and everybody else follows if they can.

And it's spawned a couple of imitators, which are also successful. There's one at the Main Library in Tillamook on Saturdays, 3-5 p.m., which attracts a lot of the same musicians (when the new library was built, the head librarian, a musician herself, had a sound system built in to the conference room), and there's an all-acoustic one at a local tavern, the Garibaldi pub, Wednesday afternoons 4-6. It's billed as a "jam session," but they do the Circle Thing, too. it's become a habit, I think.

Chance you might get to visit?

joe

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