"Rapndipity" at First Lutheran Church. Attendance was up over 100 again, and we collected over $70 for Toni's Kitchen. Thanks to Margot for working the crowd. The Rap Battle which replaced open mic created the most controversy, but the audience seemed to really enjoy it. It prompted a lot of discussion at our Critique meeting […]

Serendipity Cafe at First Lutheran Church. The Dollys had a light-up bass drum with their name, Tula Vera played, and Lucy started things off. It was a very smooth, not too big event, and we had presenters from SOFIA that were invited by the NOW club at MHS. We raised $73 for SOFIA which we […]

The April Serendipity at last. Back at the Lutherans’ we had another light turnout, but fund raising for the Animal Shelter went well, and we presented them with a check for $150. Citrus, a band from South Orange, had a horn section. A couple of Alumni Showed up. The veggie pizza was not well received.

The Gay May Day event raised a record amount of money for the Ali Forney LGBTQ+ Homeless Shelter in NYC, for the second year in a row. We were proud of that. And Tula Vera played extremely well. We had music from noon until after 4 PM and no complaints! Doing this event at Watchung […]

A good sized crowd and some fine music helped us to raise over $100 for Make Music Day, which we will match. Grace’s bake sale was a success, and we had some fun as well. Many thanks to the late shift of the staff, who hung out on my deck watching the city twinkle after […]

Festival Underground 2016 was quite enjoyable. The weather was fine, we had two fine recipients of the Staff Scholarship Award, and we raised $131 for the Pulse victims in Orlando. We'll bring that up to $200 and send it this week.

The Independence day parade, with Elmo, Cat in the Hat, and Elvis was a fine sunny day. Lucas got a bit light headed in that cat costume, but every kid in town wanted a hug and a selfie. We met Sarah Copeland along the route, who pointed out that we should have Terry's name on […]

A bit of rain, but not enough to suppress the excellent turnout for Serendipity Café at the Amphitheater. We’re guessing there were over 80 in the audience, and a good size staff turnout as well. Music was great and varied. I love doing the event at the Amphitheater. They need to get that electric socket […]

Another bit of rain, and another enjoyable Amphitheater gig. That one guitar guy was too loud. but I liked the Engineers (Small? Little?) And we did Open Mic first, just to try it, and it didn't give the performers that much of an audience. My guess is we won't do that again. And we needed […]

We intended to be in the Amphitheater, but rainy weather moved us indoors onto the auditorium stage, where music and trivia filled a somewhat small but successful evening. We had Cynthia from SOFIA who lead us in taking the pledge again, and good music as usual.