Terry’s Serendipity Café

Our 30th Year

The Montclair Student Café Project

In association with the

Office of Arts and Cultural Development,

MRCA, Township of Montclair

Updated 01/25/2025 (etc)

– the 5/28 Café had a really surprising

– the 5/28 Café had a really surprising number of Alumni in Attendance. And seeing Sara Bynum-Copeland, Terry’s mother, and Troy, Terry’s brother was wonderful. Among the old timers present were: Carleton Pote, Vin Demming, Isabel Chalek, Bill Farrell, Leigh Jones, Seth Orlofsky (with Heroes and Villains), Joel Kennedy and Mark Ludas in Rocket Surgery, and […]

– The Festvial was (in my humble opinion

– The Festvial was (in my humble opinion) excellent this year. The Acid Reign were the hit of the day, and we were lucky to have both the founders of Festival Underground at the event. Thanks to Ken Pasture for all the work, heavy lifting, and all day in the heat. Thanks to all the […]

– The Aug 12th café was very lucky. We g

– The Aug 12th café was very lucky. We got the entertainment booked at the last minute, we had a good turnout, lotta fun, and didn’t have to pay rent for the building, thanks to Phil Jones and Tom Flowers. It will be good to get everyone back to town & started up on the Scarenedipity […]

– The 9/23/05 Serendipity at the Amphith

– The 9/23/05 Serendipity at the Amphitheater was rained into the Auditorium. The move was quick, and over $100 was raised for Katrina Hurrincane victims.

– The Scarendipty went well. Attendance

– The Scarendipty went well. Attendance was up, the entertainment recovered well from a last minute change of bands, and the critique meeting tonight was energetic and pointed.

– The December 3 Serendipity was small b

– The December 3 Serendipity was small but fun. We had a lot of competion from Showcase, Hockey and Football. The large group of helpers at the end, putting the equipment back at 277 Grove, was a really wonderful indication that Serendipity is doing fine. Annnnnd… Check the “myspace” page at http://www.myspace.com/serendipitycafe1 this is the […]

– A great party. Attendance was 117, eve

- A great party. Attendance was 117, everyone approved highly. Tromboner was a big attraction. Got a tuner and a couple small cables in the lost and  Found.  

– This café was the first one recorded w

– This café was the first one recorded with our new Yamaha AW1600 digital recording workstation. We’ll know in a few days how good it sounds.  Paid attendance was 70, Heroes and Villians didn’t show up, but we had Dogwater and Rocket Surgery to take up the slack.No Problem!