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)

Serendipity Café at the Amphitheater. A

Serendipity Café at the Amphitheater. A great bunch of bands and a serious hard working staff made this the best show of the year so far. The bands and audience both expressed delight at the location and wonderfulness of the event. Thanks for all your help, staffers! The bands were Dirty Circuit, Wallace Petruziello, Gert, […]

It seemed the rain would never stop. But

It seemed the rain would never stop. But it did, in time for Charlie Bollinger, Then Ultra 54 and Radxbent and Mauger. With a bit of open mic. The audience was great, we collected some donations, and the generator ran fine. For what more could you ask? Thanks to Nico for drum transportation and our […]

Excellent everything lead to a great eve

Excellent everything lead to a great event at the amphi. Shallow Green, Erotica, Veronica, Aiden, all musically interesting, and staff enthusiasm was high, We collected a lot of donations, and made a profit for the first time this year.The permit arrived a day late. Scarendipity next!

Regrettably we did not have enough trans

Regrettably we did not have enough transportation for drums, pumpkins and Halloween decorations, or enough staff to run the show. AND heavy rain at 7:00 PM (our showtime) made it impossible. We’ll try again next time! However, our 10/27/2021 Pumpkin Carving and Meeting event went extremely well:

Loon Lord, DJ Dior (with JEMC), The Live

Loon Lord, DJ Dior (with JEMC), The Livers, and Endless Midnight were our bands for Today’s Terry’s Serendipity Café at Watchung Plaza. Great bands! Good music, lots of people stopping by to give a listen, and colder than a dog!

I lost count of the tries it took to get

I lost count of the tries it took to get this event to occur. Weather was a leading problem. However, thanks to Sammy Mellman, Tyler, Emma, Charles, Akiva, and Yuna we finally got the first live streaming Serendipity Café streaming, in cooperation with Deborah T. and Rev. Scott of the Unitarian Universalists. And we have […]

Live outdoor show at the MHS Amphitheate

Live outdoor show at the MHS Amphitheater: A bit of rain just after setting up caused us to bag all the speakers and gear. And then the sun came out, we saw the rainbow, and the show went on! Cool but cool, you know! Good music, no hitches except the previously unmentioned loss of some […]

Gay May Day fund raiser at Crane Park. A

Gay May Day fund raiser at Crane Park. A lot of staff help, Alumni Avery, Maria, Meredith and Akiva helped out and joined in. We raised some money for the Ali Forney Center for LGBTQ homeless youth in NYC.

Festival Underground 2022! We gave the S

Festival Underground 2022! We gave the Staff Award to Tyler, had Alumni speakers, Trever Pason, Avery, Mizzy, Nicholas, Akiva, and Sam. And some good bands. The open mic was fun with several surprise guests and the Staff Band doing Centerfield and Tide is High.

Akiva was right, 100% chance of rain and

Akiva was right, 100% chance of rain and it did! Only 9 drops though, but we got out the bags & protected everything from the “storm”. The bands were Dreaming of Clarity, Ophelia's Lover, Wince and Loon Lord. The last group had a very interesting electric violin, amped by one of our guitar amps. It […]