Terry's Serendipity Cafe

Terry’s Serendipity Café at B’nai Keshet
2024-01-13 00:00 (America/New_York)
Terry’s Serendipity Café at B’nai Keshet. It took us longer than I thought it would to remove and stack all the chairs from the middle of the floor, and document their locations so we could return them. But we were up and running on time, with minor setup difficulties like a floppy mic stand. The bands were good, they all showed up, played quite loud (hit over 90 on my Sper Scientific sound level meter). I was disappointed in the size of the audience, but those that showed seemed to have fun dancing and listening. There was a noticeable reduction in size during the last band, but we tried out our Kazoo horn section on “Tide is High” anyway.

Departed, Raccoon, Cheesecake, Melanchol
2024-02-23 00:00
Departed, Raccoon, Cheesecake, Melancholy Party were booked but one of them could not make it. We did fine, anyway. No improvement in attendance, but a very industrious staff did a great job keeping things running. Miles needs to teach an MC class. The Staff Band was hot, thanks to Jake and Charles (and Grace). Somewhat loud, but not in the danger of harm zone.

Staff meeting: We had a visit from Macke
2024-03-13 00:00
Staff meeting: We had a visit from Mackenzie Thomas who is writing a book and we voted to charge $5.00 at the April show, the first price change ever!

Serendipity at UU’s with Meat Goats, Rad
2024-03-22 00:00
Serendipity at UU’s with Meat Goats, Radar Satellite, and Window Phase (plus open mic). The Open Mic setup delay was a popular topic at the critique meeting, as was the small attendance count. We have some good possible solutions, my favorite being “act like Tyler G. did”, which means we need more staff to get more audience.

Serendipity at Lutherans. This was our f
2024-04-26 00:00
Serendipity at Lutherans. This was our first price increase since admission was set at $2.00 in 1997, up from free! Now it’s $5 and we’ve voted to continue it at five until we see fit to change it. In critique, the show was well received except for audience retention, we will consider that at the next meeting. Super Jack, The Livers and Operants were the bands, Super Jack was the favorite. We

Serendipity at B’nai Keshet. Kept it at
2024-05-31 00:00
Serendipity at B’nai Keshet. Kept it at $5 good show. We had a lack of help putting the chairs back in order, but aside from that, it was fine.

Festival Underground inside at FLC, star
2024-06-15 00:00
Festival Underground inside at FLC, starting an hour early. The staff were hard-working and helped out right to the end. Quality music with an example by Polaroid Fade of how to use dynamics to make the music more interesting. Took us a while find the dustpan.

Serendipity at the Amphitheater. Got sta
2024-07-26 00:00
Serendipity at the Amphitheater. Got started late due to not having the building unlocked in time, but we got in, and soon the Bird Dance Band was playing and the birds were dancing. Good work all around, everyone was apparently having fun, and there was a respectable audience.

show was cancelled due to tornado warnin
2024-08-09 00:00
show was cancelled due to tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings and a bit of actual rain, with raindrops and other fiercely dangerous things. No music, no fun.

Ed was away in Europe, the gear was stor
2024-09-13 00:00
Ed was away in Europe, the gear was stored at Kayley’s’ and apparently things

Scarendipity at the FLC. Except for only
2024-10-25 00:00
Scarendipity at the FLC. Except for only charging #2, things went ok! We had pumpkin carving on the 23rd, costumes and a contest, open mic and 3 bands including Alien, with staff members and alumni. It was fun. Also we found out we have to watch those electronic transactions quite closely!

This was a good show, and the riot grrl
2025-01-17 00:00
This was a good show, and the riot grrl bands were well received by the staff and audience. Hell on Sunday, T@B GRRL, and Pathetica will probably be invited to play again. Some thought the volume was a bit soft but others were happy with it. We improvised an extension of Open Mic at the end to fill the available time.

Shirthole, Deerly Departed and Konnor Hu
2025-01-17 00:00
Shirthole, Deerly Departed and Konnor Hunter contributed to a quite good and well attended show for the first one of 2025. We had over 60 people in the audience and with staff and performers, we might have hit a hundred. The staff’s enthusiasm for this show is partly responsible for the good turnout. We solved a few technical glitches with our new sound system, using a 16 channel mixer and a borrowed subwoofer!

Alumni Serendipity
2025-04-25 19:00 - 22:00 | First Lutheran Church Fellowship room (basement) 153 Park St., Montclair NJ, 153 Park St. Montclair NJ, Montclair, NJ, 07042, United States

Evan Bakos, Shirthole, cu next tuesday
2025-12-05 18:30 - 22:00

Tiger Would! Red-eye, and No Left Turn at The FLC 1/23/26
2026-01-23 18:30 - 22:00 | First Lutheran Church Fellowship room (basement) 153 Park St., Montclair NJ, 153 Park St. Montclair NJ, Montclair, NJ, 07042, United States
