YOU-TUBE CHANNEL debuts this week with 10 recent episodes. Each of these 30-minute episodes that “premiered” on Community Television Network during October and November of 2017 are available now on YouTube. The channel is called “Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor.” Shows are numbered and each show has a brief description listing the performers and songs (in order of appearance) for that 30-minute program.
Here’s the link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnSNqa0v0G-7GJZT0BpvilA
Two additional shows will be uploaded each week, usually on a Friday, typically with one new show and one from the archives. I’ll post the details in facebook, on the page also called “songwriters open mic ann arbor.”
This new YouTube Channel will be commercial-free and not monetized. Since 1996, my work on open-mic events and tv shows has been not-for-profit and based on particular interests of performing songwriters and music fans, such as: sharing music with friends; inviting feedback on songs, songwriting and performance; celebrating the community of songwriters; and representing the Ann Arbor/Michigan scene on public-access tv stations here and around the State.
The broadcasts on CTN in Ann Arbor (and GRTV in Grand Rapids) are continuing each week. The first broadcast on CTN was in 1996 and on GRTV in 1999. (We’ve been on and ultimately off the air in several other locations, and for a variety of reasons: Indian River and 18 communities south of the Mackinac Bridge; three counties in the Thumb of Michigan; Traverse City; and Manistee.) We’re closing in on 1100 weeks “on the air” in Ann Arbor, so there’s a lot of material.
Jim Novak, Songwriter; Producer / Editor / Host of Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor
Picture: Thumbnail for the Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor Channel, a shot from the back of the performing space at Oz’s Music Store
