Here’s the list of first dozen 30-minute programs currently on the youtube channel for “Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor” —
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9NEc1wuphx3tiaBQwvcoXA/about?view_as=subscriber
Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor 1071. Performers in order of appearance: Andres Hernandez, “Love and Nature”; Jim Novak, “Orange Moon” plus a poem by Bertolt Brecht; Jim Eddy, “Homecoming”; Dan Bilich, “Mr Tree”; Tim Reahard, “Remembering the Rain”; and Jim Bouldin, “Pollination Song.”
Songwriters Open Mic 1072. Performers. Dan Meloni plays: “I Die a Little Inside,” “Time of My Life,” and “Save the Best for Last.” Jim Novak plays: “Song for the Civilian Conservation Corps –CCC”; “Center of the Universe” with a poem by Gerard Manly Hopkins, Wildness and Wet; and “Mackinac Nights.”
Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor 1073. Performers in order of appearance: Mary Ann Kirt plays “All Day All Night” and “Long Way”; Jim Eddy plays “Better Job” and “Lick the Sunshine”; Tim Reahard plays “Between the Lines”; Ashley Schuliger, “Bridges and Fences”; and Paul Epstein, “Russian Lilting Gown.”
Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor 1074. Performers, in order of appearance: Sal Schmittou (“Baby Let Me Know”); Jim Novak (“Michigan Central Station”); Jim Eddy (“Wall Street’s Gonna Screw You”); Dan Bilich (“Heather” — unfinished); Paul Epstein (“Ticonderoga”); and Mary Ann Kirt (“Why Do They Lie?”).
Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor 1075. Performers in order of appearance: Jim Novak (“To Ireland” plus a poem by W.B. Yeats); Jim Eddy (“Narcotic Embrace,” plus a poem by S.T. Coleridge); Mary Ann Kirt (“Two People in One”); Dan Meloni (“See My Son Shine”); and Paul Epstein (“Bloodless War”).
Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor 1076. Wolf B. Reuter and Rod Johnson play 3 songs apiece. Wolf: You’ve Been Kind to Me; Another Lonely Fool; and Flying Tonight. Rod: 1961; Last Hours of the Old World; and I Used To Be Blue.
Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor 1077. Performers, in order: Paul Epstein (“Whirley Girl”); Ashley Schuliger (“Into the Gray”); Sal Schmittou (“Friends” and “Ten in the Morning”); Jim Novak “(Shine When Trouble Shakes You”); and Oliver de Peralta (“Improvisation”).
Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor 1078. Performers in order of appearance: Jim Novak (“Blue Star in the Window,” “Michigan Ave,” and “Dusty Sideroad”); Mary Ann Kirt (“One and Only,” and “A Lifetime Ago); Jim Eddy (“Shock of Recognition”)
Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor 1079. Performers in order of appearance: Jim Eddy (“Visit to the Doctor”), Mary Ann Kirt (“Lies,” Hard Heart”), Dan Meloni (“Hold on to Your Dream,” “Half the Dad”), and Jim Novak (“Atlas”).
Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor Number 1080. Performers in order of appearance: Tim Reahard (“Most of All”); Jim Novak (“Barmaids and Waitresses,” paired with the Carl Sandburg poem Love Is It a Cat with Claws); Rod Johnson (“Never Be Warm Again”); Paul Epstein (“Kingdom Come”); Tim Reahard (“Between the Lines”); and Jim Novak (“Center of the Universe,” paired with the G.M. Hopkins poem Spring and Fall To a Young Girl).
Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor 1081. Performers in order of appearance: Jim Novak, “Time to Start Doing Nothing”; Rod Johnson, “When My Baby Comes Around” and “Sing Sweetly”; Sarah Robinson, “When You Feel”; Paul Epstein, “When Adam Sold the Day”; and Tim Reahard, “Un-Intelligent Design.”
Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor 1082. Performers in order of appearance: Tim Reahard, “I Am”; Jim Novak, “Moving Train” (with poem Limited Express by Carl Sandburg); Paul Epstein, “What’s the Matter with Julie?”; Rod Johnson, “35 and 5”, and “Brownian Motion”; and Tim Reahard’s version of Longfellow’s Christmas Bells.
Songwriters Open Mic AA 1055. Richard Daddy Love plays three songs: “Red Dirt in Her Blood,” “Writing This Song,” and “Drinking Just Enough.” Also, three songs from Bryan Elum, with Dan Boyd: “Sign of Life”; “No Idea”; and “Boy Who Cried Love.” (This video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHghDR6Q6xo&t=5s)
The youtube channel for Songwriters Open Mic Ann Arbor is:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9NEc1wuphx3tiaBQwvcoXA/videos?view_as=subscriber
or
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9NEc1wuphx3tiaBQwvcoXA/about?view_as=subscriber
Jim Novak