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Saturday, May 5, 2012

SuperMoon Third Session Promises to be the Best Yet!




In its reupholstered new life, the Travelling Yellow Sofa has eclipsed even the heights of the fondly remembered Yellow Sofa Cafe open mic on Main Street. Last week's session had music as magnificent as any the great nights. It also had David Mansfield's fiction, and we've also had stand up comedy from Corey Nimmer and poetry from Chris Goudreau and Ruth Hutton.

Sound was ably engineered by DiDi Davis of Melba Studio in CT, and our visual display and light show maven Rob ("Everything is going really well.") Douglas was adapting backgrounds behind the performers, putting up information about them, honors, awards, praises, batting statistics against lefties, and even relevant archival videos, such as images alluded to in Jeremey Kent's song that referenced "The Island of Lost Children." And if you can believe it, the Travelling Yellow Sofa is Travelling with a brilliantly built 3-stage portable stage designed by our most brilliant songwriter-in house civil engineer, Felix Harvey has created a three stage portable stage.

Last week, our local NPR affiliate WFCR (Amherst) did a piece on the Travelling Yellow Sofa Open Mic and the some of the characters who conspired to bring it back from the edge of oblivion to its storied current ascension to yet greater heights. You can listen here.

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More to report after tonight's show.

Hope to see you tonight.

Yrs. in communidad,

El  Travelling Yellow Sofa Open Mic Executive Steering Committee

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