The Handing off of the Open Mics to the new teams

 Many of you realize that there are changes happening at The Coffee Gallery, and there will be new things happening many nights.  This includes the Open Mics on Fridays and Sundays.  This video is of the "swan song" of the previous Open Mic team, Duane Thorin and Donna Barnes-Roberts.

It is strangely appropriate that this song, sung and performed by Duane summed up our philosophy of self-empowerment that we tried to extoll in all our open mic dealings. It is not about fame, showing off, or being better than your neighbor. It is about connecting with your inner creative force and letting that force lead you to a better place. I hope that the new teams that are running the Open Mics at The Coffee Gallery come to see what they do in a similar light.



I hope that the next teams and all the future performers enjoy their time together as much as we enjoyed all of your involvement.  Duane will still be helping Bob Stane in the Backstage and Donna will still be teaching watercolor in the conference room.  Hope to see you all around. Maybe there is a song in all of this. I sure think so.