NYC Music Open Mic @ Bareburger East Village - EVERY Monday!

Rock out with us!

Bareburger Unplugged Mondays is a hot new music open mic series that takes place EVERY Monday night @ Bareburger organic restaurant in Manhattan's East Village. Hosted by singer extraordinaire Sylvana Joyce (of Sylvana Joyce & The Moment).

20 slots, 7 minutes each (not including set-up).

We welcome ALL types of singers, musicians, bands/singing groups. If you have backing tracks, please bring them on your mp3 player.

Online payment via Eventbrite GUARANTEES your slot on the open mic list:

http://bareburgerunplugged.eventbrite.com/

Exclusive open mic burger and beers specials (and the burgers are the BEST in NYC). And a FREE drink to the first 10 people who sign up to perform.

Family style restaurant, so please NO EXPLICIT LYRICS.

No age limit.



A warm, supportive community of artists. Real crowds. And a great place to network with other musicians, producers, and industry people.

Produced by the popular Inspired Word open mic series, which has featured Grammy winners and nominees, American Idol finalists, and HBO stars.

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Open Mic Lionshead Lager Special:
$3 Pints
$4 Mugs
$10 Pitchers

Open Mic Burger Special:
Original Bareburger ( Beef, Turkey or Veggie)
w/Side of Fries or Side House Salad for $10.95

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Singer/Songwriter Sylvana Joyce is the lead vocalist of the award-winning alternative rock band Sylvana Joyce & The Moment and the winner of The Ultimate Singer-Songwriter Contest 5. She began writing songs at age 5 and grew up listening to opera, classical music, and Romanian folk music, some of which were composed by her late grandfather, a well-known songwriter in Romania. Her music later influenced by Jim Morrison, Nina Simone and Bob Dylan, she attended conservatory at Boston University and in the summer of 2010 founded Sylvana Joyce & The Moment. Her band has toured the Northeast and has received wide recognition from the indie scene. They’ve performed at Boston’s Berklee Performance Center and NYC’s Bitter End, Studio @ Webster Hall, and Knitting Factory; have won the 2012 Battle of the Bands (hosted by Unregular Radio) and the 2011 MENSA Category for iStars Talent Competition; and will perform at the 2013 SXSW Music Showcase. You can find Sylvana Joyce & The Moment @ http://www.sjandthemoment.com and http://www.facebook.com/sjandthemoment.

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When: EVERY Monday Night!

Where: Bareburger (East Village)
85 Second Avenue (@ 5th Street), 2nd Floor
Manhattan, New York
(212) 510-8610

By subway, take the F train to Second Avenue and exit the 2nd Avenue side or the 6 train to Bleecker Street or Astor Place.

Doors open for open mic sign-up @ 6:30pm

Show starts @ 7pm

Cover charge (@ the door or in advance): $10 for audience members or solo performers, $12 total for duos/bands

No drink or food minimum.

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For more Inspired Word info, please check out http://inspiredwordnyc.com/.

We're Looking for New NYC Area Artists! Submit to Us!

Help Us Pick a Name for Our New Music Open Mic

Our music-only open mic debuts @ Manhattan's Funkadelic Studios in November.

So far, we've come with the following names:

Croon & Toons Music Mic
Perfect Note Music Open Mic
Music Box Open Mic
Musiq Box Open Mic
Muzik Box Open Mic
Sound Off Music Open Mic
Perfect Pitch Music Open Mic
High Note Music Open Mic
Soundz Magic Music Open Mic
Sound Proof Music Open Mic
Backline Music Open Mic
Jam Session Music Open Mic
Music Jam Open Mic
Cool Vibez Music Open Mic

Please tell us which one you like best or if you think you've come up with something better let us know.

Thanks so much!

The Inspired Word Staff

The Inspired Word's NYC Rising Stars Night + Open Mic - Thursday, May 26

Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word features Rising Stars Night: spoken word poet Esoteric Structure, actress/poet Lillian Rodriguez, and Blues/Art Rock/Baroque Pop band Sylvana Joyce + The Moment.

Also a 15-slot open mic (open not only to poets and spoken word artists but fiction/nonfiction writers, comedians, monologists, singers, and musicians).

Hosted by 3-time HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.

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ARTIST BIOS:

Lillian Rodriguez was raised in the Bronx. She is an actor and a spoken word poet. First working with International WOW Theatre Company in the summer of 2009, she has since, had her Fringe Festival, NYC debut in "Survival of the Fittest," was 'Helen of Troy' in "The Trojan Women" at Looking Glass Theatre, and acted in "Men Die and They Aren't Happy," a film touring the world (from Miami to Haifa, Israel). She works as an Associate Correspondent on Diplomatically Incorrect at the United Nations, where she interviews women active in art and diplomacy; exploring the notion of the "Diplomat Artist." Lillian just finished shooting the second webisode of "Red Notice," she plays a lead in this webseries based off Dante's Inferno. For more info, please check out http://www.lillianrodriguez.com/.

In the summer of 2010, Sylvana Joyce (piano/voice/music/lyrics) founded a five-oiece band with her childhood friend, Sean-David Cunningham (violin), after finally deciding to get her lifelong itch to perform out of her skin. The granddaughter of the late Romanian composer/celebrity George Sbarcea, Sylvana took to songwriting early in life. Her compositions range the spectrum of Blues, Soul, Jazz, Cabaret, and Gypsy, with a nod to her Eastern European heritage and theatre background that has drawn comparison to Gogol Bordello, Dresden Dolls and Billie Holiday. So far, the band has garnered a respectable reputation among Boston and NYC venues, having impressed McGann's, Parkside Lounge and The Bitter End, as well as having enjoyed a long summer residency at Northern Soul in Hoboken, NJ, where they later performed as nominees for Best Band of 2010 at the Hoboken Music Awards. Their next show will be as headliners at the Algonquin Seaport Theater at South Street Seaport, Pier 17, on May 28. For more info, go to sylvanajoyce.com.

Esoteric Structure is a spoken word poet and the winner of the 2nd Inspired Word "American Idol" contest. He's also a clothing designer, illustrator and filmmaker. He recently completed a short film called "Dom & Magdalena."



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When: Thursday, May 26, 2011

Where: One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, NYC
Phone: (212) 598-9126

Doors open for open mic sign-up @ 6:30pm

Showtime @ 7:30pm

Cover Charge: $10

NO AGE LIMIT!