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Upcoming featured performers:
Wednesday May 21, 9:00pm, free show!
 KOREY
ANDERSON — Anderson's silky, Smokey Robinson voice and true
Americana songcraft win new fans every week, and Korey never stops surprising
us with his great new material and creative interpretations.
 RUE
ROYALE — The folk-pop duo, influenced by Fleetwood
Mac, Sufjan Stevens, and Zero 7, have established a loyal word-of-web
following over the pond, featured recently on leading alternative-music
UK radio stations BBC 6 Music and XFM. Not content with racking up the
miles across the UK, France, Germany, Belguim and Luxembourg, Rue Royale
have their sights set on extensively touring the US on their return.
Contact: Rue Royale
Thursday May 22, 9:00pm, $5
 JESSICA
LINDSEY — Jessica's lyrics are filled with an engaging blend
of emotions that take her audience on a wonderful journey through the
human condition, combined with rich melodies sure to hold your heart.
"Jessica has a hauntingly soulful yet honest and positively-charged
unique sound." —W. Foss, Chicago
Jessica was just recently nominated "Acoustic Artist
of The Year" from Indieheaven in Nashville.
Email Jessica
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 EDDIE
GUMUCIO — Having traveled to 4 continents and 35 countries by
the age of 21, bi-lingual singer/songwriter Eddie Gumucio anchored his
10 years of writing and travel into a dedicated music career by age 23.
Now in his twelfth year, His latest release, When There You Were,
has garnered extensive airplay over 150 college and community radio
stations coast to coast.
Email Eddie
Friday May 23, 9:00pm, $5
 SLEEP
SAID THE MONSTER — Original and independent, they manage to
be both musically precise and drifty. Imagine Simon and Garfunkel on a
floaty LSD trip.
Contact: Joe Provil,
402-212-7608
Opening tonight's show:
 IT'S
TRUE — With the silky voice and effortless range
of Jeff Buckley, combined with the rebellious unpredictability of Andy
Warhol or Bob Dylan, Adam Hawkins is as riveting as an impending head-on.
 DOUG
KABOUREK — Epicenter of one-man-band Fizzle
Like A Flood, Doug moves on to an even more solo show.
Saturday May 24, 9:00pm, $5
 MARTIN
GILMORE — Guitarist for the Long
Road Home Bluegrass Band, his songwriting and unique performances
are entertaining and enlightening. Brought up emersed in American folk
music, rock and roll, classical and jazz, he has taken the influences
of his childhood and melded them into a true Americana sound.
 FINDING
ROANOKE — Finding Roanoke is an up-and-coming indie bluegrass
trio with passionate instrumentation and heartfelt lyrics. Diverse influences
such as Jon Foreman and Tony Rice.
Contact: Micah Bruce,
402-960-6744
Friday May 30, 9:00pm, $5
 MARE
WAKEFIELD — "No one really looks like Barbie,
so come to the table and eat!" So goes the chorus to the song "Barbie"
by Mare (pronounced "Mary") Wakefield. As a teenager, Wakefield
struggled with an eating disorder, an experience she chronicles in the
song. "Barbie" is humorous and deceptively light-hearted, but
girls everywhere responded. "Girls sent me alternatively-proportioned
Barbies in the mail, girls wrote asking about my struggle and detailing
their own."
Wakefield still strives to impact her audience through song. With
a voice that's been called "Oregon cafes, small Texas towns and twangy
Nashville rolled into one," she is gently carving out a name for
herself, her music, and her stories.
Email: Mare
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 BREAKSEA
CARAVEL — A seven-piece orchestra that blends a variety
of European folk music with their own unique style and then presents it
with a theatrical carnival flare. They often use bicycles to move their
sets and power their stage lights. Their instrumentation includes: accordion,
violin, clarinet, guitar, drums, percussion, ukulele, bass, erhu, cello,
and trombone. They perform regularly in their home state of Minnesota
in the US and have also played throughout eastern and western Europe.
Email: Nikolas
Saturday May 31, 9:00pm, $7
 MARY
CUTRUFELLO — In 1998, she released the critically-acclaimed
When the Night is Through on Mercury Records, garnering comparisons
to Springsteen and Petty. A spot on The Tonight Show followed,
two Austin City Limits appearances and tours with the Allman
Brothers and Gov't Mule. Then she was muted by vocal nodes. After an eternity
of silence and rehab, Cutrufello has returned to release her newest recording,
35. She faced her doubts, found her voice and made the best record
of her career.
Contact: Mary, 651-235-1172
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Opening tonight's show, catch the debut of Greg Place,
who recently wowed an open-mic audience to silence with his intimate but
intense performance. An Omaha native, Greg first tread the artist's boards
as a theatre practitioner, graduating in 2005 with a degree in Performance.
Songs have the ability to fragment life into shards; Greg is impassioned
by that search through the shards to seek and deliver truth in sound.
Wednesday June 4, 9:00pm, $5
 SARAH
BENCK — For those who love her solo acoustic performances, tonight's
your rare night. When she steps away from her powerful band The Robbers,
Sarah's songs rise to an exquisite intimacy. With the unabashed rock soul
of Bonnie Raitt and a magical gift for making blues fun and uplifting,
Benck wows audiences with great music and top-notch songwriting.
 KATIE
SAWICKI — Hailed as a "Singstress, Songwriter, lyrical
Genius" (Encore Magazine), Sawicki is a self-taught guitarist,
with influences of Josh Ritter, Jenny Lewis, Ryan Adams, Iron and Wine,
and Patty Griffin.
Contact: Kim Sebastiao
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KOREY
ANDERSON — Anderson's silky, Smokey Robinson voice and true
Americana songcraft never cease to surprise audiences. Everyone leaves
asking, "Why isn't he famous?" We don't know.
Friday June 6, 9:00pm, $5
 ANDREW
JAMES TRIO — With influences ranging from Stevie Ray Vaughan
to Jimi Hendrix, the AJT is melodic, jazzy and intelligent, creatively
combining the old blues with the pop sound of his generation. His self-titled
CD is great, and is in constant rotation at Mick's!
Contact AJ: 402-305-6213
Sunday June 8, 6:00pm, $7
 GRAND
MARQUIS — Swing Party! I know everyone who saw GM's first Mick's
performance will come back with their friends in tow. This in-demand fivesome
showcases KC-style jumpin' blues and hot swinging jazz, mixing fresh originals
with timeless classics; they go from gypsy jazz to jug band stomp in a
heartbeat. (Watch for instruments like tuba, washboard, marimba &
banjo.) Winners of the X Entertainment Magazine’s Best
KC band in 2006 award and The Pitch reader’s Best Jazz
Band award in 2006 and 2007.
Band contact: Bryan,
(913) 515-2887
Tuesday June 10, 8:00pm, $10
 GARRISON
STARR — Garrison invites listeners into her visceral world by
constructing an intimate portrait of contemporary life as experienced
by a soul longing for meaning and connection and as a person dealing with
love in many forms - physical and spiritual, lost and gained. A
fearless performer, her audience always leaves reluctantly after getting
a taste of her humor and humility. A native of Hernando, Mississippi,
Garrison’s southern background subtly peeks through her songs as
she blends a pop/rock/alternative sound with her country vocal curl. First
time listeners fall hard for her voice.
Garrison’s previous four albums were released by Geffen Records,
Back Porch and Vanguard. Garrison has performed with Rhett Miller
(from Old 97's), Edwin McCain, Mindy Smith, Melissa Etheridge, Steve Earle,
Melissa Ferrick, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, and on the Lilith Fair tour.
Contact: Sharal Churchill
Thursday June 12, 9:00pm, $5
 STEPH
HAYES (of the Good
Problems) and CHRIS SCHUTZ (of The
Tourists) — Nina Simone, Muddy Waters, Beethoven, 60's
Country Music, Lucinda Williams: now those are influences. What
they have in common is solid writing and strong musical backbone. The
leaders of these two Philadelphia bands are on a solo tour, but they'll
do plenty of songs together from both bands.
Contact
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 HOOTS
AND HELLMOUTH — Crazy, unrelenting bluegrass assault. Like black
lung coated with raw honey. "Hoots & Hellmouth believe in the
washboard. The tambourine, woodblock and cowbell too. It's the shouting
and frenetic percussion that really elevates them from sleepy acoustic
strummers to crazed psycho-billy punk-out. Their harmonies are of the
everybody-sing-along variety, making the whole affair hot and hopped-up.
Come ready to have fun, and if you're really nice, they might even let
you play the spoons." —Philadelphia Weekly
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Friday June 13, 9:00pm, $5
 GABRIELLE
LOUISE — "Gabrielle has always been a favorite at Acoustic
Music Revival. Seeing her perform has been like being there when Joni
Mitchell was an
unknown and one could see her perform at small cafes and concert venues."
—Acoustic Music Revival, Denver
An emerging artist noted for her poignant lyrics and astonishing
vocals, a two-time John Lennon Songwriting Contest finalist and winner
of the Jack Maher Songwriting Award.
Contact: Gabrielle
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Tuesday June 17, 7:00pm, free
 ANGELA
GLOVER HOSTS WRITER'S READING — Hear poetry, fiction and
nonfiction from the writers themselves as Angela collects the area's finest.
We'll tell you this event's lineup as soon as we know it.
Angela Glover is an essayist who writes creative nonfiction
and a teacher at KU. She has recently been published in The Mochila
Review, and is presently writing about life in Kansas, her rites
of passage by way of soap operas, and her fascination with salt. She also
reads for the Cottonwood Review.
Email Angela
Friday June 20, 9:00pm,
$5
 THE
JOSH DAVIS BAND — Roots-rock with no unnecessary frills.
The music falls just on the country side of rock n’ roll. Tonight,
catch a unique solo performance from Josh. “I’m from a small
town. I write about stuff that happens to me and to people I’ve
known. You are all my muse...” says front man and songwriter Josh
Davis. Thanks to his parents, Josh grew up with Willie Nelson pickin’
in one ear and Frank Sinatra crooning in the other. He has had the opportunity
to share the stage with the likes of Dwight Yoakam, Dexter Freebish, The
Great Divide, Joe Nichols, and his idol Charlie Robison.
Thursday June 26, 9:00pm, $5
 JUMPIN
KATE — After 20 years, 11 albums, and countless shows, Katie
Logan—a.k.a. Jumpin Kate—continues to win over audiences with
solid influences from Janis Joplin to Patsy Cline, Heart to Stevie Nicks,
Pat Benetar to Led Zepplin. Performing at venues such as the legendary
Stardust, the House of Blues, Toby Keith's bar at Harrah's and Jimmy Buffet's
restaurant at the Flamingo, her show is always fun, with a little kitsch:
AC/DC with a feather boa. Most recently, Kate won first place in the Mick's
Songwriter Shootout.
Contact Kate, 402-613-7531
 TERESA
STORCH — Teresa returns to Mick's from her home in Boston, where
she was selected among "Boston's Best" Showcase last year. Most
recently she was chosen amongst the top 25 in the 2003 Rocky Mountain
Folks Festival Competition.
Contact Teresa: (617) 549-7684, teresastorch@yahoo.com
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Friday June 27, 9:00pm, $5
 VINNIE
BRONX — One of the hottest and coolest trios in town: Nathaniel
Brighton, Tyler Cook and Nic Johnson challange one another, blending sounds,
vibe, form, and more funk than you can shake your booty at. Deliciously
innovative and improvisational, their live show is definitely live. Check
out these great music
clips!
Contact: Nic
Johnson, 123-561-8359
Saturday June 28, 9:00pm, $5
 DAMON
DOTSON — At an early age Okoboji-based Damon played drums in
many different jazz and rock groups, which helped him develop the rhythmic
feel that defines his unique style of songwriting. Hugely popular at Mick's!
Contact: Damon
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