Open Mic

Poor House Bistro (open mic) – January 20, 2020

For MLK Day:

Pride (In the Name of Love), by U2
MLK, by U2

Both songs are featured on U2’s fourth studio album, The Unforgettable Fire, which was released in 1984.

January 20, 2020 by Mark Adams Open Mic Setlist 0

Poor House Bistro (open mic) – January 13, 2020

From Three Stories and Ten Poems, some arrangements:

1. Corona (Mitraigliatrice), by Ernest Hemingway
2. Captives, by Ernest Hemingway
3. Old Soldiers Never Do Die Well (Champs D’Honneur), by Ernest Hemingway
4. Chapter Heading, by Ernest Hemingway

NB: Original titles in parenthesis.

January 13, 2020 by Mark Adams Open Mic Setlist 0

Poor House Bistro (open mic) – January 6, 2020

1. “War Is Kind,” by Stephen Crane (arrangement)
2. Caesar’s Lament (original)

January 6, 2020 by Mark Adams Open Mic Setlist 0

Poor House Bistro (open mic) – December 30, 2019

1. Lay Lady Lay (Dylan)
2. You Do Not Look Back

I debuted the second song this night.

December 30, 2019 by Mark Adams Open Mic Setlist 0

Poor House Bistro (open mic) – December 23, 2019

1. The Old Year Now Away Has Fled
2. Rain in my Heart, by Edgar Lee Masters

December 23, 2019 by Mark Adams Open Mic Setlist 0

Poor House Bistro (open mic) – December 16, 2019

1. Greensleeves (“Alas my love…”)
2. What Child Is This? (Christmas song)
3. The Old Year Away Is Fled (19th century melody based on Greensleeves, new arrangement by me)

December 16, 2019 by Mark Adams Open Mic Setlist 0

Poor House Bistro (open mic) – December 9, 2019

1. I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon, by Stephen Crane
2. L’Envio, by Edwin Arlington Robinson

December 9, 2019 by Mark Adams Open Mic Setlist 0

Poor House Bistro (open mic) – November 11, 2019

1. Life, by Paul Laurence Dunbar
2. Ships That Pass in the Night, by Paul Laurence Dunbar

November 11, 2019 by Mark Adams Open Mic Setlist 0

Poor House Bistro (open mic) – November 4, 2019

1. If, by Paul Laurence Dunbar
2. The Poet and his Song, by Paul Laurence Dunbar

November 4, 2019 by Mark Adams Open Mic Setlist 0

Poor House Bistro (open mic) – October 28, 2019

1. Rio (Duran Duran)
2. Can’t Help Falling in Love (Presley)

October 28, 2019 by Mark Adams Open Mic Setlist 0