Webley
Webster presents
the Terry’s Serendipity Café Web Site!
The
In association with the Office of Arts and Cultural Development,
MRCA, Township of Montclair
Updated 7/5/2010 (etc)
|
Staff Meetings
Weds 6:00 – 7:00 |
|
Serendipity always
needs new staff members and adult advisors Come to our meetings and get
involved it’s
easy. |
|
Spring
& Summer Events August
6, 2010 Serendipity at the Library (Free, Friday 7 to 10 PM) August
28, 2010 Serendipity at Nishuane Park (Free) Sept
18, 2010 |
|
Admission is usually $2.00 Admission is free if we
don’t have to pay for the space. |
|
Poets, Film makers and Musicians: email serendipitycafe@hotmail.com
if you are ready to perform. Include a name and phone
number (so we can contact you). |
|
|
|
|
6/19/2010. There is nothing like Festival Underground, when it doesn’t rain! There was a decent crowd of our usual audience, including some open mic performers, regulars, and so on. The weather was perfect. Ken was as tough as a circus roustabout, and the staff were very helpful, happy, relaxed. We put on 7 or eight bands, Had a jam at the end with Adam, Jeff, and Vin doing some tunes. Cell phone pix below. The bands were: The Porchistas, Hazmats, Tasm, A vs B, March to the Sea, Ten Sleep, Los Huevos, Slim Deer, Tense Deer. An the Alumi Trio.
Alumni: Iris perrot, Adam, Jeff, Vin Demming, Kathryn Weller-Demming Charlee Swanson, Harry Wohl, Ethan Kantor, Max Kravitz, Max Mellman, Julia Berlin, Larry Pope did the recording, Ross Hamilton performed.
6/5/2010 The Relay for Life was definitely an all-nighter.
We set a record for playing outdoor live music in
4/30/2010 The best ever Hip-Hop Serendipity, the “Rap-Fest”. Good sized audience, interesting variety, a whole new bunch of people.
2/27/2010 The Valentine’s day “Carendipity”. Decent size crowd, good bands, excellent open mic. Almost made some money. Love that dry ice seltzer!
1/31/2010 We don’t know why the Pyramids disappeared, but the rest of us had fun. A tad too many acoustic guitar/singer types for my liking. Good thing Thatcher and his gang brought their electrics.
1/2/2010 I have to say First Night was one of the great ones. Large attendance, great job by the staff keeping things going, participation of newbies and alumni, having the Mayor in the audience, great help by parents. What a kick! Happy New Year!
11/28/09 We’re back to small. Perhaps the number of days out of school effect? But good to see Evan & Daryl do their acoustic sets. Moravec was fine. How about those classical guitarists at open mic?
10/31/09 Scarendipity had it’s points. Attendance over 70, for one. Face painting contest, good open mic, great bands. Los Huevos!
9/28/09 We’re up to 50, audience wise. Roger Rockmore, The blue kids, Avaiary, Moravec, etc all well done. Thanks to those who stuck out the rain and made the ending a happy one.
8/29/09 Small staff, small audience, last night. The rain was real. The jams & open mic were good fun. Larry & Nick were awesome, Aiden, Anna, the staff: Nick, Anna, Kat.
Thanks.
7/22/2009 As of today’s meeting the entertainment committee only had one band. So we decided not to put on an event that doesn’t meet our standards. We’re going to ask for the amphitheater.
7/18/2009 The parade was great, Elvis was in good form, as were big bird, Elmo, The cookie monster and Abbie Kadabra. We will not be in the Amphi, due to other concerts and work, but hopefully the Union Congregational space will be available.
6/20/2009 We had the Park House as a rain location, and lucky we did. It rained. I think a lot of people missed this great event, because they thought it was too rainy. Congratulations to Larry Pope, this year’s Staff Scholarship Award winner and many thanks to the runners up, Ethan Cantor and Ross Hamilton for their years of dedicated service.
5/30/09 Same size, same dedication. Animal Scandal turned out to be quite good. Too bad about the Awesome!! And the rain, we’ll try again in September. No Library this summer, I’m told, due to staffing problems. So we’ll try for the Amphitheater.
3/21/09 Another small but dedicated audience. We must advertise. Excitement for the Awesome!! Is building. The whole town is gonna be there.
2/21/09 Use of the
Union Congregational Church,
01/31/09 Great stuff! A live painting thing. Daryl! Good music. Good turnout for cleanup. Even made some money this time!
12/31/08 I missed Larry. A lot of things happened, the music was great, though.
11/22/08 Small but excellent, and I think there are other things to add. Evan!
10/18/08 The Lutheran Church seems to bring us good luck. The Passing Notes were great, I hope they come back. So were Crucial Party. Cranes Are Flying are getting better and better. Pumpkin pie, though, even as a watcher I was near to being “sick”.
9/26/08 It was cool to put all the tables on the stage. The lighting came out right and so did the sound. The bands were good. Not bad for a rainy day.
8/23/08 Well, we just love the library. And Byron came through with some interesting entertainment. Sakura Madams, you know.
8/7/2008 Although Manuel put in a lot of work setting up the Hip-Hop show, it just didn’t come together. Too many people out of town, not enough time. We’ll try this again in the fall.
07/04/2008 Marched in the Independence Day Parade. Early on we were joined by Sara Bynum-Copeland, who is Terry’s mother. She stayed with us for the whole parade, and helped carry the banner. She told us stories from the founding of Terry’s Serendipity Café. And it didn’t rain much.!
6/23/2008 Festival Underground without rain! Great weather, great bands, Award ceremonies, Iko-Iko, grape soda. Thanks & Congrats to the class of ‘08
5/31/2008 The watermelon eating was astounding. We must get the names of those contestants. Lima Research Society just goes to show what Science can do. And Evan! Thanks for the music.
4/29/2008 The 4/26 Café was interesting, to say the least. Confusing, I might say. More after the critique
4/7/2008 The 3/29 event was an “Unexpected Gem”. A slow start, but it built to a great finish.
3/11/2008 The masks and bellies were heavily decorated on Leap Day. Well attended, The Library is the best! Thanks, everyone!
2/21/2008 Incredible technological breakthrough! Paper masks are being built for the 2/29 Leap Day extravaganza. What an eclipse last night!
1/25/2008- What?? Still no guesses about Webley? We have a new drum hardware bag. Knive design has produced our new, nearly sold out batch of T-Shirts.
12/10/07- You can email us at SerendipityCafe@hotmail.com. If anyone knows who Webley Webster is, they might win a brass figligee with bronze oak leaf palm. No relation to Louise.
11/9/07 – Go to the Myspace (Serendipitycafe1) and look at the videos of the Jell-o contest from Scarendipity 2007! Well, really.
9/28/07 – Reputed to be “the greatest Serendipity ever!”, with Franciso, Point 5, Kodiak Bear Regiment and Welcome home. We broke a table leg, but you know what they say.
8/31/07 – Generator Powered! At least we had sound. Lights didn’t work. But we liked Lima Research Society, Crucial Pary, Funkus, and said goodbye to Byron Lupin III, and hello to Byron the Traveller. I hope that confetti really goes away.
7/20/07 – Good turnout, interesting music. The library is a great place for Serendipity. The movie was a beauty, and the Library’s DVD/Projector/Screen was very slick indeed.
6/16/07 – The Festival Underground was great! We presented the Serendipity Staff Scholarship to Evan AND Zack, listened to new bands, enjoyed the sunshine, and then!!!! Got rained and thundered on just before the Staff Band was to play. Talk about luck! Missed Lof, though. Next time. Come to the Parade, come to the library.
2/5/07 – We now have a stage snake, thanks to the Parents Who Rock, which we used in January, at the 1/27 café. It worked fine. Reviews were quite positive for the January event, we had interesting and solid music, thanks to Julia Berlin. Feb is shaping up well, with Gray Delmar in charge of entertaiment.
1/10/2007 – We had a great time on First Night. The
recordings are in the mixing/burning stage. All the performers were
professional and great. Some of them are completely famous. The reviews looked
good in the
12/10/2006 – Great lineup for first night: Jenny Owen Youngs, Rocket Surgery, The Early, Princeton Review, PointFive, Evan Hall.
8/22/2006 – We got rained out in July but the August amphitheater café was lovely. The weather was fine and we even had electric power. There’s a bit in the Montlcair times about volunteering, for adults. September is recruitment month!
5/24/2006 – There will be no library café’s this summer due to shortness of staff. However, we will try for July 21 and Aug 18 at the Amphitheater.
3/25/2006 – This café was the first one recorded with our new Yamaha AW1600 digital recording workstation. We’ll know in a few days how good it sounds.
Paid attendance was 70, Heroes and Villians didn’t show up, but we had Dogwater and Rocket Surgery to take up the slack.No Problem!
2/25/2006 - A great party. Attendance was 117, everyone approved highly. Tromboner was a big attraction. Got a tuner and a couple small cables in the lost and
Found.
12/4/2005 – The December 3 Serendipity was small but fun. We had a lot of competion from Showcase, Hockey and Football. The large group of helpers at the end, putting the equipment back at 277 Grove, was a really wonderful indication that Serendipity is doing fine. Annnnnd… Check the “myspace” page at
http://www.myspace.com/serendipitycafe1 this is the myspace email address: serendipitycafe_myspace@hotmail.com Thanks to Max and Julian!!!
11/2/2005 – The Scarendipty went well. Attendance was up, the entertainment recovered well from a last minute change of bands, and the critique meeting tonight was energetic and pointed.
9/28/2005 – The 9/23/05 Serendipity at the Amphitheater was rained into the Auditorium. The move was quick, and over $100 was raised for Katrina Hurrincane victims.
8/21/2005 – The Aug 12th café was very lucky. We got the entertainment booked at the last minute, we had a good turnout, lotta fun, and didn’t have to pay rent for the building, thanks to Phil Jones and Tom Flowers. It will be good to get everyone back to town & started up on the Scarenedipity and such.
7/7/2005 - The July 19th event has been cancelled due to lack of staff.
6/27/2005 – The Festvial was (in my humble opinion) excellent this year. The Acid Reign were the hit of the day, and we were lucky to have both the founders of Festival Underground at the event. Thanks to Ken Pasture for all the work, heavy lifting, and all day in the heat. Thanks to all the bands, all the parents, my mom and dad, and that kid over there.
5/30/2005 – the 5/28 Café had a really surprising
number of Alumni in Attendance. And seeing Sara Bynum-Copeland, Terry’s
mother, and
5/1/2005 – the 4/30 café was small but intimate. The guitar pińata was pink, the cake was free and the music was in great variety. You should have been there.
3/21/2005 – The 3/19 café was fine! Special thanks to Pet Boy Sherman for filling in for the missing members of Cripple Fight. Solid performances by the Gray Escape (Dave), The Early, Princeton Review and Dogwater. Alex Gorlick was awesome. I liked them all.
2/28/2005 – Collected $142 for Tsunami Relief. How many want Saturday’s silly story on the web site? Raise your hands, one at a time, please.
1/26/2005 There just aren’t enough Saturdays. 2/29 not available 3/5 DT’s show, 3/12 Midsummer, 3/19 5 day weekend.
1/5/2005: The First Night at the Library café went smoothly, and was well received. We have a project under way to record the café performances to put on CD’s and here. New staff members come to the meeting today. Here comes the thnickaman!
11/27/04: The Library café was fine once we got in. There were some rough moments, waiting for the keymaster to let us in. After that, Kelsey was great on the café part, and Evan did OK at MC and ent. Head. The crowd seemed to be weighted toward the younger side and somewhat smaller than usual. But we decided to go with the Library for First Night.
8/22/04: Saturday’s café was mellow. Was that Manny Smith I saw? Sam Paterson? Too bad we didn’t get any pictures. Anyone who has pix of the 8/21 café, please email them to serendipitycafe@hotmail.com , but keep the size small. Use medium quality jpegs.
6/19/04: The festival Underground was a beautiful day, and a small group of the inner circle of Serendipity friends showed up for a really great day of music and sun and breezes and hackie-Frisbee.
6/9/04: The Mettenhiemer was awesome. Thanks to Dylan, Jackie, Marty, Gail, Ken, Bruno, all the Staff members, especially the waiters, The Montclair Women’s Club, our advertisers, the bands, performers, lotta work, lotta good results. Evelyn! Not out of character for a millisecond. Cinema! Cinema!
4/19/04 The Hip Hop Serendipity didn’t quite work. Some of the music was good, some of it was medium, but mainly, hardly anyone showed up.
2/23/04 The “Candle Light” Café included many bands never before seen at Serendipity. We were lucky to get Lucas’s camera working long enough to get the pictures off it. Holy Moley!
11/22/03: We all really like the Lutheran Church spot. We had an excellent café, with interesting music. The layout is comfy and we worked all the usual stuff in. The arrow committee truly excelled in navigational aids. David, you were marvelous More after the meeting.
I don’t know what caused it but we had the biggest, warmest crowd ever at the 10/25/03 Scarendipity. Over 175 people paid to come in and a bunch more were staff, performers, freeloaders of other kinds and adult supervisors. Many thanks to Gail Rainken, Cat Kanner, Pat Shrout, Jane Hanson, Ted Stilles, Ken Pasture, Peter Guiffra (Elvis), Bruno Suria and all the staff members who worked hard and long. There or other people who helped and we will have a lot to talk about when we meet on Wednesday.
The re-moved café worked out! We had more than a hundred in the audience and a great open mic hour. Can’t beat that Fire Dean. By the way, I fixed that buzzy stage monitor.
Nothing in recorded history can match the sophistication of the Sophisticate Serendipity! The ambience, music, poetry, food, drink and apparel were all in character from beginning to end. Historic performances by all, from Sousaphones to Jazz Quintet. And the first ever wedding at Serendipity. Many thanks to the Mettenheimer foundation for making it all possible.
The April 12 Café was very interesting. Waking James, Miasmiscs, Tim and Tonic and Gruve were all first time bands (I think) and all great. Open mic went fine. The staff was top notch, including the new sound crew. Thanks to all who helped clean up & move out.
Congratulations to Pet Boy Sherman on winning the SVPA battle of the bands. And great work by Redwood School District as last year’s Champions. The 1/18/03 café was a success by initial reports. The staff seem to think that the 1/18 café was the best of the year (so far). We need volunteers for the Feb and March committees.
The 2002 Fall season was unusually well received. In September we overcame a power failure and enjoyed a fine outdoor café in front of the Innes building. In October, the Spooky Serendipity was quite the event, with 2 Elvises and lots of costumes. (see photo gallery). In November, the Café at the church last Saturday was excellent, with great music. December included First Night Montclair, which wasn’t perfect, but once again we overcame adversity.
Terry’s Serendipity Café is a project begun
by Montclair High School students in the spring of 1995. It provides a place
for our town’s young people to listen to performances by a wide variety
of artists, poets and musicians here in town. Terry’s Serendipity Café is
run by the students themselves, with adult volunteer advice and supervision.
The café presents all types of performances and music from classical to rock,
from jazz to hip hop. We have “open mic” time set aside at each
café for people to come up on stage and perform. It is a great place for new
artists to present their material to a live audience.
The café is held at a variety of places depending on
availability, season and ideas. Wherever it is held, the café is drug, smoke
and alcohol free, and the emphasis is on respect for the performers and
audience alike. The café project is educational for the staff and entertaining
for the customers.
After three months of preparation, the first café was
held at the Edgemont Park Shelter House in Montclair in early June of 1995. For
about two years, the café was held about twice a month in the Park House. Other
locations include the Glenfield Park house, the MHS amphitheater, the Hillside
School cafeteria, 12 Miles West Theater, and the First United Methodist Church.
Entertainment has included famous jazz performers, student and adult age bands,
poets and comedians, actors and rappers. In 2001 we screened some avant-garde
videos.
In early 1998 a crisis occurred as the founding
members wanted to retire, but found the organization difficult to part with.
After a period of about eight months of no activity, the project found itself
in the hands of a new staff who wanted to re-start the project. In 1999 cafes
were held about every 6 weeks. In 2000 we began to step up the pace and in 2001
and 2002 we held an event every month.
Terry's Serendipity Café always NEEDS NEW STAFF! We are always looking for new
staff members. It's fun and you can get a keen T-shirt. If you want to get
involved in the Serendipity Café, then come to meetings. . We need
students and adults interested in theater, art, finance, management, music,
advertising, world wide web technology, and food. They are every
Wednesday from
Email us at:
serendipitycafe@hotmail.com
.