For the Summer of 2018 Open Mic is Unplugged and Around Town!

2nd Thursdays @7-9pm

Join us In June, July, & August at these Locations:

  • June 14 @ Mills Lanes & Lucky Strike Grill

  • July 12 @ The Barn shelter in the Sculpture Park

  • August 9 @ Backwoods BBQ

Monthly at the Cultural Center in New York Mills, a local volunteer invites singers and speakers, bards and balladeers to perform prospective pieces for the crowd gathered.

Attend as audience or actor, orator or observer. Both literary lectors and musical minstrels are welcome to share their own or another’s creative work.

Organizer Pam Robinson says, “Each Open Mic has been uniquely different from the previous with guitarist-singers from Frazee, to joke-telling youth from Wadena, and the reciting of beat poetry by a New York Mills poet. It is a great monthly gathering of people from Becker, Ottertail, and Wadena Counties and a wonderful opportunity to hear some creativity at work!”

The Open Mic event at the Cultural Center was resurrected by Robinson, long-time Cultural Center volunteer, in the summer of 2015 to provide a safe space for free expression and to give voice to the artist or performer in everyone.

Open Mic Night is always open to all and free to attend.