What is the difference between an Open Mic & an Open Jam?
To answer this question you need to know:
What is an Open Mic? An Open Mic is a forum with just a stage and a microphone where a solo artist/small act such as a singer, acoustic instrumentalist,comedian or spoken word artist can go on stage and perform in front of a live audience.
What is an Open Jam? An Open Jam is a forum with a band where any musician or singer can sit in with the existing band by either replacing a musician in the band or joining in with additional instruments and singers. In most cases musicians and singers are performing on the fly with no practice or rehearsal. Songs sometimes are cover tunes or completely improvised.
There are many exceptions to these rules such as:
Open Mic's geared specifically to singers where there is a house band. The band members remain the same throughout the night and only the singers change
Open Jam's where no one is allowed to perform a cover and everything must be improvised on the fly
What is the difference between the Open Jam Night @ Harlem and other Jams?
Carolyn T is the host and creator of Open Jam Night @ Harlem
This is a COMMUNITY EVENT for musicians and spectators that provides an excellent opportunity for full-time & part-time musicians to shed, network, collaborate, promote gigs and showoff their talent! Many gigging/working bands have started because of the jam!!!
The jam is over 2.5 years old, busy, and still going strong!
Open Jam Night @ Harlem is an excellent opportunity for you to network with local musicians, so please bring your biz cards & cd's!
