Welcome to the Sunday Afternoon Open Mic at Cocoa Legato! We welcome artists and musicians of all ages, abilities, and skill levels to join us every Sunday from 12:00pm to 3:00pm at Cocoa Legato to share in some great community art!
One of our missions for the open mics is to make them accessible to anyone who is a musician/music lover. We encourage anyone who wants to participate to do just that! Historically, open mics run with the underlying assumption that performers come to only play original songs. While this is a great resource to have for local songwriters, we feel that it sets the bar too high for folks who want to start getting into performing. We aim to provide a space that welcomes musicians of all abilities and allows them to express their creativity however inspires them most!
We set up our stage with microphones, stage monitors, direct input (DI) boxes for instruments, and an electric guitar for guests to use if they would like. We even set up a laptop on stage for anyone who would like to do a vocal/karaoke performance! We’ve had a few artists hop up on stage to do spoken word poetry during our open mics, so we welcome all artists of all mediums to join us! Feel free to bring your own instruments and our sound engineers can help get them all set up on stage for your performance.
Sign-ups start at 11:30am and we typically start the performances around 12:00pm with an end time of around 3:00pm. While these are not hard-set times, as sometimes we may need to push the start time, we aim to stick as close to our schedule as we can. We ask that each performer stick to either 3-songs or a 10-minute performances (whichever comes first) so that we have enough time for all performers who would like to get a chance to hop up on stage to be able to play.
Just a note, since this is an all-ages event, we ask that performers keep their songs and lyrics appropriate and close to a PG-13 rating in their performances. We will not tolerate any performances that include discriminatory or derogatory language or subject matter. Cocoa Legato staff reserves the right to deny any performances if they feel it is necessary.
We look forward to having you join us for our weekly open mics and welcoming you into our awesome Cocoa Legato Open Mic Community! Feel free to email booking@cocoalegatochocolate.com with any questions!