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Open Stage Music Venue Idea

I'm kind of just writing about an idea that I had at one point.  I think it would be REALLY cool.  I think this would be a pretty neat experiment to try and setup and run.  Maybe one day I might try to make this an actual reality just to see how it goes.

So here's my idea:

I want to make a venue that's kind of like a small coffee shop.  It's just got some tables and chairs and things.  Then there's a small stage and a speaker system.  Just like a regular open mic.

But......

This open mic is slightly different.  It's not JUST an open mic for one night.  This venue is open mic EVERY night!  So... every night you can come between maybe 5pm and 10pm.  Either you can just listen.  OR you can play!  Or read a poem.  Or maybe tell a joke!  but keep it clean.  This is an all ages venue.  So it's an open stage.  But since it's tough to have a host every single night... I think that instead there will be a little computer like they have at some haircut places.  When you show up you just put your name in.  And then it just adds your name to the queue.

If there's no one on stage you just get to go right then and there!  If there's people on stage or waiting... you'll be queued up next!

Actually it's kind of like bowling.  So... like how you put your name in on bowling... and it shows up on the screen so everyone can see... wait... YES!  So you put your name in and not only does it keep track of the acts.  But also there's a GIANT TV screen behind the stage and it displays the name you typed really cool looking and all like in fancy font and if you typed in a website it will show that too!

So that way everyone can see your website and name displayed behind you while you play.  I think that some other awesome things would be for the whole thing to be broadcast live via the web.  So then anyone can log in to see you play.  That way if you have friends or family living far away and want to see you play live you can head to this open stage place and they can log in and see where you are in queue.

Maybe as well it can automatically record and save your time on stage to a youtube account or something if you provide that information.  I think another cool thing would be to save back data of who played when.  So let's say a person just decided to go watch an open stage one Tuesday night at 7pm.  They saw this awesome person play but then they had to leave unexpectedly for some reason or another.  Well that's no problem!  They can go on the website and then look up that time and see who played!  And if the person entered their website they can just click on the link and go right to that person's website!

I think if one venue in one city is successful... they could be opened all over.  Then everyone who wants to show their stuff can head to the closest open stage and sing/dance/rhyme/joke it up!

Another cool thing could maybe be that people can leave comments and reviews and things on each act as they watch it online or even live in the actual venue.  Then the act can log in and see the comments after to help improve their live performance.

There are definitely a lot of options and possibilities to work with here.

Anywho that's my idea.  I'll keep working at it and maybe see how feasible it would be to setup something like that in real life!  It would really be pretty cool I think to get something like that off the ground.