On 06.03.09 Mad Swirl swirled up our open mic with East Dallas' creative collective crew Death List Five. These mad ones brought their poetic A-games as they, along with Swirve, served us a heaping plate of swirling madness! Sincere gratitude to the following mad ones from Death List Five...
Jolee Davis-Cloudy (feature host)
Max Earl Blair
Desmene Statum
Joey Cloudy
Then it was on the usual open mic madness as Johnny O & co-host Jolee Davis-Cloudy called all the mad poets, musicians, singers, comedians & performers to come & strut their mad stuff! They came. They saw. And we all went mad!
Mad Swirlin' thanks to the following mad one's that made this past 1st Wednesday all that it was:
Round 1
Johnny O (host)
Merlin the Magical One
Opalina Salas
M.H. Clay
Amy Weaver (not pictured)
Claude Barrett (not pictured)
Roderick Richardson
Cabe Lindsay
Konnichewa Zach
Gigi Foster
Bear Rodehaver
Devorah Titunik
Josh Weir
BA
Gordon Hilgers
Andrew
Marsteller
Chris Hamilton
Round 2
Poet Echo
Queen
Ebony
Sam
David Crandall
A very special swirlin’ thanks to Swirve's amazin' trumpeter Chris Curiel, mad man G-Man Gerard Bendix on skins and Kenny Withrow on wailin' guitar for keeping us movin', groovin' and steppin' all night long! And an extra special thanks to special guest Cricket Taylor for sharing her AMAZINGLY beautiful voice and chords with us.
And HUGE thanks to Absinthe Lounge owner Kevin for allowing us mad ones to go with our flow for over 4 years now. And a shout-out to the fine Lounge staffers Brian and Tracey for keeping the mad spirits fillin' and swillin' for us mad ones.
And finally we would like to thank ALL the appreciators who freely shared their hand claps, finger-snaps, hoots and howls with all the mad ones who got up on this sacred mad swirlin' mic.
