Open Mike at Billy's ( music club in Eastown) was great fun! We arrived, signed up, and promptly missed our call up to the stage. The guy running it wasn't terribly excited but what can you expect from a couple of tinker's who rarely know what day it is, let alone the time! Happily, he forgave us after a bit of a berating on his part. Anyway, we were able to do a couple of tunes and chose an original called Rain (banjo and mandola) and an old northern march that was popular during the Civil War called Soldier's Return (fiddle and mandola). The place was filled with early 2o somethings and we weren't sure of what the response might be (we are not that old ourselves, I'm 30 and Jessie is 27). To our great suprise and delight. People started approaching the stage and dancing (ecclectically mind you) to the music-How do you dance to a march anyway? After we did our two tunes the crowd wanted more and were asking for a pipe tune from Jessie (he lives in Eastown and everyone knows him as the mad piper) but the house music was turned on as Billy's runs a very tight ship. Oh well, there is always the next open mike. Maybe we'll be a bit more conscientious of the time!