Open Mics in Rockford, IL

The Venue's Website still lists 'Open Mic with King Moosa and Ruth Jackson,' dated to the day of the Aug 14, 2026 check, 6:00-8:00 PM [s1]. Only that single date is visible on the page, so the weekly recurrence is carried forward from an earlier finding rather than freshly confirmed.

A news article on rockrivertimes.com suggests it may have ended.

A bar-listicle site's earlier claim about Mary's Place is now treated cautiously, since that site otherwise publishes unrelated, templated multi-city content. The Venue's Website fails to resolve. A local newspaper's own search for 'mary's place open mic,' checked Aug 14, 2026, returns a genuine no-results negative [s1]. A small bar's own limited web presence is not itself evidence of closure.

The third Tuesday of each month, 6:00 PM. The Venue's Website has gone offline since we found this.

The library's own event platform shows a Poetry Open Mic dated Feb 17, 2026, 6:00 PM — about six months earlier (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. No more recent instance could be found, but nothing contradicts it either.

The organization's own event page, last modified Aug 3, 2026, describes a Sunday, Aug 16, 2026, 5:00-7:00 PM open mic billed as 'Queer Noise: Musical Theater Night' [s1]. This contradicts an earlier open-mic listing site claim of a Friday 6:30 PM slot, and only this single dated instance was found, so a monthly cadence is not confirmed.

The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.

The first Friday of each month. Only one source reports it.