The organizer's own website carries actively dated content through Aug 12, 2026, including recap posts from Aug 5 and Aug 12, 2026, a recap of the NorthBeast Regional festival, and a forward link for a late-July/early-August 2026 festival (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. These are multiple recent, dated posts describing the ongoing weekly Wednesday show.
The Venue's Website lists this event, but may not be current.
Occasional. Only one source reports it.
The library's own current page does not mention an open mic, consistent with this being a one-off themed event rather than a standing series (checked Aug 13, 2026). The only concrete evidence remains a dated announcement for an AAPI Voices Poetry Open Mic on May 16, 2026 [s1]. No future date is expected, since occasions are scheduled per theme.
Weekly on Tuesdays, 8:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The host's own page for this Tuesday bluegrass session, checked Aug 13, 2026, shows content but carries no date signal anywhere on it [s1]. Its companion Monday page has the same gap. No dated corroboration has been found.
Weekly on Mondays, 8:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The host's own page for this Monday mic shows content but carries no date anywhere on it (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. The Venue's Website separately describes hosting 'everything from folk and jazz to cover bands and open mics' as general, undated programming [s2]. That is enough to suggest the venue has not closed, but not enough to confirm this specific Monday event currently runs.
The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Tuesdays, 6:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
The Venue's Website, checked Aug 13, 2026, mentions open mics only in generic terms, with no specific reference to a Vocal Tune Jam [s1]. No dated source corroborates this particular Tuesday event.
A page on boston.gov lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Fridays. Only one source reports it.
A re-check of the city arts events page found only a tiny stub with no readable listing — inconclusive, not a clean negative. The most recent dated source is Cambridge Arts' own calendar entry from Feb 21, 2025, about 18 months earlier (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. A citywide open-mics table also names the series, without its own date [s2]. This supports the series having existed in the past year, more than it runs now.
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Venue's Website (page no longer available)· cambridgema.gov
The venue's own open-mic page lists upcoming instances for Aug 18 and Aug 26, 2026, both at 7:00 PM (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. Aug 18 falls on a Tuesday, matching the recorded day exactly. Aug 26 falls on a Wednesday, and the same page notes some editions run on varying schedules [s1].
The organizer's own website describes the event in the present tense: 'Every Sunday for more than 25 years! Doors at 7:00pm with a poetry slam, featured poets, and an open mic with the Blake Newman Group,' though undated, with no 2026 dates shown [s1]. A news arts article dated Aug 26, 2025 corroborates it [s2]. A ticketing site separately carried an instance on Mar 23, 2025. Both are nearing a year old (checked Aug 13, 2026).
A page on mccarthystoad.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Mondays, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A later check found the specific event page for this listing returns the same response as any nonexistent path, so its silence on 'open mic' cannot be used as evidence. The venue's main site, checked Aug 13, 2026, does say it hosts 'private events, open mics, trivia, and special shows' upstairs at Toad, but that is general and undated, and doesn't confirm the specific Monday slot or host [s1].
The venue's own calendar page makes no mention of 'comedy' anywhere (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. Its homepage is silent on it too [s2]. That doesn't confirm an open-mic listing site's comedy-mic claim, and it adds to an existing Wednesday-vs-Thursday contradiction. No statement that the event ended was found either — this is a large, multi-room venue where a third-party-promoted night could exist off the main calendar.
Wednesdays, 7:30 PM. How often is unclear. Only one source reports it.
One of several nights or series at this venue
Call to confirm the night
The venue's events page lists this night, but may not be current.
The venue's own live calendar page currently lists a Jazz Open Jam flyer alongside its fiddle jam (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. Whether it happens weekly or only occasionally could not be determined from the calendar as it appeared that day.
The venue's own live calendar page currently displays an 'Open Fiddle Jam' listing alongside its Jazz Open Jam (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. The Boston Bluegrass Union's own jam directory separately lists a 'Remnant OT Jam, 2nd Wed of the month' [s2].
The venue's own current calendar lists a recurring series on Wednesdays -- Aug 19, 26, Sep 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2026 -- each labeled '$5 / Every Wednesday night / 10pm-1am' (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. Every one of those dates falls on a Wednesday.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 9:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The Venue's Website, checked Aug 13, 2026, makes no mention of an open mic anywhere [s1]. This reinforces an earlier finding that Wednesdays are typically a quiet night here, contradicting the claimed Wednesday open mic. There is no statement that it has closed, but the Venue's Website gives no support for it.
Weekly on Tuesdays, 6:15 PM. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
The Boston Bluegrass Union's own jam directory lists an upcoming 'Bluegrass Tuesdays Jam at The Smoot Standard' for Aug 18, 2026, at 313 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. That address matches what's listed here. The listing notes the jam is 'shifting the start times forward by a half-hour,' now giving 6:45pm rather than the previously listed 6:15pm start; a second source would help confirm the change.