Open Mics in Massachusetts

The Venue's Website suggests it may have ended.

Weekly on Mondays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.

The Venue's Website, checked directly on Aug 13, 2026, does not mention an open mic anywhere on the page [s1]. This is consistent with an earlier finding that the only support for this listing was a single open-mic listing site giving no specific time.

The Venue's Website suggests it may have ended.

Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.

The Venue's Website, checked directly on Aug 13, 2026, does not mention an open mic anywhere on the page [s1]. This matches an earlier finding that the only support for this listing was a single open-mic listing site giving no specific time.

The sources disagree about whether it still runs.

Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.

SouthSide Tavern relocated rather than closed. Its old website now redirects to a new site for a Braintree location [s2]. That site lists the tavern open at 941 Washington Street, Braintree, Thursdays 11:30 AM to 1:00 AM [s4]. The Thursday 7 PM music open mic is not advertised at the new address, so whether it continues is unconfirmed.

A post on instagram.com suggests it may have ended.

The venue's own social media, checked directly and unusually readable in full (checked Aug 13, 2026), has no mention of 'open mic' anywhere [s1]. This does not corroborate or contradict an earlier dated event listing and a ticketing site's description of the same Monday, 7:30-8 PM slot hosted by Kenny Capozzi, since a social media check can return only partial content. Confidence in this listing remains low.

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

This is a Zoom-only event with no fixed venue address. The organizer's own about page could not be read — it showed only application code, no visible text — so no independent schedule confirmation was found (checked Aug 13, 2026). It is a separate series from the in-person open mic at Gloucester Writers Center.

The Venue's Website shows an Open Mic Night description on a dated calendar page (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. Adjacent listed dates on the same page include Aug 12 and Aug 13, 2026 — today's date — confirming the calendar is current.

The venue's own events page lists 'Musical Open Mic!' repeatedly as a recurring entry, in the same chronological listing that shows dated forward events for Thursday, Aug 13, 2026 (today), and Friday, Aug 14, 2026 [s1]. That is consistent with an ongoing weekly Thursday recurrence.

The Venue's Website could not be reached: attempts to load different pages all showed only a browser security check, not real content, so none of them count as evidence either way (checked Aug 13, 2026). This rests on an earlier citation: the venue's own numbered recurring event page, instance #15, dated 2026 [s1]. That page could not be re-verified now.

Fridays, 7:00 PM. Runs seasonally.

This is a summer-only series, 'Four Fabulous Fridays.' An open-mic listing site, pulled in Aug 2026, names 2026 dates of June 20, July 18, Aug 15, and Sept 19 [s1]. The Aug 15 date falls two days after Aug 13, 2026. The venue's own homepage and events page loaded only small pages without the schedule text, so this rests on the listing site rather than a direct read of the venue's own page.

The venue's events page lists this night, but may not be current.

The third Thursday of each month. Only one source reports it.

The bookshop's own homepage does not mention this event. Its events page shows a flyer captioned 'Flow State: Poetry (No Mic) Open Mic Event,' but the image itself appears to date from around September 2024, so its currency could not be confirmed [s1]. A citywide open-mic table and a Nov. 2024 arts-column description are the other sources, both now over a year old (checked Aug 13, 2026).

This monthly blues residency does not appear on the Boston Bluegrass Union's jam directory, consistent with it being a separately branded residency rather than a union-affiliated jam. This rests on a local arts and events column dated July 9, 2026 — about a month earlier (checked Aug 13, 2026) — which names the residency's fourth year as of that date [s1].

The Boston Bluegrass Union's own jam directory lists an upcoming 'Burren OT Jam with Alan Kaufman,' Sunday 6:00-9:00 PM at The Burren, 247 Elm St, Somerville (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. That matches the recorded Sunday time and host exactly.

The Boston Bluegrass Union's own jam directory currently lists 'The Burren BG jam 2 pm Somerville, MA' (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. That matches the recorded Saturday 2 PM time exactly. The same directory separately carries an upcoming instance for the venue's Sunday old-time jam, confirming it is actively maintained with current dates.

Both sources give the same night and time, but neither confirms recent activity.

Weekly on Tuesdays, 7:30 PM. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.

The venue's own event page lists a 'Free Comedy Open-Mic' instance for Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. The venue's homepage lists many current, dated instances of the same open mic, and all of them fall on Tuesday (checked Sep 7, 2026) [s2]. The Thursday slot is a separate curated showcase called 'Certified Fresh,' not an open mic.

The venue's own event page lists 'The Moth: Boston StorySLAM: SERENDIPITY,' Tue. Aug. 25, 2026, 6:30-9:30 PM (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. Aug 25, 2026 is the fourth Tuesday of August 2026, matching the recorded monthly, fourth-Tuesday pattern exactly.

A listing on badslava.com lists this event, but may not be current.

McCarthy's Tavern has no known website. The only source describes comedy shows and open mics happening 'twice a week' without naming specific days or times, so the day is left blank rather than guessed; no sign of cancellation was found either (checked Aug 13, 2026).

The sources disagree about whether it still runs.

Weekly on Wednesdays, 9:30 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.

The venue's own event page describes this open mic in evergreen 'every Wednesday night' terms, but its own page metadata shows it has not been technically updated since 2019, about seven years ago [s1]. The venue's home page, checked Aug 13, 2026, is current but does not mention the mic [s2]. There is no evidence it has been cancelled.

A page on x-pub.bartgrocerybbq.com suggests it may have ended.

The venue's current website — now under a different name, 'Bart Grocery BBQ' — does not mention an open mic anywhere [s1]. An open-mic listing site names this venue for both a Monday and a Tuesday slot at 8pm, which reads as an inconsistency in that listing rather than genuinely separate nights; no source confirms an open mic here under either day, so the day is left blank rather than guessed (checked Aug 13, 2026).

The sources disagree about whether it still runs.

The first and third Monday of each month, 8:30 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.

The venue's own homepage, checked Aug 13, 2026, mentions neither an open mic nor a closure, and shows recent 2025 photos confirming the restaurant is still operating [s1]. Its events page, checked the same day, likewise mentions neither, with the same recent photos [s2]. No other source beyond the original open-mic listing confirms this specific first-and-third-Monday music mic, but there is no evidence it has ended.

The organizing group's own open-mic page currently reads, 'OPEN MIC - TURNERS FALLS Meets last Sunday of the Month 2:30pm @ The...' (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. That matches the recorded venue, day, and time exactly. The same current page also lists the group's Ashfield and Northampton mics.

The sources disagree about whether it still runs.

A Jan 4, 2026, news article reports Island Music, the record store that hosted this mic, closed at the end of 2025 [s2]. The open mic continued and now runs at the Katharine Cornell Theater on Spring Street, biweekly on Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, free with sign-up on arrival. No instance later than Jun 16, 2026, has been found, and the library's building reopened Jul 21, 2026, so the series may have moved again since.

The Venue's Website suggests it may have ended.

Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.

The venue's own 'what's happening' page no longer mentions either an open mic or Thursday when checked directly on Aug 13, 2026 [s1]. This is the same page originally cited as confirming the event. Its content may have changed since it was first cited, or what was first cited captured something different from what is live now.

The Venue's Website suggests it may have ended.

Weekly on Fridays, 7:00 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]. Its posted Friday hours end at 7:30 PM, sitting awkwardly against the claimed 7:00 PM open-mic start, reinforcing doubt about this single, generically-timed claim.

A page on rhino-lounge.com suggests it may have ended.

A check of the Venue's Website turned out not to be usable evidence: the page loaded was a placeholder route that responds the same way to any address, so it does not show whether the site mentions an open mic or not [s1]. The only other support for this listing is an open-mic listing site giving no specific time, and nothing found confirms or rules out the event (checked Aug 13, 2026).

A review on yelp.com lists this night, but may not be current.

An attempt to reach the Venue's Website failed outright, a connection failure rather than evidence about its content (checked Aug 13, 2026). An earlier finding still stands: the venue's promoted recurring night is a Friday/Saturday DJ event, a different program from the claimed Wednesday open mic [s1].

A comedy open-mic listing site confirms 'Donahues, 87 Bigelow Ave, Watertown, MA, 02472, Show starts at 7 PM, sign up at 6:30' (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. That matches the recorded time and sign-up exactly. This is not the Venue's Website, which was not checked directly this time.

The library's own calendar page lists upcoming 'Open Mic Night' entries for September through December 2026 [s1]. One event page gives a date displayed as 'Friday, September 4, 2026,' confirmed as the first Friday of the month — with four consecutive entries, this establishes a monthly, first-Friday pattern (checked Aug 13, 2026). The page also supplied the address, 55 West Main Street.

The venue's own events page shows a dated instance, 'Open Mic Thu, Jul 22 [2026] 6:30pm,' about three weeks before the check (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. The same page carries other current, correctly dated 2026 listings for Aug 13, Aug 22, and Dec 4, confirming the page is actively maintained.

Weekly on Wednesdays, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.

Red Rose Irish Pub has no website of its own. A musician's personal event-listing site carries a numbered recurring 'Red Rose Open Mic' entry, #39, though that entry did not show a 2026 date [s1]. An open-mic listing site describes 'every Wednesday, 8pm, sign up in person' [s2]. Other listings describe the same schedule. No single source is dated to 2026, but they converge on the same details (checked Aug 13, 2026).

The sources disagree about whether it still runs.

Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.

The venue's own homepage, fully readable, does not mention an open mic, and Thursday does not appear on it either (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. Its events page, also fully readable, is silent on it too [s2]. The only other support was a Facebook event listing that could not be checked. This silence is not enough to confirm the event, but it is not evidence the mic has ended either.