I've been at almost all of them this year, and I can say without hesitation that not one of them were as good as the coffehouses last year were. Last year, there were more people coming out to watch and play. As of late, no one even knows when auditions, let alone know that there's even a coffehouse coming up. The music was better, the organization was better, it was just better last year. When I go to these coffehouse things, I go with the idea that I'm not going to be subjected to spur-of-the-moment performances of ACDC songs with joke telling time in between in order to fill the time not spent with music playing. There used to be poetry readings and skits by what used to be the improv troup when music wasn't being performed. That's how I get off saying that this year's coffeehouses have all been a joke.
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