Name: When Oen Ran the Show
Duration: P00H02M59S
Description: For those heady days in the early 2000s when Oen Kennedy ran the open mike at The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN).

When Oen Ran the Show

from A Landscape of Ghosts by Rob Siegel

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For those heady days in the early 2000s when Oen Kennedy ran the open mike at The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN).

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the weekly open mike night
waiting for your spot
to strut your stuff with songsmiths
show off what you’ve got
from the storefront to the firehouse
the hosts did come and go
but it found its soul and center
when Oen ran the show

he shared the stage with spirits
an emotional exchange
a magnet for the misfits
and the burned out and the strange
introductions empathetic
so connected to the flow
you could not be lost or lonesome
when Oen ran the show

soon many would bear witness
as the ranks of faithful spread
some go to church on Sundays
we came here instead

three AM still full of people
and we’d go round again
sometimes we went out to breakfast
‘cause we didn’t want to end

but something so organic
can not survive for long
we knew we were part of something
we knew that we belonged
there will be other venues
fertile ground for roots to grow
but man it sure was something
when Oen ran the show

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from A Landscape of Ghosts, released March 24, 2018
Guitar and vocal: Rob Siegel

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Rob Siegel Boston, Massachusetts

Rob Siegel is well-known in Boston folk music circles as an innovative songwriter who draws from his idyllic yet stressed- out middle-class suburban existence and produces memorable, intelligent, well-crafted songs.

His first new CD in 14 years, "A Landscape of Ghosts," will be out in April, with a CD release show at Club Passim on Monday April 30th. ... more

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