By Will McGuirk

WATCH:

The looking glass of Alice is social media. We live there now. The physical world shuts down and we realize we are somewhere else. We look at the other with suspicion, each one a stranger stranger, a stranger beyond strange. We close our eyes to the visual overload and we hear the cacophony. We turn away from the chaos and we seek out harmony. And we find it in this new space, this looking glass of Alice’s. We find music is not just the universal language, it may well be the universe.

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Uxbridge based musician Geoff Holt of STRNGR STRNGR is hosting an open mic Thursday Mar 19 2020; not in a bar, not in-person, but online, connecting artists who are at home rather than on the road because of the COVID-19 restrictions on performances.

“Every artist involved has had basically everything cancelled and many of us rely on live music for at least a portion of our income. The idea is just to give everyone a chance to share and promote during these tough times,” says Holt.

The show will open on Holt’s Facebook. He will host and help navigate the audience from player to player.

LISTEN:

Tune in on Facebook beginning at 7 p.m. EST.

7:00 Geoff, 7.15 Robyn Ottolini, 7.30 Matt Gunn, 7.45 Alannah Kemp, 8:00 Sagen Pearse, 8.15 Dustin Macaulay, 8.30 Ben Reines, 8.45 Rory Taillon, 9 Goodnight, Sunrise, 9:15 Wooly, 9:30 Jitensha, 9:45 Tamara Williamson 10:00 Cassie Noble, 10:15 Hunter Sheridan