A line to get in to the Rookery started 10 minutes before the doors opened. Once people could get inside at 6:30 p.m., seats were scarce within 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
Over the past eight weeks, the Mountainside Open Mic <\/a>has reliably filled the Seward Street cafe with musicians and music lovers on mid-week nights.<\/p>\n The final show of the series’ first season Thursday night was no exception.<\/p>\n “This is great,” said Carl Reese, who played guitar and sang original songs. “It’s comfortable and the people are listening, which is good.”<\/p>\n Instead of concluding with a full, featured set, the last show of the season yielded the mic to as many people as possible, and the band Papertrail <\/a>played two songs to close things out. The open mic started at 7 p.m. and wrapped up after 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Many of the night’s performers had played a previous week’s open mic, or taken in a music from the other side of the microphone in past weeks.<\/p>\n