The anticipation was killing me — after singing a few songs to an empty house at Señor Jalapeño’s, late on a Saturday night, I was *so* ready for the next Friday’s Karaoke night. Just a few blocks from home, in a quiet neighborhood in Mesquite, the homestyle Mexican restaurant isn’t a typical Karaoke venue at [...]
The organizers of the first-ever “Balch Springs Idol, Karaoke Style” contest had no idea what to expect. The annual Silent Auction was a known quantity, of course — put a bunch of donated items on the tables and wait for people to bid them up. But this year, they Friends of the Balch Springs Library [...]
Mesquite has something few other towns have — a community radio station, run by high school students. It was while listening to 88.5 KEOM on the way to work that I heard something that made my ears perk up: “Karaoke contest”. It turns out that the Friends of the Balch Springs Library are having a [...]
March was a busy month, with the “Catacombs” performance taking up both my Karaoke time and my blogging-about-Karaoke time. So I didn’t get a chance to post a note about my newfound home-cookin’ fame — for a few days, at least, I was a celebrity at Peggy’s Country Cafe! The second time I went, I [...]
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When a single dad like me has a chance to have a “Dad” weekend, it’s a good time to cram everything possible into a couple of days. With my son on a road trip with the church youth group, this weekend turned into Karaoke-a-go-go, with a little bit of DDR thrown in! Over three days [...]
Acting on a tip from Twitter (described in my previous post), I decided to check out Peggy’s Country Cafe, formerly known as Peggy’s Lonesome Dove Cafe (I suspect a “cease and desist” letter led to the renaming). It’s located in Balch Springs — a part of Dallas that most folks don’t know much about, or [...]
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While doing a Twitter search on “Dallas Karaoke”, I came across a post by the @yahoolocal bot asking about Friday Karaoke in Dallas. Since Friday Karaoke is where I got my start, I figured I’d see what joints were coming up in the discussion — just in case there were any venues that had been [...]
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