Black Cat Café

Are you a performer? Bard, troubador, musician, singer, poet, actor, dancer, comedian, highly skilled fool? Join us at the Black Cat Café for a positive experience on stage!

The “Black Cat Café Coffeehouse” is a cozy, relaxed, open mic night held in First Unitarian’s Gore Hall.

Meeting for more than 20 years and still going strong, Black Cat is currently led by John Brockman. He and the other “Black Catters” open the Gore Hall doors on the 2nd Friday of each month.

Performers sign up at 6:30 pm. Performances start at 7:30 pm and continue until ???.  Admission is just $2 (performers free), and you get to kick back, relax, and enjoy plenty of local talent!

Join our Black Cat Facebook page to get reminders!

History

Black Cat is an Orlando tradition dating back to one fateful “Friday the 13th” in May of 1994. Because we hold it on the Second Friday, some of the time it falls on a Friday the 13th. We like that, and that’s how it got its name!

Performers

It is a open-mic coffee house! That means if you show up and ask us, you can get up on stage and sing, dance, play music, read a monologue, or poetry or whatever! Sign up starts at 6:30 pm.  You get three songs or a 15-minute set.

We have a very supportive audience that likes first-time performers. So if you’ve wanted to try to do something on stage, but were afraid to do so, this is the place to do it! Plus, we have a reputation for having some of the best local professional acts dropping in now and again to try out new material.

Regular performers over the years have included and still include Jim Allen, Bari Clark, Stephen Grayce, “Bulldog” Ben Basile, “Top Cat” Cook, Susie Cool, Chip Dockery, Luv Me Deux, The Old Guys on the Porch, and many more!

Menu

The snack bar includes domestic and imported beers, wine, water, soft drinks, coffee, pizza by the slice, brownies, and other goodies. All are available by a very reasonable “suggested donation.”

For More Information

Please contact John Brockman at BlackCatCafe@OrlandoUU.org if you are interested in becoming a “Black Catter” and helping out behind the scenes to put on the monthly open mic!

See you there!