🎤 Open Mic Night 🎶

This is not your ordinary open mic night! It will include some games, music trivia and prizes! Cash bar and food available. Join us for a laid-back evening of fun, connection, and community. All talent levels are welcome, and every voice has a place on our stage. Bring your instrument, your notebook, or just your curiosity. Come to perform or just to enjoy the vibes—everyone is welcome! No pressure, no judgment—just good people and great energy. HCA will provide all sound and an accompanist and can accommodate tracks.

Community Action Partnership of Strafford County is excited to present Yachtley Crew as a one-of-a-kind fundraising event to support our Homelessness Prevention and Housing Programs. All proceeds from this event will be used to further our work in the community. 

Yachtley Crew are a seven-piece SoCal band who burst onto the club scene in 2017, selling out countless local venues before starting a nationwide Yacht Rock craze and being noticed by the legendary Jimmy Buffett, who signed them to his own Mailboat label prior to their new deal with Earache/Universal Records.

The Weepies co-founder and multi-instrumentalist Deb Talan has had quite a life.  

Having started a band in Portland, OR with her friend Mark named Hummingfish, Deb wrote a lot of fun songs that people danced to ‘til they were all sweaty in that hipster/grungy/geeky Northwest kind of way. She then began playing solo in Boston coffee houses and opened shows for Catie Curtis (a songwriter hero of hers), before meeting up with Steve Tannen and forming The Weepies. Together, they played shows all over the country and the world, toured in a real tour bus, and made 5 records together, with many songs placed in loads of movies and tv shows. 

Crafter of intricate, closely observed songs

“Her songs feel at once fresh faced and firmly rooted, driven by the whispery sensuality of her voice.”

–The Boston Globe

“She creates an entire, detailed world in verse, and takes you there with beautiful and understated melody.”

-Neil Dorfsman, Producer