Classical Music Open-Mic Night at Buzzbrews provides a venue for over 100 performers to share classical music with new audiences in a casual setting since 2011. The event aims to expose listeners to classical music and facilitate connections between people and musical traditions in a way that challenges the genre's stigma as stuffy or elitist. Performers of various experience levels are welcome to interact with audiences through meaningful musical experiences that transport listeners into the world of classical sounds.

1. Classical Music Open-
Mic Night
at Buzzbrews
Andrea Maciejewski

2. What is Popular Music?
For the purposes of my paper:
“…the pieces which are demonstrably the most popular
items of ‘popular music’ with the most widely
disseminated items of music disseminated in the
mass media”
~Middleton~

3. What is Performance?
“Performance” is referring to the act of interacting
with sound in a meaningful way that creates an
experience
~ Derived from Ramos- Kittrell ~

4. Why Classical Music?
It is not “popular”
It has a stigma attached to it (stuffy or upscale)
It has a typical group of followers
The performances associated with it are rule- bound

5. History of Classical Music Open-
Mic Night
Founded June 2011 by Mark Landson
Since then have had over 100 performances
Have featured over 100 different performers
Originally created in order to expose new audiences
to classical music

6. Different “Performers”
Regular Audience Member
Occasional Audience Member
Performer (Producer of Music)

7. What is the link?
“Performers” connect to music in a different way
An auditory utopia is achieved by the listeners’
transportation into the world of music
Kuns’ Strangers Among Sounds
Music helps to facilitate connections between
ideas, traditions, and identity within a social
process of reimagining
Henriques’ Mariachi Reimaginings

8. SO!
Buzzbrews helps to reimagine classical music.