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Hand Made Music is an open mic performance venue located in Ringwood, New Jersey. Our mission is to provide an environment that allows for music to be performed live for an audience and for everyone to have a good time.

Hand Made Music is held on the third Saturday of each month at The Community Presbyterian Church, 145 Carletondale Road in Ringwood New Jersey. Please do not call the church for info, they are our hosts, an outside volunteer group handles running Hand Made Music.

All are invited to come out and perform. Singers, guitarists and other acoustic musicians are most welcome. We encourage musicians of all levels of experience to perform their music on stage in front of our audience. The only guideline that we have is that you actually perform your music with your own voice or on the instrument of your choice - we are karaoke free zone.

We provide a very good PA system along with microphones, direct inputs to the mixing board and guitar and bass amps. We currently are not set up to host bands with drum sets. The time required to bring a band on and off stage is just too much. Down the road we may be able to, so check back to see.

Hand Made Music isn’t just for musicians, we welcome poetry and dramatic readings, performance art and stand up comedy, within limits, after all this is hosted in a church and our audience is made up of all ages.