Ethnography Results, Week 7

By Evin Schuchardt, Jeremy Nelissen, Ryan Kerbow and Wesley Konderla


Goal:
The goal of going out for this week was to experience once again a Monday night at the bar as the past few findings have been Sundays for poetry slam.  Now that notice of the regulars at poetry slam have been found, we want to know if the same people attend Monday nights as well.  Hopefully conversation will arise from there.



Setting:
We were able to go out Monday night around 10PM.  There was a band on the inside of the bar with about eight people inside when we arrived.  The band was playing as we arrived as we could hear it when we pulled up.

People:
There was probably a total of no more than 18 people there the entire time we were there, never more than 12 guests on the inside of the bar and around 7 on the outside.  There were two guys playing an in-house game of chess, while everyone else inside seemed to be listening to the band.  Only a little over half of them seemed to be drinking.  A couple looked to be with members of the band.  The lady who was sitting at the bar the first time we ever went in to Rev's was there again - could be a Monday regular.  The usual bartender was there in addition to a new female bartender.  She told us we were welcome to pull in chairs from the outside since most of the seats were taken when we arrived.

Band:
The band consisted of five members - guitar/singer, mandolin, violin, bass, and another singer.  As the night began, only three were playing.  They were waiting for the basis.  The lead singer and guitar player was the mandolin man we saw a few times before.  Once the bassist arrived another singer joined them from the audience.  Mandolin man kept talking about the fact that they had been all around Bryan that day mostly hanging outside The Village Cafe playing and singing.  It seemed as though they had a much better time there than they were at Rev's because of the frequent mention of it.  He was often distracted by a stage light that was on a random timer and would flicker about 3 times every 5 seconds which made it annoying for the lead vocalist (which he expressed).

The music was always played in a minor key and the melody often sounded similar to the other songs performed that night.  They had some songs that they were still working on that were just instrumental.