Songwriter Showcase Concerts & Open Mic

THE MISSION

The purpose of the Songwriter Showcase Concerts (SSCs) is to provide a curated forum where music artists from the Lake Tahoe region and the listening public can come together in an intimate setting to enjoy high-quality live music with their friends and associates, and where the public can support local creators to present songs not heard elsewhere and provide feedback to the artists. The SSC proceeds on the basis that entertainment is a basic human need, and seeks to fill a niche to provide a richer, live music experience for the listener than is generally available locally, or available through the mainstream streaming media and the club circuit, or the large concert.

Those circuits preoccupy most working musicians with playing the popular songs of others (cover songs) promoted in the mainstream. Anyone can at times enjoy that sort or nightclub / bar / restaurant scene with all the new and old hits, an occasional original song, the extraneous noise and audience inattention to the music in the “background.” The SSC is intended to be a different kind of experience, a place where audiences and performers will engage with each other in high fidelity.

The SSC is also premised on the inherent human desire for new and novel songs, songs of our time and place, and in hopes that the greatest songs are as yet unwritten (taste being in the subjective ear of the listener) or are undiscovered or mostly unheard for lack of venues. The music industry is dying and moving to Artificial Intelligence, streaming legacy-band catalogs, and live shows for big bucks, but for a tiny minority of industrial artists among many unsung musicians. Having had more fun playing music and writing and recording songs than most anything else, Tahoe Al doesn’t plan to stop. The SSC is about fostering human creativity and expression and providing a venue locally to present his own creative works, and those of other songwriters and musicians, to interested listeners. May you enjoy them!

All are invited to come out and join the fun and the celebration of original live music with your friends, neighbors, community members and peers, get to know the songwriters, and experience and foster a unique form of entertainment and social interaction in our community. Likewise, with the Open Mics (OMs) planned, it will be a set after the SSC available for anyone to present original or cover songs, music, brief readings or poetry. This will be by sign-up the day of the SSCOM and ending by around 10 pm. Bring your best!

Songwriter Showcase Concerts
& Open Mic
Spring 2026

Join Tahoe Al for his NEXT Showcase Concerts at Unity at The Lake!

SATURDAY, April 18
Doors Open 6:30pm – Music 7:00pm
UNITY AT THE LAKE
870 Emerald Bay Road | Plaza 89 | Suites 205-208
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
TICKETS $15 at the Door

SIGN UP! 530-542-0243

April 18, 2026
Guest Performers

Greg Case

GREG CASE, a long-time band man with a music history in Oakland, Nevada City and South Shore Tahoe. With his day-gig he was a firefighter (remember the Oakland Fire?) but he always played in bands and, after retiring, he caught fire about writing songs and performing for audiences and has made a kind of second career with it. His Nevada City band name was Raw Blues, and he still uses that moniker while putting his unique voice out locally as a solo or duo act. He currently has two albums of original songs (In the Mother Lode and Life Is Tough) and another in progress. His Raw Blues can be found at Spotify Greg is looking forward to sharing his songs with the Showcase audience, and we may join up on a song or few.

Kevin Whalen

Since coming to Tahoe five years ago FRED WILSON keeps busy performing at many of the local venues tourist on the Tahoe South Shore, mostly cover songs, and he looks forward to presenting his original songs to an appreciative audience. Originally from Texas, Fred is The Baladeer: romantic love songs, country-pop and ballads and many other types of songs with lyrics inspired by experiences from his life. With titles like California, Heart to Heart and Down by the Sea I look forward to hosting this unique artist and singer-songwriter who brings a bit of cowboy-poet spirit to whatever he sings.