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THE WALNUT STREET CAFE
The Daily Item
#1 Coffee Shop in Lynn
2009*2010*2011*2012*2013

Live music Friday and Saturday 8;30-11;30! Don White's Open Mic Sundays 7;30-10:30! Creative Writing workshop on Monday nights 7:30-10:30. Rhythm/drum Circle Tuesdays with Jeff Pearlstein 7:30-10:30. Speak Up Spoken Word open mic Wednesdays 7:30-10:30. No cover for shows, pass the hat for the performers. Want t

o play the Walnut? Please email us at [email protected]

THE WALNUT STREET CAFE

A cozy cafe on Walnut Street just outside of downtown Lynn and accessible from Route 1. We serve a variety of domestic and imported beers and wines and dozens of flavors of iced and hot coffee. If you're hungry, we have club sandwiches, breakfast sandwiches, and bagels. When the weather is right, enjoy your food and beverages, and a bit of live music and entertainment at least 6 nights a week, out on our patio. With stiff competition from the megachains dotting the landscape, The Daily Item named us their #1 Coffee Shop for 2009, 2010 and 2011! Thank you item favorites! http://www.northshoretonight.com/walnutstreetcafe

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06/02/2026

Michelle Hache is our Speakup feature this Wed 6/3/2026, in person at the Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut St., Lynn MA.
Michelle was born and raised in Waltham, Massachusetts, home of the best roads in the Commonwealth. She is a teacher by trade, a mom to two young adults, and partner to her husband, singer songwriter, Roger Jermyn. Her dog Calpurnia, is a heavyweight snuggle bug, and her cat Jem is a benevolent ruler, who must be encouraged to use his power for good and not evil. Michelle has performed at Moth Storyslams, and on PBS’s Stories From The Stage, as well as a variety of open mics. Michelle has been telling stories on stage for about 3 years, but if startled she may run off and hide behind the furniture, please make no sudden movements.
If you give Michelle a microphone, she’s going to want a stage
Once you’ve given her a stage, she’s going to ask for an audience.
When she has an audience in front of her, she’s going to want to talk. If you let her tell one story, she’ll probably ask to do another.
If you let her do another, she’s probably going to want to keep talking. When she’s done with that story, she’s going to need a coffee. Do not give her a coffee after six pm. If you do, she’s going to want the microphone again.
Signup starts: 7:00pm
Open mic: 7:30-830pm
Feature: 8:30-9:00pm
Join us and bring your stuff!
Sorry, No more Zoom

05/22/2026

Jim Sparks at Walnut Street Cafe this Saturday Night.

05/12/2026

Elisabeth Weiss is our Speakup feature this Wed 5/13/2026, in person at the Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut St., Lynn MA.
Elisabeth has been a writing instructor for close to forty years. She’s taught at Salem State, North Shore Community College, Suffolk County Community College, Hofstra University, preschools, prisons, and nursing homes. She’s published poems in London’s Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, The Paterson Poetry Review, The Birmingham Poetry Review, the Lily Poetry Review, SWWIM, Switchgrass Review, Sheila-Nan-Gig, Mom Egg, and many other journals. Lis won the Talking Writing Hybrid Poetry Prize for 2016. Her chapbook, The Caretaker’s Lament, was published in 2016. Lis worked in publishing in New York City, ran a refugee resettlement organization and now partners with the New American Center in Lynn and works summers at The Lee Mansion, a house built by a shipping merchant in 1768.
Join us on Wed, and bring your stuff.
Signup starts: 7:00pm
Open mic: 7:30-830pm
Feature: 8:30-9:00pm
Join us and bring your stuff!
Sorry, No more Zoom.

05/10/2026

Vin Martelli is our Sunday Music open mic feature at the Walnut St Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut St, Lynn MA. this Sunday 5/10/2026.
Vin comes from a family of accomplished artists: a dancer daughter (Mia-Martelli.com), musician son (Michael, TrophyWifeMusic.com), and poet wife (the late Jennifer, Jennmartelli.com). Vin started playing the guitar and singing in an attempt to fit in. He is influenced by Pete Townshend, David Bowie, Ray Davies, Nick Lowe, Chrissie Hynde, and other old rockers, and likes to sing their acoustic songs while trying to scratch out accompanying chords on his guitar.
Sign up: 6:30pm
Open mic: 7:00-8:30pm
Feature: 8:30-9:00pm
Join us and bring your stuff!
This is a low pressure listening room.
Your acting hosts: Roger Jermyn and Dave Somerset

05/06/2026

Tom Miller is our Speakup feature this Wed 5/6/2026, in person at the Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut St., Lynn MA.
Tom is a retired businessman who does voiceover work and writes poetry. He is also the lead guide at two historical houses in Salem MA owned and operated by Historic New England. His work has appeared in The Muddy River Poetry Review, The Wilderness House Literary Review, Ibbetson Street, First Literary East and a variety of other journals as well as several anthologies. Tom is a frequent performer at various venues on the North Shore and in the Greater Boston area. A native of Ohio he resides in Ipswich MA with his wife and a very stubborn but lovable dog.
Join us on Wed, and bring your stuff.
Signup starts: 7:00pm
Open mic: 7:30-830pm
Feature: 8:30-9:00pm
Join us and bring your stuff!
Sorry, No more Zoom.

05/02/2026

Angela Masciale is our Sunday Music open mic feature at the Walnut St Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut St, Lynn MA. this Sunday 5/3/2026.
Angela is a Singer-Songwriter, Guitarist, Poet and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. She has performed in many venues in Massachusetts also in NYC including Club Passim, Worcester First Night, Mee and Thee Coffeehouse, North Reading Coffeehouse, Roslindale Open mic features, Marblehead Festival of Arts, Peace Festival in Rockport, Ma, Catbird Café and many others. This is a return visit as a feature to Walnut Street Café. She has three CD’s of original songs, “Time Will Tell”, “Ancient Voices” and “Take Back the Land”. She has had radio play and some live performances over the years at MIT, WATD, The River, WUMB, Tufts University radio, RPI radio in NY. Her CD’s are available online and she has recorded many you-tubes of original songs and selected covers which are also online. Her lyrics are poetic and her songs have universal themes, healing messages, depictions of nature, mystical and spiritual themes and sometimes political statements.
Angela has a three octave range to her voice which some have described as folk-classical. Her musical style is influenced by Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins. She has also mastered a set of jazz classics. In addition, she does singing bowl chants of Tibetan, Hindu, Native American and Gregorian- Mystical.
Her poetry has been included in over fifty published anthologies over the last two years. She also has a book of poetry that she shares with Sourav Sarkar from India. This book contains six poems written about her trip to France in 2024. Angela has a second book also shared by Sourav Sarkar of poems inspired by her travels to India--she is a world traveler with her husband and often writes about her experiences of various cultures, awe of natural beauty encountered and excitement of urban settings from the countries visited.
Sign up: 6:30pm
Open mic: 7:00-8:30pm
Feature: 8:30-9:00pm
Join us and bring your stuff!
This is a low pressure listening room.
Your acting hosts: Roger Jermyn and Dave Somerset

04/28/2026

Dan Zampino is our Speakup feature this Wed 4/29/2026, in person at the Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut St., Lynn MA.
Daniel William Zampino is a sculptor, poet, writer, and lawyer. He has traveled extensively, transforming his experience into art. A slate-stone-relief sculptor, he fashions narratives out of observations, incising stories into stone as pictures, supplemented by explanatory writings. He is a poet, spoken-word performer, and lectures on art and travel. Working as a sculptor and writer for fifty years, he evokes themes of love, war, spirit, mythology, psychology, political repression, grief, anger, travel and divinity. As an artist he has been showing his works for almost forty years, and has had four solo shows. The most recent was in 2023, out of which he produced ‘Sculptures Inspired by Travel,’ a book of sculptures and writings reflective of his observations of other cultures, and by extension, of himself. More recent, he assembled ten poems written during the recent pandemic. The title of his collection is called Corona Follies – through which he thematically poses ‘(p)oems from the Pandemic Times, or how microbes infected a portion of the American people, causing them to attack the Capital.’ The title poem views our world through the vantage of the microbes themselves. From here, the collection examines how our mammalian brothers and sisters thrived while we – we industrial humans – shut down. A church, braving the pandemic, ordains its congregants to ‘cough in tongues.’ Subsequent works cover Kerouac and Shakespeare, culminating in the refusals of dying patients to accept covid as a truthful diagnosis, as they believe their president when he calls covid (for which he himself was infected) a hoax. The collection draws to a crescendo with a tome on and about January 6, 2021, when the followers of a fallen (and future) president inspires an assault on the Capital.
Join us on Wed, and bring your stuff.
Signup starts: 7:00pm
Open mic: 7:30-830pm
Feature: 8:30-9:00pm
Join us and bring your stuff!

04/26/2026

Salam Alkaby is our Sunday Music open mic feature at the Walnut St Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut St, Lynn MA. this Sunday 4/26/2026.
Salam has brought an appreciation for Middle Eastern music to the North Shore. He is a former soccer player and coach, who has become a master Oud builder and player. His playing, which is largely improvisational, takes us on a journey to another world. At times delicate and subtle, then stirring and beautiful. The whole experience is most often mesmerizing and hypnotic. Salam is often accompanied by intricate and challenging tabla and drum rhythm tracks. He is a versatile musician who is comfortable in both Eastern and Western music forms and scales. He can and has collaborated with Eliz Mckim, accompanying her jazz and blues poetry with his Oud. The Oud has a pear-shaped, bowl-like back made from thin wood staves (such as walnut or maple) and a fretless neck. It is often decorated with mosaic patterns. The oud has ancient roots, often associated with Persia and considered a successor to the Persian barbat. Please come and join us for a different musical exploration.
Sign up: 6:30pm
Open mic: 7:00-8:30pm
Feature: 8:30-9:00pm
Join us and bring your stuff!
This is a low pressure listening room.
Your acting hosts: Roger Jermyn and Dave Somerset

04/15/2026

Johnny Flaherty is our Speakup feature this Wed 4/15/2026, in person at the Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut St., Lynn MA.
Johnny will be reading from (and promoting)
his latest book Ladders and Muses, recently released on
Amazon.com. Going with the notion the gods provide
ladders on which we may raise ourselves to a higher
level of nobility on our journey through life, Johnny
presents this collection of tales paying homage to
heroes, risktakers, martyrs, exemplars and commoners
who have placed their trust in Mistress Fortune.
Nowadays, Johnny lives in a garret on a hill in Rhode
Island overlooking Narragansett Bay, considering this
home a treasured gift from Mistress Fortune, as well.
If you have never heard Johnny Flaherty before, you have been missing a consciousness changing experience!
Join us on Wed, and bring your stuff.
Signup starts: 7:00pm

04/11/2026

Ric Page is our Sunday Music open mic feature, live and in person at the Walnut St Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut St, Lynn MA. this Sunday 4/12/2026.
Ric is a songwriter/singer/guitarist/bassist/pianist in the jazz/rock/pop/folk genre. He has been singing since third grade, played guitar for more than 50 years. Ric performed in many bands and toured the Eastern Seaboard and Canada for 10 years during the 70’s-80’s.
As a cancer survivor, he has taken the negativity of that experience and turned it into music with a message. Ric's CD is titled: “Tales From The Big C” and is available on all streaming platforms.
He is an amazing performer!
Come on down, join us, and bring your stuff!
Sign up: 6:30pm
Open mic: 7:00-8:30pm
Feature: 8:30-9:00pm
Join us and bring your stuff!
This is a low pressure listening room.
Your acting hosts: Roger Jermyn and Dave Somerset

Address

157 Walnut Street
Lynn, MA
01905

Opening Hours

Monday	5am - 12am
Tuesday	5am - 12am
Wednesday	5am - 12am
Thursday	5am - 12am
Friday	5am - 12am
Saturday	6am - 12am
Sunday	6am - 12am

Telephone

+17815961690

Website

http://WalnutStreetCoffeeCafe.com/

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