Upcoming Shows
2025sun27apr(apr 27)7:00 pmtue29(apr 29)7:30 pmFreewheelin' #175
Time
April 27, 2025 7:00 pm - April 29, 2025 7:30 pm EDT(GMT-04:00)
Event Details
“Freewheelin’ with J Oscar” brings you a LIVE free-ranging 1/2 hour of J Oscar original and traditional songs, with video, stories,
Event Details
“Freewheelin’ with J Oscar” brings you a LIVE free-ranging 1/2 hour of J Oscar original and traditional songs, with video, stories, plus occasional guests with attendant shenanigans and blarney. We’ll also make time to chat live!
Every week (IN APRIL – 3 shows Sun-Mon-Tue per week) ON YouTube!
Stream starts 5 minutes before 7:00 pm showtime
TIPS accepted (not expected):
https://www.paypal.me/joscarb
BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger
Watch FREEWHEELIN’ on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joscarb/streams
“A Little Extra“ songs and stories from
J Oscar & Thee Merry Band
+ The Folk Bros
LIVE at Wealthy Theatre | Dirk Koning Cinema
Sunday, MAY 4, 2025 Afternoon 3-5p
TICKET LINK – Only 60 seats!
Virtual Event Details
Event access information coming soon, Please check back again closer to event start time.
Organizer
J Oscar Bittinger/Octoberday Productions
2025sun04may3:00 pmsun5:00 pm"A Little Extra" J Oscar Bittinger (& Thee Merry Band) + Folk Bros
Time
May 4, 2025 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Event Details
2025 MAY-04 | J Oscar Bittinger & Thee Merry Band + The Folk Bros Songs and stories with a merry band of Poppin’ Folk-Rock players around the
Event Details
2025 MAY-04 | J Oscar Bittinger
& Thee Merry Band + The Folk Bros
Songs and stories with a merry band of Poppin’ Folk-Rock players around the theme “A Little Extra”
- General admission – $20
($15 for GRCMC members*) - ONLY 61 SEATS – get your tickets today!
- SUNDAY afternoon – 3:00 PM
- Doors and Bar open at 2:30pm
NOTE: must be GRCMC member to buy beer or wine
*Purchase one-year membership for $15 at the door
$5 discount on ALL GRCMC events – including Acoustic Stew shows
THEE MERRY BAND is
- Mark Hugger (bass)
- MVH (drums + vocals)
- David Molinari (keys and leads)
THE FOLK BROS are
- Bruce Zeeuw (vocals, mandolin, guitar)
- Steve Aldrich (bass, vocals)
- J Oscar Bittinger (vocals, guitar)
“Poppin’ Folk Rock”
– what is it good for?
- Feeling some thoughts
- Grooving and dancing
- Singing along with
- Planting and watering idea-dreams
- Smelling some posies
- Striking some poses
- Getting close to someone
- Heartbreak and elevation
- You.
Organizer
Acoustic Stew Music Guild
Please join us in the intimate listening space of the Dirk Koning Cinema in Wealthy Theatre at 1130 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids MI 49506
Become a sponsor.
Contact Bear Berends
Upcoming Shows
2025sun27apr(apr 27)7:00 pmtue29(apr 29)7:30 pmFreewheelin' #175
Time
April 27, 2025 7:00 pm - April 29, 2025 7:30 pm EDT(GMT-04:00)
Event Details
“Freewheelin’ with J Oscar” brings you a LIVE free-ranging 1/2 hour of J Oscar original and traditional songs, with video, stories,
Event Details
“Freewheelin’ with J Oscar” brings you a LIVE free-ranging 1/2 hour of J Oscar original and traditional songs, with video, stories, plus occasional guests with attendant shenanigans and blarney. We’ll also make time to chat live!
Every week (IN APRIL – 3 shows Sun-Mon-Tue per week) ON YouTube!
Stream starts 5 minutes before 7:00 pm showtime
TIPS accepted (not expected):
https://www.paypal.me/joscarb
BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger
Watch FREEWHEELIN’ on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joscarb/streams
“A Little Extra“ songs and stories from
J Oscar & Thee Merry Band
+ The Folk Bros
LIVE at Wealthy Theatre | Dirk Koning Cinema
Sunday, MAY 4, 2025 Afternoon 3-5p
TICKET LINK – Only 60 seats!
Virtual Event Details
Event access information coming soon, Please check back again closer to event start time.
Organizer
J Oscar Bittinger/Octoberday Productions
2025sun04may3:00 pmsun5:00 pm"A Little Extra" J Oscar Bittinger (& Thee Merry Band) + Folk Bros
Time
May 4, 2025 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Event Details
2025 MAY-04 | J Oscar Bittinger & Thee Merry Band + The Folk Bros Songs and stories with a merry band of Poppin’ Folk-Rock players around the
Event Details
2025 MAY-04 | J Oscar Bittinger
& Thee Merry Band + The Folk Bros
Songs and stories with a merry band of Poppin’ Folk-Rock players around the theme “A Little Extra”
- General admission – $20
($15 for GRCMC members*) - ONLY 61 SEATS – get your tickets today!
- SUNDAY afternoon – 3:00 PM
- Doors and Bar open at 2:30pm
NOTE: must be GRCMC member to buy beer or wine
*Purchase one-year membership for $15 at the door
$5 discount on ALL GRCMC events – including Acoustic Stew shows
THEE MERRY BAND is
- Mark Hugger (bass)
- MVH (drums + vocals)
- David Molinari (keys and leads)
THE FOLK BROS are
- Bruce Zeeuw (vocals, mandolin, guitar)
- Steve Aldrich (bass, vocals)
- J Oscar Bittinger (vocals, guitar)
“Poppin’ Folk Rock”
– what is it good for?
- Feeling some thoughts
- Grooving and dancing
- Singing along with
- Planting and watering idea-dreams
- Smelling some posies
- Striking some poses
- Getting close to someone
- Heartbreak and elevation
- You.
Organizer
Acoustic Stew Music Guild
Please join us in the intimate listening space of the Dirk Koning Cinema in Wealthy Theatre at 1130 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids MI 49506
Become a sponsor.
Contact Bear Berends
....compelling and singable choruses
Here’s what I love: all the sensory images you use that place me directly in the world of your songs and the compelling and singable choruses.
From a song
People Saying Goodbye
© 2010 J. Oscar Bittinger
You could be on your own
And I could be out on the sea
And we may have only known
Being lost in the crowds on the street
As a child watches departing trains
Waving to angels he sees
A traveler’s tears fall in the rain
As evening commuters break free
CHORUS
Fare thee well
My love goes with thee
Come home
Please come home to me
All over this town today
People are saying goodbye
An affair in a final embrace
The grand lady closes her eyes
A baby bounced on her mother’s hip
Reaches out for her father’s worn hand
A plane leaves on a long distance trip
And a soldier receives his command
CHORUS
BRIDGE
In the mist along the great inland lake
A young woman searches for beautiful stones
A sailor boy watches and waits
Safe on the shore
But far from his home
TVs have been turned off
Bar rags are hung up to dry
The weather outside is soft
With the warm rains that come in July
A phone rings down an empty street
And it rings, and it rings and it rings
It’s a long walk to the station at three
Down the platform somebody sings
CHORUS 2x – switch order 2nd time
2004: April 3 | 2009: November 8