Bards at the Barrel featuring Joe Fusco Jr.

Name: Bards at the Barrel featuring Joe Fusco Jr.
Start: 2026-02-12T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-12T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Spicy Water Distillery

Schedule

Thu Feb 12 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Spicy Water Distillery | Millbury, MA

This should be interesting.
Bards at The Barrel have an open mic and feature that focuses on storytelling and prose at Spicy Water (108 Elm Street in Millbury) every 2nd Thursday of the month from 7-9pm.
On February 12th at 7pm, I'll do a semi-amusing 25-minute set then there's an open mic of prose and storytelling then I'll do another 15 minutes of reasonable jocularity.
Spicy Water makes their own booze. There's a Painkiller that's self-descriptive ! They don't serve food but you can bring in sustenance from nearby restaurants or home.
Free admission. I'm not kid-friendly.
Message or email me if you want to read in the open mic and I'll pass it on ( I assume 5 minutes or so of storytelling or prose).
Join us on 2/12 at 7pm.
You may not regret it.
Joe

Joe Fusco Jr. is a well-seasoned humorist/stand-up poet/storyteller from Worcester, Massachusetts.
He is the author of five books of semi-amusing poems and essays: “Random Thoughts from a Curmudgeon “(2023), “Pondering the Pandemic during The Rust Years” (2021); “Hmm…That’s Different” (2020); “Three Score” (2014); and “The Lost and Found Essays” (2012), all available at local bookstores and Amazon.
Joe’s musings have appeared in Damfino Press, Ballard Street Poetry, Worcester Review, Asinine Poetry, Soul Lit, and the e-zine Clean Sheets. He was a co-winner of the Jacob Knight Poetry Award in 2002 and was named Best Poet by Worcester Magazine readers in 1999 and 2002.
Joe is a Humor Columnist for Worcester Magazine and the last Worcester Mega-Slam winner in 2017. He features at bookstores, libraries, clubs, and coffeehouses throughout Central Massachusetts and Belgium. He is the host of The Poetry Extravaganza at The Mill in West Boylston and The Richard Fox Poetry Series in Worcester.
Joe has taught “Humor 101” for high-school students at Gateways Academy in Shrewsbury, and for adults at the Senior Centers of Worcester, Lancaster, Millbury, Princeton, and Auburn, as well as Eisenberg Assisted Living, Notre Dame Assisted Living, The Residence of Orchard Grove, Overlook in Charlton, Hillside Village in West Boylston, and Christopher Heights Assisted Living. He taught ‘Humor 102’ for WISE at Assumption University.
He is the Vice-President of Programming for the Worcester County Poetry Association.
Joe has lived in lovely Worcester with his better-half Cyndi and their large family for forty-one years. He is a registered Independent and sleeps with one eye always open.