live music venue and late night cafe
Well, it’s been 22 years and we’ve been providing a place for local musicians and artists to come and express themselves. When we started, we were one of the first internet cafes around, and that’s been part of our business for all these years. Admittedly, in the beginning it was a bigger part, since we […]
We’re excited to be hosting the monthly Improv with Boyle Street and Rapid Fire Theatre! Naked has been supporting inner city youth for a couple of decades, and this is a great way to spend a couple of hours: enjoy a coffee, have a laugh and help out. Admission is by donation. Last Tuesday every […]
I’ve installed a new events calendar that should make booking events a bit smoother! You still submit a booking ON the events calendar, just use the little button at the top right corner. Fill in some info, contact info, date etc (you can skip “venue info” because well, duh). Once it’s submitted you’ll get a […]
One of the coolest artists who just “walked in” one day years ago, was Munya Mataruse. (@MunyaMats) He just dropped in one open stage, and blew the place away! A big star in Africa, he wanted to move into the Canadian market as well and brought his amazing stage presence to our stage! BIO: Munya Mataruse […]
This article by Fish Griwkowsky from back when Naked CyberCafe was first kicked out to make way for the “downtown entertainment district”. Also known as let’s get rid of “those people” from downtown.
One of the things that I love about the cafe is that we’re all the same within it’s walls. (That’s technically true anywhere, but very formally within them). When you’re inside Naked, you can hang out and read, use a computer, or drink coffee and do your homework. You can also join in many lively […]
Mboya Nicholson Mboya Nicholson is a wildly talented jazz pianist and we’re fortunate to count him as a good friend of the cafe. In addition to doing fairly regular shows at Naked Cyber Cafe, he’s around Edmonton in other venues, has a busy schedule writing songs, doing videos for his YouTube channel, and even finds […]
So, when you think about your local neighborhood (non-chain) cafe, it’s awesome enough to have an actual fully-equipped stage for local artists to play on. Bob went to the next level when he managed to find a Yamaha C3 Centennial Edition baby grand piano! If you play keyboards, you have to check it out next Open […]
Full schedule this week! Wednesday March 7th: Another great YEG Music event! ROBIN CISEK, LISA ANDERSON, THE FOLK DISEASE https://www.facebook.com/events/1681593648572656/ Tickets: https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1642844 Thursday March 8th: Open Stage starting at 9pm Friday March 9th: INDIEPLAY A collection of local talented artists. Door: $10 Saturday March 10th: The Johnny Lemons with Guests – a great band returns […]
This May will be the 20th Anniversary for Naked. Starting out as a cyber cafe, and now after Edmonton's environment has changed, focused more on music. In fact, it's been a couple of decades providing one of the only remaining small locally-owned music venues in Edmonton. Sadly, the independents have been dwindling in YEG over [...]