Poetry and a Play in SL

Second Life is starting to get a little more enjoyable. And I have my preliminary position for the presentation in May. On Sunday I attended a country music concert for Relay for Life, an open-mic poetry night, and a one act play. As well as make a few friends and join some groups.
On New World Notes' Rik's Picks there was a link:
2-4PM - Country Music Concert for Relay for Life
The Dixie Rebels invite you to throw on your cowboy boots and ten gallon and head over to Dixie Land Estates (130, 132) for a benefit concert by Jeff Tully with all proceeds going to Relay for Life.
When I arrived I had a difficult time being able to listen to the music being performed. Finally after a few technical, which resembled RL concert problems, they gave a link which downloaded an iTunes file of streaming audio. I listened to a country singer perform and speak to the crowd, using their SL names, while his avatar stood on stage. The performance was more audio than visual; the singer didn't move much or even strum the guitar, but the fans were dancing and making out on the dance floor. It was more interesting to watch the fans than the performer. The costumes and custom dance moves are eternally interesting and art in themselves. But, overall it was a less than exciting event, but I could see the potential of something more interesting.
Later I went to the Blue Angel Open Mic at 5pm slt in Windemerer 232, 186, 34. I arrived early and spoke to Siobhan Flanagan for a few minutes. It felt more or less like a real conversation - i tried not to speak over her and was civil - and I learned she is a teacher in Toronto very into the music scene. She too is a newbie, but I think she'll lead me to interesting things. The poetry which was presented was decent. Everyone sits in chairs while in the chat box the speaker enters in each line of the work. It's not very impressive presentation - just an aim conversation with a live background. There are often typos, but the poetry was interesting and there is a library of work I will check out.
I then went to a One Act play called The Box, written by Rich Smolen. I arrived late, not having received the message from the group Writers of SL and I could never catch up with the story. The Avatars move around a little, but stop to type their speech. It is delivered very slow and therefore wasn't very good. But, they promised it would be better next time - every Saturday at 2 pm slt they will perform at Nimue 239 169 81.
Although I still have not seen anything as interesting (literature wise) as the ELC, I do feel SL is a good place for electronic literature artists to get involved in. It is an open source program, so the power is in the user's hands. It is also developing fast, though still relatively new. I believe that all a new creation takes is computer skill and I have already seen great evidence of that in the hands of artists.
I look forward to knew discoveries and now I have more resources to learn from.