We had a total of 14 performances, including two who were first timers for the Black Walnut. We know they have previously performed elsewhere. Here is the full list:
1. Lawrence Cresswell, 2. Mike Miller, 3. Dan Hergott, 4. Kiki, Giami & Emily Salvador – NEW, 5. Jim Skura, 6. Barry Cull, 7. Randy Ouillette, 8. Jakki Annerino, 9. Andy Hagan – NEW, 10.Cam and Pat, 11.Scott Abrams, 12.Ron Hammar, 13.Ed Barrington, 14.Wayne Cheater

Hi all you Black Walnuts,

We had a great night on Friday with 1 new performer and 1 new group. I sure hope the Salvador family will come back. They were a real treat! Two of our new performers from October came back as well.

We purchased a new coffee maker this month to make it easier on Karen to brew up the coffee all at one time. We’re grateful to Irena for filling in for Karen this month.

We will be having our usual Christmas door prize draw in December. I’ve received a few donations for the prize draw and Ellen and I will pick up a few more.

See you in December.

Jakki

What a great night on Friday.  We had 5 new performers.  I think that might be a record!  Thanks to Scott for filling in on sound.  We had the Hidden Stories crew, Martin DeGroot, Gabe, Cole and Alissa from the Multicultural Cinema Club from the Working Centre.  They said they may be back next month to do some more filming.  The acoustic open stage will be back on Friday November 21st.

On Friday October 17, the Open Stage Performers were: 1. Adam Lang 2. Tibor – NEW 3. Ron Hammar – NEW 4. Mike Miller – NEW 5. Scott Abrams 6. Randy Ouillette 7. Jakki Annerino 8. Lawrence Cresswell 9. Neil Light – NEW 10. Wayne Cheater 11.Kevin Smith – NEW 12.David Maranta

On September 19, 2014, we celebrated 20 years of Black Walnut Open Stages. We had the biggest turnout since our Valdy concert 10 years ago. While about 90 folks turned out to celebrate it was mostly about the music and that night it was a full evening concert by Rescue Junction. We put a photo of the band on our Performers pictures page.

We’ll be back on Friday, October 17th with our open stage. 

We are getting excited about our Rescue Junction concert on Friday, September 19th, 2014 at 8 pm. The doors will open at 7:oo pm and the cost is just $3 at the door.

I have been listening to some of their songs at http://rescuejunctionband.com/home

On Friday, June 20th we started the evening off with a feature length set by Edward John Barrington who has just released his album entitled “Old songs, New Sentiments”   http://edwardjohnbarrington.com/album/155425/old-songs-new-sentiments?autostart=true  We had our best turnout this year to welcome Ed back and to hear what he has done with all of those songs.

This is our twentieth year for the Open Stage and we are making plans for a special concert evening Friday September 19th with “Rescue Junction”. More news to come!  Meanwhile we are taking a break for July and August.  We need lots of time to check out all of the live music festivals in the area including the Mill Race festival in Cambridge, Home County in London, the Ingersoll Folk Festival and the Kitchener Blues Festival.  They are all great festivals and they all have free admission.

The open stage pefromers on June 20th were: Dan Hergott, Jacob and Greg DeGroot-Magetti, Adam Lang and Johnny Dooley, Nathan Few, Randy Ouillette, Jakki Annerino, Rick Rathwell and Gary Ticknor (NEW), Jack Cole, Scott and Dan McQuade, Scott Abrams, David Maranta, Wayne Cheater, Gary Turple

We had another good turnout of audience and musicians on May 16th. There were new combinations of players and great songs and it worked really well. I had a great time.

The Open Stage performers were: Jacob Degroot – Maggetti; Nathan Few; Dan Hergott; Jakki Annerino; Peter vanderMaas; Randy Ouillette; David Maranta; Gary Turple; Scott Abrams; Cam and Pat; Wayne Cheater; and Lynn Kirby

Our Calendar for next year will start off with a Special 20th Anniversary concert, featuring Rescue Junction.

We will be back at the Mill-Courtland Community Center on Friday June 20, 2014 with another all open-stage event.

Ok, I have been falling down on the job, so here is the report. We had our best turnout this year on April 20th. There were new combinations of players and great songs and it worked really well. I had a great time.

The Open Stage performers were: 1)Wayne Cheater, Dan McQuade and Scott,
Terry and Beth (NEW) Krentzkamp, Dan Hergott, Jakki Annerino,
Randy Ouillette, Jessica and David Maranta, Gary Turple (NEW),
David Maranta, Loretta Fullerton, Cam and Pat, Paul Remple,
Nathan Few, Scott Abrams, and Peter Light

We will be back at the Mill-Courtland Community Center on Friday May 16, 2014 with another all open-stage event.

And a very fine evening of extra songs, another first time Black Walnut performer and a last minute appearance. As usual when we don’t have a full slate of performers, we asked everybody to do an extra song or two if they wanted to. Next month we have another open stage evening on Friday, April 18th.

On March 21st, the open stage performers were: Wayne Cheater, Dan Hergott,  Steve Young – NEW, Jakki Annerino, Randy Ouillette, Cam and Pat,  Scott Abrams, Ted Shapiro, and Jack Cole