We had a great evening with top notch performances and announced a new name for our event. Starting immediately our monthly music event will no longer be called the “Black Walnut Folk Club”. The new name is (drum-roll please) the “Black Walnut Acoustic Open Stage” (more…)
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The Last Open Stage For the Season Was June 15th
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Read All About the Open Stage on May 18th.
On Friday May 18th, 2012, the Folk Club was an All Open Stage. It was one of our better turnouts this year and the variety and entertainment was terrific. On a sadder note, a bike that was parked in the Hallway was reported stolen during the evening. There are lots of times when nobody from the club is in the hallway so there is a risk for any property that is left outside in the hallway. I am not aware of any previous incident like that, but it could happen again, so be warned. (more…)
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Don Sawchuck Was the Featured Performer April 20, 2012
Those who chose to drive around the “road closed” signs on Friday night were treated to a fine opening set by Don Sawchuk. They also found that there is actually no construction happening around the Mill Courtland Community Centre or the access to the driveway on Mill Street. Don was accompanied by Don Pharoah on percussion and Gwen Potter on Viola. We got to hear some of Don’s work at the Black Walnut Folk Club last year and at an open sing-around that he hosted for us at the Millrace Festival in August, it was clear that Don’s musical ability was outstanding. Don is a singer-songwriter who grows on you some more each time you get to see him perform. You can see him on Youtube including this link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/feature-spotlight-maxwells-open-mic .”
Some of our regular open stage performers did not make it but we had 15 open stage acts after Don was finished. Apologies to the last two performers who were limited to 1 song each because we ran out of time. We even had two first time Black Walnut performers as follows:
Nathan Few
Dan Hergott
Dan Kearney
Gwen Potter
Randy Ouillette
Russ Bishop
Scott Abrams
Robbie Hancock – NEW
David Maranta
Wayne Cheater
Bruce Williams
Kim Ellis
Ruth Jenkins
Peter Light
Dan Pharoah – NEWNext Month on Friday May 18, we’ll be back with an all open stage evening.
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The Black Walnut Was All Open Stage On Friday March 16th
The Black Walnut was all open stage with a total of 15 performances on Friday, March 16th. Next month we will feature Don Sawchuk, who will start the evening with a set of 6 of his great songs. We got just a sample last Friday night. The open Stage performers were:
Jakki Annerino
Don Sawchuk
Dan Hergott
Gwen Potter & Russ Bishop – NEW to BWFC
Jack Guest
David Maranta
Peter Light and Gwen Potter
Randy Ouillette
Cam and Pat (followed by a short break)
Wayne Cheater
Kim Ellis
Scott Abrams
Ted Shapiro
Shawn Masterman
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More Open Stage Updates
Sometimes we have such a good time we don’t notice when one or two people are really messing things up for numerous other people. That is when people complain, and that is what they should do. Last month we had a couple of songs that were had offensive language and or subject matter. We arent going to identify them here. The other thing is that one performer used twice as much time as most people to do two songs. It was way more than 10 minutes.
Here is an important addition to our “Updates” for the Open Stage performers:
8.We will probably not let you know how much time you have left after you finish your first song, unless you ask. If you have less than 3 minutes left you probably should not start another song. To help you out with this, understand that if your songs are each more than 4 minutes long, you probably won’t have time for more than one song, because it always take at least a minute for you to get on-stage and ready to start your first song.
9. Black Walnut, the Mill Courtland Community Centre are family friendly. Some performers have slipped some offensive language and subjects into their songs and it does get us a bad response from people who need to let us know how offensive that is. They are right to complain. Choose appropriate material, always.
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Friday February 17th, Black Walnut Was All Open Stage
The Black Walnut was all open stage with 17 a total of performances on Friday February 17th.
The performers were:
Randy Ouillette
Peter Light – (NEW)
Dan Kearney
Jim Skura
Dan Hergott
Lynn Kirby
Jakki Annerino
Don Sawchuk
Peter van der Maas
David Skura
David Maranta
Kim Ellis – (NEW)
Jack Guest
Shawn Masterman – (NEW)
Milosz Skora – (NEW)
Scott Abrams
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Tom Massiah Was the Featured Performer January 20,2012
On Friday, January 20, Tom Massiah started the evening at the Black Walnut Folk Club with a 30 min set of mostly original songs. We had a good size of audience and they were all treated to a fine set of Tom’s songs, his mellow voice and his artful guitar accompaniments. Tom Massiah is a singer/songwriter who lives south of Woodstock in Otterville. He has been playing off and on at BWFC for 8 or 9 years. We have a photo of Tom on our “Performers’ Pictures” page.Click here to play a recording of Tom’s set:
The open stage had 13 performers and followed Tom’s set. Next month on February 17 we will have another evening of all open stage.
On January 20, 2012 the open stage performers were:
Jack Guest
Dan Hergott
David Skura
Dan Kearney
Randy Ouillette
Glen & Mary Gifkins
David Maranta (followed by a short break)
Jakki Annerino
Lynn Kirby
Scott Abrams
Cam and Pat
Wayne Cheater
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December 16. 2011 Folk Club Started With Scott Abrams
Scott Abrams started the night with a set of songs that got bigger and wilder as he made his way toward the end. Unfortunately we did not get a recording to share, so you just had to be there. We now have a photo of Scott from his performance on our “Performers Pictures” page.
It was a great night with good attendance with at least two other open stage type events going on and Christmas parties and related seasonal activities. We had some seasonal music, candies and door prizes to celebrate. Next Month on January 20, 2012, Tom Massiah will be the featured performer.
The Dec. 16, 2011 open stage performers were:
Dan Hergott
Loretta
Barry Cull
Randy Ouillette
John Stroud
Jakki Annerino
Jack Guest
David Maranta
Lynn Kirby
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Black Walnut on November 18 Was All Open Stage
On Friday October18, 2011, The Black Walnut Folk Club was host to twelve open-stage acts plus some rare encores. There were two Black Walnuts first-timers and some guests who don’t make it out to our club very often. Where was everybody else? We may never know.
Next Month we will start off with a feature length set by Scott Abrams. Scott is a native of Niagara Falls, New York and has been entertaining audiences with his eclectic collection of folk music for over 25 years. He has been treating us to his diverse collection of songs and very expressive guitar and vocals for what seems like a couple of years now and we are really looking forward to his set on Friday, December 16, 2011.
On Friday November 18 the performers were:
Jack Guest
Dan Hergott
Scott Abrams
Lynn Kirby
Jakki Annerino
Randy Ouillette
Kevin Kenalty – NEW to the club
Cam & Pat
David Maranta
Wayne Cheater
Jim Galway
Monty – NEW to the club
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October 21 Black Walnut Was All Open Stage
We had a ball at the Mill-Courtland Community Centre on Friday night. It took us a little extra time to get a new sound board set up so that it was safe to open the doors but after that we got the open stage started by 8 o’clock. We had all 16 time slots filled by performers including 3 first-time Black Walnut performers.
Thanks to Dan for getting the sound set up just right and to Karen for being our new MC and to everyone else who helped out, or performed or listened to the music. We had a great night.
The open stage performers were:
Jack Guest
Glenn & Mary Gifkins – NEW
Dan Hergott
Dan Kearney
Bruce Williams
David Lum – NEW
Lynn Kirby
Randy Ouillette
Jakki Annerino
David Maranta
Maeva Rousseau
Anna Gack – NEW
Wayne Cheater
Cam and Pat
Scott Abrams
Jim Galway