On Friday, April 20th we had another fine turnout. Thanks for the sunshine and the music. Our performers were:
1. Ellen and Dan
2. Barb
3. Don
4. Greg DeGroot-Magetti & Richard Reinhardt
5. David Maranta
6. Jakki Annerino
7. Ron Hammar
8. Gord Castle
9. Scott Abrams
10. Wayne Cheater
11. Sean Marks (NEW)
12. David Marks
13. Cam & Pat
The next Open Stage night will be Friday, May 18th at 8pm.
I am once again falling behind with my Blog maintenance a brief report on the March 16th Open Stage and feature performance by Paul Rempel are included in this post. On Friday April 20, 2018 at 8pm we will be back at the Mill Courtland Community Centre for our monthly Black Walnut Acoustic Open Stage. We don’t have a featured performer this month so there will be time for lots of Open Stage performances.
Bring your guitars, accordions, voices, acoustic instruments of all sorts or just your eyes and ears and make yourself feel at home. Do not feel shy because you have not played for us before. The doors will open and sign-up for the open stage will start at 7:30 pm. Remember when you sign up you get to play/sing two songs in a set of 10 minutes or less and you need to be ready to start playing when your turn starts so you won’t lose any of your 10 minutes.
Our Code of Conduct and other details are outlined on our About Page. The parking is free at the back of the Mill-Courtland Community Centre and admission is still $3 at the door. the facility is wheelchair accessible, alcohol, smoke and peanut free and every show is different. If you don’t come, you’ll miss it. The next open stage will be March 16th.
On March 16th we had a fine evening which started with a feature performance by Paul Rempel. There’s a new photo of Paul on the Performers’ Photos page. It was great to have Paul do that for us again. After Paul’s set, our Open Stage Performers were:
1. Dan Hergott & David
2. Bob and Sue
3. Scott Abrams
4. Gord Castle
5. Jakki Annerino
6. David Maranta & Dan
7. Ron Hammar
8. Dave Marks – NEW
9. Cam Kemp
10. Wayne Cheater
11. Walli Sawatsky
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On March 16th, Paul Rempel will start our program off in style with a feature set. Paul closed out our last open stage on February 16th. The regular program of performers who have signed up for the Open Stage will follow Paul’s opening performance.
Paul Rempel is a local singer/songwriter and has been part of the Black Walnut Folk Club since its early days at the U of W…almost 20 years ago.
Back then he heard Jack Cole’s amazing voice for the first time – listened to Geoff Lewis sing his Irish songs (where everyone ended up dead from famine, or war or mine disasters) – or waited for Marianne Epp to show up near the end of each evening to cap off the night….so many great and inspiring performers came through the welcoming and revolving door.
Paul used to entertain at local clubs and pubs – Little Lulu’s, Fiddle and Firkin, Blue Moon, Wellington Arms – to name a few. But the Black Walnut was a supportive group – open and accepting of original music, rather that the mainstream numbers that pub crowds demanded.
Paul has also performed in more that 15 musical theatre productions with KW Musical Productions (Centre in the Square and St. Jacob’s Playhouse)
Paul spent 35 years as a teacher and school administrator, but his avocation has always been singing and song writing.
Musically, Paul’s writing spans all the genres – folk, rock, country, bluegrass – with major influences from Gord Lightfoot, Jonathan Edwards, JJ Cale, Ry Cooder, John Prine etc. – but he’d describe his music more like “Jimmy Buffet’ than anyone else.
He loves to explore relations ships and life situations – everything from their demise to sweetest surprise – and every song comes with a personal story to add perspective and an element of understanding or a touch of humour.
Bring your guitars, accordions, voices, acoustic instruments of all sorts or just your eyes and ears and make yourself feel at home. Do not feel shy because you have not played for us before. The doors will open and sign-up for the open stage will start at 7:30 pm. Remember when you sign up you get to play/sing two songs in a set of 10 minutes or less and you need to be ready to start playing when your turn starts so you won’t lose any of your 10 minutes.
Our Code of Conduct and other details are outlined on our About Page. The parking is free at the back of the Mill-Courtland Community Centre and admission is still $3 at the door. the facility is wheelchair accessible, alcohol, smoke and peanut free and every show is different. If you don’t come, you’ll miss it. The next open stage will be April 20th.
If you are having any difficulty with viewing any content, please post a comment or send a private email to: mailto:wayne@blackwalnutfolkclub.com`
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Friday February 16th, Long Weekend – Great Music. Our performers were:
1. Doug Peterman
2. Barb Scott
3. Jakki Annerino
4. Neil Light
5. Gord Castle
6. Sean Purdy – NEW
7. Wayne Cheater
8. Ron Hammar
9. Cam and Pat
10. Paul Rempel
We’ll be back for the next Black Walnut Acoustic Open Stage on Friday, March 16, 2018 at 8pm, with a feature set by Paul Rempel.
I am falling behind with my Blog maintenance but this is the important thing: On Friday February 16, 2018 at 8pm we will be back at the Mill Courtland Community Centre for our monthly Black Walnut Acoustic Open Stage. We don’t have a featured performer this month so there will be time for lots of Open Stage performances.
Bring your guitars, accordions, voices, acoustic instruments of all sorts or just your eyes and ears and make yourself feel at home. Do not feel shy because you have not played for us before. The doors will open and sign-up for the open stage will start at 7:30 pm. Remember when you sign up you get to play/sing two songs in a set of 10 minutes or less and you need to be ready to start playing when your turn starts so you won’t lose any of your 10 minutes.
Our Code of Conduct and other details are outlined on our About Page. The parking is free at the back of the Mill-Courtland Community Centre and admission is still $3 at the door. the facility is wheelchair accessible, alcohol, smoke and peanut free and every show is different. If you don’t come, you’ll miss it. The next open stage will be March 16th.
If you are having any difficulty with viewing any content, please post a comment or send a private email to: mailto:wayne@blackwalnutfolkclub.com`
We had a lovely evening on Friday, January 19th. We missed a few regulars but had some great visits from folks that we have been missing and a first-time performer. Our performers were:
1. Sue
2. Bob (Sue and Bob had guests, it was hard to keep track of who was actually on-stage)
3. Scott Abrams
4. Jakki Annerino
5. David Maranta
6. Jay Collins
7. Gord Castle
8. Neil Light
9. Ron Hammar
10. Barb Scott
11. Lenny Everson – NEW & Rebecca Nickerson
12. Cam Kemp
13. Wayne Cheater
We’ll be back for the next Black Walnut Acoustic Open Stage on Friday, February 16, 2018 at 8pm.
On Friday December 15th, 2017, Markus Michelucci started off the evening with a feature performance of his original songs. It has been a while since we have seen or heard from Markus who has been in Europe with his group, Sound Refuge” Markus Michelucci & Sound Refuge perform at festivals and events throughout the UK such as Barnival, Greenwich Tall Ships Festival. We are glad that he agreed to do a set for us during his visit back to Canada. After the feature set, we had a full open stage, including some collaborations, some seasonal songs and a “newbie”. We also took a short break from the music, cookies and sweets to hand out some door prizes. After the Open Stage performers has all completed their songs Markus closed out the evening with a couple of seasonal numbers. We’ll be back on Friday January 19th for the next Black Walnut Acoustic Open Stage which is planned to be all Open stage.
On December 15, 2017 the Open Stage performers were, in order of appearance:
David Maranta
Ron Hammar
Scott Abrams
Lawrence Cresswell
Jakki Annerino (with Wayne Cheater)
Neil Light
Doug Peterman (with Jakki Annerino & Wayne Cheater for 2nd song)
Wayne Cheater (with Dan Hergott and Jakki Annerino)
Barb Scott – NEW
Jack Cole
Cam Kemp
On Friday December 15th, 2017 at 8pm we will be back at the Mill Courtland Community Centre for our monthly Open Stage. Markus Michelucci will be back to start off the evening with a feature performance. It has been a while since we have seen or heard from Markus who has been in Europe with his group, Sound Refuge” We are glad that he has agreed to do a set for us during his visit back to Canada.
“Led by Canadian Markus Michelucci, Sound Refuge is an eclectic mix of performers who come together to play engaging, thoughtful folk music from the calm and reassuring to the passionate and cerebral. They create an alluring world of instrumentation with powerful lead moments, harmonies and hopeful, inspiring lyrics. Often likened to Cat Stevens, James Taylor and Passenger.
Markus Michelucci & Sound Refuge perform at festivals & events throughout the UK such as Barnival, Greenwich Tall Ships Festival, Rochester Sweeps Festival, the Minehead Musicians Festival and more. Markus has performed live on BBC Radio, Shoreditch Radio and regularly on the streets of London at Borough Market, Southbank Centre and London Farmers Markets. Having toured France last summer, they’ll be touring Germany later this year to support the new release. The duo also performed for Sofar Sounds in Edinburgh early this year! Watch the video here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep6jhyvdcGg ”
Bring your guitars, accordions, voices, acoustic instruments of all sorts or just your eyes and ears and make yourself feel at home. Do not feel shy because you have not played for us before. The doors will open and sign-up for the open stage will start at 7:30 pm. Remember when you sign up you get to play/sing two songs in a set of 10 minutes or less and you need to be ready to start playing when your turn starts so you won’t lose any of your 10 minutes.
Our Code of Conduct and other details are outlined on our About Page. The parking is free at the back of the Mill-Courtland Community Centre and admission is still $3 at the door. the facility is wheelchair accessible, alcohol, smoke and peanut free and every show is different. If you don’t come, you’ll miss it. The next open stage will be January19th.
If you are having any difficulty with viewing any content, please post a comment or send a private email to: mailto:wayne@blackwalnutfolkclub.com
We had a fine turnout with enough time for most performers to do 3 songs each. I like to take photos of first time performers. This time it was Rein Rutnik with his harmonicas, who also joined in on a song with Gord Castle. We’ll Be back with some seasonal treats and even prizes on Friday December 15th when Markus Michelucci will perform a feature set to start the program. The performers on Friday, Nov 17, 2017 were:
1. Neil Light
2. Son & Wilson
3. Scott Abrams
4. Lawrence Cresswell
5. Jakki Annerino
6. Gord Castle
7. Rein Rutnik – NEW
8. Wayne Cheater
9. Ron Hammar
10. Cam, Pat & Carol McMulle
On Friday, October 20th we were missing lots of our core group to set up and produce the show. Thanks to Scott, Lois, and Jakki who did everything. We’ll be back with the next Black Walnut Acoustic Open Stage on Friday, November 17th. On October 20th our Open Stage performers were:
We took a short break and then restarted with the “Spur of the Moment Band” consisting of Wayne Cheater, Scott Abrams Denise & Chris B. who led the gathering in a sing-a-long of “Wheat Kings” in tribute to the memory of Gord Downie. This was followed by the following Open Stage performers:
