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
Jim Galway

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
Wayne Cheater

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

Friday, September 16th Folk Club was a great start for our 2011-12 season. After 2 months off we were treated to a night of all open-stage with 2 first-timers. This season, we ‘ll have lots more of the all open stage format because people like it and because we get more time for the open-stage that way. We do intend to ask a some people to do feature sets in the coming year, but there’s no quota for how often we will do that. The plan for now is for the October 21st club night to be all open-stage as well.

We will list below the 14 open stage performer from September 16th”

Jack Guest
Dan Kearney
Randy Ouillette
Carol McMullen
Jskki Annerino
Scott Abrams
Maeva Rouseau – NEW
Jim Skuna – NEW
David Maranta
Wayne Cheater
Jim Galway
Cam & Pat
Tom Massiah
Lynn Kirby

Jubal’s Kin  (http://www.jubals-kin.com/) must’a heard that we did not have a feature performer because they more than made up for it with their contribution to our open stage. It was a fine evening of music and even some “Buck dancing”.  We posted a couple of photos (Jubal’s Kin and Adam Lang) on our “performers pictures” page. Now The club takes a break for July and August.  Our next Folk Club will be Friday September 16, 2011, 8 p.m. at the usual place.  Before that we’ll have our annual picnic on July 9 and we’ll also be hosting a couple of sing-a-rounds at the Mill Race Festival of traditional Folk Music on July 30 and 31. We’ll  post more info on both of these July events soon.

The Open Stage performers  on June 17 were:
1) Wayne Cheater, 2) Nathan Few, 3) Dan Kearney, 4) John Neilson, Roger and Rael, 5) David Maranta, 6) Randy Ouillette, 7) Jakki Annerino 8)Scott Abrams, 9) Adam Lang, 10) Carol McMullen, 11) Jubal’s Kin – from Florida (NEW) (Roger, Gaillane & Jeffrey Amundson), 12) Jay Linden, 13) Lynn Kirby, 14) Jim Galway