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The Canton Folk Song Society is a small group of
folk-style musicians who get together at the McKinley Historical Museum in
Canton, Ohio once a month to enjoy sharing music with each other and with the
museum's patrons.
Meetings
Scheduled Meetings for 2012:
Canton Folk Song
Society Playing for McKinley Birthday Celebration
Winter Folk Song
Fest
Fourteenth Annual
Festival Put on by
In the Auditorium
of the McKinley Historical Museum
Performances by
Several Local Groups, Clubs, and Individuals
Followed by Jam
Session for Everyone with Instruments and Voices
View Canton Folk Song
Society Photo Pages
It will become clear in this section that it's often a
good idea to check here, to contact Bill by e-mail or phone
(330-332-4420), to check with another member, or to call the
Meetings are generally held on the second Saturday of
the month from
The meetings of the club are generally run as informal
song circles with individual members each taking a turn to choose a song.
Choices are usually taken from a source available to several other members
which allows others to join in the performance. However, members sometimes
choose to perform songs for the rest of the group – whether old favorites or
songs that they are just in the process of learning. Singers and acoustic
folk-style instruments of all sorts are welcome. Instruments which have been
played at Canton Folk Song Society include (but are not limited to): guitars (6
& 12 strings, steel, banjo-guitar, tenor), dulcimers (hammered and
mountain), autoharps, harps, flutes, whistles, recorders, fife, harmonicas,
concertina, bowed psalteries, banjos, mandolins, octave mandolins, ukuleles,
fiddles, cello, upright bass, jug, washtub bass, marimbula,
percussion (bodhran, spoons, tambourines, bells,
chimes, and more), and more.
Membership
Membership in the Canton Folk Song Society is open to
anyone who enjoys folk-style music and agrees to work with the other members
for the mutual enjoyment of all. There is no membership fee or charge. Come to
a meeting and join along in the music if you would like to be a member. There
are members who just choose to sing along on a few choruses; members who are
trying to learn to play an instrument who play so quietly that almost nobody
else can ever hear them; members who usually play and sing only for their own
enjoyment; members who gave up performing publicly years ago, but have decided
that this is something they can enjoy doing; and members who currently perform
professionally. Members have enjoyed doing songs by contemporary
singer/songwriters, folk favorites from the fifties and sixties (and earlier
and later), traditional ballads, celtic music, world
music, children's songs, humorous songs, the blues, popular songs, country
songs, seasonal music, music fitted to various themes, and more.
Purpose & Methods
The Canton Folk Song Society is a club open to anyone
who enjoys folk-style music and agrees to work with other members for the
mutual enjoyment of all. The primary purposes of the club are to share in the
enjoyment of folk-style music, to share friendships with others who have
similar interests, to help others to become familiar with this type of music
and the instruments involved with it, and to help our members follow their own
goals in relationship to the music. These purposes may be accomplished by
having regular meetings or activities to play and sing; by finding ways to communicate
to let members and others know about the activities of the society, its
members, and other organizations or individuals with similar purposes; by
sponsoring concerts, programs, shows, festivals, conferences, seminars,
workshops, lectures, classes, meetings, displays, or publications; and by
working with or supporting other organizations in similar or related
activities.
Activities
In addition to the regular monthly meetings, members of
the Canton Folk Song Society have also done public performances as the Canton
Folk Song Society. Several performances have been for the McKinley Museum as a
way of showing our appreciation for the meeting place. We have regularly
performed for such events as McKinley's Birthday Celebration, the Museum
Christmas Party, and other special events at the Museum. We also have performed
for the Clubs Open Stage many times since 1995 at Dulci-More Festivals in
History
The Canton Folk Song Society first got together in
January, 1994 at the Public Library in
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Contact Information
984 Homewood Avenue
Salem, Ohio
44460-3816