Please Note: As of the May 25, 2022 meeting, the Canton Folk
Song Society will be meeting at the
The Canton Folk Song Society is a small group of folk-style
musicians who get together at the
Meetings
Schedule of Regular Meetings for 2024 in the Bravo
(Banquet) Room (or sometimes the Mohawk Room) on the Second Floor (there is an
elevator) of the
Winter Folk Song Fest (Winterfest
XXV)
Twenty-Fifth Annual Festival
to Be Put on by
Also in the Bravo (Banquet) Room of the
Performances by Several Local Groups, Clubs,
and Individuals
Followed by Jam Session for Everyone with
Instruments and Voices
Bring Your Acoustic Folk Instruments
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 (234-564-3852) or to check with another member before coming out for a meeting -- especially if you are coming from a distance.
Meetings are held on the dates and times listed on the Google
Calendar and Meetings schedule shown above. They are currently generally 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
Members wanted a more public place to meet after a while
with a better atmosphere and better acoustics. The move was
made to Trivium Coffee Cafe in
When Trivium needed the space we
were taking up, Christina was able to find meeting places including another
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bill Schilling kept some members of the Canton Folk Song Society meeting monthly on Zoom (or Jitsi early on) and continued those online meetings about twice a month (including Winter Folk Song Fest XXIII on March 20, 2021) until Sue Wheeler offered open air and then in house sessions at her home (combined with Zoom sessions offered by Bill Schilling from Sue's home) for one session most months from May 2021 through March 2022.
Christina Toney made contact with Kent Kleinknecht,
event coordinator at the
Christina remains as the leader of the Canton Folk Song
Society. There are no other official positions, but Bill Schilling keeps this
information available for folks, having been involved since the first meeting
of the club. Some members of the club did take one meeting of the group to the
Grand Opening of the new offices of Autoharp Quarterly magazine in
Contact Bill Schilling by e-mail.
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Contact Information
984 Homewood Avenue
Salem, Ohio
44460-3816
234-564-3852
234-564-DULC