BARNHARTVALE COFFEE HOUSE - SATURDAY 20 JANUARY 2018

CLARIFICATION OF RULES

OPEN MIC NIGHT & OPTIONAL CONTEST

January 9, 2018

Eligibility for contestants for the open mic contest at our January 20, 2018 coffee house will be limited to those acts which have NOT been featured since the start of our 2016/2017 season, including the current year. This means that there will be two full years between anyone’s appearance as a feature; giving more acts opportunity to be a feature during our four feature acts evenings per season.

·  Contest participation is optional. You are more than welcome to perform without being part of the open mic contest.

Sign-up for musicians for the open mic contest has been changed to start at 6:15 pm and will end at 6:45 pm. Late comers may be accommodated if time permits.

Main doors will open for general admission at 6:30 pm.

Due to the unsafe current (east) side entrance, musicians will now enter through the level entry (west) side door next to the men’s washroom, to be greeted and signed up at the corner of the stage.

After sign-up for open mic there will be a draw for position. Large groups will be assigned a position at the discretion of the MC and sound engineer.

·  Our MC will announce who is and is not participating in the contest before each act.

·  The first act will start shortly after7 pm, with the evening’s end goal of 10:30pm.

·  3 songs per act will be allowed if time permits,but please be prepared to reduce this to two songs at the organizers’ discretion – it is important to maintain the targeted end time for the audience.

·  Musicians are to enter the stage as soon as the previous act leaves, and set up while the MC is making announcements.

All audience members will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite act. At the end of the evening we will collect the ballots and tabulate the results, which will be announced at our February 17, 2018 coffee house.

FMI: Chrisy @250-573-0025

Warm atmosphere, excellent music, and wonderful coffee & treats

From town, take theTrans Canada Highway eastto the Dallas Petrocan.

FollowDallas DrivetoBarnhartvale Roadand keep going for 7 Km.

Barnhartvale Hall is on the left.

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Sue Cane, Volunteer Publicity Contact,778-257-2947