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Barn Dance Jamboree Campout 2006
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Event celebrates memories of CKNX Barn Dance
And the music continues
With a common interest, the campers at each Barn Dance Jamboree Campout enjoy not just
the social.aspect of the weekend, but also the opportunity to jam as this group did at the 2005
event. (Citizen file photo)
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Ten years ago the Blyth Festival
produced Barn Dance, an original
musical based on the barn dances of
the past. It was performed again in
1997, the same year that Wayne
Otterbein and 'June Therrien decided
to hold -a campout in the Blyth
campground.
Today barn dances continue to be
held throughout south western
Ontario, but the Blyth event is
special as it runs Friday through
Sunday.
Otterbein said "We hoped that the
campouts would increase the
membership of the Barn Dance
Museum and Entertainment Society."
Otterbein, who is this year's show
chairman, went on to say that
although the membership had not
increased dramatically, the first
campout had about 40 people, and
this year he expects between 300 and
400 sites to be taken at the
campground.
"We will fill the arena, though, for
the Barn Dance show and the dance
on Saturday night," Otterbein
continued. "That is the only event for
which there is a cost, the other events
are free, or by a donation."
Tickets to the Saturday night
events are $17 in advance, or $20 at
the door.
It will be an activity filled
weekend.
Friday evening, starts with a
bluegrass show at 7 p.m., then
continues the tradition of giving local
talent the opportunity to share their
music with Barn Dance fans.
At 8 a.m. Saturday a continental
breakfast (donation)starts the day,
followed by a country breakfast
show, and a flea market where
everything has some associatiop with
music.
From 12:30p.m. to 3:30 p.m. there
is another open stage. This
opportunity requires pre-registering
to participate.
The Lions barbecue (advance
tickets only) fills the remainder of
the afternoon, and at 8 p.m. everyone
has the opportunity to experience the
Barn Dance Show, followed by
dancing to the sounds of the Barn
Dance Gang.
Sunday from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30
a.m. is the Lions breakfast. Gord
Baxter, current treasurer of the Barn
Dance, said that the full breakfast is
only $6.
The final event of the weekend is
the Sunday morning gospel show led
by Ernie King. Otterbein said that all
of the donations received at -the
gospel show are given to local
service groups.
Baxter said that last year almost
$1,000 was given back to
community. groups included the fire
department, the Threshers, the BIA
and the Blyth Festival.
Both Baxter and Otterbein
encouraged people to come out and
join the gospel hour Sunday
morning.
Camping fees for the four days for
two non-members are $122.
Members pay $92. Memberships are
$25-for a single and $40 for a couple.
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From Thursday until Sunday this
week the toe tapping rhythms of
fiddle, banjo and guitars drifting
through Blyth from the campgrounds
will take the early baby boomers
back to their youth.
This is the weekend of the ninth
annual jamboree campout sponsored
by the Barn Dance Society.
Beginning in the early 1930s, on
Saturday evenings, CKNX radio
owner and fiddler, W.T. Doc
Cruickshank featured live local
talent in a format similar to the barn
dance groups that were featured on
American radio.
In 1937 he began broadcasting
from locations within a 10-county
area. By 1963 the market had fallen
away, but during that 26 year period
many of the familiar names in
country music visited Wingham and
the surrounding areas, including the
regular bands, the CKNX Ranch
Boys with Don and Cora Robertson,
the Golden Prairie Cowboys and the
CKNX Barn Dance Gang with Earl
Heywood, The Mercey Brothers, Al
Cherney and Tommy Hunter.
Despite CKNX's terminating the
shows, beginning in 1983 the station
resurrected the show twice a year,
and the Barn Dance Historical
Society, encouraged by Earl
Heywood and his- wife Martha, have
kept the memories alive.
In 1994 the Barn Dance Historical
Society was formed. A few years
later the group received a $30,000
Trillium grant to develop a museum.
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