Welcome To Our Website...
Come out and enjoy an evening of entertainment and community socializing at the historic Barnhartvale Hall located in Barnhartvale, Kamloops, BC. Enjoy premium coffee, beverages and homemade-fresh baked goodies, and be entertained by stars of the present and future. Meet your community. Residents from all areas are welcome.

Afternoon Music Workshops
We host Coffee House Music Workshops on the afternoon of most Coffee House events. These sessions normally run from 1-4PM. A variety of musical techniques, tips and tricks are presented from professional musicians. Cost for the workshop is $15.00. Check the Music Workshops Page for schedules and event dates!

Our Evening Venue
The doors open at 7:00 PM and music begins exactly at 7:30 PM. Admission is $5.00 at the door. Open Mic entertainers are admitted free. Baked goods and beverages are $1.00 each. Seating is limited by the size of the hall so come early. Each evening is divided into two parts.

Open Mic
We begin each event with an Open Mic venue. Entertainers who have signed in (entertainers admitted for free), are called up in sequence and perform three songs.







We rotate through all the open mic entertainers who have signed up for the evening. This normally lasts approximately 1-1.5 hours.

Feature Acts
Immediately after Open Mic, a brief intermission follows while the set up of equipment and sound checks are performed for the headliner or feature act. The feature act normally plays for approximately one hour to complete the evening. The feature acts have been interesting and varied:  Vancouver's Joanna Chapman-Smith, Sorrento's  Chris Stevens, Tom Coles, Blu & Kelly Hopkins of Silver Creek, Kelowna's Jane Eamon and Gord Brush,  and lots of locals including John Clinch, Art Pruce, Trevor Caswell, Wiley, Kelly Winders, Kelly Spencer & Jon Treichel, Chris Doherty and Gary Nielsen, and others too numerous to mention.

When?
Our Coffee House evenings run approximately seven times a year... normally on the third Saturday of any given month except in months when statutory holidays might conflict. Check the Upcoming Events page by clicking in the left hand margin. Be sure to register for our email reminders of our upcoming events. You'll receive an email reminder about upcoming Coffee House dates 1 week prior to the event and also on the date of the event.

History To Date...
The Barnhartvale Coffee house was started in 1999 by a local performer, Rosemary Ash who ran it for 3 years. After which she moved back to her home province of Newfoundland in 2002 to help out her mom for 6 months… well 6 months turned into 6 years during which Rosemary started the Coffee House movement by starting and running 5 coffee houses… Meantime Donna and Paul Bradbury volunteered to help with the admin of the Barnhartvale Coffee House. Jim Frid did sound and 'Blue Moon'  kept the open mic going.  In 2005 a new group of women,. 'guitar friends' took over the volunteer administration and have been "(wo)manning" it until 2012.

2012 finds the coffee house going full circle with Rosemary Ash once again organizing the Coffee House events. NEW! Rosemary will soon be presenting Coffee House Afternoon Music Workshops. These educational and informative workshops will focus on all sorts of musical techniques and styles that are used by professional musicians. Our group workshops will be hosted by professional musicians from around BC and Alberta who perform at the Coffee House events.

The audience support for the Barnhartvale Coffee House has grown, as has the open mic participation. We now routinely have 100+ audience and many, many open mic performers.

The Barnhartvale Coffee House (BCH) Mandate
"The Barnhartvale Coffee House's mandate is to work with emerging amateur and professional artists from all areas of entertainment engaging audiences with traditional and contemporary works that not only entertain, but inspire creativity and an enthusiasm for the development of the performing arts in our local communities."   

A big thank you goes out to all the volunteers who help make the Coffee House a success.  Your support as a volunteer would be greatly appreciated, please use the contact us page if you can volunteer. All proceeds from our events are used to improve the Barnhartvale Coffee House experience.  The BCH applauds the efforts of the Barnhartvale Community Association to maintain and improve the Barnhartvale Hall and the BCH endeavours to support their efforts through our events. Visit www.barnhartvale.com for more information.

We hope you enjoy the Website!