After more than six years of fairy magic-filled karaoke nights at the Eagles, Vashon’s Washington State Fairies are hanging up the mics and putting away the music.

This Friday will mark the last Fairyoke event hosted by the Fairies.

“It’s just time,” Fairy Tami Brockway Joyce said last week when asked about why the events were ending. “As much as we have loved it, we feel like we’ve done 80 shows, getting close to seven years, it feels like we need something new.”

Brockway Joyce and friend Jennifer Potter have been hosting the karaoke nights as the alter egos in corsets and feathers since 2011 when the Eagles approached them about resurrecting the events. The Eagles used to offer regular karaoke nights, but Brockway Joyce said they “petered out” sometime around 2005.

“I had been really into the karaoke scene in Seattle and San Francisco and they (the Eagles) basically just handed us all their music. We digitized it and added some more songs the rest is history,” she said.

Brockway Joyce said she has many special memories from the events, but her favorite is from a few years ago when The President of the United States’ Chris Ballew sang one of the band’s songs.

“All of a sudden, we had a rockstar performing for us. I remember he jumped off a table, broke a lamp and I think punched a hole in the wall from all his jumping around. It was quite memorable,” she said. “Each Fairyoke has rockstar moments like that for everyone. People bring their heart and passion to the stage and every time I leave, I say, ‘that was magic.’”

Potter also remembers that night fondly and said Ballew dropped the mic at one point and the act of dropping the mic has come to be knows as the Ballew Drop. She said it is moments like that that make the Fairyoke nights what they are: “the weirdest counter-culture thing you’ll ever see,” Potter said.

“You don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s a whole different performance medium,” she said.

The Fairies will continue to exist and make appearances at island events, it is just the karaoke nights that are ending.

The two women created the Fairies around Valentine’s Day 2010 as a humorous twist to singing telegrams. It was Potter’s idea, as she actually worked at a singing telegram company in her early-20s. The duo went on to do not singing telegrams, but event

emceeing.

“We did a lot of fundraisers,” Potter said. “The Washington State Fairies are true to our personalities and we just aggrandize them. That’s why we work so well together.”

The Washington State Fairies will host the final Fairyoke event at 9 p.m. Friday at the Eagles. All are welcome.