We received an e-mail from NZ folk power duo Brenda Liddiard and Mark Laurent saying they’re doing a mini tour in June, coinciding exactly with our club night. John Hayday and Vaughan Morgan have generously offered them their guest spot for the night. John and Vaughan will now be playing the August club spot.
April club night was held on Anzac Day. Many of our floor singers presented Anzac Day themed songs, and none so beautifully as John Hayday and Vaughan Morgan with “Remembrance Day.” Many thanks to John and Vaughan for being part of our club and sharing their lovely music with us.
Pre-sale tickets for Daniel Champagne are finally live. Woopee! It’s going to be a great show!
A message from Alan Wagstaff in Puhoi:
Greetings Singers, Dancers, and Musicians! I’m starting a folk/Celtic ‘session’ in Puhoi to be held in the Puhoi Sports Club rooms, which are in the centre of Puhoi Village. The dates we have booked so far are all Thursdays: 31st March, 7th April, 21st April, 5th May, 19th May, 2nd June. The session will run from 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm. This is a ‘session’ – not a performance evening. We have about 20 musicians interested at this point and if you play the spoons, the bodhran, the linoleum, banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, accordion, the whistle, bass – or anything else for that matter – or you just like to sing this kind of stuff, you’re invited to join in. We expect about a 2 to 1 ratio of tunes to songs. There’s a $2 charge to cover room hire and to pay the bar staff. We’ve got a Dropbox set of about 30 music charts and sounds files (PDFs and aiffs) to get us going. Anyone who wants to join us will be given access to the Dropbox. From there you can print the music and/or listen to the sound files (aiffs). So, if you want to join us for a roistering, rollickin evening of music making please send me an email: Alan Wagstaff alanw@ihug.co.nz or call +64 (0)274 836 023.
Every month I struggle to adequately advertise the wonderful music we have on at the hall, and it’s just a shame. I am sure more people really would have loved to see the concerts we’ve had on recently, if only they knew about them. I’ve made up what I think is a very nice poster covering the next couple of months. Quite pleased with how it turned out, really. I printed out a few and left one at the library and iSite in Warkworth, and a couple other places, but I just don’t have time to get them to everyone everywhere, or the budget to cover the printing? Can you help? If everyone who reads this printed out one copy and put it up at work, or their gym, or pretty much anywhere, that would be really helpful. You’d be helping to keep ticket prices for shows down, because we don’t have a budget for printing or advertising, and we like all the ticket money to go to the amazing artists who come perform for us, and to the Whangateau Hall Committee to help maintain our beautiful hall.
Thanks!
Jenine
the local vocals choir inc.
is delighted to present
RHYTHM & DRUMMING
Sunday 20th March 2 – 4.30pm
Drumming, rhythm & singing workshop with Jaqui
“Everything vibrates and has rhythm. The very first sound we all heard was the constant rhythm of our mother’s heart beat. Connecting with rhythm in the form of drumming will quickly reduce stress, free the mind of its chatter, energize the body and create unity within groups.” – Jaqui rhythmdotcom.com
Wellsford District Community Centre
LVC financial members $20, others $30
further details & registration contact: singlvc@gmail.com, or ph. Anna 4237740
Unless otherwise noted, club nights are on the last Monday of the month, 7pm start sharp, $5.
What a string of amazing music we’ve had at the hall! Rachel Dawick played the guest spot for our first folk club night of the year. She last played at the hall for the launch of her Boundary Riders project, which has since gone on to being adapted as a musical theatre piece in Scotland. Rachel played a delightful solo set, including tales of her many travels and adventures and songs from her numerous musical projects.
On the 2nd of February we had Kirsty Bromley, Gillian Boucher and Bob McNeill. Kirsty is a UK folk singer who has been touring NZ and Australia since October, to great acclaim. She performed a solo a cappella set of traditional and original songs. In the second half, noted fiddler Gillian Boucher and Tui Award winner Bob McNeill played a lively set of traditional celtic fiddle tunes and original songs written by Bob.
On Waitangi day we had a very special treat when Fiddle Pie brought their old time country music dance and variety show to the hall. It was an evening of the most infectious and exciting music. The show started with a lovely piano recital from band member Hannah. The six members of Fiddle Pie are very talented multi-instrumentalists and singers, and they swapped instruments between nearly every song. Band member “T” is a professional square dance calling and had most of the audience up and dancing. He also lead us in a waltz and Texas two-step. It was an all-around fun evening! We very much hope they’ll come back again next year!
Next folk club is Monday, February 29th, doors open at 6:30pm, floor singers start at 7pm sharp. Special guest is Keith Levy.
Also on at the Hall on February 22nd, a workshop on Urban Farming with “rock star market gardeners” Curtis Stone.
Curtis is an Urban Micro-Gardener, farmer and founder of Green City Acres in Canada. He will discuss profitable, small-plot urban farming with Curtis Stone.
Specialising in multiple site farming (backyards, front yards, spare lots) within the one enterprise, the Green City Acres model proves that urban farming CAN create a profitable livelihood, if the enterprise is designed well.
You can get more information on registering for the workshop at http://www.sixfigurefarmingnztour.com/
January 31st is our annual hall fundraiser, the Country Fair. This is a great opportunity to get more involved with the hall. Please e-mail me if you can volunteer to help on the day or if you can donate anything for the quick fires!
Sunday, 10am – 2pm.
Food Stalls ✦ Live Music ✦ Book Stall
Car Boot Sale ✦ Quick Fire Raffles ✦ Cake Stall
Produce Stall ✦ Bouncy Castles
Pipis will be providing the live music on the day.
Thanks to everyone who has come to the folk club this year. Special thanks to the musicians who have signed up to perform floor spots. We had a pretty good first year, so I guess this is going to be a thing. We’ve had lots of interest from performers and music lovers, it should be another great year.
Your $5 door charge has gone into a fund to make sure we can pay visiting musicians a decent amount for showing up and sharing their talents. Right now we’ve got about $500 in the bank, and I made a donation of $40 to the Whangateau Hall Committee Fund to buy an electric kettle and emergency water storage containers. This will make sense to anyone who was at the November folk club meeting! Still not sure what happened there, but it is being looked into and sorted.*
Please have a look at the upcoming events, we’ve got some truly amazing musicians coming our way in 2016.
Have a happy, safe, and fun holiday, everyone! Enjoy the summer weather, go to the beach and play some music!
See you in 2016,
Jenine
*at the November meeting the water supply filled with clay silt, and then disappeared entirely, leaving us with muddy cups of tea, and then no way to wash up. Gotta love country life! (And we do!)