KLM Acoustic Sessions
1st Wednesday of each month An acoustic evening, low key, where there's a chance to try out your newly acquired skills in public, and watch and have mentoring from those more experienced.
Gold coin koha
At DOG & DUCK Jazz Bar, Lindale
Open Mic Evening
Run by Danilo Blaza
(Sponsored by: Café Finn, Kingdom Music and Pure Bread)
On the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month
Great opportunity to practice performance with a real audience and a friendly social setting at the Café, Finn.
2 Beach Rd, Paekakariki
Ring Danilo for information -
0212761277(changed so should be valid now), or just turn up and discover
Kapiti Live Music Evening
3rd Wednesday of each month
When you're ready to perform,
do a song or two with a receptive audience and great sound set-up
at a club evening black-board session.
$5 entry
Venue: Dog & Duck Jazz Bar , next on Wednesday, Feb 15th
Fiona Smythe, Simon Burgess and Richard Prowse
Folk / Jazz / Tango
Tandrom Trio is a hot line-up of three local muzos –Fiona Smythe (violin), Simon Burgess (guitar, vocals), and Richard Prowse (double bass). Colourful and fun, Tandrom Trio performs contemporary arrangements of traditional gypsy jazz and European pieces, with a few eclectic surprises thrown into the mix as well.
The Tandrom Trio musicians have backgrounds in jazz, composition, classical and folk, and have travelled and performed all over the world in other musical combinations. They bring a fresh, lively interpretation to European music traditions - hot rhythmic grooves, jazz swing, gypsy passion, Eastern European melodies – it’s music that travels the listener from Romanian villages to Parisian cafés. Dynamic and passionate, this group will have every part of you dancing with abandon!
NICK CHARLES, In a long and critically acclaimed career, Nick Charles has released a dozen albums on the major Australian and US roots music and guitar labels.
Averaging nearly 150 shows a year in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, his music encompasses an eclectic mix of acoustic roots including blues, folk and early ragtime jazz. With his trademark dazzling fingerpicking on 6 and 12 string guitars, stinging slide and a lifetime’s stories and songs from the musical highway it’s a show that sees him labelled by The Age as “Australia’s virtuoso of acoustic roots and blues” and by Australian Guitar magazine as “an awesome talent!” Visit www.charlesguitar.com
Bookings: accepted before the day - by email to bluegrass@paradise.net.nz or phone (04)477-0069
Doors open: 7:20pm - for those who have booked
Door sales: from 7:50pm
Sandpaper Tango were formed in 2011 around a cosy fireplace on a cold winter night in Devonport. They feature Cy Winstanley on guitar and vocals, Catherine (BB) Bowness on banjo and Vanessa McGowan on double bass and vocals. With tight harmonies and grooves more stompin’ than a clog-dancing contest, Sandpaper Tango are one new bluegrass band to keep an eye out for.
Fri 10th Feb
Christine White
Poplar Avenue, Raumati South
$10
7:30pm
Christine White writes unforgettable songs. If you hear them once, you’re bound to walk away humming them. Her live performance has to be seen to be believed. She has the energy of a rock band and the sensitivity of a poet. Check her out www.christinewhite.co.nz
13th 14th 15th APRIL 2012
"COUNTRY MUSIC HOEDOWN"
"COUNTRY MUSIC HOEDOWN"
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"HUKARERE"
13th 14th 15th APRIL 2012
Venue...Hukarere Girls College
Shaw Road off SH5 (Napier/Taupo Highway)
Situated in the Beautiful Esk Valley 10km North of Napier
"Hosted by Kidnappers Country Music Group"
"SUPPORTING NZ COUNTRY MUSIC TALENT"
"THIS IS A NON SMOKING VENUE"
"DOGS ON A LEASH AT ALL TIMES PLEASE"
This Event is the weekend after Easter and in the middle of First Term School Holidays so if you are travelling with or without children head to sunny Hawke,s Bay and enjoy a fun filled weekend of "Awesome Country Music"
Weekend Charges Day Charges
Family $30:00 Family $18:00
Adults $15:00 Adults $10:00
Children $ 5:00 Children $ 3:00
Park up fee of $5:00 a night per site
"24 Hour Security on site"
For the last twenty-five years, Jez Lowe has toured the world, building up a formidable reputation, and gaining the respect of his peers and his audience alike. Folk supremo Richard Thompson called him "the best songwriter to emerge from the UK in a long time". His 15th album - "Northern Echos" - is just out, and the BBC's "Radio Ballads" - to which he contributed twenty-odd songs last year- won a Sony Radio Academy Award.
This year he is touring with fiddler, songwriter and singer Kate Bramley who is fast earning her own reputation on the UK folk scene following her debut solo CD "Little Canaan". Through her collaborations with US based band Sweetgrass as well as Jez Lowe's Bad Pennies she has created an original repertoire of traditional and original songs and tunes that have made her one of the most sought after young performers on the UK scene.
First Wednesday of the months Feb to Nov inclusive
KLMC acoustic evening
Dog & Duck
Lindale
A chance to play in a group of musicians for practise and for feedback etc. in a low key, non-amplified setting amongst a variety of musicians for fun and feedback if required.
2nd & 4th Wednesday of each Month
Danillo's Open Mic Night
Finns Café Paekakariki
Free entry
7:30pm
to
10pm
If you sing and/or play an instrument, you are welcome to come and play, or you can sit back and listen.
When you buy a drink and write your name on the list on the couter, then later on the evening a name will be drawn for a nice bottle of wine.
1st Sunday of each month
SOMETIMES!
Songwriters' Sessions
Poplar Avenue, Raumati South
Lembas
Koha
4pm - 6
Lembas Café in association
with
house music presents an afternoon of fresh, acoustic music in an ambient setting.
Starts with open mic for local songwriters then a special guest.
Mojo is a small coffee bar – with a licence so you can buy a great range of café snacks, good coffee, and some rather smart boutique beers and wines to accompany great, real music.
Every Friday
Traffic Bar, Otaki (Railway Station car park)
Our point of difference to other music venues is @ traffic. we don't charge a door charge and would like to keep it that way for our Friday night events.
We pass around a bucket, asking people if the have enjoyed the music to contribute to the cost but as you can imagine this varies greatly.
Free Entry
7:30
We have regular live music every Friday from 7.30pm, ranging from soloists through to 4-5 piece groups.
The musicians booked appreciate that their audience is varied - some a solely there for the music, others to unwind at the end of the week, others to dine, (and the music is a bonus).
3rd Sat of month
St. Michael's Church Hall in Kelburn, Wellington
$10 for adults, $5 for children or unwaged adults or $25 for a family
starts at 7:30pm pot luck supper half way through finish by 11pm. Come anytime after 6pm
No partner required, all dances are taught and the emphasis is on fun, exercise and socialising.
monthly, usually (but not always) on the 3rd Sunday of the month
at the Chicago Sports Café situated at the Wellington Waterfront.
Admission
$15.00
Students
$7.50
Members
$12.00
Student members
$ 6
Our format is a sing around where everybody is invited in turn to do something to contribute to the evening. we then have tea/ coffee and scones and then if we have a guest artist booked, they do their thing. The club is very participatory and intimate and a night with 20 people is reasonably normal.
3rd Friday of every month
WBS Society nights
Wellington Bluegrass Society, 54 Richmond Street, Petone - adjacent to the Petone Community Library
$10/$5 children
8:30pm
The WBS meets in a superb acoustic venue, which
is adjacent to the Petone Community Library, 54 Richmond Street, Petone. There is plenty of free parking adjacent to the building.
NOTE: meetings start at 8:30pm, except concerts,
which start at 8:00pm. Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided free at all meetings. A licensed bar is provided for your convenience, including a quality
range of non alcoholic drinks.
Full details can be found in the WBS Email News
Send an
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WBS black-board
$5
8:30pm
First Sunday of each month
Otaki Live Music Club
Senior Citizens Hall,
Rangatira Street , Otaki
$2
7pm
Blackboard concert for all music genre, new performers and music lovers welcome
Contact:
Cavan Haines
Ph.
06 3648991
email:
2nd Tuesday every month, Feb - Dec.
Mayfair Café
116 Main St.
Upper Hutt
$10 entry
7.30 pm - 10.30 pm
Initial contact can be made with Kevin & Susan Meehan on 04 970 4008
1st Friday of each month
Acoustic Routes at Mojo's
if you want to perform, just turn up and give your name to the compere to get a slot.
The address is: Mojo Invincible, 161 Willis St, Wellington.
Koha
Sing one or even two songs if you wish (10 minutes max per act) to a friendly listening group of like-minded people. It's a great way to try out your latest number without having to prepare for a full performance set. Entry is free (koha accepted).
Fourth Sunday of each month
Acoustic Routes at Meow
7:30 pm at Meow, Edward Street, Wellington
Preceded by an 'Americana Jam' session from 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Every
Thursday Night
Mad
Genius Singer Songwriter Night
Bluenote
Bar Cuba St
Wellington
Free
from
8.30 pm till late
A
great place to share your original music and chill with other song
writers with Tyree Robertson.
This
regular night showcases Wellington's fine Roots and Blues musicians.
A great night of blues & boogie!
1st Sunday of each month
The TWO MAN BAND + drummer
Monteiths in Paremata on the 1st Sunday of every month 7-9pm,
no cover
7-9pm
Kevin Clark & Chris Schnack Piano, trumpet, double bass, tuba, trombone, vocals, and depending on the phase of the moon, swanee whistle, harmonica, ukulele, spoons. MUSIC WITH A DIFFERENCE Ragtime, Oldtime, Goodtime, Alltime, Anytime, New Orleans, jazz, Swing, and depending on the phase of the moon, some heavy metal from Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. --you hum it, we'll play it.
contact
First
Sunday
Sunday
Jazz (see above)
Waterfront
Raumati Beach
Free
4
to 6 pm
The
perfect way to wind up the weekend. Smooth jazz and a sunset that
fills the sky. Watch the roadside blackboard for acts.
Last Sunday of the month
Jazz Scene
Kapiti Club
McLean Street
Paraparaumu Beach
2 to 5 pm
Come along and enjoy local jazz enthusiasts serve up some of the hottest local Jazz on offer.
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