The FIRST WEDNESDAY of EVERY MONTH the Cross Creek Blues Club present some of the best musicians from the Wairarapa and Wellington in an evening of Blues and Blues related music. This is the premier event for musicians in the Wairarapa.
The CCBC meets at The Tin Hut Tauherenikau
Andrew Dubber (kiwi recently moved to UK) Online Music Consultant, Music Industries Lecturer, Producer, Author, Researcher, Broadcaster, Expert-for-hire, Public Speaker and Perpetual Tourist Website: New Music Strategies
Email: dubber@gmail.com
Mob: +44 787 016 0557
Skype: adubber
The Soul Minerz are a dynamic six piece band committed to musical excellence. Playing popular hits with a blues, soul and funk flavour, rest assured you are guaranteed an evening of great music and great dancing.
Website: http://soulminerz.googlepages.com
His live show is a whole bunch of fun for young and old alike, with a kick ass band or in an intimate solo setting, Darren Watson will impress and entertain you like nothing you've ever heard.
[Copied from Darren's web site and endorsed by one who has seen two of his shows and bought a CD]
Susan Colien-Reid is a rock inspired violinist and songwriter based in the Kapiti area of New zealand.
Band for hire
violin/fiddle lessons
nzmusician Magazine on-line with forums, gig-guide and archive hard-copy magazines viewable on-line
Kingdom Music, 101 Kapiti Road (entrance Milne Drive).
All your musical needs on the Kapiti Coast and a huge supporter of KLMC, with a 10% discount for members and more...
warmly appealing with eccentric edges....having the time of their lives getting a handle on bluegrass, country blues, jug band, pop-folk, vaudeville music, and jazz á là Quintette du Hot Club de France, then adding devilishly clever wordplay for an old-time music of their own that can provide the exhilaration of watching a trapeze artist toeing the wire a few hundred feet high .
- Downbeat Magazine USA
'Collins' new album [
One feather at a time
] focuses on the relationships between friends and lovers.and has echoes both lyrically and vocally of recent work by singer/songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter and Caitlin Cary. It is to Collins' credit then that in the main her songs and vocals are up to that standard. Emotive and intimate, 'One Feather at a Time' is a Kiwi slice of alt country (if there is such a thing) that deserves to find and audience amongst Americana listeners.'
" The first thing you notice about Paul Ubana Jones is how good he is" Sean Flattery Otago Daily Times
" . marvelous control and devastating rythms. one of the few solo acts people sit up and listen to, such is the force of the man's playing technique and stage presence"
Introducing New Zealand’s most extraordinary act, the Handsome Giants. Blending Blues with old school Rock’n’Roll, they create a remarkable music - matched only by their passionate stage presence.
EA
great email group for keeping up with what's going on - "Open
forum on any aspects of New Zealand's music scene, especially the
more mature styles such as popular song, kiwiana, country, folk,
roots, celtic, jazz, blues, rock, etc - current and historical -
as well as general discussion on anything of interest." - from
the introduction on their Yahoo Group homepage
