Sunday 26 April, 8pmToi Poneke67 Abel Smith St
Mike HardingMike grew up in and around Eketahuna in the 1950's and 1960's. In the 1970's University and High School teaching competed with the guitar and the urge to travel. A musical apprenticeship in the streets, markets and clubs of Auckland in the early 1980's was followed by his "Time on the Road" decade, taking his all- Kiwi, solo acoustic shows to all corners of New Zealand and partts of Australia and Britain. Seeing home from over the seas strengthened a sense of identity and inspired the search for songs that tell our own stories. His need to know more about the songs he was singing and recording led to the 1992 publi- cation of "When the Pakeha Sings of Home", Mike's source guide to the folk and popular songs of New Zea-
land. Mike's tenth recording "Past to the Present", is drawn from some of his
homegrown repertoire recorded and broadcast to New Zealand by National Radio in the 1990's.
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Read more... [April Concert: Mike Harding]
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Sunday 22 March, 8pmToi Poneke67 Abel Smith St
Laura Collins with George Barris and Matthew Newman.Originals and alt-country favourites from the back-porch are what you can expect from Laura Collins, accompanied by George Barris on upright bass and Matthew Newman on acoustic guitar. Influenced by the likes of Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch, whose songs will no doubt make an appearance, Laura’s music has traveled a pathway through folk, jazz, rock, blues, finally landing on the back-porch feel of alternative country, however all these genres play into the mix. Most of all she likes to find the heart of the song and sing it. |  |
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Read more... [March Concert: Laura Collins]
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Sunday 22 February, 8pmToi Poneke67 Abel Smith StPat Higgins is an Irish musician living in Wellington, a Galwayman who moved to New Zealand last century. More recently his performances have centred on traditional, country, blues and his own original songs on steel string guitar. Primarily a finger-style guitarist with an emotional, lyrical delivery, Pat has taken traditional songs from Ireland, its neighbours and elsewhere to re-work them in non-standard “open” tunings (DADGAD/DGDGBD and DADF#AD…). |
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Read more... [February Concert: Mary Hubble and Pat Higgins]
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Instead you can go to the Wellington Folk Festival for Labour Weekend. Tim Van Eyken (England) Pat Higgins (Wellington Irish) Forbidden Joe (Auckland) Mount Misery (Wellington) Jugularity (Australia) For more information see the website |
Friday 12 December 2008, 7.30pmThe Back RoomWellington Arts Centre61 Abel Smith StBring a plate and a bottle, and all the instruments you can carry, or at least the ones you mean to play!
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