Sunday 28 November, 7.30pm
Change of Venue:
Blarney Room, Molly Malones (upstairs) - cnr. Taranaki Street and Courtenay Place.
$15 /$10 members
| Rachel Dawick is a singer-songwriter, originally from New Zealand and now based in the UK. She has spent the past nine years playing at festivals and clubs here and in the UK, initially as part of an all-female blues-celtic trio "Ruby Blue" and more recently as a solo performer.
Rachel has released two solo albums: Journeys in 2008, and Ed's Bar and Grill, released at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year. Her third album, Picking at the Bones, is due out here in February next year. Her voice has been described as combining "the grit of Mary Gauthier, the lilt of Joan Baez and the depth of Natalie Merchant".
Rachel's international reputation as a songwriter has been enhanced lately with the release of two collaborative songs: "Somewhere to Jump" (Aberfeldy), released in August and "Peeling Apples" (Athena Andreadis), which EMI released in September in Greece and the UK. Following her New Zealand visit, she will tour Europe and the United States in Spring and Autumn next year.
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OPENING ACT - PAT HIGGINS AND THE NEXT BAND
Pat Higgins is an Irish musician living in Wellington. A Galwayman who moved to New Zealand last century, he plays acoustic and traditional songs accompanied on steel string guitar.
Performers he has been inspired by include David Rawlings, Gillian Welch, Joni Mitchell, Paul Brady, Martin Carthy, John Sutherland, Niamh Parsons and Dolores Keane. More recently Pat has mined his own life experience and started song-writing, and this original material is now the majority of his live performances.
Recent performance highlights include opening the Auckland Festival invitation concert (January 2008), singing live on SKY TV and to 30,000 people at Westpac Stadium, Wellington (June 2008) and the National Celtic Folk Festival in Portarlington Australia (June 2010). Pat has also been a guest at Whare Flat (Dunedin NZ) and Wellington folk festivals, and recently completed a self-produced CD of traditional and original material to support his live performances.
Wellington-based The Next Band are Derek Burfield on bass, Nick Burfield on guitar, and Mike Maguire on ukulele and banjo. Their lively blues are fun to watch and sure get yer toes tapping! This will be their last performance together before Mike heads off for six months overseas.
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