Monthly Archives: September 2014

October Club Night

October Club Night

Levin Folk Club Night for October

Come along on the Friday 10th and enjoy a great nights entertainment. Doors open a 7.00 p.m.

First half is an open blackboard – come and join in!

After a light supper enjoy a foot tapping and entertaining performance by My Pennyworth.

They are singer/songwriters who identify themselves with folk music, but entertain with so much more. There is a little bit of country, rock, pop and blues in their songs that tell stories about love, dreams, places, and their Celtic heritage.

My Pennyworth will enthral with a selection of instruments that includes guitar, keyboard, accordion, bodhran, penny whistle …and bagpipes! Audiences are soon tapping their toes while clapping along to a rocky beat, swaying to a waltz, and invariably singing along to some catchy choruses.

Read all about it in the latest newsletter.

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Friday Acoustic Night

Friday Acoustic Night

Friday Acoustic Night

Come along to the Acoustic Night meeting this Friday 26th September, 7.30pm at the Scottish Society Hall in Bartholomew Road, Levin.

Door charge of $2.00 to cover supper and hall. Come and enjoy the company and music.

Don’t forget, if you want to catch the ‘Early Bird’ prices for the Wellington Folk festival – cut-off date is 30 September.

Post image courtesy of The Record.

 

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That was a Party!

That was a Party!

A Great Party

Thanks to all those who attended the 25th Celebrations of the Levin Folk Music Club Inc party last night and who helped to make it such a special night.

The invited blackboard performers got the evening off to a good start with a selection of old and new songs. Many donations of finger food treats were added to the supper spread and the second half of the evening was a fantastic performance by Gumboot Tango from Taranaki.

The finale for the evening was a rousing jam session which was thoroughly enjoyable.

Our appreciation must also go to the volunteers who helped decorate the hall – Paul, Jean, Jeremy, Dale, Barbara (cakes and major decorations), cakeDenyse, Chris;

Anne, Andrew and Kevin for setting up the sound system.

Thanks also to all those who helped tidy up at the end of the evening and to Chris and Barbara who stayed to do the sweeping and final cleanup after everyone else had gone.

Jill, Denyse, Barbara and Chris returned on Saturday morning to clean and mop the floors and cart away all the rubbish.

Without volunteers to help no voluntary organisation can achieve much.

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Gig and Jam

Gig and Jam

Gig and Jam

Bent Horseshoe Cafe are going to have a folk afternoon on the 21st of September, starting at 2 oclock with a blackboard.

Hopefully 2 songs each.

Entry will be a gold coin.

There will be a shared tea about 5 or so and then followed by a jam or something for another hour or so.

For more  details Levin Local Events or Bent Horseshoe Cafe’s Facebook Page.

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Use the QR Code

Use the QR Code

QR Code for quick access.

Qr Codes (Quick Response codes) provide very quick access to websites, addresses and contact details and are especially useful when using mobile appliances like smartphones and tablets.

QR Codes are a type of bar-code that can easily be read with an appropriate scanner that uses a tablet or smartphone camera. They have been around for over 10 years, initially developed by Toyota to track car parts and they are in common use in all sorts of advertising – magazine advertisements, billboards, t-shirts etc.

The reason why they are more useful than a standard bar-code is that they can store (and digitally present) much more data, including url links, geo coordinates, and text. The other key feature of QR Codes is that instead of requiring a chunky hand-held scanner to scan them, many modern cell phones can scan them.

QR Droid is a very robust application for Android phones, free to use, very accurate and fast. Similarly, for IOS  (IPhones and Ipads) there is a great app called QR Reader. Both the Playstore and ITunes store have a large range of applications that are suitable.

If you wish to create your own QR Codes, you can do so here.

The above QR code is for the LFMC website.

 

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Join the Party

Join the Party

Come and join the Party

This Friday 12th September – come and help the Levin Folk Music club celebrate their 25th Anniversary.

Doors open shortly before 7.00 pm for a start time of 7.15 with a selected range of artists from the Club.

These artists, who will have 10 minute slots, cover the range of members from the Folk Club’s early days right up to the present. Unfortunately time is limited, so there will be NO individual blackboard places available on the night.

There will be a “Lakeflies” session at the end of the first half of the night’s entertainment as  well as  jam session at the end of the evening, for those who wish to stay (and play) on.

1st Half:

Silva Wood [Colin & Jill] Friends  [Ian, Kate, Charlie] Marty and Bernie
Kevin & Gill
Anne & Co  [Anne, Andrew, Kevin, Han] Golowan   [Han, Alaistair,Charlie, Andrew] Atrix   [Jeremy,  Rona, Paul] Lakeflies  [All musicians invited on stage]

Followed by supper.

2nd Half

Our special guests are Gumboot Tango from Taranaki.

Gumboot Tango

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Volunteer

Volunteer

Volunteer to help.

“Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.” – Carrie Chapman Catt.

We need your help on Club nights and Acoustic nights.

Volunteers to man the door on Club nights are an essential part of running the Levin Folk Music Club. The duties aren’t onerous and, if enough people volunteer to help, you won’t be called upon to do it very often.

We also need members to assist the committee at acoustic nights.

We will have clip boards available at the celebration Club night on 12th September – please add your name if you can help.

You could also contact Ian Todd using our contact form message to ‘Rosters’.

Image courtesy of  St Andrew’s

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