Mark your Calendars

Mark your Calendars

…with these dates, so you don’t miss these coming events.

Friday July 25th 2025 – Acoustic night

A chance for anyone to share their performance with a small and supportive group. Come along with a song to share with others, or sing alone – your choice.
Doors open at 7:30 pm.

Friday August 8th 2025 – Luthiers’ Corner

Peter Madill and Jack MacKenzie, two musicians from different worlds but with heaps in common.
Doors open at 7:00 pm with start at 7:30 pm. A light supper is included in the Door Entry charge.

Friday August 22nd 2025 – LFMC AGM

Come along to have your say on the Committee for the 2025/2026 year. You will also get to ratify the revised constitution so the Club can continue operating as an incorporated society.
Doors open at 7:30 pm.

Friday September 12th 2025 – Local Star’s Night

A concert featuring our local Stars “One Earth Singers” led by Radha Sahar, followed by a set from Robyn Lynn.
Doors open at 7:00 pm with start at 7:30 pm. A light supper is included in the Door Entry charge.

Friday September 26th 2025 – Club Night

A chance for anyone to share their performance with a small and supportive group. Come along with a song to share with others, or sing alone – your choice.
Doors open at 7:30 pm.

 

22 August 2025 – AGM and revised constitution for ratification

22 August 2025 – AGM and revised constitution for ratification

The Levin Folk Music Club will hold its Annual General Meeting on Friday 22 August 2025.

A major item on the agenda this year will be the draft revised constitution, which will need to be ratified by all members at the AGM.

This has been looming over us for a few years and our AGM this year will be the final date possible for it to be approved.

In reality there is not a lot that is different from the current constitution which was passed back in 2012. A few items have a little more detail about the committee, and the major addition, (which is a compulsory part to keep the Incorporated Societies Act happy), is a section on Disputes Procedures.

You can access the final draft of the revised Constitution for ratification here.

The AGM is also the time we look forward to any suggestions for changes that you would like to see happen in the club. If you wish to actually see some changes happening, you will need to put your thoughts in the form of a motion. These motions must be received by the club at least two weeks prior to the AGM. They will be sent out to all paid up members prior to the AGM so that discussion can take place and a vote can be made at the meeting.

As mentioned previously our Club’s committee is only just meeting the required number for our existence. At least one current committee member is resigning at the AGM so our Club must have new people willing to join the committee. We are all ageing and need to pass the roles on at some time ….! Please do consider whether you are able to help the Club in some small way.


Levin Folk Music Club 2025 AGM, 7:00 pm Friday August 22nd at the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, 155 Bartholomew Road, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin.

 

8 August 2025 – Luthiers’ Corner (Peter Madill and Jack MacKenzie)

8 August 2025 – Luthiers’ Corner (Peter Madill and Jack MacKenzie)

 

The Levin Folk Music Club meets again Friday 8 August with special guest Luthiers’ Corner.

It was the early ’70’s and two young men more than ten thousand kilometres apart were being influenced by the folk music and its musical instruments that became so popular at the time. Both Peter Madill and Jack MacKenzie became very involved in the music and the construction and repair of the instruments that were used.

As it turns out, their respective universes were not only parallel but converging. Cut to 2019 at the Wellington Folk Festival, both Peter Madill and Jack MacKenzie committed to displaying their luthiery work. Both luthiers were taking part in the festival as performers, Peter with the Madillionaires and Jack with the Downunderdogs. It was at this event that Peter and Jack first met.

It was there that both men became aware of the others music, and the potential that existed between them. After this, a relationship between them developed through the guitar building. As a mutual agreement, they decided to try a short stage performance at the 2023 Mid-Winter Holler, which took place in late February this year. The music was well received.

Four gigs later things are developing nicely, with the occasional appearance of pedal steel guitar and claw-hammer banjo adding to the core element of two guitar arrangements. The repertoire is ever growing with unique arrangements for songs from artists like Guy Clark, John Prine, Woody Guthrie and Norman Blake (to name a few).

No telling where things might go from here.


Come and find out for yourself at: Levin Folk Music Club, Friday August 8th at the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, 155 Bartholomew Road, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the evening begins at 7:30 pm with a blackboard of performers, where there is an opportunity for musicians to put their name up for an item. The guests perform after supper and the drawing of the raffle.

Admission, which includes a light supper, is $10 for members, $15 for non-members and $3 for students. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).


Luthiers’ Corner – Peter Madill and Jack MacKenzie.
Image source: Luthiers’ Corner

 

11 July 2025 – Skinny Dennis

11 July 2025 – Skinny Dennis

 

The Levin Folk Music Club meets again Friday 11 July with special guest Skinny Dennis.

Eric Daubé and Glenn Barclay have been playing and singing together for many years and their most recent incarnation is as ‘Skinny Dennis’ – a duo that takes its name from a real-life character in Guy Clark’s ‘LA Freeway’.

That song has played an important part in Eric and Glenn’s repertoire for a long time, whether performing as a duo or as part of the Mad Dog Margaritas (a group that also took its name from a Guy Clark song). While these band names hint at an Americana sound these days they travel a slightly broader musical path, playing a mix of traditional/old and contemporary tunes, comprised of covers and originals.

Eric’s wonderful singing is complemented by Glenn’s guitar and occasional mandolin – a combination honed over years of playing together and one we hope you will enjoy.


Come and find out for yourself at: Levin Folk Music Club, Friday May 9th at the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, 155 Bartholomew Road, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the evening begins at 7:30 pm with a blackboard of performers, where there is an opportunity for musicians to put their name up for an item. The guests perform after supper and the drawing of the raffle.

Admission, which includes a light supper, is $10 for members, $15 for non-members and $3 for students. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).


Skinny Dennis – Eric Daubé and Glenn Barclay.
Image source: Skinny Dennis

 

13 June 2025 – Carylann Martin and Steve Poulton

13 June 2025 – Carylann Martin and Steve Poulton

The Levin Folk Music Club meets again Friday 13 June with special guests Carylann Martin and Steve Poulton.

Carylann is a multi-talented musician and song writer who has wowed audiences at many festivals and events throughout New Zealand.

Well known for her powerful lead vocals and skill playing keys and ‘squeeze box’, Carylann has worked successfully in the professional music industry most of her life, playing a huge variety of gigs and featuring live several times on National Radio and Maori television.

She has been a recipient of 2 Gold Guitar Awards and, in 2021, finalist in the NZ Country Music MLT Songwriting Awards. 5 album releases are also under her belt, all reflecting her country heart and ability to connect powerfully to the audience through song.

Carylann says –

“I’m delighted to have my friend Steve Poulton join me for our guest appearance at the Levin Folk Club & can’t wait to see what we can cook up together!”

Steve is a lifelong musician (and sound/recording engineer) with skills playing many instruments but especially guitars!

He’s been a touring artist since age 16, in NZ, Australia, Europe, Canada and the USA – where he lived for nearly 20 years. This influence is stained in his sound. Highly versatile in style, switching from acoustic finger style guitar, to open tuned dobro, to banjo and electric guitar.

Steve’s rich resonant vocals and blazing guitar performances enthral and captivate music lovers and guitar fans alike.


Come and find out for yourself at: Levin Folk Music Club, Friday June 13th at the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, 155 Bartholomew Road, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the evening begins at 7:30 pm with a blackboard of performers, where there is an opportunity for musicians to put their name up for an item. The guests perform after supper and the drawing of the raffle.

Admission, which includes a light supper, is $10 for members, $15 for non-members and $3 for students. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).


Carylann Martin and Steve Poulton
Image source: Carylann Martin

 

9 May 2025 – Burgin, Kerr and Norman

9 May 2025 – Burgin, Kerr and Norman

 

The Levin Folk Music Club meets again Friday 9 May with special guests Burgin, Kerr and Norman.

Irishman Andrew Kerr (ex. Jacky Tar) and Alan Norman (The Warratahs, The Rag Poets) are now a trio with Paddy Burgin (The Wooden Box Band, The Zimmermans), and his magical guitars.

Paddy, a world-renowned luthier, was a member of The Scarborough Connection, who featured on Andrew and Alan’s critically acclaimed 2023 release ‘For the Record.’

Describing their combination as “a swampy melting pot of country, folk, americana and blues”, they combine a mutual love of story-telling and rhythmic grooves with narratives about the human experience.

They perform predominantly original material, with contributions from each member, calling on a wide range of instrumentation including piano, acoustic and Weissenborn guitars, accordion, bodhran, and percussion.


Come and find out for yourself at: Levin Folk Music Club, Friday May 9th at the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, 155 Bartholomew Road, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the evening begins at 7:30 pm with a blackboard of performers, where there is an opportunity for musicians to put their name up for an item. The guests perform after supper and the drawing of the raffle.

Admission, which includes a light supper, is $10 for members, $15 for non-members and $3 for students. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).


Burgin, Kerr and Norman – Paddy Burgin, Andrew Kerr, Alan Norman.
Image source: https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/burgin-kerr-norman2/wellington

 

11 April 2025 – Haewai Collective

11 April 2025 – Haewai Collective

 

The Levin Folk Music Club meets again Friday 11 April with special guests Haewai Collective.

Janine Mitchell (guitar & vocals) is joined by Kevin Ikin (mandolin and harmonica), Jack Binding (lead guitar) and Pete Lamb (percussion), who all enjoy presenting heart felt, and sometimes upbeat, contemporary folk from the likes of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, and more.

The group also play some of Janine’s originals, which are written about environment and social issues that are close to her heart and inspired by 60’s 70’s folk singers.

The concert will also include some of Kevin’s original songs, which often take a light hearted look at current social issues.


Come and find out for yourself at: Levin Folk Music Club, Friday April 11th at the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, 155 Bartholomew Road, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the evening begins at 7:30 pm with a blackboard of performers, where there is an opportunity for musicians to put their name up for an item. The guests perform after supper and the drawing of the raffle.

Admission, which includes a light supper, is $10 for members, $15 for non-members and $3 for students. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).


Haewai Collective – Jack, Pete, Janine, and Kevin.
Image source: Haewai Collective

 

14 March 2025 – Legal Tender

14 March 2025 – Legal Tender

 

The Levin Folk Music Club meets again Friday 14 March with special guests Legal Tender.

The ‘Legal Tender’ duo of Ian Campbell and Moira Campbell have been performing an eclectic mix of rural/folk originals and covers around New Zealand for years.

Frequent collaborators with Wayne Mason, Andrew London trio, various members of the Hamilton County Bluegrass Band and other well-known kiwi musicians they have featured at numerous country/folk festivals and concerts. With their blend of alternative rural/folk down-home original songs and alt/covers they have entertained audiences from the Bay of Islands to the Deep South.

Sensitive guitar/bass arrangements of songs by various artists including Guy Clark, Lori McKenna, Gillian Welsh, and Alison Krauss and their own originals are rendered with earthy integrity and powerful vocal harmonies.

For more info go to www.muddybootsrecords.com.


Come and find out for yourself at: Levin Folk Music Club, Friday March 14th at the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, 155 Bartholomew Road, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the evening begins at 7:30 pm with a blackboard of performers, where there is an opportunity for musicians to put their name up for an item. The guests perform after supper and the drawing of the raffle.

Admission, which includes a light supper, is $10 for members, $15 for non-members and $3 for students. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).


Legal Tender – Moira and Ian Campbell.
Image source: Ian Campbell

 

14 February 2025 – Dean Murray, with guest Steve Poulton

14 February 2025 – Dean Murray, with guest Steve Poulton

The Levin Folk Music Club’s first concert for 2025 will be held on Friday 14 February with special guest Dean Murray, supported by Steve Poulton.

Dean Murray Singer songwriter, builder, environmentalist, gardener, fisherman, beekeeper, lead lighter, luthier, jack of all trades, husband, father and grandfather.

Living in the Horowhenua in a rammed earth house on a small block of land, growing veggies, fruit, eggs, meat and fishing in the summer. Often found in the shed making stuff, innovating, out planting the wetland, writing songs.

With music on his mother’s side and politics on his Dad’s you will hear songs from conversations and observations about places, people, politics and the planet. With a large collection of tunes written over 20 plus years and a bunch of stories to go with them delivered with sincerity. Home-made songs on hand made guitars in various genre from country through folk to reggae occasionally with harmonica on the side.


Come and find out for yourself at: Levin Folk Music Club, Friday February 14th at the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, 155 Bartholomew Road, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the evening begins at 7:30 pm with a blackboard of performers, where there is an opportunity for musicians to put their name up for an item. The guests perform after supper and the drawing of the raffle.

Admission, which includes a light supper, is $10 for members, $15 for non-members and $5 for students. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).


Dean Murray.
Image source: Dean Murray

 

13 December 2024 – The Madillionairs

13 December 2024 – The Madillionairs

The Levin Folk Music Club meets on Friday 13 December for our last concert of the year – with special guests The Madillionairs.

The Madillionaires are Peter Madill, Jude Madill and Joseph Coleman, three generations of the same family, plus Jenny Kilpatrick, original Madillionaires’ band member and kazoo soloist extraordinaire. Combining dynamic and diverse musical styles with strong vocal harmonies they perform original songs as well as a wide range of music from elsewhere.
As well as having four vocalists, The Madillionaires play the guitars, fiddle, accordion, banjo, octave mandolin, bass and attitude.
The Madillionaires will entertain you with songs of heroism and hardship, murder and survival, loves lost and won. You will be regaled with re-imagined ballads of yesteryear and hear tell of more recent times as well.
Disclosure statement: there may be traces of country; alt-country; folk in this music.

Peter Madill, renowned luthier and musician, has been playing and singing since the late 60s, starting in the Dunedin folk scene, then moving to Auckland in the 1970s. He has performed with a number of successful bands over the years including Gentle Annie and Late Harvest. He has been a member of The Madillionaires since the band began in around 2014, although being resident in the South Island for a time meant he couldn’t make it to every gig. Now living in Levin, Peter has once again joined the lineup on a more permanent basis.
Jude, the next generation Madill, plays and sings with great feel and an equal enthusiasm and love for music. Living in Wellington since 1990, she has played both solo and in groups around the local acoustic, folk and Americana scenes for several years now. Jude also writes her own material, most of which falls somewhere in the folk/alt-country box. A couple of her original songs will be presented in their set at the WBS.
Joseph Coleman, the most recent band member, is the third generation of ‘Madill’ and as such could not avoid joining the band. Still in his early teens, he hasn’t been playing and singing for long enough to be written about in length but already has a few gigs under his belt. As well as being an integral part of The Madillionaires with his intuitive backing on accordion and harmony singing, Joseph has played a few festival blackboard spots, The Interislander, and a gig in a bookshop with Jude (his Mum) as Madillionette.
Jenny Kilpatrick, an original Madillionaire and kazoo soloist, has stuck with the many and various band lineups over the years. She has been part of the folk music scene in New Zealand since going to festivals as a teenager. As a Madillionaire, Jenny adds her fabulous voice to the mix and keeps the band grounded on bass. She is also a member of duos The PJs and Portable Panic, singing and playing around the Wellington folk scene.


Doors open at 7:00 pm and the evening begins at 7:30 pm with a blackboard of performers, where there is an opportunity for musicians to put their name up for an item. The guests perform after supper and the drawing of the raffle.

Admission, which includes a light supper, is $7 for members, $12 for non-members and $3 for students. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).

The venue is the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, 155 Bartholomew Road, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin.

Come and enjoy a night of fun and music!


The Madillionairs – Jenny Kilpatrick, Joseph Coleman, Peter Madill, and Jude Madill.
Image source: Peter Madill

 

8 November 2024 – Helen Dorothy and Neil Billington

8 November 2024 – Helen Dorothy and Neil Billington

The Levin Folk Music Club meets again Friday November 8 with special guests Helen Dorothy and Neil Billington.

Helen Dorothy has performed at a variety of acoustic venues and folk/arts festivals. The legendary Paul Ubana Jones invited her to open for him on several occasions after seeing her perform a floor spot at the Levin Folk Music Club in 2016. For her upcoming concert, she teams up with Neil Billington, performing songs that celebrate life in the details of experience, both familiar and unexpected at the same time.

Neil is an acknowledged virtuoso on blues harp and chromatic harmonica. He has performed at jazz, blues, and folk festivals here and overseas. His extraordinary musicianship adds colour tone to Helen’s songs.

Two of Helen’s studio albums were favourably reviewed by UK’s Roots magazine. “Helen Dorothy writes beautifully-crafted, intelligent songs rich in memorable imagery” (Roots Magazine, January 2014).


Doors open at 7:00 pm and the evening begins at 7:30 pm with a blackboard of performers, where there is an opportunity for musicians to put their name up for an item. The guests perform after supper and the drawing of the raffle.

Admission, which includes a light supper, is $7 for members, $12 for non-members and $3 for students. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).

The venue is the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, 155 Bartholomew Road, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin.

Come and enjoy a night of fun and music!


Neil Billington and Helen Dorothy
Image source: Neil Billington

 

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