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August 2014 Newsletter
Newsletter August 2014
Levin Folk Club: Second Friday of every month at 7:30pm Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin
Entry $5 members/$8 non-members/$3 children.
CLUB NIGHT – Friday 8 August
Guest Artist: ROB JOASS with Kim Bonnington and Cameron Burnell.
Wellington singer songwriter Rob Joass – also in the band Hobnail and various other bands but this time is appearing solo and promoting a newly released solo album, ‘Black and
White’. Rob has earned praise for his songwriting throughout his career, and has had songs covered by bands in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Hobnail’s album ‘The Fortune
Horses’ was a finalist for Best Folk Album while Rob has twice been a finalist for Best Country Song at the NZ music awards.
Filling out some of Rob’s arrangements will be the wonderful Kim Bonnington on vocals and guitar, and Cameron ‘Dusty’ Burnell on vocals and mandolin.
2014 Club AGM
The Levin Folk Music Club AGM was held on Friday 25th July. There was a good turnout of attendees. The meeting was ably Chaired by Colin Brown.
The new Committee elected on the night is:
Chair: Chris Lloyd,
Dale Webb,
Andrew Salter,
Anne Campbell,
Jo Sheffield,
Denis Howell-Styles,
Kevin Watson.
We are pleased to have 3 new members helping to manage the club’s affairs.
The committee will appoint the other essential roles – Treasurer, Secretary and Booking Officer at the first Committee meeting.
The following reports were presented:
Combined Annual Report and Booking Officer’s Report presented by Anne Campbell. LFMC Annual Report
Sound Report presented by Andrew Salter. Sound Report
Treasurer’s Report presented by Dale Webb. Treasurer Report 2014 AGM
July Newsletter Published
Newsletter July 2014
Levin Folk Club: Second Friday of every month at 7:30pm Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin
Entry $5 members/$8 non-members/$3 children.
CLUB NIGHT – Friday 11th July.
This Friday, July 11th , we have as our guest artists the Celtic band The Jimmies – a long established band, polished and talented.
Members are: Mary Hubble – vocals, flute, whistles;
Kevin Ikin – vocals, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin, guitar and drums;
Ann McChesney – keyboards, vocals;
Murray Kilpatrick – guitar, banjo, accordian, vocals
Kevin McLoughlin- guitar, vocals
Susan Ellis- fiddle
Presenting Irish and Scottish songs – plus you are likely to hear a little bit of country, rock and roll standards from the 60s and 70s and Kiwi songs, old and new.
June Newsletter
OUR GUEST ARTIST on June 13th is Dave Murphy – a finger-style, blues picking guitar legend and one of New Zealand’s best interpreters of the blues. Dave plays in the style of Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson and a whole host of other blues legends.
Back in the late ’80s Dave spent time touring the US, meeting and playing with some of the great blues figures.
Over the years since, he has developed his own fingerpicking guitar style as good as any of those from whom he learnt his craft.
In 2008 Dave released a DVD/CD called ‘Yes that’s Me’ produced by Costa Botes and Carol Bean, to wide acclaim from both critics and peers.
Dave’s finger style guitar work continues to delight audiences wherever he plays. He is equally at home with the gentle blues of Mississippi John Hurt to the more driving blues of Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Johnson.
With over thirty years experience of playing, Dave has performed the length and breadth of NZ as well as in England, Europe, the USA and Australia. He has performed with Marg Layton, Darren Watson, Ted Clarke and international artists such as Champion Jack Dupree, Robert Lockwood Jnr, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Eugene Powell, James “Son” Thomas and Willie Foster.
Ravenmavens
Ravenmavens
AKA Marion Carter and Cindy Muggeridge a Wellington jazz/blues duo played at the Levin Folk Music Club on June 14.
These two fun-loving performers bring a sassy, sizzling, happy-go-lucky slant to living that will warm the coldest night with bright and breezy, jazzy songs that take you places and put a twinkle in your eye.
2013 AGM
2013 Annual General Meeting
The 2013 AGM for the Levin Folk Music Club is booked for Thursday 18th of July 2013.
Venue: Scottish Society Hall.
Start time 19.30 hrs (7.30 pm).
There will be a free annual subscription refund and a mystery prize draw for members attending the meeting.
A small supper will be provided. We intent to have a sing along after the meeting if time permits
1st Club Meeting for 2013
February 2013 meeting
Please note: The date of the first club meeting in the new year has changed!
The club night will now be held on Friday the 15th of February. This change is due to the availability of our guest artists THE PIPI PICKERS
Thanks to (c) Adrian de la Fuente Photography 2013, for the photo.
Levin Folk Music Club history
Levin Folk Music Club history….
It all began in 1989, with Shenanigans coffee bar in Levin. People would meet
and sing at Danny’s place on a Sunday night. When Shenanigans closed several
people got together to keep the music going. Eddie, Evie, Roy, Maree, Danny,
Jim and Rona. So the Levin Folk Music began as a club. Their first meeting
place was in the Levin Waiopehu Tramping Club rooms off Parker Avenue.
In February 1992, with the Club growing in popularity, it moved to the Jaycee
Lounge, above Leader and Watt in Oxford Street. For nearly ten years, every
month except January, the club hosted musicians from New Zealand and
overseas and provided an informal place where people could perform and enjoy
music.
In November 2001, the Club moved to the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall
in Bartholomew Road. Those involved for many years for setting up the hall,
organizing guest artists, welcoming at the door, refreshments, sound, newsletters
and publicity have been Eddie, Evie, Han, Rona, Jeremy, Anne, Andrew, Tony,
Shirley ,Charlie, John, Brian F, Brian McK , and numerous other supporters.
The Club has continued to grow with guest performers and local artists sharing
their interest and talents. A second night in the month for local performers
developed into an” acoustic night”.
In 2011, under the steering committee of Chris, Ian, Andrew, Anne, Han,
Barbara and Jill, with Colin in the Chair, the Levin Folk Music club became an
Incorporated Society.
Songs for the summer
Songs for the summer
Sung by Aivan Bonafe, Blogger and Creator of DateCoop.com
Aivan was a guest performer on the blackboard sessions at our Club meeting on March 10 2006.
The featured Guest Artists were “Tempest” made up of Pat Higgins, Celia Briar and others.
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.
Celia Briar is a Celtic harpist based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, where she is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Massey University. Briar is a former All-Ireland champion in traditional harp playing, and has toured internationally, performing at concerts in Britain, Sweden, and the Isle of Man.
