New Lynn Library, Saturday 3rd May, 10am – 4pm
and
Titirangi Library, Saturday 10th May 10am – 4pm
Drop in and out or stay for the whole day – we’ve got a jam-packed line-up of performances from the amazing members of the Titirangi Folk Music Club!
Bring your friends and enjoy a day of great music and good vibes:
Here’s the programme:-
10:00am Friday Folk
Featuring performances from a mix of musicians from the Club’s ‘Friday Folk,’ a session held each 4th Friday of the month, where various musicians gather to share, perform, play individually or together, in an informal way, giving people an opportunity to gain confidence and collaborate with new and different artistes.
11:00am Forgotten But Not Dead
Once heard, these guys are hard to forget, with Lew Black’s powerful voice, Andrew Gough’s intricate guitar work and John McKeown’s smooth harmonica playing, together with their combined harmonies. All three have a long involvement in the local folk music scene. Lew is well known for guesting at the Auckland and Hamilton Folk Festivals and for performing, internationally and locally, with the Maritime Shanty Crew, and with Andrew in ‘Brouhaha’ and ‘High Wide & Handsome.’ They’ll entertain you with eclectic songs and some humour in the mix.
11:30am Anglo
Anglo is Madeline Beasley and Bill Morrison, talented singers who have been long-time performers in the folk scene in various groups or solo. Anglo will present songs from England and America, or whatever takes their fancy. When they perform, you will hear close harmonies either a capella or backed with a variety of instruments including guitar and banjo.
12:00 Beverley Young
Beverley Young is one of the brightest stars in the New Zealand folk firmament, with a vocal talent that enables her to perform in a variety of folk genres. But her heritage is English – her father emigrated from Durham – and it is the folksong traditions of the British Isles that are her first love and that remain at the core of her extensive repertoire. Beverley has won acclaim at concerts and festivals throughout New Zealand and in Australia and the UK for her singing, and her recordings have had equal success – her first won the New Zealand Folk Album of the Year award, and two subsequent albums were finalists.
12:30pm Al Young
Al Young is an elder statesman of New Zealand blues and folk. He’s played every major folk festival in the country – and some in Australia – he’s been a featured artist on the annual “Beale Street Mess Around” in Memphis, Tennessee, three times, and he’s won the NZ Folk Album of the Year Award. As well, he’s an international authority on blues and gospel music, with two books and many articles and CD liner notes to his credit. But above all, he’s a great blues guitar picker, known for his mastery of slide-style guitar, a powerful singer… and a dynamic, entertaining performer.
1:00pm The Three Voices
The Three Voices are Hannah Pronk (18), Shannon McClennan (17) and Charlotte McClennan (15) who enjoy singing a mix of folk, theatre and country music. Individually, they have achieved significant roles in various musical productions by the Glen Eden Playhouse Theatre. The McClennan sisters have grown-up being involved in folk music with their musical families; both sisters have won the coveted Martin Blackman Junior Awards at the Auckland Folk Festival and run children’s concerts at both Auckland and Hamilton Folk Festivals. They’ve chosen a range of folk music and musical theatre songs for you because they like them. Come along and support our young musicians. We’re sure you’ll enjoy the show.
1:30pm Celtic Ferret
Celtic Ferret’s performances are lively celebrations of Jean Reid & Ian Bartlett’s rich heritage of traditional music, thoughtfully arranged, sprinkled with humour, with plenty of opportunity for audience involvement. As quality exponents of British Traditional folk music, Celtic Ferret is one of the very few duos in New Zealand keeping this genre alive. They have performed on the main stages of many NZ folk festivals and are regulars on the folk club circuit. Their repertoire includes tunes, ballads, cautionary tales, stories of rogues and vagabonds and original material. They intersperse their sets with New Zealand traditional songs and a few of their own originals performed on any one of flute, guitar, whistles, smallpipes, mandolin and a couple of bodhrans, singing in harmonies from downright raw to eerily haunting.
2:00pm Pomahaka Tyne
Pomahaka-Tyne are a folk duo who perform traditional and contemporary songs and tunes from North-East England, Scotland, Ireland, America and beyond. Janet Thomson sings and plays guitar, alongside Helen Douglas who plays the Northumbrian Small Pipes and a variety of whistles. They are named ‘Pomahaka Tyne’, after their home-town rivers.
2:30pm Paul Brown
Paul (Bolshie) Brown has been agitating the Auckland folk scene for the past 15 years since his arrival in Aotearoa. Hailing from Dundee in Scotland, Paul has a vast store of Scottish urban working-class songs which he sings with great gusto at the slightest opportunity. Paul sings with his audience, not to them, so singing choruses is compulsory! Let’s use the power of song to change the system and celebrate the working class!
3:00pm Warren & Fi
Warren Payne, a multi-instrumentalist, and regular performer on the Auckland music scene for several decades, is well known for running Celtic pub sessions, Folk Festival singalongs, numerous Folk Club and Aged Care appearances, long-time membership of The Maritime Crew, and several Celtic bands playing pubs, weddings etc.
Partner Fi Sadiq presents an eclectic selection of lovely songs, as well as bringing sweet harmonies, percussion, banjo, guitar, autoharp, harmonica and ukelele into the instrumental mix as required.
Together, they form a charming, fun-loving duet that entertains with grace and good humour.
3:30pm Paul & Jennifer
Paul and Jennifer Howarth sing without the aid or hindrance of instrumental accompaniment. Their songs mainly come from the industrial north of England, many via the folk revival of the 1960s, but at least one dates back as far as the 1560s. Songs of work and of hard times when there is no work, dramatic songs, humorous songs, songs of love, songs of war, songs of grief and loss, songs of joy and celebration.