Kevin Mayes & Rosie Whinray met through a mutual love of unaccompanied folk singing. Kev’s background farming in Sussex shaped his repertoire & style, while Rosie was brought up in the Auckland folk scene.
Both now live nearer the head of the fish, in Shannon (Kev) & Wellington (Rosie). Strong solo singers in their own right, they also sing together in harmony. Songs of land & sea, love & war, beer & wine, politics, comedy, work, magic, & sheep: hearty history sung the traditional way.
Rosie’s Dad Paul Whinray was a folk singer back in the days of his youth, harmonising with Raynor Asher, & later a world-renowned maker of Baroque flutes & recorders out of his workshop in the Bethells bush. With luck Paul will get up & sing a few songs too!
Doors open 7.30PM for an 8.00PM start. Floorsingers First half. Admission Members $10.00, Non-Members $15.00, Under 18s Free.
We are here. At the bottom of Titirangi Beach Road, just beyond the car park.
We’re a totally informal, small friendly group of people who like to sing and play music. This is a good place for experienced musicians to meet up and enjoy playing together.
If you do not sing or play and would like to then here you’ll find encouragement. There is never any pressure and you may wish to visit a few times to get confidence or you may already be confident, it does not matter, no one will criticise, only support.
Doors open 7.30pm for a 7.30pm Start Admission $5
We are here. At the bottom of Titirangi Beach Road, just beyond the car park.
Tony Ricketts, vocals/guitar/songwriter are PORTABLE PANIC,
the PLUS is Jude Douglas, violin/vocals.
Jenny and Tony have been playing music together off and on for decades, stealing the name Portable Panic from their company.
Teenage Jenny was introduced to the Wellington folk scene by her big brother, and was known for singing British Trad. She and Tony were fixtures on the Auckland folk scene in the nineties and noughties (Easy St, Tattie Jock etc). In 2012 they moved to Wellington, where Jenny’s been busy playing bass and singing with The Madillionaires, The Eagals and The PJs, among others, while Tony went quiet for a while. Last year they decided to revive him to give his songs old and new an airing.
Tony was an Auckland singer-songwriter with a penchant for old pop songs. He wrote ‘King of the Roses’ and co-wrote with John Philip ‘Harvest Fields of Cromer’ for the TFMC 20th anniversary songwriting competition. His first group was Easy St. with Chris Price and Kerrin Worsfold before Chris moved to Wellington. Early this century he was part of a Celtic band called Tattie Jock. There have been three albums of his songs.
Jude has played or recorded with a range of musicians including Mike Harding, Cath Woodman, Wayne Gillespie, Chris Priestley, The Overdogs and Damian Wilkins, as well as making a CD of fiddle tunes, including several she composed. She teamed up with Portable Panic last year.
Doors open 7.30PM for an 8.00PM start. Floorsingers First half. Admission Members $10.00, Non-Members $15.00, Under 18s Free.
We are here. At the bottom of Titirangi Beach Road, just beyond the car park.
We’re a totally informal, small friendly group of people who like to sing and play music. This is a good place for experienced musicians to meet up and enjoy playing together.
If you do not sing or play and would like to then here you’ll find encouragement. There is never any pressure and you may wish to visit a few times to get confidence or you may already be confident, it does not matter, no one will criticise, only support.
Doors open 7.30pm for a 7.30pm Start Admission $5
We are here. At the bottom of Titirangi Beach Road, just beyond the car park.
RAILWAY PIE … a group of Kiwi blues veterans whose music shows why the good old days were so good.
Railway Pie. Except photo shows wrong double-bass player & jug player now lives in Invercargill and won’t be with us.
Railway Pie’s roots are firmly in the blues band tradition of the 1920s. But it is also a Kiwi tradition in itself – its roots go back more than 50 years. There have been a few personnel changes over the years, but the band is still a group of friends united by a love of blues and that old Memphis sound.
Today’s Railway Pie is a “who’s who” of the New Zealand acoustic blues scene – singer and harmonica player Jack Craw, Terry Toohill, who plays guitar, banjo and fiddle, Al Young, who does some singing and plays guitar, steel guitar and mandolin, and double-bass maestro Garry Trotman, who also sings and plays kazoo and banjo.
Railway Pie has played at venues ranging from pubs to folk festivals and clubs to art galleries, and has released two CDs. The most recent, Caution 15, was a finalist in the Aotearoa New Zealand Folk Alliance folk album of the year awards for 2024.
Railway Pie will conclude our first half this evening with a 20 minute set, then complete the evening with a full set in the 2nd half.
Before that, we have no floorsingers tonight, instead we open with a 30 minute set from:-
JEAN REID
Jean Reid
Jean is well-known throughout Aotearoa’s folk scene, where she has been singing and playing for more than 50 years.
She will include in her set some tracks from her Aotearoa NZ Folk Alliance award-winning album “And Aye She Sings”, released in 2025, which not only won Best Traditional Album 2025, but was also voted First Equal Best Folk Album 2025, a magnificent achievement from one of TFMC’s star performers.
Jean is delighted to be supporting her long-time mates in Railway Pie.
Doors open 7.30PM for an 8.00PM start. NO Floorsingers Tonight Admission $20 for all, no member discount tonight.
We are here. At the bottom of Titirangi Beach Road, just beyond the car park.
Get your dancing shoes on for a wild dance as part of celebrating our 60th year.
with
Reel to Reel Ceilidh Band
Titirangi Folk Club Grand Winter Ceilidh featuring Reel to Reel Ceilidh Band comprised of Linda Whitcome (fiddle), Jean Reid (guitar) and Ian Bartlett (box and bodhran) are joined by the world famous in Titirangi dance caller Noel Armstrong.
Dancers:- YOU! (Imagine graphic of Lord Kitchener pointing finger here)
Entry $15 cash at the door, Under 15s Free, no member discount tonight.
