Sunday, October 24, 2010

Music Planet Extravaganza at Barrycourt Conference Centre

An enthusiastic audience celebrated the 30th anniversary of Music Planet's original music mega store at 42 Taharoto Road, Takapuna. The owner of the Music Planet Group of music stores, Roger Smith, welcoming the audience to the Musical Extravaganza.The Musical Extravaganza started a little after 10.00 am and carried through until about 6.30 pm with just a one hour break for lunch! What a fantastic day the attendees were treated to with a veritable orgy of gorgeous musical keyboards to listen to and enjoy the wide variety of songs and genre articulated by the professional artists. What with two concert by International variety artist, Jimmy Keys (from Florida, USA); Steve McNally the Worldwide demonstrator of Korg keyboards (straight from Canada) we were spoilt with such amazing music - we learnt some good technique tips too during the day! Not to be intimidated by the International artists, Music Planet engaged some of Auckland's top professional keyboard artists to round-off the Extravaganza. Artists playing were: John Bercich; Kane Steves; Dewald Kritzinger; Chris Larking; and, surprise guest artist,  Peter Parkinson! Wow, all this for $25 including a scrumptious morning and afternoon tea break.
A big thank you to Roger and Vicki Smith of Music Planet for sparing no expense in providing the audience with a first-class days musical entertainment. If you haven't yet visited Music Planet's newly refurbished Mega Music Store at 42 Taharoto Road then it is strongly recommended - with a wide variety of brands and models of acoustic and digital piano/keyboards, guitars, hi tech and peripheral supplies.

Some of the keyboards on show and demonstrated           Some of the keyboards on show and demonstrated

John Bercich putting the Korg Pa1X through its paces           Dewald Kritzinger played some lovely semi-classical passages on this amazing Kurzweil workstation     Kane Steves demonstrating the magnificent Roland Atelier AT800         Chris Larking really enjoyed working with the Korg PA588 for a few days prior to the Extravaganza and he certatinly matched its quality with his playing                           Surprise guest artist, Peter Parkinson, wowed the crowd with his "three hands" technique. Seen here playing the Korg SP250              Steve McNally, the Worldwide demonstrator for Korg, playing the incredible Korg SV-1 designed with Italian flare and genius. 

                 Even Elton John made an appearance (courtesy of Jimmy Keys!)    

Jimmy Keys interacted with the audience very well even having a dance with several of the ladies present!    Rockin' Rod Stewart had the audience electrified (courtesy of Jimmy Keys)

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