Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Concert for Age Concern’s Prescott Club 29th February 2012

It was with great pleasure that the North Shore Organ and Keyboard Club gave a concert for the Age Concert North Shore Prescott Club members.  We play for the Prescott Club every fourth Wednesday each month and play for about one hour as pre-lunch entertainment for the members who then enjoy a cooked luncheon courtesy of the Age Concern organisation. For this concert members: Peter Littlejohn; Peter Jackson; and Gordon Sutherland had the privilege of playing for the Prescott Club members. These concerts are part of the North Shore Organ and Keyboard Club's programme of 'proudly bringing music to the Community' so that the broader general public can share our members love of popular music.

Peter LIttlejohn playing his Korg Pa1X whilst Peter Jackson prepares for his vocal session           Peter Littlejohn doing his second 'stint' on his Korg Pa1X 

Peter Jackson singing along with an audio backing track being played through the Korg Pa3X vocal harmonizer                  Peter Jackson crooning for the Prescott Club members 

President, Gordon Sutherland, playing his Korg Pa3X for the Prescott Club members. Photo courtesy of Peter Littlejohn.    President, Gordon Sutherland, playing his Korg Pa3X for the Prescott Club members. Photo courtesy of Peter Littlejohn.

Prescott Club members relaxing to the music Prescott Club members relaxing to the music

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Monday, February 20, 2012

Coffee Day 20th February 2012

A very nice Coffee Day at Delyse Whorwood's lovely home. The weather was kind too allowing us to make full use of the indoor/outdoor flow. Great music, great food and good support from our members to attend the Coffee Day. Thank you Delyse for sharing your home with us and for all your hospitality. We had plenty of instruments to choose from too: a Clavinova; Technics KN6500; Korg Pa1X; and, a Yamaha PSR-910.

 Barbara Powell trying out the Korg whilst our host, Delyse Whorwood, watches on and enjoying Barbara's playing.

Rob Powell playing the Clavinova John Stent playing the Yamaha PSR-910 Pam Rea playing the Korg

Alan Wilkins giving the Korg Pa1X a go George Watt playing the Clavinova Barbara Powell playing the Korg

            Alan Wilkins playing his Yamaha PSR-910 with Peter Littlejohn relaxing to the music        Rob Powell helping Alan Wilkins to set-up the Technics KN6500

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Club Night 7th February 2012

What a wonderful way to start the New Year's musical calendar for our Club. We had close to a full house (thank you for your support) of members and visitors to hear some great music by our members in the first half and then an awesome concert on our top-of-the-line Clavinova given by TV personality and now Education Manager for the the MusicWorks Group, Andy Keys. Arrival music was covered by Colin Crann on the Clavinova and followed by Des Rouse; Yvonne Moller; Pam Rea all on their own keyboards. To finish the first half, Peter Littlejohn, gave us some lively music on the Clavinova.
For the second half, Andy Keys played a full 50 minutes of classical excerpts which he played expertly and rather uniquely. Andy played each piece twice, once using straight piano and then orchestrated with sounds and rhythms just for fun! A great, inspirational Concert. Thank you Andy Keys.

A big thank you to the Committee for making the event happen and to Sylvia Riddell and Yvonne Crann for handling the door duties on the night.

Our special guest artist was Andy Keys from the MusicWorks Group. Andy gave us a wonderful concert using both basic piano and orchestration for the classical pieces he chose. Andy certainly brought the Club's top-of-the-range Clavinova CVP-509 to life.

 

Colin Crann playing the arrival music  Des Rouse playing his Yamaha PSR 3000 keyboard. Des got a great sound with his new Wharfedale speakers  Yvonne Moller brought her Korg Pa1X to paly for us 

                        Pam Rea brought her Korg Pa80 to entertain us with                    Peter Littlejohn played the Club's Clavinova which he is unfamiliar with but made it sound great with rhythms to boot! 

Our special guest artist was Andy Keys from the MusicWorks Group. Andy gave us a wonderful concert using both basic piano and orchestration for the classical pieces he chose. Andy certainly brought the Club's top-of-the-range Clavinova CVP-509 to life.

      Our special guest artist was Andy Keys from the MusicWorks Group. Andy gave us a wonderful concert using both basic piano and orchestration for the classical pieces he chose. Andy certainly brought the Club's top-of-the-range Clavinova CVP-509 to life.    Club President, Gordon Sutherland, handing Andy Keys a thank you gift for his inspiring concert. Photo courtesy of Club Secretary, Colleen Kerr.

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