Monday, December 31, 2012

New Year’s Eve Party Night

What a great way to celebrate the New Year in. The North Shore Organ and Keyboard Club were pleased to provide the musical entertainment for the New Year's Eve Party Night at the beautiful Fairview Lifestyle Village and celebrated by both residents and members of The North Shore Organ and Keyboard Club. We got the ball rolling at 8pm sharp and carried-on with non-stop music until a little after midnight. Lots of dancing, laughter and convivial conversations as the night progressed. We drew the raffle (three lovely prizes in aid of Club funds) a little after supper and then the serious stuff of conga dancing and the Hokey Cokey got under way culminating in Auld Lang Syne as the New Year rolled-in. It was pleasing to see a good smattering of our members came along the enjoy the occasion and celebrate the New Year amongst friends.

A big thank you to all the musicians from the Club who helped make this a really special occasion as well as Colleen Kerr and Sylvia Riddell handling the raffle table. Also, a special thank you to Fairview Lifestyle Village for making the lovely facilities available for the celebration. A big thank you to Barbara Bailey for manning the bar for the entire evening together with support staff. The evening was organized by the Club’s Events Manager, Peter Brophy and so a big thank you to Peter also for making the event go off so successfully.

The stage is set for the musical entertainment!    Peter Brophy doing a sound check prior to the start of the evening's entertainment.

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SAM_1508    Role reversal! Santa Claus sitting on Colleen Kerr's knee.

First act up was Denise Gunson on the grand piano accompanied by Brian Gunson on his electric guitar.       SAM_1511

Peter Littlejohn entertaining the audience on his Korg Pa1X.        SAM_1516

Gordon Sutherland playing his Korg Pa3X. Photo courtesy of Colleen Kerr.   Len Hancy singing along with Gordon Sutherland. Photo courtesy of Colleen Kerr.

Closing-in on midnight and the band played on... Jim Nicholson on grand piano, Len Hancy on jazz vocals, John Perkin on Korg Pa3x keyboard and event organizer, Peter Brophy controlling things.

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