Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Christmas Special Club Night 6th December 2016
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Year End Party at Okura Country Estate 19th November 2016
Despite miserable Spring weather, we held our Year End Party at the fabulous and exclusive Okura Country Estate Community Hall and courtesy of our host, Dave Winslade. We gathered at 2 pm and carried on until 8 pm with around 40 members in attendance and nearly as many keyboard! We had a fab BBQ despite the weather with lovely salads and sausages etc for dinner and followed by some scrummy cheese cake and apple crumble and cream. As a thank you to our members, the catered dinner was gratis and paid for from Club funds. Everybody tucked-in vigorously for dinner after a long but pleasurable music session all afternoon. After dinner the music carried on and culminating in a mini-concert by Denise Gunson on the digital piano.
A big thank you to our Secretary, Delyse Whorwood, who took the brunt of the logistics to bring all the kitchen equipment and food/beverages. Margaret Black had organized for the caterers to prepare the salads and desserts for us to pick-up on the morning of the venue – thank you Margaret. Thanks goes to Ken Mahy for bringing his Korg SP-250 digital piano. A big thank you also to Rod Moffat for handling PA system duties on the day.
To add to the fun, we held a hat competition for the Party and this was judged by our host, Dave Winslade. The eventual winner was Brian Gunson with his home made ‘mad hatters’ top hat complete with bullet holes!
All in all, a great Year End Party at a wonderful location.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Club Night 1st November 2016
A great evening with our members doing the honours in a DIY. Eight of our members shared their music with us - what a wonderful variety of music and styles of play. Our members playing ranged in age from 10 years to 80 years! We had Club Night debuts from John Holster, Ron Clingin and Mary Elvin – well done to you!
The Videos:
Club President, Gordon Sutherland, playing his Korg Pa4X on Club Night 1st November 2016.
Phoebe Zhang playing the Club’s Clavinova CVP-509 on Club Night 1st November 2016.
Diane Lyons playing her Yamaha PSR-3000 on Club Night 1st November 2016.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Coffee Day at Delyse Whorwood’s home
What a splendid Coffee Day! The weather was good, the company was good, the music was great, and the food was bountiful and tasty. What more could you ask for? About 18 members came along and played Delyse's Clavinova and Korg Pa1X keyboard. It was a warm welcome to Coffee Days for our relatively new member, John Holster.A very big thank you to Delyse for all the trouble she went to make the day memorable and also to Diane and Dennis Lyons for supporting Delyse. As usual our members got stuck in to kitchen duties to share the work. Gordon Sutherland could not be present due to sailing commitments.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Club Night 4th October 2016
What a great Club Night! To start the evening Arthur Reid brought along his Korg Pa3X and played the arrivals music for us. This was Arthur's debut for the Club and he played just great! Then, Jim Nicholson played for us on the Clavinova and followed by Kay Boyes. This was Kay's Club Night debut for us and she played the Clavinova wonderfully well! Colin Crann then played the Clavinova for us with some great styles to compliment his solo playing. The first-half finished with Linus Treefoot giving us a musical quiz which certainly was a challenge to our musical prowess but went down very well. The winner was Audrey Henden who was presented with a bottle of wine again provided by Linus.
After a great refreshments break, we were ready for our guest artist, Sandy Lynch. Sandy is a professional pianist, composer and teacher. Sandy brought along her Yamaha Tyros 2 to compliment her wonderful piano playing on the Clavinova. For the second-part of her Concert she took song requests which was very well received. What a wonderful lady and wow what a great musician!
A big thank you to the Committee for organizing Club Night so well.
The Videos:
Our Guest Artist, Sandy Lynch, playing the Club’s Clavinova CVP-509 and her Yamaha Tyros 2 keyboard.
Jim Nicholson playing the Club’s Yamaha Clavinova CVP-509 on Club Night.
Kay Boyes playing the Club’s Yamaha Clavinova CVP-509 on Club Night. This was Kay’s debut on Club Night!
Colin Crann playing the Club’s Yamaha Clavinova CVP-509 on Club Night.
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Sunday, September 18, 2016
Coffee Day at Evelyn Page Village, Orewa 16th September 2016
A great day at Evelyn Page Village, Orewa and attended by over 30 Club members and a goodish size audience from the Village residents. The day was MC'd by our Events Manager, Diane Lyons, in the absence of our President Gordon Sutherland who was unable to attend. Whilst the number of keyboards brought along to play was a little down this month that didn't stop our players sharing the Yamaha, Korg and grand piano and a great time was had by one and all. The Management of the Village put on a delicious luncheon gratis for our Members as a thank you for our playing all day for the Village. Our hosts for the Day, Dorothy Waddel and Julia Bissett did a great job to handle the logistics. Julia also conducted the Evelyn Page Village Choral Group who shared their wonderful music with us all. A big thank you to Diane for being the MC for the Day and to Delyse Whorwood who handled door duties - Club information and raffle tickets.