Club Night 2nd March 2010

After a progress report in the form of our AGM, the meeting got under way with a DIY evening. We are pleased to welcome Peter Brophy to our Committee and are sure he will make a big contribution with his enthusiasm and organizational skills. Ian Jackson did a great job to get the evening off to a good start with some terrific piano playing for the arrival music. The variety of styles and spread of instruments used made it a very enjoyable evening. We were pleased to welcome Errol Storey to play a cameo for us on our GA3 organ.  Errol is a professional theatre organist and certainly wound the organ up nicely for us. As in previous months, we also had a surprise guest artist from Japan play for us on the Clavinova. Shifumi Iwahana is on a stay in NZ to polish-up her English and was introduced to us by Peter Littlejohn who is acting as her chaperone whilst Shifumi is in NZ. The Club is very fortunate to have such talented members who demonstrated their skill with some lovely music. Barbara Powell won the raffle which was a nice coffee mug, mat and biscuit tray. As always, appreciation is extended to the Committee for making the evening flow so smoothly.

 

Ian Jackson played the arrival music with a great bluesy feel.

 

 

 

Pam Rea brought her Pa80 along and played some great arrangements

 

 

 

 

 

Shifumi Iwahana played a lovely ballad for us. Shifumi is on an education stay from Japan to polish-up her English. Thank you Shifumi for sharing your music with us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marlene Forrest, made good use of the arrangements on board the Clavinova to play three lovely songs for us. Very nice, thanks Marlene.

 

 

 

Shifumi Iwahana did a duet with Peter Littlejohn on the Club's Technics GA3 organ. Good stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colleen Kerr treated us to three great songs on the Clavinova. Very nice as always Colleen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Club's professional musician, John Bercich, had his arm twisted to finish off the evening for us with a quick couple of pieces on Pam Rea's Korg Pa80. Superb - as one would expect from a master keyboardist of fifty years experience!