An Afternoon with Carole Littlejohn in Papamoa 25th July 2010

An afternoon with Carole Littlejohn at Ocean Shores Village with some of her students and friends from the North Shore Organ and Keyboard Club. Photos courtesy of Colleen Kerr.

When Carole Littlejohn invited Peter Brophy, Gordon Sutherland and Colleen Kerr to come down to Papamoa and participate in a Concert she was putting on for the residents of the Ocean Shores Village, Papamoa, we were delighted to accept the invite. For one reason it was going to be a fun event but also because all three mentioned above and Carole Littlejohn are members of The North Shore Organ and Keyboard Club, Takapuna. Part of the Club's mission is taking our music out to the Community at large (the Club’s Header includes “Proudly bringing music to the Community”) where it is sometimes difficult for senior citizens to travel to outside venues. About 150 residents and family members of the participating students turned-up for the afternoon Concert and that made is most satisfying. The audience seemed to love the format of the Concert also, what with variety of instruments, styles of music and experience levels of the participants.

Certainly one of the highlights for the writer was to finish the Concert with a quartet playing: “Cabaret” and “Drifting and Dreaming”. The Quartet consisted of Carole Littlejohn on a Korg Pa1X keyboard; Peter Brophy on a Yamaha PSR-910 keyboard; Colleen Kerr on Yamaha piano; and Gordon Sutherland on his Korg Pa1X keyboard.

 

It certainly is nice to see the youth of today learning to play the keyboard whether that is an electronic keyboard or acoustic piano and this was a great venue for some of Carole’s junior pupils to gain experience playing for a large audience. They acquitted themselves very well it must be said.

A big thank you to Bev Taylor from the Ocean Shores Village for allowing Carole Littlejohn to stage the Concert at their lovely Village. And not forgetting Carole Littlejohn that did a great job organizing the event and then being actively involved in the Concert.

The photos below have been forwarded by email and as such are low resolution. Should anybody want a high resolution copy please contact Gordon Sutherland or Colleen Kerr at the email address in the right hand margin.