Coffee Day 18th April 2011

A Coffee Day and a half! 25 members turned-up for a fantastic day of music with so much variety of styles of play and instruments to choose from. There was plenty of jam sessions up to 6 keyboards to choose from and even an electric guitar on hand! Members had the opportunity to see the brand new Korg Pa3X arranger keyboard for the first time in NZ courtesy of the Roger Smith and the Music Planet music stores.

Thank you Peter for being such a wonderful host and thanks to everybody for all the wonderful eats available for the luncheon banquet and sharing the music - we are blest in the Club with such a surfeit of superb musicians.

  

               

                            

 

Prescott Club Concert 13th April 2011

As part of the Club's Community Music Programme, it was with much pleasure that North Shore Organ and Keyboard Club members: George Watt; John Beales; and Gordon Sutherland  played for the Age Concern Prescott Club. Our MC was Club Events Manager, Peter Brophy. The audience seemed to like the variety of music played and particularly were intrigued with the lovely sounds that the very latest state-of-the-art Korg Pa3X keyboard demonstrated. This is only one of two of these magnificent instruments in the Country at the moment (whilst Korg are in initial production build-up). The keyboard was loaned courtesy of the Korg distributors, South Pacific Music Distributors Ltd.

         

         

         

                     

Club Night 5th April 2011

The large audience were treated to a great night's entertainment with some of our talented members in the first half and capped in the second-half by our special guest artist, Louise Lamb who played our Clavinova to perfection. Louise arranged her concert in chronological order working through from the 1920’s through to the 1950’s and choosing a tasteful selection of jazz classics. Wonderful dexterity on the keys and a refreshingly new arrangements created by Louise.

Members generously contributed funds for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal which will be combined with donations from the Creative Keyboard Club of Browns Bay and the Hibiscus Organ and Keyboard Club and submitted to the Red Cross Appeal Fund.

Two very nice raffle prizes were: Bottle of Pinot Noir wine won by Yvonne and Colin Crann and a leather wallet won by Len and Jesse Osbourne.

A big thank you to Sylvia Riddell and Yvonne Crann for handling the door entry duties for the evening. As always acknowledgement has to be made for the behind the scenes preparation work organized by the Committee.