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.

   

     

           

   

   

      

       

  

Christmas Party 10th December 2012

What a wonderful Christmas Party for The North Shore Organ and Keyboard Club! The fun and frolics commenced at 10 am and continued full-on until about 9.20 pm. During the day, we used our Whiteboard to make sure everybody who wished to play had the opportunity to do so in 15 minute sessions. Lunch was available from the Fairview Village dining room and the Club provided tea/coffee and biscuits on tap for the entire day. About 60 members and guests sat down to a fabulous BBQ outside on the patio early in the evening - delicious! Refuelled by the fab dinner, we were energised to enjoy The Band giving us dance type music to have some fun on the dance floor. The Band included no less a personality than acclaimed musician/entertainer, Marian Burns. What a great way to finish the Club's activities for 2012. Joining us for the Party we were also pleased to welcome Rendall Miller and his wife Shirley and Rendall very generously played a cameo on the grand piano in our Happy Hour as well as accompanying Marian Burns for a number later in the evening! We also celebrated four Birthdays during the evening. Congratulations and Happy Birthday to: Diane and Dennis Lyons; Peter Littlejohn; and Bob McNab.

A very big thank you to the Club's Committee for organising this wonderful Christmas Party and special thank you to Fairview Lifestyle Village for sharing their lovely facilities with us. A special thanks to Barbara Bailey and her bar staff for providing 'refreshments' during our two hour Happy Hour! It was great that Chris Larking from Music Planet, Taharoto Road Branch, could join us for the occasion and share his great music with us also.

 

            

 

 

  

 

 

Club Night 4th December 2012

Our Christmas Club Night was a great success with a record attendance of members and visitors - something in excess of 62 persons in attendance! And what a spectacular treat was awaiting the attendees with the very best of our players giving their all with some superb music and entertainment par excellence! The tradition of Christmas Hampers for our Raffle went very well also with some 12 Hampers won. A big thank you to our members for their generous donation of goodies for the Hampers. A very special thanks goes to George and Jean Watt for once again collecting and packaging the Hampers so beautifully. We were honoured to have join us this evening one of Auckland’s finest pianists, Ben Fernandez B Sc DCS, DMM, BMus(Hons). Ben plays solo and has his own quartet band as well and playing regularly at such venues as Sky City. We are hoping to entice him to come along and play for us next year as our guest artist (fingers crossed!).

The Club President, Gordon Sutherland, recently celebrated his 65th Birthday and the occasion was not allowed to pass unnoticed! A lovely decorated cake and gift were presented to Gordon to celebrate this milestone and as a thank you for all the hard work to keep the Club vibrant.

As always, a big thank you goes to the Committee and door duty staff (tonight it was Yvonne Crann and Sylvia Riddell) as well as “Mrs Mary Claus” (Jeanette Beamish) for making the occasion appropriately festive!