Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Coffee Day at Parklane Village 16th June 2015

What a wonderful way to spend a beautiful winter's day. The North Shore Organ and Keyboard Club were guests of the Parklane Village in Sunnynook. What a beautiful Village and opulent lounge area and great cafeteria! Something over 15 members turned-up to share the day with the residents who seemed to thoroughly enjoy our Community Music Day. Some great playing and happy memories. A big thank you to Diane Lyons, the Club's Events Manager, for organising the venue and to all the Committee members for making sure the day went smoothly.

Gordon Sutherland playing Korg Pa3X with Len Hancy vocals. Denise Gunson played during the lunch break. A lovely way to enjoy lunch. The piano is a Schimmel. Michael Bramley preparing to play Peter Jackson's Yamaha PSR-S950

Desiree Barrows playing her Korg Pa500 Peter Jackson playing his Yamaha PSR-S950 John Beales playing his Korg Pa500

Roy Steen playing the Schimmel mini-grand piano Events Manager, Diane Lyons, playing her Korg Pa900 Diane Lyons accompanied with vocals by Michael Bramley

Barbara McNab playing the Yamaha PSR-S950 Taka Iida playing his Yamaha Electone D-Deck keyboard. Taka Iida playing his D-Deck keyboard

Members gather around Claude Moffat playing the Schimmel mini-grand piano

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Club Night 2nd June 2015

Despite a stormy, wild winter's evening a goodly number of our members and visitors were treated to a great night of music. In the first half, Michael Bramley played the arrival music and then gave a 15 minute performance for us on his Yamaha PSR-S950 keyboard and followed by Peter Jackson with his PSR-S950. To finish the first half, Jan and Kevin Johnston came down from Algies Bay to give a mini-concert for us - Jan on her beloved Korg Pa1X and Kevin on his trusty Crafter acoustic guitar. A lovely programme with a latin theme running through their performance.After a great refreshments break (chockie biscuits in great demand!) we were treated to an absolute World class concert by Alan Brown on Hammond SK2 two-manual organ (with genuine Leslie rotating speaker) and accompanied by one of Auckland very best percussionists, Jason Orme. The guys certainly turned on a stunning performance with some original songs by Alan and some jazz standards like 'Easy to Love' by Cole Porter. Top notch stuff. A big thank you to Roger Smith of Music Planet for loaning the Hammond SK2.

A big thanks also to the Committee for organising Club Night so professionally (as always).

The Videos:

Alan Brown and Jason Orme

Our Special Guest Artists on Club Night 2nd June 2015. Alan is using a Hammond SK2 two manual organ with a Leslie rotary speaker which is exclusively providing the sound.

Peter Jackson

Peter is playing his Yamaha PSR-S950 arranger/keyboard at the Club on 2nd June 2015.

 

The Photos:

Our guest artists for the night: on the left jazz pianist, Alan Brown; on the right, Jason Orme. Alan kindly borrowed a two manual Hammond SK2 courtesy of Music Planet for the performance together with his own original mechanical Leslie rotating speaker. Jason very kindly brought both a percussion and drum kit to add the beats. Great musicianship and great choice of music. Photo courtesy of Laurie Conder.

Michael Bramley played the arrival music for us on his Yamaha PSR-S950 keyboard. Michael then gave a 15 minute performance in the first half of the programme. Photo courtesy of Laurie Conder.        Peter Jackson brought his Yamaha PSR-S950 and played, cracked some jokes and sang - 'Mr Versatile'. Photo courtesy of Laurie Conder.

Kevin and Jan Johnston came down from Algies Bay to give us a mini-concert - Kevin with his Crafter acoustic guitar and Jan using her Korg Pa1X. Photo courtesy of Laurie Conder. 

Kevin and Jan Johnston came down from Algies Bay to give us a mini-concert - Kevin with his Crafter acoustic guitar and Jan using her Korg Pa1X. Photo courtesy of Laurie Conder.

Our guest artists for the night: on the left jazz pianist, Alan Brown; on the right, Jason Orme. Alan kindly borrowed a two manual Hammond SK2 courtesy of Music Planet for the performance together with his own original mechanical Leslie rotating speaker. Jason very kindly brought both a percussion and drum kit to add the beats. Great musicianship and great choice of music. Photo courtesy of Laurie Conder.     Alan in the groove. Photo courtesy of Laurie Conder.

Our guest artists for the night: on the left jazz pianist, Alan Brown; on the right, Jason Orme. Alan kindly borrowed a two manual Hammond SK2 courtesy of Music Planet for the performance together with his own original mechanical Leslie rotating speaker. Jason very kindly brought both a percussion and drum kit to add the beats. Great musicianship and great choice of music. Photo courtesy of Laurie Conder.  Alan finished off the fantastic concert by playing solo piano on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-509. Photo courtesy of Laurie Conder.

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