What a great evening for our Club Night and what a drama leading-up to it! When the team arrived to start setting-up for the evening's Club Night at our Club Rooms at the Takapuna Bowling Club, we were faced with our room filled with painters and paint covers on the floors and the ceiling lighting disconnected. It transpires The Bowling Club have been upgrading the Rooms but forgot to tell us that the facility would not be available this month! After a quick phone call the owner of Music Planet Takapuna, Roger Smith, we hurriedly rushed down the road to Music Planet and started setting up as best we could there. Diane Lyons, Delyse Whorwood, Kay and Russ Boyes frantically phoned our members to tell of the last minute change of venue! It was gratifying therefore that we had a good attendance of members and visitors to enjoy the music.
The arrival music and a 15 minute first set performance was given by Roy Steen on his trusty Korg Pa300. Also playing for us in the first set was Rod Moffat on his Korg Pa4X and Nelleke Moffat who sang some songs along with Rod accompanying on keys. Diane Lyons also played for us on her Korg Pa900 including some impromptu singing and invoking some audience sing-along. Great stuff in strange surroundings!
Our guest artist this month was Kane Steves who is the Departmental Manager for Music Planet Takapuna Piano and Keyboard Department. This was a quirky co-incidence that we had to relocate for the evening to his work place, Music Planet! Kane gave a great Concert on a top-of-the-range Yamaha Clavinova CVP-709 digital ensemble piano together with some songs played on a Korg Havian 30 digital ensemble piano. It was great that Kane not only played the instruments beautifully but also briefly mentioned some of the features of each instrument before playing each song.
All in all a great evening of music if somewhat organized in a mad rush! Our eternal thanks to Music Planet Takapuna for letting us use there shop for our Club Night on very short notice! It a funny sort of a way, it seemed appropriate to be surrounded by hundreds of pianos, keyboard and guitars for the concert!
A big thank you to Diane Lyons, Delyse Whorwood, Russ and Kay Boyes for frantically phoning all our members to tell them of our change of venue. Also, a big thanks to Patrick McMillan for helping with the set-up and controlling the video recorder for the evening.
The Video:
Our November guest artist, Kane Steves, playing a Yamaha CVP-509 and a Korg Havian 30. Due to unforseen circumstances we had to relocate the venue for the evening to Music Planet Takapuna. The Club is most grateful for the venue being made available with no prior notice possible.
The Photos:
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| Diane Lyons playing and singing along with her Korg Pa900 |
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| Rod Moffat playing his Korg Pa4X |
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| Rod and Nelleke Moffat playing for us. Rod on his Korg Pa4X and Nelleke on vocals |
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| Roy Steen played the arrivals music and gave a performance on his Korg Pa300. Seen here surrounded by a plethora of keyboards and guitars! |
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| Our Guest Artist, Kane Steves, playing the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-709 |
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| Our Guest Artist, Kane Steves, playing the Korg Havian 30 ensemble piano for us |
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