Monday, January 17, 2011

Coffee Day/BBQ 17th January 2011

Great food, great venue, great camaraderie and wonderful music sums-up a terrific Coffee Day and evening BBQ at Peter & Lizza Littlejohn's lovely home in St Heliers. A quiet start at 10.15 am but the troops soon started arriving to enjoy some great music on Peter's array of instruments: a Korg Pa1X keyboard; Technics GA1 and GA3 organs; and a grand piano. Thank you Peter and Lizza for making this such a wonderful day for us all.

SAM_00901  Some of the 'early birds' settling in for a great day's music.    June McCrorie accompanied by Jim Nicholson

Jim Nicholson on the Technics GA1. Jim used to have a Technics GX series organ.  Yvonne Moller feeling right at home on the Korg Pa1X    Ken Mahy on the Korg Pa1X    Carole Littlejohn delighted us with her wonderful musical abilities all day (and night). Here seen playing the Korg Pa1X  Carole Littlejohn delighted us with her wonderful musical abilities all day (and night). Here seen playing the Korg Pa1X with host, Peter Littlejohn, accompanying on the Technics GA1 organ. Peter Brophy is admiring Carole's playing technique.    Carole Littlejohn accompanying Michael Bramley and using the GA1 as a full keyboard piano very effectlvely   Ken Mahy and Desiree Barrows dancing to Carole Littlejohn on the keyboard  Carole Littlejohn and PeterBrophy enjoying a duet session    Desiree Barrows enjoying the Korg Pa1X   Gordon Sutherland and Jessyka Stuart singing along with Carole Littlejohn   Ngaire McRae in her element on Peter Littlejohn's lovely grand piano    Peter Littlejohn's mum, Diane Littlejohn, played delightfully on the grand piano for us after a scrumptious BBQ

Michael Bramley played for us the First Movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and all from memory!  Carole Littlejohn entertaining us on the grand piano after a wonderful BBQ dinner   Japanese house guest, Mayu Murakami played a lovely Japanese ballad for us called "Love, Love, Love". Thank you Mayu for sharing your lovely music with the Club over the last few months. 

Co-host, Lizza Littlejohn, singing Karaeoke style after dinner. Joint winners of the competition were Lizza and Michael Bramley.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Club Night 7th December 2010

What a wonderful Club Night. What a wonderful way to finish our Club Nights for 2010! A record Club Night audience were treated to some magnificent musicianship and lovely melodies. Our special guest artist for the arrival music was none other than Margaret Massey, who has to one of the finest pianists on the North Shore. Margaret played our Technics GA3 organ and then moved on to our Clavinova. Inspirational Margaret thank you so much! Some of our most talented members then gave us a veritable feast of music starting with Roy Steen on the GA3, followed by Carole Littlejohn, who came up all the way from Papamoa to play for us. To finish the first half, Taka Iida played his magnificent Yamaha Electone D-Deck keyboard - gorgeous sounds, great arrangements and masterfully executed. After traditional mince pies and a cuppa (the bar was open for those that wanted a sip of wine), Denise Gunson treated us to some wonderful music on the Clavinova - what a lovely style and touch. After the special raffle draw, there were 11 buckets of goodies, we were treated to a grand finale with John Bercich, our Club resident professional, who was joined by one of his star pupils and a member of our Club, Jan Johnston. They played their Korg Pa1X keyboards and thoroughly delighted the audience with their great music.

As always, a big thank you to the Committee for organizing the evening so successfully.

Margaret Massey kindly played the arrival music for us. What a wonderful pianist!                        Roy Steen playing the Club's Technics GA3 organ

Carole Littlejohn came from Papamoa to play for us on our top-0f-the-range Clavinova CVP-509                         Taka Iida brought his lovely Yamaha Electone D-Deck keyboard. Wonderful music!

Denise Gunson playing the Clavinova in her lovely relaxed style

John Bercich playing his Korg Pa1X to wind a great evening up for us. Great music John.       JB and JJ

Some of the audience enjoying the wonderful music            Some of the audience enjoying the wonderful music