Club Night 6th August 2024

 A great evening of music enjoyed by an enthusiastic audience with a significant number of visitors in attendance. Roy Steen played the Arrival Music on the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 to warm us up for the performers. Yvonne Moller played her Korg Pa3X arranger keyboard for us with a lovely selection of pop standards. Next up, a newish member gave her debut performance at the Club, Celine Ye. Celine has a semi-classical style of piano play but very enjoyable to listen to on the Clavinova. Well done Celine on your Club debut! Last up in the first half, Gordon Sutherland played his Korg Pa5X arranger/workstation with a hightlight of Vangelis' "Chariots of Fire" which was the theme music for the movie of the same name and about an English runner intending to compete in the Paris 1924 Olympic Games. Very topical as we are in the midst of the Paris Olympic Games of 2024!

After the raffle and a refreshments break, we were entertained by our guest artist, Ben Fenandez. Ben is a wonderful musician, educator, producer, song writer and well published with many albums. Ben had just returned from a visit to Canada and East Coast USA. He gave us a musical run down of the music he played to friends and audiences in such towns as New York and Toronto. The audience were enthralled with Ben's playing and in fact the concert carried on for over an hour! Thank you Ben for sharing your journey and music with your friends at The North Shore Music and Keyboard Club. There will be a video of the concert shortly and downloaded to this post and to YouTube.

What a wonderful evening of music.

The Videos:

Our guest artist, Ben Fernandez, giving us a concert

using the Club's Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Celine Ye on debut at the Club and playing the Club;s
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Club Member, Gordon Sutherland, playing his

Korg Pa5X Arranger Keyboard

Photos: 

Ben Fernandez giving us a concert using
the Club's Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Ben Fernandez giving us a concert using
the Club's Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Ben Fernandez giving us a concert using
the Club's Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Roy Steen played the Arrival Music

Yvonne Moller played her
Korg Pa3x arranger keyboard

Celine Ye on debut at the Club using the
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Gordon Sutherland playing his
Korg Pa5X arranger/workstation

Coffee Day at Greenwich Gardens Village 24th July 2024

 What a lovely day our members had at Greenwich Gardens Village - a superb lifestyle village on the North Shore of Auckland. A good turn-out of our members and lots of players made the day very special and the residents seemed to enjoy the variety of music that we offered. We had a great lunch too in the recently remodelled dining area. A big thank you to our Events Manager, Kay Boyes, for organising the event for us and kudos also to the Village Management that were most accommodating.

The Photos:

Some of our members enjoying lunch at Greenwich Gardens Village

On Raffle Table duty L:R Delyse Whorwood and Kay Boyes

Ayana Tayler playing the Boston grand piano

Warren Levich playing the Boston grand piano

Gordon Sutherland playing his Korg Pa5X workstation

Denise Gunson playing the Boston grand piano

Claude Moffat playing the Boston grand piano

Our member and resident of Greenwich Gardens

Beverley Henderson

Patrick McMillan playing the Boston grand piano

Roy Steen playing his Korg Pa300 arranger keyboard