Playing to the Stroke Club 1st July 2010

Part of NSOKC's activities includes taking our music out to the Community and one of our members, Joan Perkins, runs the North Shore Stroke Club as part of the National Stroke Foundation. Joan has been involved with the Stroke Club for some 28 of the Club's 30 year history and has been the Group Leader for the past 8 years. Joan has received many Civic Awards for her voluntary work and is a most worthy recipient as are all her loyal Committee helpers. It was our pleasure to provide music for their meeting which is weekly every Thursday morning starting about 10 am at St Joseph's Church Hall, Takapuna. Peter Brophy, the NSOKC's Events Manager, was accompanied by Peter Jackson from the Club on this occasion. Boy, did they get the audience jogging-along to the rousing old-time favourites.

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Coffee Day 21st June 2010

Another terrific Coffee Day at George and Jean Watt's home in Milford. 26 of our members gathered to enjoy a lovely day of music, social chat, good food and glorious weather! It was great to have such a selection of instruments to play with a choice of: Technics GA3 organ; acoustic piano; Korg Pa1X keyboard (one brought along by Gordon Sutherland and one by Ken Mahy); Yamaha PSR-900 keyboard (brought along by Alan Wilkins); and a Yamaha DGX-620 digital piano (brought along by Colin Crann). Lots of keyboard playing, singing and jamming - it doesn't get much better than this. Thank you George and Jean for making your home available and for all the preparation work. Also, thanks to the ladies for helping Jean out in the 'galley'.

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Club Night 1st June 2010

Over 50 members attended on the Night and were rewarded by some pretty fine music provided by six of our members. George Watt, Jim Nicholson and Colin Crann had to step-in at the last minute to cover for members with winter ailments and they did a marvelous job too! The arrival music was most ably performed by Colin Crann on the Club’s Clavinova and followed by Jim Nicholson who played three very nice numbers with rhythms (also on the Clavinova) and followed by the debut of Warren Levick on the Clavinova - where have you been Warren - very well played! Next, George Watt played the GA3 organ for us with some lively numbers and followed by the debut of Alan Dadson on the  GA3 and the Clavinova - very nice arrangements and playing Alan. The second half saw our special guest artist, Doug Farr, who brought his magnificent Technics KN7000 keyboard replete with pedalboard and swell pedal. After some magnificent playing Doug then did an amazing egg trick followed by a silent movie accompanied by some carefully selected music played through his KN7000.

The raffle of a birdie chiming wall clock was won by Glenys ‘Queen Mary’. Thanks as always to the Committee for organizing the Night so well. A special thanks to Rob Powell, President of the Organ Society of New Zealand Inc., for helping members unfamiliar with the Clavinova set-up some great style arrangements on the fly.

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