Club Night and AGM 4th March 2014

We started the evening with the AGM which was completed in about 35 minutes with no issues surfacing. A vote of thanks was given to outgoing Treasurer, Jim Nicholson, and Events Manager, Peter Brophy, for their many years of hard work and tireless enthusiasm to keep the Club vibrant. We were pleased to welcome Laurie Conder as our new Treasurer and Diane Lyons who has taken the role of Events Manager. We are sure they will do a great job to keep the Club moving forwards. Acknowledgment is made for the other Committee Members contributions: Delyse Whorwood as Secretary; Peter Littlejohn as Logistics Manager; Colleen Kerr as Secretary emeritus; and, Ken Mahy together with all those that had helped during the year on door, camera and kitchen duties - particularly, Dennis Lyons and Sylvia Riddell.

Gordon Sutherland was presented with a bottle of red wine and a gratitude card for his 'sterling' work during 2013.

After the Raffle and an early refreshments break, five of our members played for us, namely, in order of play: Denis Stewart; John Perkin; Peter Littlejohn; Pam Rea; and Colin Crann who also kindly did the arrival music for us.

All in all, a very pleasant evening of musical entertainment.

VIDEO:

Peter Littlejohn playing the Club’s Yamaha Clavinova CVP-509 on Club Night. Click on the button below to watch a YouTube embedded video of Peter playing.

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Coffee Day at Algies Bay 18th February 2014

What a great day for a Coffee Day at a beautiful venue (the Johnston's home), in a lovely part of Auckland (Algies Bay) on a magic day weather wise. Those that made the effort to attend were well rewarded with a terrific variety of music and instruments and lots of convivial conversation and not to mention a sensational lunch and BBQ dinner for those that stayed on into the evening. We even had an appreciative audience as we played - Kevin had invited members of the local fishing club to share the occasion and which added to the overall ambience and excitement for the day.
A very big thank you to Jan and Kevin for putting on this Coffee Day. I know it took several people from the fishing club together with Kevin to erect the marvellous and spacious marquee which gave us great shelter from the gorgeous warmth and radiance from the Sun. Also, Both Jan and Kevin really went to much trouble to give us a magnificent banquet both for lunch and BBQ dinner.
 

                             

 

 

Club Night 4th February 2014

A great start to a New Year for our first Club Night. A good turn-out of members and visitors were treated to some great music on a variety of keyboard instruments. First-half of the program saw Diane Lyons playing the arrival music on her new Korg Pa900 and followed by Gordon Sutherland and then Michael Bramley. Diane Lyons returned to play some pieces including vocals and followed by Roy Steen who also crooned to some of his pieces. After the raffle and a tea break we were entertained by Chris Larking of Mainline MusicWorks Albany on the very latest Yamaha Tyros 5 (76 note version) keyboard. Great playing and great sounding keyboard.

A big thank you to the Committee for their hard work organising the event and a special thanks to Sylvia Riddell for sharing door duties for the evening.

The Videos:

Our special guest artist, Chris Larking, playing the brand new Yamaha Tyros 5 (76 note version) arranger keyboard. The keyboard is so new that this is a development model (whilst production is cranked-up Worldwide):

Michael Bramley, playing his Yamaha PSR-S950 arranger keyboard on Club Night:

Roy Steen, playing his Korg Pa80 arranger keyboard on Club Night:

Gordon Sutherland, playing his Korg Pa3X arranger keyboard on Club Night:

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