Club Night 4th November 2025

 What a great night of entertainment to start off our new Club Rooms venue at the Chelsea Room, Knightsbridge Retirement Village, Windsor Park. We had a full house to enjoy the entertainment which started with Patrick McMillan providing the arrival music. Next up, our guest artists, Conundrum, gave us a great concert with their amazing eclectic mix of genres of music. Energetic, dynamic, and enthusiastic professionalism would be the way to describe their performance. After a great supper provided by our wonderful Catering Manager, Jan Ellin, we held our raffle and then we were entertained by Warren Levick, who played some brief pieces but showed how he constructed the layered sounds for each song. Very interesting and informative and showing the versatility of our wonderful Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809.

Next up, Gordon Sutherland played four pieces on his Korg Pa5X with added vocals for spice! To finish the evening, Patrick McMillan gave us a mini concert on the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano.

What a wonderful venue we have for our future Club Nights - plenty of parking, no stairs, comfortable seats, and air conditioning. The future is exciting!

The Videos:

Our Guest Artists, Conundrum

From L to R: Linda Hobbs on bass guitar and penny whistle;
Cathy Busbridge on fiddle;
Jeff Hobbs on acoustic guitar, harmonica and vocals;
Peter Thomas on mandolin and banjo;
and Julia Withers on percussion and keys;

Gordon Sutherland playing his
Korg Pa5X arranger keyboard

The Photos:

Members and visitors getting ready for
the evening's entertainment

Our Door staff handling the entry fees and raffle tickets.
Ken Mahy on the left, Murray McLachlan on the right
with Warren Levick having a chat

Warren Levick playing and demonstrating
some of the features of our
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Patrick McMillan provided the arrival music
and gave a closing evening's performance

Gordon Sutherland played his
Korg Pa5X arranger keyboard

Our guest artists, Conundrum. L:R Linda Hobbs, Cathy Busbridge,
Jeff Hobbs, Peter Thomas, and Julia Withers on drums.

Our guest artists, Conundrum. L:R Linda Hobbs, Cathy Busbridge,
Jeff Hobbs, Julia Withers on drums, and Peter Thomas.

Our guest artists, Conundrum

Club Night 7th October 2025

What a wonderful night of music! The Club is blessed with some wonderful musicians, and they demonstrated their talent by playing some delightful music for us this evening. To start the evening, instead of the usual arrival music, we had a video of one of our previous guest artists, Dean Tremlett (bass) and Darin Smith (piano) who gave a concert for us back in September 2023. Great to watch their concert again.

In the main body of the evening, we were entertained by Mary Elvin who played a mix of classical and popular music - very well-done Mary. Next up we had Hana and mum, Yuko Tani, playing for 30 minutes with a mixture of solo pieces and duets. Wonderful music and Hana surely showed her World class talent. They played a mixture of classical (Beethoven) through popular music such as Bohemian Rhapsody and all most enjoyable.

After a delicious supper kindly supplied by our Catering Manager, Jan Ellin, we were entertained by our guest artist for the evening. Patrick McMillan. Patrick made good use of our Yamana Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano with some rhythms used as background to some pieces. A highlight was a classical organ piece by Beethoven - very powerful and superbly executed. Thanks for a great concert, Patrick.

This was our last event at the Takapuna Bowling Club that we have had rooms at for over 17 years. The Bowling Club has been very good to us over the years but with some of our members advancing in years, climbing the stairs was becoming problematic. Our new home from November 2025 onwards will be Knightsbridge Village, Windsor Park. They have allocated The Chelsea Room for our Club Rooms, and we are much looking forward to our new musical adventures there.

The Videos:

Our Guest Artist, Patrick McMillan
playing our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Hana and Yuko Tani playing for the Club
on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Mary Elvin playing for the Club
on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

The Photos:

Mary Elvin playing our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Yuko Tani playing our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Hana Tani playing our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Hana and Yuko Tani duetting on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Oue guest artist, Patrick McMillan,
playing our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Coffee Day at William Sanders Village

 This was the Club's first visit to this beautiful Village. An excellent turnout of our members and enthusiastic residents enjoyed a great day of music on their superb Yamaha grand piano. Our President, Gordon Sutherland, also brought along his Korg Pa5X Arranger Keyboard to add an orchestral dimension to the entertainment. The Management made us most welcome, and we had full use of their PA system in the expansive lounge area. All in all, a very successful day sharing our music/musicians with the residents.

The Photos:

Claude Moffat playing the Yamaha grand piano

Patrick McMillan playing the Yamaha grand piano

John Mercer on debut playing the Yamaha grand piano.
Well done, John!

Murray McLachlan on debut playing the Yamaha grand piano.
Well done also, Murray!

Gordon Sutherland playing his Korg Pa5X arranger keyboard,
with orchestrations and vocals to boot!

Mary Barrett playing the Yamaha grand piano

Graeme Webber playing the Yamaha grand piano

Denise Gunson playing the Yamaha grand piano