Coffee Day 18th November 2014

A lovely day at our Secretary Delyse Whorwood's home for Coffee Day. With a Clavinova, a Korg Pa1X and a Technics KN6500 to choose from our players had a ball! A quick headcount indicated we had 26 members enjoying the Day! After some great music and a huge luncheon banquet, Delyse Whorwood, Diane Lyons and Desiree Barrows worked on packing the Christmas Hampers for our Club Night on 2nd December 2014 - with the generosity of our members, the Hampers are filling rapidly - not to be missed!
A big thank you to Delyse for sharing her lovely home with us and to Diane Lyons particularly who helped Delyse keep the food and drinks flowing all day.

 

            

                  

    

 

Club Night 4th November 2014

A nice variety of styles of music in the first half courtesy of four of our talented members who brought along their keyboards to play for us. In order of play they were: John Beales (arrivals and performance); Diane Lyons; Claude Moffat; and Colin Crann. After the raffle draw and a nice tea break we were entertained by our special guest artist, Louise Lamb. Louise is an accomplished professional pianist and teacher. Louise played our Clavinova CVP-509 to perfection giving us a selection of jazz standards from the golden era of such music - the 1920's and 1930's. It doesn't get much better than Hoagy Carmichael and George Gershwin!

Committee Members, Delyse Whorwood and Diane Lyons, have been sorting our sheet music including some new music book donations and these were set-up downstairs for people to peruse as they had their refreshments break. A big thank you to the Committee as always and door duty staff for a great job to make the meeting go so smoothly. Also, a big thank you to members who have donated so generously to our Christmas Hamper Raffle. The food, drinks and novelty items are building nicely!

The Videos:

Our Guest Artist, Louise Lamb, playing the Club’s Clavinova CVP-509. Louise is a professional musician and piano teacher based on the Hibiscus Coast.

Club Member, John Beales, playing his Korg Pa500.

Member, Claude Moffat, playing the Club’s Clavinova CVP-509 on his debut at the Club.

Member, Colin Crann, playing his Korg Pa3X (76 note version) on Club Night.

The Photos:

 

            

     

 

Community Music Day at Evelyn Page Retirement Village

It doesn't get much better than this!  A full house of over 130 people enjoyed  a great day of music, companionship, beautiful surroundings, and great food courtesy of Ryman Healthcare! We had close on 40 members turn-up for the venue and somehow we managed to squeeze in about 18 performances and involving some 40 players (including the Evelyn Page Choir of 18 singers). Kudos also goes to our guest artists, Denise and Brian Gunson and John Perkin.

 
What a lovely Village and we are grateful to the preparation work done by our hosts for the day, Dorothy and Trevor Waddel and Julia and Bob Bissett. Credit must also go to our Events Manager, Diane Lyons and our Secretary, Delyse Whorwood, and our Club Photographer, Dennis Lyons for making the background arrangements go so smoothly.

All in all a very memorable day to remember. We have even got an invite back to play again next year!