Friday, February 02, 2007

Cafe of the Gate of Salvation to tour New Zealand April 2007




APRIL 14-26 The CAFE OF THE SALVATION’S FIRST NZ TOUR

Sat April 14 AUCKLAND
8 pm Performance at Baptist Tabernacle, 429 Queen St

Sun April 15 AUCKLAND
2 pm Afternoon performance at St Pauls, Devonport

Tues April 17 HAMILTON
8 pm Performance at WEL Trust Academy of Performing Arts, University of Waikato

Thurs April 19 NAPIER
8 pm Performance at St Pauls Presbyterian Church, Tennyson St, Napier

Fri April 20 MASTERTON
8 pm Performance at St Lukes Union Church, cnr Worksop Rd and Queen St

Sat April 21 WELLINGTON
8 pm Performance at St Andrews on the Terrace, 30 the Terrace
(This concert will be recorded and broadcast for Radio National Concert FM)

Sun April 22 WELLINGTON
1 pm Afternoon performance at St Andrews

Tues April 24 NELSON
8 pm Performance at Nelson Cathedral, Trafalgar Square

Wed April 25 CHRISTCHURCH
8 pm Performance at Great Hall, Christchurch Arts Centre

Thurs April 26 CHRISTCHURCH
8 pm Performance at Great Hall, Christchurch Arts Centre

All bookings through TicketMaster (http://www.ticketmaster.co.nz/ o8oo 111 999)
except Hamilton, which is through TicketDirect Waikato
(http://www.ticketdirect.co.nz/list_events.asp?a=11&id=Waikato) —
Tickets: $25/$20 (Booking fees apply)



Check me out!

Lounge Quintet

The Lounge Quintet featuring Stuart Davis is performing at Eastside Arts in Paddington (395 Oxford St) on Saturday night February 17th. Their repertoire will include a couple of my arrangements, one of which will be the absurd Born To Be Wild, and I'm looking forward to that. See you there.
LOUNGE QUINTET : http://www.stuartdavis.biz/theloungequintet/the_lounge_quintet.html
It's only $15/10 conc. Bookings 9331 2646 or bookings@eastsidearts.org.au

Summersong 2007 report

• Of course, there was, as fun and funky as always, SUMMERSONG, where I got to play a lot of electric guitar and bass, torture my classes with Beach Boys (God Only Knows), Palestrina (O Bone Jesu) and the Gospel Writers (Oh My Lordy), and hang out with inspiring chums, old and new. As well as teaching two a cappella classes, I ran a short session on song arranging, and ran a men’s chorus every day (the latter sang Fire Down Yonder and Thapelo). And you know, this is one of the most fun events on the planet - surf, tea-tree lake, 3 square meals a day and wall to wall music with people as fun as Kristina Olsen - thanks to Alison, Kristina, Pamela and Troy, Te Ua, Luciano, Carl and everyone - hope to see you all next year. (You can see a phonecam snippet of one of the a cappella classes singing Oh My Lordy on Te Ua’s MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/teua_houkamau)