Acoustic Routes is hosting the Wellington CD launch of Chris Prowse's latest New Zealand music project, following the award-winning Trouble on the Waterfront.
The concert, with Chris Prowse and the Rouseabouts, at Meow on Thursday, April 18, will feature songs from There Goes The Shiner.
The album is a collection of Chris's original songs and instrumentals inspired by the John A. Lee stories about the colonial rouseabout Ned Slattery known as The Shiner who swagged his way around Canterbury and Otago in the South Island of New Zealand.
The Shiner story provides an insight into those pioneering days. The stories of the swagmen, the gold seekers , the tricksters and the the remittance man. The music on the CD draws on the folk tradition of story telling, with a light sprinkling of of rock and jazz.
The Shiner was born in County Clare, Ireland in 1840 and died in Dunedin at the age of 87 in 1927.
Chris sings and plays guitars and tres on the album, supported by the Rouseabouts: Andrew Delahunty, Bill Hickman, Darren Mathaissen, Daryl Prowse, Eva Prowse, Gil Eva Craig, Marg Layton, Mark Westerby, Richard Prowse and Tom Frewen.
Some will be joining him for the concert.
Support Act: Alan Downes
Alan caught our attention as a singer/songwriter at the Acoustic Routes open mic sessions at Mojo Invincible. Having spent most of his life on a farm inland from Napier, he recently moved to Wellington and 'is now converting his memories into songs before its all forgotten'. It is stories that interest him, and the countryside of the 60s, observing folk with longer memories than his. Country stories contain common threads familiar to many New Zealanders. Alan has a CD of eleven of his own songs available this week. Come and discover a new talent in our midst.
