Otis will be there for you!
Delivering musical finery, heartfelt and solid!
A concerted celebration of ballads, odes and whimsical waltzes.
We hope you can be with us at this prestigious community venue: KUMEU LIVE,
to bask in the utterly original tones of the Otis Mace Combo.
From melodramatic lounge folk to psychobilly sleaze the Otis Mace Combo deliver an intoxicating blend of sonic goodness that will nestle sweetly in your memory.
For four decades Otis has played many shows keenly enjoying the audiences bemused smiles and rapturous applause while delivering a balm to resist the pathogens of the mass media age, and now teamed up with seasoned musos-
JOHN SEGOVIA on bass and BVs, and RICK McSHANE on drums.
John’s arranged for and accompanied Rodriguez , Wanda Jackson has played for Don McGlashan, Kendal Elise and was a founding member of Shaft.
Rick McShane who rocks the skins has played for Chainsaw Masochist, Al Hunter, Nudie Suits, Broken Heartbreakers, White Swan Black Swan (Sonia Waters) and Galveston.
The evening opens with Kirsten Warner and her magic, sinuously wending its way into your very core.
On bass, Robert Scott and on guitar Tony Daunt solidly span Kirsten’s swooping gospel tinted ballads of hope and joy.
Kirsten Warner’s baptism into music came when her partner Bernie Griffen said if they were going to travel she needed to learn to play. Over the past 10 years or so, she joined Bernie Griffen on musical adventures, recording and touring two albums with him. She sang with Bernie, sang his songs and wrote songs with him. She found a voice for more than singing to their children and enjoyed playing with Bernie and numerous musicians in different lineups of Bernie Griffen and The Thin Men. She continues to step out on her own to perform their songs. Kirsten is one of two hosts of radio station 95 bFM’s popular American roots music show Border Radio.
Bass player Rob Scott started playing music at high school with his mates doing what was then called country rock. He’s come a full musical circle. Most lately he played bass in Kendall Elise’s band The Belgraves and with Bernie Griffen and The Thin Men. Along the way he’s played in pub cover bands, explored noise-bands as a side man to singer-songwriter types, working as an engineer in heavy industry while raising a family. He picked up bass again playing in an Irish band which lead back to playing country music for the last 20 or so years.
