Kiwiana concert, Meow, Sunday 27 May, 7:30 pm
To celebrate New Zealand Music Month, Acoustic Routes has a great line up of local artists performing a mixture of their own music and the classics of 'kiwi folk'.
HELEN DOROTHY
In the three years since releasing her debut CD The Going Away, Helen Dorothy continues to take on the challenge of performing her own compositions at a variety of venues. In 2010, she appeared as a guest performer at Wellington Folk Festival, Porirua's Festival of Elements, and toured Auckland and Hamilton Folk Clubs.
Helen also took great pleasure in contributing a song to Michael O'Leary's 2011 Fences Fall CD-poems turned into an eclectic collection of musical compositions by a group of Kapiti Coast jazz, country, blues and/or folk-oriented musicians-, and enjoyed a winter performance at Wellington's Museum of City and Sea. Two of Helen's songs have featured on the UK's premier folk magazine podcast site www.folkcast.co.uk
MURRAY KILPATRICK
Murray has been enriching the Wellington folk scene for many years in many ways - leading the Plimmerton Bush Band, instrument making, hosting the Pukerua Bay Folk Club, always supporting and encouraging others in their music making. He is interested in many genres of music but has built a particular reputation for his knowledge and performances of New Zealand folk songs and his dedication to keeping them alive. His influences in this area include Frank Fyfe, Jim Delahunty, Phil Garland and Arthur Toms. Over time he has developed a distinctive delivery style, bringing the old tunes alive with intensity and power.
PADDY BURGIN AND THE WOODEN BOX BAND
Paddy Burgin and the Wooden Box Band have a bunch of homemade songs that have featured on their several albums recorded to date. With acoustic and slide guitars, double bass, percussion and keyboards they will take you on a journey around Aotearoa to meet some of its more quirky places and people, from past and present. Paddy has made it his mission to infiltrate the kiwi book of folk song, inspired by the writings of James K Baxter, Dr Michael King and Sam Hunt.
Elsewhere magazine called him a mixture of James Taylor, Ry Cooder and less cynical Loudon Wainwright. Recent recordings by Paddy and the Wooden Box Band include My Sweet Town, and last year's release, Gentle Landings.
And a fabulous way to get in the groove for the Blackboard concert - Richard Klein and friends will be having their usual Americana jam session from 4 to 7 pm. You can hear some of the Wellington region's finest players and singers of country, blues, Cajun, old-timey, boogie-woogie and all-around good-time American music, and it's an open session so you can join in.
