Music News - 2018 AOTNZ Menu - First up - Flora and Sean
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Recipients of the 2017 New Zealand Gold Guitars Overall
The two met in Toronto before Flora moved to West Virginia to apprentice to an old-time musician there. Several months later they embarked on a pilgrimage of sorts through the Appalachian Mountains and then south to Cajun country. Flora persuaded Sean to accompany her next on a square dancing music tour held in rural halls all over New Zealand, and he’s lived here ever since
Their self-titled ‘Flora and Sean’ debut record is made up of songs and tunes they’ve gleaned on travels around the US, Canada and Australasia, learning their music from a variety of sources – from mentors and older generation musicians, from those taking part in square dances and honky tonks, and from 78rpm records as well as their peers.
“…a superb set from Sean Donald and Flora Knight, fiddle and guitar, both singing. Close your eyes and it’s music from a crackling old American country and western radio show.” – North and South Magazine
Itinerary
Sunday 28 January
Memorial Community Centre
$20 Book: Catlins Café
Tuesday 30 January 7.30pm Alexandra
The Cellar Door
Adults $25, Gold Card $20, Child $10
Book: Alexandra i-Site and door sales
Wednesday 31 January 7.30pm Cromwell
Lowburn Hall
Adult $20, Student/child $5
Book: Cromwell i-Site
Thursday 1 February
Sherwood
$5 Book: Eventfinda
Friday 2 February
Invercargill Brewery
$25 Book: Ticket direct
Saturday 3 February Dunedin
Monday 5 February
The Laboratory
$16 Book: Over the bar at the Lab
Wednesday 7 February 7.30pm Hokitika
Old Lodge Theatre
$20 Book: Hokitika’s Regent Theatre
Thursday 8 February
Reefton Club
Adult $20, Student $10, Family $50
Book: Door sales or 03 732 8542 or 03 732 811
Friday 9 February Picton 7.30pm
Picton Little Theatre
$20 Book: Take Note Picton and Alyssums Blenheim.
Sunday 11 February 7.30pm Waipawa
Central Hawkes Bay Municipal Theatre
$25 Book: www.eventfinda.co.nz or at the Theatre
Thursday 15 February 7.30pm Thames
Kauaeranga Hall
$20 on the door, $18 pre-book
Book: 021 912993 or Lotus Realm Thames
Friday 16 February 7.30pm Coromandel Town
The Club
$25/$20 concessions
Book: Coromandel Information Centre
Saturday 17 February Auckland
Freida Margolis
Sunday 18 February 7.30pm Kaitaia
Te Ahu Atrium
$20 or $15 students and seniors over 65
Book: Te ahu Café or [email protected]
Tuesday 20 February 7.30pm New Plymouth
4th Wall Theatre
$25 Book: www.4thwalltheatre.co.nz
Thursday 22 February 8.30pm Takaka
The Mussel Inn
$15 Door sales on the night
Friday 23 February
The Playhouse Theatre
Dinner from
$20 Book: The Playhouse
Saturday 24 February Lyttelton
Lyttelton Records
Christchurch
Sunday 25 February 7.30pm Fairlie
Fairlie Heritage Museum
$20 Book: Heartlands plus door sales.
Arts On Tour NZ (AOTNZ) organises tours of outstanding New Zealand performers to rural and smaller centres in New Zealand. The trust receives funding from Creative New Zealand as well as support from Central Lakes Trust, Community Trust of Southland, Interislander, Otago Community Trust, Rata Foundation and the Southern Trust. AOTNZ liaises with local arts councils, repertory theatres and community groups to bring the best of musical and theatrical talent to country districts. The AOTNZ programme is environmentally sustainable – artists travel to their audiences rather than the reverse.
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