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Sunday 10 May 2009 at 2pm MOTHER’S DAY MUSICAL SPECIAL with Musical Director Clare Derby
Expressions Mother’s Day Variety Concert Young musicians who performed in fundraising concerts for Expression’s Steinway grand piano return to the stage to play it on Sunday 10 May at 2pm in a Mother’s Day Musical Special concert directed by well known musician Clare Derby. Mrs Derby says the variety Mother’s Day concert will be in the style of the original house concerts which successfully began the piano fundraising campaign in 2006. ‘By popular request we are bringing back some of the students who helped with the original fundraising and they are volunteering their time again’ she said. The programme includes a selection of popular pieces by Bizet, Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Satie and Dvorak. Playing the Steinway will be music teachers Clare Derby and Penny Brown, along with James Koerbin, Mari Tamashira, Amy Lewis, Jo Pringle, and Lucy Gysbers. Euphonium player James North, now a member of the New Zealand Army Band, will perform a duet with his father Mark who is Director of the Upper Hutt Cosmopolitan Club Brass Band. Other performers include talented cellist Heather Lewis and Genevieve Coleman who will sing her own composition accompanied by Clare Derby on piano. Also featured is Cornet Player Toby Pringle aged 11 years who was recently awarded New Zealand Under 15 Solo Cornet Champion. The talented young people will appreciate playing in Expressions Concert Chamber and on the Steinway they helped to buy Mrs Derby said. ‘This is a great reward for our hard working original campaigners. The piano purchase has provided a world class instrument which will excite and inspire famous pianists as well as our local gifted young people’ she said. Tickets include afternoon tea after the performance and proceeds will support the Classical Expressions music programme. Tickets are $25 each or bring your mother or a friend for $20 each, selling now at Expressions ticket office telephone 527 2168. Genesis Energy Theatre Tickets: $25 Adult or buy 2 or more tickets and pay only $20 per ticket ___________________________________ Friday 22 May 2009 at 8pm FERGUS AITKEN TRUE STORIES and other stuff that probably isn't The NZ International Comedy Festival is coming to Upper Hutt ! Wellington comedy circuit favourite Fergus Aitken and upcoming comedy legend in the making Gabriel Page team up for an adult only standup show that will leave you in stitches. TRUE STORIES is a fresh selection of observations, questions, adventures, fun facts and myths. Some of life's little mysteries will be expanded, explored and exploded! With a stand-up comedy style based strongly in physical theatre and storytelling Fergus spins a yarn – and some of it’s even true! “ I love observational comedy ”, says Aitken, “ Some of the funniest things I’ve ever heard are true . . . like the actor who took herbal viagra which didn’t work until the next day just as he went for his important TV audition . . . or the deer hunters whose bicycles were stolen by recently released, trained circus bears . . . or my young daughter who came up and innocently handed her mum a poo . . .” Recently Fergus received a standing ovation at a nudist festival... true and amusing! Also known as his alter ego Mr Fungus, ‘New Zealand’s Loudest Mime’, former Upper Hutt College boy Fergus is in regular nation wide demand as a stand-up comic, corporate presenter and physical theatre teacher. Support act Gabriel Page is a rising star in the comedy scene. Armed with love songs inspired by Vietnamese prostitutes, the elderly and in one case a dead girl. Gabriel is sure he’ll find the woman of his dreams, then ruin everything by attempting to serenade her. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry but mostly you’ll just feel sorry for anyone he’s ever been with. While performing recently in Hong Kong , a Chinese comedian came up to Gabriel after the show and said. "I understood very little of what you were saying, but it sounded funny"
PS: there will be sex toy give-aways. [R18]
Genesis Energy Theatre Tickets: $25 Adult & $20 Concession & Groups of 6+
Fergus Aitken ___________________________________
QUEENS BIRTHDAY JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL 2009 proudly supported by RIMUTAKA TRUST
Festival Passes Available ROYAL FESTIVAL PASS - entry to the 3 new Zealand based shows in Genesis Energy Theatre $120 IMPERIAL FESTIVAL PASS - entry to all four shows in the Genesis Energy Theatre plus a choice of one of the festival movies $160 click here for festival movies
Wednesday 27 May 2009 at 8pm Queens Birthday Jazz & Blues Festival 2009 presents THE STEINWAY JAZZ SUMMIT A jazz piano tribute to Expressions' new Steinway featuring: Internationally acclaimed pianist from Christchurch, DOUG CALDWELL, Jazz recording artist from Wellington NORMAN MEEHAN and DAN HAYLES. As
a jazz pianist DOUG CALDWELL has worked in concert with numerous
American, British and Australian jazz artists some of whom include
Henry Mancini, Ronnie Scott, Buddy Tate, Warren Vache, Scott Hamilton,
Mavis Rivers, Georgie Fame, Nat Adderley and Holly Hofmann. Over the past few years NORMAN MEEHAN has been setting poetry to music. This performance features a selection of these songs from the two suites he has completed: one of poems by E. E. Cummings (which was recently released as Sun Moon Stars Rain on Attar Records), and one of poems by New Zealand poet Bill Manhire. The ensemble of piano, voice, and one or two horns (saxophone or clarinet, and trumpet) makes this music quite transparent and wonderful for such a fine piano. Meehan is joined in the performance by vocalist HANNAH GRIFFIN, and jazz musicians NICK VAN DIJK on trumpet, and COLIN HEMMINGSEN on saxophones and clarinet. DAN
HAYLES: One of the young lions of the Wellington jazz scene. Hayles
is in his third year of study at the New Zealand School of Music
and hails from New Plymouth. He will be accompanied by PAUL DYNE
- Bass and ROGER SELLERS - Drums. Genesis Energy Theatre Tickets: $45 Adult & $40 Concession (Concession - Jazz Club, Piano Club, Friends of Expressions & Student Concession) Norman Meehan
Thursday 28 May 2009 at 8pm Queens Birthday Jazz & Blues Festival 2009 presents HOT CLUB SANDWICH And special guests PHIL BROADHURST piano and JULIE MASON vocalist Note: this is a change to the original advertised programme. The Four Freshmen will not be touring New Zealand as previously scheduled
HOT CLUB SANDWICH based in Wellington , have been entertaining audiences all over Australasia for over a decade. Their unique combination of swinging “Hot Club” rhythm, scorching improvised solos, tight three part harmonies and quirky lyrics get feet tapping and funny bones snapping. Featuring ANDREW LONDON (guitar, vocals) TERRY “THE ENGINE ROOM” CRAYFORD (bass, vocals) and multi-instrumentalist NILS OLSEN (vocals, clarinet, sax and flute).
Supporting artists are PHIL BROADHURST one of New Zealand's best known jazz piano players along with vocal stylist JULIE MASON . For many PHIL BROADHURST is the voice of New Zealand jazz through his jazz program "The Art of Jazz" on Concert FM. In 2001 Phil became the first New Zealand Jazz Musician to be awarded a Queens Birthday honour for his services to Jazz. Vocalist JULIE MASON has performed extensively throughout New Zealand , appearing at all the major arts and jazz festivals with her band. Often referred to by critics as “ New Zealand ’ s answer to Diana Krall ” Genesis Energy Theatre Tickets: $45 Adult & $40 Concession (Concession - Jazz Club, Piano Club, Friends of Expressions & Student Concession)
Hot Club Sandwich
Friday 29 May 2009 at 8pm Queens Birthday Jazz & Blues Festival 2009 presents SONS OF SINATRA - A TRIBUTE Featuring JAMES TAIT-JAMIESON in Concert with THE NEW ZEALAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC BIG BAND - MUSICAL DIRECTOR RODGER FOX. A high-energy, Las Vegas-style tribute to the young lions of jazz singing, who today uphold the marvellous vocal tradition set out by the one and only Frank Sinatra! Featuring the best of jazz vocal superstars Michael Bublé, Harry Connick Jr., Jamie Cullum, and others. Tunes will include It Had To Be You (Harry Connick), Michael Bublé versions of Sway, Can't Buy Me Love, Moondance, Feeling Good and Fever plus Jamie Cullum's Twentysomething and All at Sea and many more classics. Performed by vocalist/saxophonist JAMES TAIT-JAMIESON who has returned from studying and performing in Las Vegas. In concert with an incredible SWING big band! Burnin' Swing numbers, sexy Salsa grooves, and beautiful ballads!
Genesis Energy Theatre Tickets: $45 Adult & $40 Concession (Concession - Jazz Club, Piano Club, Friends of Expressions & Student Concession)
Saturday 30 May 2009 at 8pm Queens Birthday Jazz & Blues Festival 2009 presents BLUES NIGHT Featuring KOKOMO from Tauranga with special guest from Wellington NEIL WORBOYS AND THE REAL TIME LINERS KOKOMO - Blues Band: NIGEL MASTERS (bass), DEREK JACOMBS (vocals, guitar), GRANT BULLOT (harmonica), SONIA BULLOT (trumpet) KOKOMO has been together for 17 years, and has become renowned for dynamic live shows and smart distinctive song-writing, as well as the band's unique harmonica/trumpet horn section. During this time the band has toured extensively throughout New Zealand, performing at all the country's major rock, blues, jazz and folk festivals. Kokomo's ninth album, a collection of the songs of Bob Dylan, was released in January 2008, following hard on the heels of the Kokomo à Gogo DVD, a full-length concert film, which was released in May 2007. They have played with and supported a number of overseas blues and jazz acts, including Georgie Fame, Mississippi Willie Foster, The LeRoi Brothers, New Orleans singer Lillian Boutte, Hawaiian steel wizard Ken Emerson, and legendary guitarist Amos Garrett (ex-Butterfield Blues Band). On the local front they have performed and toured with the likes of Roy Phillips (ex-Peddlers), Hammond Gamble, Jan Preston, Midge Marsden and many others. "These guys are a must to see - blues at its best." BOP Times "Riveting blues." The Dominion NEIL WORBOYS AND THE REAL TIME LINERS: NEIL WORBOYS - Guitar-Vocal-Harmonica, began writing and performing songs in Wellington nearly 40 years ago and was a founding member of the Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band. He continued to play jug band and roots music in the 1980s and early 1990s while living in Gisborne, where he first met MAURICE PRIESTLEY. They played together in several jug bands before forming the roots rock outfit the Customliners. Worboys took up a teaching post in the Capital in 1995 where he formed the Wellington Heads, a jazz/rhythm n' blues band. Priestley plays assorted guitar styles and banjo with the rest of the line-up being BILL WOOD - Guitar, DANNY SHAW - Drums, GEOFF KEITH - Bass, STEPHEN BENNETT - Keyboards. Genesis Energy Theatre Tickets: $45 Adult & $40 Concession (Concession - Jazz Club, Piano Club, Friends of Expressions & Student Concession) Kokomo
FOR LOVE OR COUNTRY 12.30pm Sunday 31 May 2009 The story of a Cuban trumpet star Arturo Sandoval starring Andy Garcia. LADY SINGS THE BLUES 2.30pm Sunday 31 May 2009 The story of jazz vocal legend Billie Holiday starring Diana Ross. Movie tickets ($13) can be purchased from Ascot Cinemas, upper level 68 Queen Street, Upper Hutt or by telephone 528 5590. Grab a coffee and relax to free live jazz music from midday at the Ascot Cafe.
CAFÉ SCENE
Saturday 30 May 2-5pm and 6.30-9pm Copthorne Hotel and Resort, Solway Park, Masterton, telephone 06 3700 500 Kick
back and enjoy a blend of old and new standard in jazz with THE
KATE FAUSETT PROJECT from the New Zealand School of Music
Jazz program in Wellington . Featuring Kate Fausett (Keyboard /
Vocals), Te Atawhai Ponga (Bass), Al Green (Drums), and Lorenzo
Pradel (Tenor Sax). Sunday 31 May Grab a coffee and relax to free live jazz music with Wairarapa based THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS from 1pm to 4pm at the Ascot Café. Featuring Stefan Brown (guitar/vocals) and bass man Vaughn Robertson. Ascot Cinemas, Upper Level 68 Queen Street, telephone 528 5590
_____________________________________ mount marua gallery 27 March 2009 - 10 May 2009 USE AND BEAUTY Stan Jenkin's Collection of New Zealand Ceramics Stan Jenkins, Feilding potter, collector, educator and railway buff, amassed a significant collection of New Zealand ceramics which he generously bequeathed to Te Manawa Museums Trust, Palmerston North, in 2006. Use and Beauty reveals a wonderful selection from this collection, displayed alongside ceramics from Te Manawa's own collection to present a thorough representation of New Zealand potters' activity in the 1970s. Exhibition toured and developed by Te Manawa Museums Trust.
15 May 2009 - 28 June 2009 UPPER HUTT SALON 2009 After the success of the Upper Hutt Salon in 2007 Expressions would like to again welcome back all previous exhibitors to the 2009 Upper Hutt Salon. During the previous exhibition we sold 70 works generating over $16,000 in sales with over half of that being donated to the Expressions Concert Grand Piano Fund. Expressions also recorded close to 3000 visitors through the exhibition in the four weeks it was open. Having purchased the Expressions Steinway Concert Grand Piano in 2008 after a two year fundraising campaign, Expressions is now raising funds for the development and care of a permanent visual arts collection for the city. Recently the Expressions Arts and Entertainment Trust accepted the generous gift of the Pumpkin Cottage Collection from Ernest and Shirley Cosgrove which will be housed and cared for at Expressions. The Pumpkin Cottage Collection is the first component of a permanent collection for the city. We are pleased to be gifted a well rationalised collection which has both local and national relevance in relation to the development of New Zealand painting. The money raised from the Upper Hutt Salon will help towards the maintenance and care of the collection to national museum and gallery standards and as a result ensure access to the collection for future generations. The 2009 Upper Hutt Salon will exclusively feature works by previous exhibitors at Expressions. The brief is open, there is no overriding theme for the works; however the exhibition will be presented in a French ‘Salon’ style, floor to ceiling hang and culminate in a French Salon themed auction in the final week on Saturday the 27th of June at 7.00pm
vector gallery 21 May 2009 - 28 June 2009 ALL THAT JAZZ Expressionsist painter Carole Hughes and long established ceramicist Paul Laird have created a series of jazz themed works which coincide with the 2009 Queens Birthday Jazz and Blues Festival in the Genesis Energy Theatre.
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