by Emily Kraakman | Dec 10, 2021 | Reviews
Christchurch Folk Music Club Fingerpicking Delights VI Fingerpicking Delights VI, 7 November 2021 Reviewed by Russell Dann Tony Hale’s sixth edition of Fingerpicking Delights began inauspiciously with a sound glitch which held up the start of the concert....
by Emily Kraakman | Dec 18, 2021 | history
Christchurch Folk Music Club In Search of Native Song: Traditional Folksong Collecting in New Zealand During the last few years I’ve undertaken research into traditional folk music in New Zealand. In light of recent correspondence posted at Musical Traditions I...
by Emily Kraakman | Aug 23, 2021 | history
Christchurch Folk Music Club Highlights from the final concert of the 7th New Zealand National Folk Festival – 1971 Highlights from the final concert of the 7th New Zealand National Folk Festival held on 6th June 1971 at St James Theatre, Wellington, broadcast...
by Emily Kraakman | Aug 23, 2021 | history
Christchurch Folk Music Club Remembering Christchurch hangouts of the 80s and 90s Recently, an academic friend pointed me towards the word solastalgia. Solastalgia is a kind of homesickness for a place that no longer exists, a “place that you did not leave but...
by Emily Kraakman | Aug 23, 2021 | history
Christchurch Folk Music Club Father of NZ folk music – Otago Daily Times 8 April 2017, Dave Cannan/contributed folk musician. Phil Garland may have been a born and bred, TrueBlue Cantabrian, but as the self-styled ‘father of New Zealand folk...
