by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | Reviews
Christchurch Folk Music Club Andrea Zonn – Love Goes On If you are anything like me, the name Andrea Zonn means absolutely nothing to you, but, rest assured, when you hear this little gem it will spend hours in your player of choice. She’s a Nashville gal....
by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | Reviews
Christchurch Folk Music Club Fat Boy & Slim Review Sunday 1st March, 2009 By Marjorie Mitchell God Bless the Queen! Victoria that is. Dave Hart (Fat Boy) and John Jones (Slim) right royally entertained us at the Folk Club last night. Vaudeville is what Fat Boy...
by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | Reviews
Christchurch Folk Music Club Iain Mitchell Review: Iain Mitchell, 5th July By Dave Hart What a breath of genuine Scots air, in more ways than one. A voice like a Scottish gale indeed. I’ve known this wee lad for some decades now and his ability to regale with song and...
by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | Reviews
Christchurch Folk Music Club ‘Pulling the Ton’: The Muddy Mama Blues Band 22 March 2015 At 9:30pm the satiated audience rose to its feet as the encore of St Louis Blues faded away. The somewhat staid interior walls of the Irish Society Hall had rocked all...
by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | Reviews
Christchurch Folk Music Club Gats, Gats and More GATS! Guitarist Tony Hale had been working on an idea to bring together some of our best local finger- pickers for a guitar-laden concert. It came to fruition recently as ‘Fingerpicking Delights’ and was...
by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | Reviews
Christchurch Folk Music Club Ryan Neville and the Midnight Blues Show Band Born in Christchurch New Zealand, Ryan Neville has been entertaining for 25 years. Having a huge appetite for Blues and its Colourful legacy, Ryan has with guitar in hand, song in his back...
by admin | Jul 13, 2018 | history
Christchurch Folk Music Club Obituary – Brien Halpin The funeral for Brien Halpin was on Monday, 5 December 2017. At the age of 84, another voice in the Christchurch Folk Music Club’s 49 year history speaks no more. For the majority who read this, the name means...
by admin | Jul 13, 2018 | history
Christchurch Folk Music Club The Folk Boom & Beyond Folk music has been an integral part of the Christchurch music scene since the early 1960s. Various coffee bars around the city began hosting singers and groups well before the University Of Canterbury Folk...
