Christchurch Folk Music Club
PRESIDENT
Steve Stern | email: president@folkmusic.org.nz
All enquiries about booking gigs should be made to Steve.
SECRETARY
Judi Smitheram | phone: h – 384 7401, Mob 027 454 3885
email: secretary@folkmusic.org.nz
TREASURER AND MEMBERSHIP
Gary Elford email: membership@folkmusic.org.nz
Committee
Martin Kraakman
Gerard Manley
If anyone wants anything raised at a Committee meeting, suggestions, bouquets or brickbats, let a committee member know.
Hear Ye:
All correspondence and contributions to the “Hear Ye” or this web site are gratefully welcomed and should be sent to:
Christchurch Folk Music Club
PO Box 964
CHRISTCHURCH 8140
or contact the Editor, on email: president@folkmusic.org.nz

Enda Kenny
19 March 2023
For over three decades, Dublin-born Enda Kenny has delighted festival audiences across Australia and toured internationally to a dozen countries. His annual tours to UK and Ireland have established a reputation as a cracking entertainer with a razor wit and a swag of songs you’ll want to join in with.

The Dee Street Band
26 March 2023
The Dee Street Band is a Dunedin-based band who play original folk, blues, rock, and protest music, with the occasional sea shanty thrown in for good measure.

The Ferris & Guest Musos Show 5
2 April 2023
TEN professional, experienced Christchurch musicians and singers….. the variety will be enormous, and all numbers will be drawn from the best songs of the past five or so decades from many genres of music for your enjoyment.

Ceilidh: Brought to you by Gary Elford
16 April 2023
A cèilidh is a traditional Scottish or Irish social gathering. In its most basic form, it simply
means a social visit. In contemporary usage, it usually involves playing Gaelic folk music and dancing, either at a house party or a larger concert at a social hall or other community gathering place.

Andrew White
7 May 2023
A world-class Instrumental guitarist and superb Singer Songwriter, a
modern-day troubadour in every sense of the word.

We Mavericks
14 May 2023
Nominated for Best NZ Folk Artist 2022, they pack punches but bring songs to heal the scars. Lindsay Martin’s masterful strings and vocals meet Victoria Vigenser’s magnificent voice, in driving rhythms and a connection, you have to hear to believe.

Suzanne Lynch, Graham Wardrop and Liz Braggins
21 May 2023