Christchurch Folk Music Club

13 October 2025

• Members: $15
• Non-members:$20
• Students $5

Book tickets below

HONOURING LEONARD COHEN..
features ANDY THOMPSON (guitars and vocals) and KRISTRINA GODFREY (vocals and percussion), they are joined by teacher and honoured folkie, MARY RUSTON (keyboard) dynamic musical director of Jazzamatazz.

They will present a brief flurry of original songs before unleashing their LEONARD COHEN works.

Andy Thompson and Kristina Godfrey are the engine room of this production of Leonard Cohen’s Greatest Songs.

KRISTINA GODFREY has amassed accolades for her CD “Good Enough for Love”.. and for her several music manifestations.. the SAFFRON SISTERS .. an all-women group and her collaboration with Andy on SONGS FROM THE DEEP in 2023. She has also appeared with Tony Hale in concerts. She continues to shine a light on Women’s rights issues and shares her influences in songs with the irreplaceable Joni Mitchell and the late Eva Cassidy who inspire her greatly. Kristina also has an African drumming passion from her past.

ANDY THOMPSON is a Tui Award winner for his 2017 album “Stand Like a Tree” and was invited to the Vancouver folk festival in the late 1990s. He performed on stage alongside Billy Bragg, Jewel, Roy Harper and the late, legendary Gordon Lightfoot. He was the CPIT Song and Performance tutor for many years and ran PANG, a community radio show on Plains FM for over a decade. He has 8 albums to his credit, many that are .. as reviewed in ‘The Listener”.. ”Thompson sang songs that shifted one’s consciousness and were gorgeous windows into the Kiwi psyche..”

He also has composed songs for theatre including Tourism Award winner “REWI ALLEY” and “The Kate Sheppard Roadshow” for Canterbury Heritage events. His first Folk Club gig was at Bedford Row in 1970 with Phil Garland presiding.

Andy still teaches guitar and vocal techniques.