Creative Keyboard Club April 2015 Meeting

Creative Keyboard Club April 2015 Meeting

The MC for the occasion was Marlene Forrest and the arrival music was played by Mary Barrett on her 1989 Yamaha Electone HC-2. Our musical afternoon was preceded by the AGM. All officers were returned unopposed and it's lovely to have such a dedicated and enthusiastic committee.
Our Program ...
Yuko Tani playing on Clavinova with "Aracque"
Daughter Hannah Tani then played her competition piece a Romanian Folk Dance. This was a very polished performance thoroughly enjoyed by all and we wish her all the very best for the competition.
John Beale was next on keyboard with "Wonder of You" and "Love Look at The Two of Us"
George Markwick on his Korg pa800 with "Nowhere Man" and "Spanish Eyes"
Mary Barrett was back on organ with the march "Semper Fidelis" and "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy".
The first half showed a variety of styles and genres. Thank you all.

Our guests were Jan and Kevin Johnston from Algies Bay ... with Kevin on guitar and Jan on keyboard. They played a variety of styles from Dance Band, Showtime, Bossa Nova, Waltz, Hawaiian and Rock. Jan commenced with "Stormy Weather" and "Never The Less" and was then joined by Kevin. Songs included "Spanish Eyes", "Cabaret", "Putting On The Ritz", "Moon River", "Apple Blossom Time", "Alley Cat", "Return to Me", "A Certain Smile" to name a few and ended with "Tico Tico". Thank you both for a very enjoyable afternoon.

More photos of the afternoon can be found in the Photo Gallery

Creative Keyboard Club March 2015 Meeting

Creative Keyboard Club March 2015 Meeting

Marlene Forrest was the MC for the day and the arrival music was played by Peter Jackson on keyboard. We wished our hard worker Sue Farley a very happy birthday and congratulated Alan & Lynn Powell on their 50th Wedding Anniversary.
Program ...
Alan (on Yamaha keyboard and vocals) and Lynn Powell (vocals) with 'You Are My best Friend', 'Lay Down Beside Me'
Roy Steen on his Korg keyboard with a rousing march medley 'Stars & Stripes' and 'Anchors Aweigh', 'Just One of Those things' and 'The Entertainer'
Peter Jackson with 'Save The Best For Last' (keyboard) and 'Come Outside' (vocals)
It was lovely to have pianist Kuniko Nakatani who was here on holiday on Clavinova with 'The Way We Were', 'Tico Tico' and 'Nocturne'
Dave Hallam then joined Kuniko on Clavinova with 2 classical duets.
Thank you everyone, you all did a fantastic job.

Our guest Artiste for the second half was piano accordionist Tracey Collins. Tracey brought along her Roland Digital Accordion and entertained us with a variety of sounds and styles amongst them 'C'est Si Bon', 'Bluebell Polka', 'Volare', 'La Vien Rose', 'I Love Paris', 'She', 'Autumn leaves' and various Tangos. All very Parisian and a few tales to go along with them. Thank you Tracey, it's been a while since you were here so please don't make it so long next time!

More photos of the occasion are in the Photo Gallery





Creative Keyboard Club February 2015 Meeting

Creative Keyboard Club February 2015 Meeting

Colin Crann played the arrival music on keyboard and Marlene Forrest was the MC for the occasion.
Program first half ...
Marlene Forrest on keyboard with "Evergreen" and "Muskrat Ramble"
John Perkin on Clavinova with "Waltz of My Heart" and keyboard with "Memories"
Jimmy Puppyn on keyboard with "Softly As I Leave You" and "Lonely Ballerina"
Ros Bissell on keyboard with "They Can't Take That Away From Me" and "Cry Me A River"
Colin Crann on keyboard with "Night in Tunisia" and "I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling"
Jazz pianist Bennie Gunn on Clavinova with "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Cheek to Cheek"
John Perkin was able to do an extra on keyboard with the classic "Sweet Georgia"
Birthday girl was  Philippa Zink ... and Thank You Marlene for the accompaniment
Thank You All - A fantastic start to the year everyone!

Our Guest artiste was the highly qualified pianist, composer, arranger, music producer and (take a breath) educator Ben Fernandez who also brought along the most talented trumpeter, singer and composer Rick Roff. Ben and Rick entertained with all the favourites "Blue Bossa", "Autumn Leaves", "All of Me", "Lullaby of Birdland", "Hello Dolly", "What a Wonderful World", "Walking My Baby Back Home" to name a few. "I'm In Love With a Kiwi" an original composition from Rick concluded the afternoon. We were very privileged to have Ben and Rick (all the way from New Orleans) perform for us and look forward to a return visit guys - you are unsurpassed!

More photos of the afternoon can be found in the Photo Gallery



Creative Keyboard Club December 2014 Meeting

Creative Keyboard Club December 2014 Meeting

Marlene Forrest was the MC for the occasion and the Christmas arrival music was played by Barbara McNab on keyboard.
Our Program ...
Denise Gunson on clavinova with 'The Christmas Song', 'Spanish Eyes', 'Misty', 'Isn't She Lovely' and 'I Don't Know Why'
Barbara McNab on keyboard with 'Bolero', 'Take 5', 'Mr Sandman' and the 'Downtown Strutter's Ball'
John Cornish and David Palmer (from Settlers) on harmonica's with 'Isa Lei', 'Whistle Down the Wind' and 'Moon River'. They were accompanied on keyboard by Barbara McNab
A sumptuous afternoon tea then followed and the Christmas raffles were drawn ... lots of lovely hampers!

Taka then started the second half on his Double deck Yamaha with 'Te Quila', 'East of Eden', 'Adieus Honana', 'More than a Woman to Me' and 'Princess' (a Japanese number).
Guest vocalist and musician Murray Hancox then entertained with an impromptu selection of songs assisted by Bennie Gunn ('Georgia') and Dave Hallam ('The More I See You', 'Mary's Boy Child', 'Because of Christmas Day', 'I'm Walking', 'Runaround Sue', 'Sweet Caroline', 'Unchained melody' 'Piano Man').  We were soon into overtime and the music just kept coming!

Thank You All - you did a wonderful job in all departments - talent and food sublime!

More photo's of the occasion can be found in the Gallery at the top of the page

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Everyone

 and we will meet back in the New Year on the second Sunday in February

Creative Keyboard Club November 2014 Meeting

Creative Keyboard Club November 2014 Meeting

Marlene Forrest was the MC for the occasion and the arrival music was played on keyboard by John Beale.
Our program ...
Colin Crann commenced on keyboard with 'That Da-Da Strain' and the 'Original Dixieland One Step'
George Markwick on keyboard with 'Just a Song at Twilight' and 'And I Love You So'
Pam Rea on keyboard with 'Till' and 'Serenade'
Laurie Conder on his new Roland keyboard with 'Somewhere My Love' and 'Beautiful Sunday'
Mary Barrett on keyboard with the theme to 'Steptoe' and 'The Lonely Shepherd'
Barbara Powell on keyboard with 'Til Then' and 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina'
Barbara and husband Rob then dueted on keyboard and clavinova respectively with 'Crazy' and 'Quando Quando'.
A good variety for the first half. Thank you all.

Our guest artiste Chris Larking then entertained us on keyboard and clavinova assisted by Dave Hallam for the finale. Songs included 'Shelby' Coming 'Round the Mountain', 'You Are My Sunshine',
'The Lady is a Tramp', 'Black Coffee', 'Sway', 'Yesterday' on keyboard. After donning his new glasses Chris moved on to the clavinova with 'Love of My Life', 'New York City', a lesson in improvisation with 'Twinkle Twinkle', 'The First of May', 'Sailing', 'Le Roy Jones' and then with Dave 'Amazing Grace'. Great to see you back with us again Chris. Amazing as always!

More photos of the afternoon can be seen in our Photo Gallery



Creative Keyboard Club October 2014 Meeting

Creative Keyboard Club October 2014 Meeting

Our MC for the occasion was Marlene Forrest and the arrival music was played on keyboard by Peter Jackson.
Program ...
Roz Bissett on her keyboard with 'Tangerine' and a medley of  'Where is Your Heart' and 'Tenderly'
8 year old Hana Tani on clavinova with 'Line Dance of The Tulips'
Mother Yuko Tani also on clavinova with 'I Need to be In Love'
They then dueted with a Schubert waltz
Barbara McNab on her Tyros with 'Witchcraft' and 'Making Whoopie'
Rob Powell on clavinova with 'She' and 'More than Ever' (featured recently on Call the Midwife)
Roy Steen on his keyboard with 2 rousing marches 'Strike Up The Band' and a 'Stars and Stripes Forever' medley
Denise Gunson on clavinova with 'Moon River' and 'Just The Way You Are'
Ian Jackson finished up our first half with 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' on clavinova
Thank You to all our players - you all did a wonderful job.

Our guest Lionel Reekie and daughter Alexandra then took to the stage with their piano accordions. Alexandra is currently fundraising for her trip to the World Accordion Championships in Austria where she will be competing. Lionel played some amazing tangos and Latin numbers including 'Quando, Quando, Quando', 'Jealousy' and 'Crazy'. They dueted and Alexandra then dazzled us with a polka and a couple of jazz numbers. Alexandra like her father, is a truly talented performer and showed us why at the age of 13 she has just won both the NZ and Australian Accordion Championships (in her age group). We wish her all the best with the Worlds! Lionel then ended a wonderful afternoon with the perennial 'Now Is The Hour'.

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Creative Keyboard Club September 2014 Meeting

Creative Keyboard Club September 2014 Meeting

The MC for the occasion was Marlene Forrest and the arrival music was played by Allan Powell on keyboard.
Program ...
John Beale a great regular performer on keyboard with 'Pasadina' and 'I Get A Kick Out of You'.
Gweneth Beck on our Yamaha Electone with 'Somewhere Out There' and 'Your's'. Lovely registrations Gweneth.
Noni Walker on our Clavinova with some nice easy listening, 'Feelings' and 'Nobody Does it Better'.
Jimmy Puppyn on her keyboard with 'Music Music Music' and 'Blue Velvet'. Great as always.
Peter Jackson on keyboard with 'I Dreamed A Dream' and 'Lady' in which he showed off his fine singing voice.
Allan Powell returned on keyboard with 'Ob La Di Ob La Da' and 'Memories Are Made of This'
John Perkin on keyboard with 'Bluesette' (French Jazz Waltz) and 'You Are The Sunshine of My Life' with his usual finesse.
A BIG Thank you to all our performers and helpers!

Our guest artiste for the second half was renowned pianist Vladimir Shilov on the club Clavinova. Vladimir gave us some excellent tips on playing the Electric piano and a good variety ranging from Latin American, Boogie Woogie, Blues, Russian Soul and Classical. We also heard some of his fascinating life history. Tunes included 'The Shadow of Your Smile', 'The Man I Love', 'Since I fell For You', 'Summertime' and 'You Are So Beautiful to Me'. Always a pleasure to have you perform at the club Vladimir and we look forward to seeing you back again soon.

More photos of the afternoon can be found in the Photo Gallery