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AR monthly concert: featuring Tracey Haskell, with The PJs and West Road
- Acoustic Routes
- Monday 21 July, Johnsonville Club, 1 Norman Lane (off Johnsonville Road), Johnsonville, Wellington, 7:30 pm.
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July 2025 Balladeer
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- You can download the July 2025 Balladeer here. The post July 2025 Balladeer first appeared on Acoustic Routes.
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June 2025 Balladeer
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- You can download the June 2025 Balladeer here. The post June 2025 Balladeer first appeared on Acoustic Routes.
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AR monthly concert: featuring the EAGALS, Roy McGuinness, and Julie and Murray Kilpatrick
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- Monday 16 June, Johnsonville Club, 1 Norman Lane (off Johnsonville Road), Johnsonville, Wellington, 7:30 pm.
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How Did I Get Hear? #17 - Alan Gregg on Ed Cake's "Downtown Puff"
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- Behold the Golden Man! Some time in the mid-1990s I was sitting on a sofa in Auckland watching a Saturday morning kids’ TV show called What Now? A band came on and played a song which featured the lyric “If I go to hospital / Will you administer my pill?” I had no idea who they were, but the song was brilliant, and one of the band members appeared to have springs attached to the soles of his shoes. A few weeks later I met two members of that band, Edmund McWilliams and Geoff Maddock, at a Supergroove show at Auckland University. We talked about our shared enthusiasm for the music of Jonathan Richman, and they gave me a cassette(!) of some songs they were working on. When I got home and played the cassette it was a revelation. It contained intensely melodic songs with absurd lyrics and unusual arrangements. I felt like I’d stumbled upon some kind of secret treasure. They were pop songs, but not like anything I’d heard before. The songs on that cassette later turned into the eponymous Bressa Creeting Cake album (Flying Nun Records 1997), which is still spoken of in reverential tones in certain circles. The three piece Bressa Creeting Cake band, with Joel Wilton on drums, came on tour around New Zealand with The Mutton Birds (who I played bass with), and it felt like a privilege to watch them play these amazing songs to baffled audiences each night. By that time Edmund McWilliams was becoming better known under the moniker Edmund Cake. In 1999 Edmund and I played together in Bic Runga’s band, when she supported Paul Kelly on a tour of Australia. On that trip I saw first hand how Ed’s approach was not like other musicians I knew. At one show Bic’s band was invited to join Paul Kelly and his band onstage for their encore, and during the song Ed played Paul Kelly’s acoustic guitar with such intensity that his hand bled all over the body of the guitar. At soundcheck the next day Paul Kelly’s unimpressed guitar technician greeted Ed with the guitar and a cleaning cloth. Ed set to work making it spotless, and we weren’t invited onstage for the encore again. Bressa Creeting Cake split up around that time, and Geoff Maddock formed the band Goldenhorse, which went on to become hugely popular in New Zealand. All of this is a very longwinded way of getting to the point that after the demise of Bressa Creeting Cake, Edmund Cake made a solo album called Downtown Puff (Lil’ Chief Records 2004), which I consider to be a masterpiece. Around the time Bressa Creeting Cake ended, an A&R man from the Dreamworks record label in LA came to visit Ed in New Zealand and gave him an advance to make some demos. Ed recorded three songs and sent them to the label. After not hearing from the A&R guy for a while, Ed called him in LA to ask what he thought of the songs. He replied that they were “Quite great”. Dreamworks did not sign Edmund Cake to the label in the end, but they did sign a little-known artist named Nelly Furtado. In the meantime, Tim Finn had become a supporter of Ed’s music and lent him some recording equipment for a studio Ed had assembled in a building in Gore Street in Auckland. Neil Finn had also become a fan and gave Ed time to complete Downtown Puff in his own studio. Edmund Cake is an unusually talented songwriter. He has a gift for composing melodies and chord changes which are both surprising and breathtakingly beautiful. He’s also able to write lyrics which can be funny and strangely affecting at the same time. And he doesn’t sound like anyone else. On Downtown Puff Ed played most of the instruments, and he engineered and produced the songs himself. It’s an album that constantly treads the line between the sublime and the ridiculous, and sometimes does both at the same time. "You’re Watching Me” and “Beautiful Sleep” are ballads as melodic and effortless as any I can think of. The song "Gunga" sounds like Captain Beefheart jamming with Devo on the set of Sesame Street. “My Son the Harpist” tells the story, over an Omnichord drum beat, of a young harp player who meets a tragic end. Ed was improvising the lyrics the first time he ever recorded the vocal on that song and he never changed them. As a result, there are some spontaneous words in that song that you won’t find in any dictionary. The song “Oh Baby Bear” is the catchiest song you’ll ever hear about the Auckland Public Transport system. Ed sings “She’s got a cuppa tea and sandwich, she’s feeling fine / She just crossed the Pukapuka line,” all delivered in a fair dinkum Kiwi accent. Perhaps Downtown Puff’ s master stroke is the track “Golden Man”, which sounds a bit like a 1970s psychedelic folk band singing a gospel song. The poetic lyrics, swooping melodies and Ed’s trademark falsetto vocals all contribute to the song’s eerie beauty. “He commands the cats to claw / He commands the boats to shore / He commands the gulls to fly / He commands the crops to die”. Sometimes Edmund’s music can evoke the genius of Brian Wilson in the way he can take really unusual chord changes and make them seem completely natural in a pop song. But this music doesn’t sound like Brian Wilson. Ed often adopts different character voices for the songs. One moment he’s singing in a sweet falsetto, and in the next he’s growling like Tom Waits. Each song has a distinct vocal identity, almost reminiscent of the way Prince used completely different voices for some of his songs. But this music sounds nothing like Prince. Sometimes I wonder why the Downtown Puff album isn’t better known than it is. It certainly has some devoted fans, but I can’t help thinking more people would like it if they knew about it. For me it’s the work of a visionary musical artist, and it's a collection of songs that contains just the right balance of beauty, mystery, playfulness and outrageously good tunes. It’s also worth mentioning that Edmund Cake released another album under the name Pie Warmer a few years later called The Fearsome Feeling (2009 Lil’Chief Records), which is every bit as great as Downtown Puff. Alan Gregg last year released a superb album under the name Polite Company, entitled "Please Go Wild" - first single "Circulation" is here, we have copies on LP and CD, and his website is here
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The Phoenix Foundation "Pegasus" Vinyl launch instore at Slow Boat!!
- Slow Boat Records
- We are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting our favourite local homeboys, The Phoenix Foundation, for an instore celebration of the first ever vinyl release of their wonderful second album, 2005’s much loved “Pegasus”, featuring such fan faves as “Hitchcock”, “Damn The River” and “Slightest Shift In The Weather”.
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May 2025 Balladeer
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- You can download the May 2025 Balladeer here. The post May 2025 Balladeer first appeared on Acoustic Routes.
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AR monthly concert: featuring Westward, Mary Livingston & Sue Chamberlain, and Peter Berry
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- Monday 19 May, Johnsonville Club, 6 Wanaka Street (off Johnsonville Road), Johnsonville, Wellington, 7:30 pm.
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Record Store Day 2025 at Slow Boat
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- Slow Boat is simply THRILLED to announce we will be hosting exclusive Record Store Day instore performances from a solo Fazerdaze, whose recent album “Soft Power” has been a store fave, and is a finalist for the 2025 Taite Prize, as well as Wellington’s own Warm Regards (in duo form, and featuring Cassette/ Lawrence Arabia’s Tom Watson).
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AR Social Club and Open Mics
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- AR Social Club Wednesday 2 April, Johnsonville Collective Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road (opposite NZ Post), Johnsonville, Wellington, 1:30 pm.
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April 2025 Balladeer
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- You can download the April 2025 Balladeer here. The post April 2025 Balladeer first appeared on Acoustic Routes.
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Merch, baby - MERCH!!!
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- Well, lordy, lordy me - what have we here, then?! After running an (entirely unscientific) Insta poll, we here at Slow Boat have listened to the voice of the people, and have bowed to popular consensus, and had manufactured a limited quantity of marvellous looking Slow Boat hoodies, alongside the regular tee shirts, a new style of (very robust!) tote bags (shall we refer to them as Boat Totes? Yes, I think we shall!) and, for the first time ever - two (count 'em!) varieties of SB trucker caps!! These are available for purchase instore now (my advice - get in quick while we still have a good range of sizes and colours!) so you can be fashion forward, and the envy of your pals. Tees are now $39.50, caps $30, totes $25 and the deluxe hoodies are a still perfectly reasonable $75 - I mean, what price happiness? What price... fashion... Feel free to drop us a line or call (04 385 1330) if you'd like to secure yours, and we'll be seein' ya soon - will have some Record Store Day 2025 related news to share in the upcoming weeks... Peace and love, THE SLOW BOAT CREW XX
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Get ready for Homegrown to strike a chord in the city
- Wellington City Council
- Jim Beam Homegrown is coming to Pōneke this weekend, and with a massive line-up of Aotearoa’s best bands and DJs, there’ll be a few changes along the waterfront to accommodate it all.
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AR monthly concert: Ceann an Éisc, Skinny Dennis and Recently Decent
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- Thursday 27 March, Johnsonville Collective Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road (opposite NZ Post), Johnsonville, Wellington, 7:30 pm.
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March 2025 Balladeer
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- You can download the March 2025 Balladeer here. The post March 2025 Balladeer first appeared on Acoustic Routes.
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Wellyfest – notice of 2025 AGM
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- Wellyfest – AGM Sunday 23 March 2 pm Sprig and Fern, 342 Tinakori Rd, Thorndon. Kia ora whanau The AGM will be held on Sunday 23rd March. Location : Sprig and Fern 342 Tinakori Rd, Thorndon. Kicking off at 2 pm. We will also be setting up a zoom call for those that cannot attend … Continue reading Wellyfest – notice of 2025 AGM
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How Did I Get Hear? #16 - Matthew Bannister on Fairport Convention's "What We Did On Our Holidays"
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- As a teenage Beatle freak, there was no place for folk music in my life.
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AR monthly concert: The Krissy Jackson Duo, and Kirsty Bromley
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- Thursday 27 February, Johnsonville Collective Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road (opposite NZ Post), Johnsonville, Wellington, 7:30 pm.
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February 2025 Balladeer
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- You can download the February 2025 Balladeer here. The post February 2025 Balladeer first appeared on Acoustic Routes.
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2025 SOUNZ Commission for Orchestra and Sistema Youth Orchestra
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- In September 2025 Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings will be performing together at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington. This commission is an opportunity for a composer to create a work of 4-5 minutes featuring the combined forces of Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings. The resulting work will need to have separate parts at an appropriate level for Arohanui Strings. Arohanui Strings is a Sistema-inspired music education programme based in Lower Hutt. The selected composer is expected to work closely with the group throughout the rehearsal process.
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How did I get hear? #15 - Simon Sweetman on Todd Rundgren's "Something/ Anything"
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- Simon Sweetman on Todd Rundgren's "Something/ Anything" Todd Rundgren’s 1972 masterpiece, Something/Anything is his third album, though his first under just his name.
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WellyFest guest applications 2025
- Wellington Folk Festival
- We need great talent to perform, host workshops and lead our dance programme for the 2024 Wellington Folk Festival. If you’d like to be in the programme in any of these capacities (or know people who might), here is a link to our online application form: Guest applications for the 2025 Festival (24 -27 October … Continue reading WellyFest guest applications 2025
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So&So
- Newtown Festival
- Tangata Whenua, So&So is a self producing Hip Hop artist and MC from Te Whanganui ā Tara. Coming from one of Wellington’s top HipHop bands, Gallery, So&So is a veteran in the Wellington music scene. He has played a number of New Zealand music Festivals, from Twisted Frequency to Tora Bombora and CubaDupa, and has […]
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Feliz navidad!!
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Daily Keno + Miles Calder: Double Single Release Show
- Vogelmorn Community Group
- Miles Calder and Daily Keno are both celebrating the release of new singles, and joining together for a special 'Double Single Release Show'. Both artists will showcase the new material with their full backing bands at favourite local venue Vogelmorn Upstairs.
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Acoustic Routes Christmas Party
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- Sunday 8 December, 21 Gordon Road, Plimmerton, 1.
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December 2024 Balladeer
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- You can download the December 2024 Balladeer here. The post December 2024 Balladeer first appeared on Acoustic Routes.
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How did I get hear? #14 - Jeremy Toy on John Coltrane's "Coltrane Live At Birdland"
- Slow Boat Records
- In the early 2000’s Martin Winch had just released “Espresso Guitar” and I was playing in melodic hardcore bands and freaky free jazz funk bands, so it is safe to say that at my guitar lessons with him we were at either pole.
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AR monthly concert Lindsey Shields, with Heather Innes, Jo Moir & Simon Harding, and WilkieMac
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- Thursday 28 November, Collective Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road (opposite NZ Post), Johnsonville, Wellington, 7:30 pm.
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Acoustic Routes
- Acoustic Routes is a club based in Wellington for people who enjoy performing and listening to a wide range of music with the emphasis on acoustic styles. We are an acoustic music club, supporting music in and around the city. Listen to great music, perform, get noticed or as a young musician get supported.
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Arohanui Strings
- Arohanui Strings - Sistema Hutt Valley is a Registered Charitable Trust based in Taita, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. We are a Sistema-inspired music education/social development programme founded in 2010.
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Audio CD Duplication
- Offering Audio CD Duplication services music studios in the greater Wellington region.
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Capital Disco, Professional Mobile Disco's and DJ Wellington NZ
- Looking for Wellington DJs. We are Wellington New Zealand's Wedding, Corporate and Conference Entertainment Specialists. Wellington DJ's NZ DJ
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Curious Keys
- Get started with your musical adventure at Wellington’s newest music school! Join us for music lessons that you’ll actually enjoy, tailored to your individual learning needs and goals.
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Docnz
- The Wellington season of the DOCNZ 2007 Documentary Film Festival screens from November 8-21 this year. Films will be screening at Hoyts Regent on Manners, Paramount, and the NZ Film Archive. Come along to selected screenings to meet local filmmakers. Films are from across the globe with a good handful made in Aotearoa.
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Hutt Valley Concert Orchestra
- We are a community orchestra, based in the Hutt Valley of New Zealand. The 40 or so players come from a wide variety of occupations, but are united in their love of playing music in a full orchestra.
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Lilburn Residence Trust
- The Lilburn Residence Trust was established in 2004 with the following goals. To acquire and maintain the former residence of Douglas Lilburn in Ascot Terrace, Thorndon, Wellington. To allow use of the house for the purpose of a composer residency or other residency which promotes the best interests of New Zealand music.
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Niceup
- NiceUp focuses on the reggae and dancehall scene in Wellington - the capital city of Aotearoa, New Zealand - but also has an eye on the rest of NZ and the international scene. We are dedicated to the promotion and forward movement of reggae and dancehall in Wellington and NZ.
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Nota Bene
- Nota Bene is Wellington’s most versatile chamber choir, with a reputation for innovative programming and high performance standards. Under the musical directorship of Maaike Christie-Beekman, the ensemble performs a wide range of choral music, from classical through to contemporary art music and jazz.
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Orchestra Wellington
- With a rich history as New Zealand’s oldest regional orchestra founded over seventy years ago, Orchestra Wellington’s audience numbers have grown rapidly to become one of the most consistently well attended in the country. With progressive programmes, accessible pricing, and a focus on community outreach, Orchestra Wellington is now recognised as one of the most exciting and progressive orchestras in the world.
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Pure Sound Studios
- Pure Sound Studios is a small music production business located in central Wellington, New Zealand. Established mid 2020, with the aim of providing a creative space for local musicians to easily record their music and experiment with new tools, the core mission of the studio is to help artists make great tracks at an affordable price.
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RadioActive.fm
- Wellington's Alternative Radio Station for 45 Years
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Radioactive
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Rendezvous Discos, Wellington?s professional wedding disco company
- Rendezvous Discos, Wellingtons elite professional mobile disco company. DJ Richard specialises exclusively in energetic, tasteful wedding reception entertainment. Richard is also available to act as your MC (Master of Ceremonies) and to assist with the planning and organising of the reception from your Grand Entrance to your magical last dance. Let DJ Richard from Rendezvous help make your wedding night one that you'll remember fondly for years to come.
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RockBox Party Hire
- We have been in business for the last 10 years, proudly serving the community throughout the greater Wellington area Our unparalleled service, competitive prices, and overall value are why our customers keep returning.We Hire Digital Jukeboxes, Digital Karaoke Systems,Party lighting, smoke Machines, Bubble Machines, PA Systems, Entertainment for all occasions Weddings,Birthdays,21st, Birthdays,Corporate, Functions,Theme Parties, children's parties, Keywords Bronze priority = 20 Jukebox, Karaoke, Party,Hire Lighting, Wellington, Digital, Music, Smoke, Machine, Home, Conferences, PA System, 21st, Dj, Function, entertainment children's Weddings
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Slow Boat Records
- Slow Boat Records is Wellington, New Zealand’s longest running independent record store. Situated at 183 Cuba Street in the vibrant and eclectic Te Aro area of the capitol’s downtown CBD, it has long been a favourite of the discerning music fan.
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Soft Plastics
- Sophie Scott-Maunder (she/her), Jonathan Shirley (he/him), and Laura Robinson (she/her) make up Soft Plastics, an indie rock trio based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, NZ).
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The Great Hoax
- "The Great Hoax" is made up of SIKNIK{www.myspace.com/musicsiknik} on Vocals/keys and Chris Nowland on guitar. Vocalist, keys, and guitarist Nick Swanson has been around the NZ music scene for a number of years, under the artist name “SIKNIK”, and in 2007, released “The Beats in your Brain ep”, scoring himself an interview and feature on UPFM’s “Beat Dungeon” and landed himself on “Beat dungeons” compilation “sonic confinement, aswell getting radio play across the country, mainly on student/youth orientated stations. Lead Guitarist Chris Nowland has also been around the wellington scene for a number of years, performing in various café and bars across the city!, Chris’s main focus of guitar to this point has been guitar solos and ballads, and ads something unique to “The Great Hoax”. Earlier on in the year, the two decided to team up together to make music and play covers of artists the both enjoyed, the first of tributes is of Leonard cohen’s music, to debut to “The Welsh Dragon” on NOV the 27th. The two also plays their own original songs around the place, and are open to any sort of gigs. “our music, is quite versatile, I mean we can play acoustic versions to our songs, or electro, or with a full band”, genres and styles range from folk acoustic, electronic dance/psychedic, and rock. “We play live around wellington, and are currently working on a debut CD
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The Package
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Wellington Bluegrass Society
- The Wellington Bluegrass Society has been in existence since 1990. From the beginning the emphasis has been to support and foster bluegrass and old time music in a friendly and appreciative environment for music lovers. The WBS also attracts performers of other styles of acoustic music. Contact details on this contact page.
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Wellington Folk Festival
- The Wellington Folk Festival is held every Labour Weekend at Brookfield Outdoor Education Centre – a beautiful site owned by the Scouts at 562 Moores Valley Road, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
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Wellington International Ukelele Orchestra
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Wellington Rock 'n' Roll Revival Club
- The Wellington Rock 'n' Roll Revival Club started in 1978. It was started by a group of friends who were concerned at the lack of venues, where they could enjoy rock 'n' roll music.
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Wonderland Records
- Wonderland Records call High Street, in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, home. We've been in the business of selling records, tapes and CD's since 1994 and have built up a huge range of titles by a vast array of artists as diverse as Barabra Streisand, Elvis, Metalica, Nina & Fredick and Joan Sutherland.
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Slowboat posts
- Slow Boat Records
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Slow Boat Records, Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Orchestra Wellington posts
- Orchestra Wellington
- Latest Item: 15 Aug 2018
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Wellington Live Music Blog feed
- Wellington Live Music
- Latest Item: 16 Sep 2020
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Music watchlist
Pages which publish music related newsitems.
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Orchestra Wellington news
- Orchestra Wellington
- Last Changed: 2 months ago
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