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A very Special Event: The Woolshed Sessions
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- Could this be the next Fly My Pretties? A bunch of well-known and up-and-coming Wellington musicians have banded together for a very special project. The Woolshed Sessions are both an album and a live show, packed with songs distinguished by lashings of lap-steel guitar and lush vocal harmonies. The name comes from the place where this disparate group of artists recorded their work. Somewhere in the heart of gorgeous Takaka, Age Pryor, Jess Chambers, Justin Firefly Clarke and others, crafted some fresh music in the improvised recording set-up of a converted woolshed – complete with bare timber floors and corrugated iron. The shed was supplied by its owner and acclaimed filmmaker, Gaylene Preston. Miss Preston describes the sessions in her own lyrical style: ‘You can hear the landscape in these songs. The balmy simple Golden Bay surface flows over dark secret underground caves. Life is sweet with unfathomable darkness lurking. Strings summer strumming with plenty on our minds.’ A hand numbered limited edition of The Woolshed Sessions CD and booklet featuring documentary photographs by Andy Morley-Hall is available this month. And to mark this special occasion, the woolshed experience will be live on stage at BATS Theatre from Thursday the 9th to Saturday the 11th of October. The woolshed sessions will star: Age Pryor - guitar/vocalsAndy Hummel - guitar/vocalsJess Chambers - guitar/vocalsJustin Firefly Clarke – guitar/vocals, banjoAl Fraser - taonga puoro, guitar/vocalsLee Prebble - lap steelPeter Hill - bassBrett Skinner – drums -Darren
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