Category: Blog

Welcome to the blog. A general roundup of events past and projects to come.

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Music Session and Balfolk

Join us for an afternoon of folk music and social dancing on the Kapiti Coast!

Where: Raumati South Memorial Hall
16 Tennis Court Road, Raumati South

When: Sat 12 April 2025 – 1:30 to 5pm

1:30pm to 2:30pm (free)- Join our band for a casual tune session: open to any musicians who wants to discover some Balfolk tunes. 

3 to 5pm: Bal Folk, social dancing 
Dances will be called and beginners are welcome to join.
$15 – koha for students, concession or unwaged (cash or bank transfer)

What: Balfolk is a folk dance and music movement from Europe that gives new life to traditional dances. A ‘Bal Folk’ is a social dance event that brings people of all ages and walks of life together through group and partner dances to have fun and connect. It’s a friendly, social and energising space.

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Dave Flynn and friends St Patricks Day Evening.

Awesome event at venue I’d not been to before here in Wellington, Whiskey and Wood on Cambridge Terrace. Dave Flynn on tour, playing some traditional Irish music and his own compositions with a little help from his friends aka The NZ String Quartet. Fiddle and Box player, Em Griffiths and Duncan Davidson particularly outstanding.

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New Album

Happy to announce the release of my new studio album, March of the Anorax to all streaming media services on 15th December 2024. I have decided to concentrate on releasing at least one album per year as I have a lot of music that I simply wish to record and get down, plus, I really enjoy the production and recording process. It’s good fun.

About the Album.

March of the Anorax is a series of tracks that I have been chipping away at for many years. With no particular purpose other than trying to bring them forward. Learning all the while as I went, the dark arts of audio production that today’s DAW’s so wonderfully afford us.

Always a big fan of music for film and genre composers, it very recently dawned on me that these tracks are my own personal way of paying homage to that, which has given me so much pleasure. From the old school monsters of “Hammer House of Horror” to the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone and the music of Morricone. To the brutal paganism of the “Wicker Man” to Sean Connery as the classic Bond. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the Beauty and the Beast.

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Apra Silver Scroll Awards Ceremony

Had a wonderful evening at the Apra Silver Scroll Awards here in Wellington this week. Congratulations to all of the finalists and winners who went on to take the prizes. Some very talented people at work here, aside from the artists themselves. The sound, stage and lighting sets were all simply fantastic and the old St James Theatre simply buzzed with the presence of such illuminati.