The Undercurrent

Zamba Flam will be bringing a wonderfull concert showcasing Brazilian artist Baden Powel— Saturday 9th November 💃🏽

All their favourite Baden songs will be on set!

Since 2000 Zamba Flam have brought the best of Brazil and Aotearoa together playing the greats with drive, energy and brilliance.

Featuring Brazilian diva Alda Rezende - vocals, Julie Bevan - guitar, Nick van Dijk - horns and keys, Blair Latham - sax, Paul Mouncey - bass, Maurice Phillips - drums along with special guests.

$20 tix via Eventfinda or on the door.

Doors 7.30pm

https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2024/zamba-flam/wellington

Thank you to Emma Shi and Lemon Juice who launched issue 4 of their zine. ! We loved hosting these superbly talented poets who delighted a large and appreciative audience last Wednesday at Undercurrent: from left to right starting at the back: Erin Ramsey, Emma Shu, Kayla Cambell, Mereana Latimer, Aroha Witinitara, Raven Harvey-Lomas, Billie Angus and Cadence Chung.

This weekend’s jazz 🎺🌙🎷 This Sunday, 3rd Nov, we have a wonderful lineup for our weekly afternoon jazz 🎺🎷👐🏼🍒 ✨ This week Sunday - Oscar Lavën Trio (with Adrian Jensen & Daniel Yeabsley)

Grab tickets in advance via link in bio & come along for a chilled afternoon of books, beverages & live jazz!

$15

Duly Noted: Found Poems from the Notes App for

Saturday, 9 November 2024
6:00 pm 6:45 pm
Undercurrent

This one’s not for the timid. Be prepared to bare all and reveal the secrets of a most hectic and vulnerable place—your notes app. Maybe it’s a shopping list, a half-formed novel idea or your friend group’s agreed-upon rules for King’s Cup. Hand over just a scrap from your app to poets Nick Ascroft and Claudia Jardine and they will attempt to craft poems in real time. No promises that they’ll become The Spinoff’s Friday Poem, but they’ll be something!

Venue is not wheelchair accessible

ENTRY BY DONATION, $5 SUGGESTED

One of the five fairly awesome gigs we had during the recent jazz festival: Daniel Yeabsley and Oscar Laven blowing up what can only be called a storm and that’s Chris Yeabsley doing his exquisite thing on the electric organ. The hand on the right hitting the cymbal belongs to ..umm, I forgot, was it John Rae?, there were just too many brilliant musicians passing through our place. Let us know who it was.

Tonight!! Today at 6pm. Issue 4 is being launched. Readings from a talented bunch of poets. Come for wine, food and lots of poetry & cheer 🍋🍋

Lemon Juice Issue 4 will be launching at the bookshop on Wednesday 30 October, 6pm-7.30pm! 🍋 📖

Lemon Juice is a zine series featuring interviews, articles, and essays on poetry form and breaking the form, aiming to inspire new ways of writing that cross genres and break the rules.

The launch will include poetry readings from Cadence Chung—published poet, author of the nationally bestselling chapbook anomalia, classical musician, and one of the contributors for this next issue. You’ll also hear poetry readings from the six members of the Lemon Juice Writers Group—Billie Angus, Kayla Campbell, Raven Harvey-Lomas, Mereana Latimer, Erin Ramsay, and Aroha Witinitara. The Lemon Juice Writers Group is a free poetry workshop series that started this year, and this talented bunch have spent the past six months developing their poetry skills through workshops and writing prompts. This is a chance to hear the incredible poems they’ve been working on!

All four issues of Lemon Juice will be available to purchase, and all are welcome to come along and celebrate poetry in its many forms. There will be wine and food and lots of poetry-cheer, and the event will be MC’d by Lemon Juice creator and editor Emma Shi. Come!

Philip’s nephew Anton Rayner, a professional artist, who makes portraits of people’s pets. Here is next to examples of his work on our display board in the shop 🐈🐇🎨🐕

Follow his pet portrait Insta ! Open for commissions 🐩🐹

This weekend’s jazz 🎺🌙🎷 This Sunday, 27 Oct, we have a wonderful lineup for our weekly afternoon jazz 🎺🎷👐🏼🍒 ✨

Grab tickets in advance via link in bio & come along for a chilled afternoon of books, beverages & live jazz!

$15

Next month’s NZSA Wellington Writers meet-up will celebrate Courage Day - come along with Koha. These run every second weds of the month at 6pm ✨✨

The November event schedule just dropped, & is stacked full of amazing live music, readings and open mic! 🗓️ grab your tix online via Eventfinda, link in bio ✨ can’t wait to see you in store 📖📚🎶🎉

🦩JAZZ FEST🦩🦩 SATURDAY 🦩
Hey sweeties! You can catch me playing (and singing!) in the following performances today:

🦩- 12pm at Jack Hackett's:
The Wellington City Shake-'Em-On-Downers present the music of Louis Prima!
We're back like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, ready to have the most fun! Don't miss out!
$10/20

🦩- 1pm Capital Blues Basement (Jack Hacketts downstairs):
John Rae Quintet: Clifford Brown and Max Roach
$10/20

🦩2:30pm The Realm:
Russel Henderson Quintet Plays Hard Bop
(Playing trumpet in this one!)
Free Entry

🦩- 6pm The Undercurrent:
The Undercurrent All-stars, swingin octet at the bookstore!
$20

Can't wait! See y'all soon!
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Fabulous trio, Burgin, Kerr and Norman light up The Undercurrent stage on Saturday 26th October 🌟

Irishman Andrew Kerr (ex. Jacky Tar) and Alan Norman (The Warratahs, The Rag Poets) are joined by Paddy Burgin (The Wooden Box Band, The Zimmermans), who featured on Andrew and Alan’s critically acclaimed 2023 release ‘For the Record.’ A swampy melting pot of country, folk, americana and blues, they combine a mutual love of story-telling and rhythmic grooves with narratives about the human experience.

“…..one of the year’s best albums in Americana/folk….a thoughtful, passionate, and musically rich collection that holds up under repeated listens….” Anne Hollister

Advance tickets via link in bio ✨✨

This Sunday 💫 in place of our regular Sunday Jazz… we have an exclusive concert for at The Undercurrent!

Eilish Wilson and friends will present a set of original music and explorations of obscure standards from the Great American Songbook. Featuring Phoebe Johnson (bass), and Olivia Campion (drums).

Grab your tickets in advance via Eventfinda link in bio, $10-15
6pm 🌟

Eilish Wilson is a saxophonist and educator from Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Recently returned from Los Angeles, where she was on a Fulbright Scholarship, Eilish graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Jazz from California Institute of the Arts. Eilish has played at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and toured with Trinity Roots and the Bret McKenzie Band. Artists that inspire her include Josh Johnson, NyOh, Dick Oatts, and Kae Tempest.

This Saturday ✨ The All-Stars are playing at The Undercurrent for an exclusive event!

6pm, tickets in advance via link in bio or on door, $20 🎺

The best and brightest of Undercurrent’s resident musicians are coming together for a one night only show of swinging goodness! Brand new arrangements of some of the Undercurrent favourites will awe and entertain you. Thrilling solos will soar over lush horn lines and fascinating rhythms.

Featuring gig boss Lockie Bennett on the guitar, star arranger Alex Trask on the Alto, acclaimed trumpetist Michael Costeloe, tough tenor Oscar Laven, the beautiful baritone of Dan Yeabsley, best bassist Elijah Mulheron, and the dazzling drumming of Baileigh Sparkes.

Looking forward to a great evening of Wellington’s finest.

Book tix: https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2024/all-stars-at-the-undercurrent/wellington

Instead of the usual open mic we are holding a jazz festival event. Only $10 for one hour of Chris Yeabsley and guests- 6pm ✨✨

This Thursday, at The Undercurrent presents… The Hard Times Bop- Estra 🎺

Dive into the sonic whirlpool at Undercurrent, where the organ will serenade you like a siren luring sailors into a sea of sound. The drum set will thump like the heartbeat of a caffeinated octopus, each beat a te****le reaching out to tickle your senses.

As the horn players take the stage, expect them to unleash a brass storm, their notes swirling like dandelion seeds caught in a whimsical breeze. Each solo will be a sonic soufflé—light, airy, and just the right amount of risqué, rising to heights that defy gravity and logic.
This isn’t just a jazz gig; it’s a musical masquerade where the rhythms waltz like awkward penguins and the melodies pirouette like confused ballerinas. Prepare to be swept away in a tide of improvisation, where every note is a splash of paint on the canvas of your imagination.

6pm, $10 entry, link to advance tix:

https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2024/the-hardtimes-bop-estra/wellington

Gig Chats - Burgin, Kerr and Norman at Ruby Bay Store Burgin, Kerr and Norman gig at Ruby Bay Store Oct 19-20 2024