Acoustic Routes

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Acoustic Routes afternoon Social Club A less formal gathering - just for fun. Thanks to Don Franks for opening the singing. Great to see Roy McGuinness on release from hospital.

Fabulous concert at the Collective Hub tonight with Black Eyed Susie, Duncan Davidson and Pick and Mixolydian. A couple of small women's jackets were left behind after the gig. If they are yours, contact the hub on 04 477 5405 to arrange collection, or contact one of our contact emails on the Acoustic Routes website and we'll see if we can help get them back to you.

Acoustic Routes monthly concert with BLACK EYED SUSIE, DUNCAN DAVIDSON, and PICK & MIXOLYDIAN
Thursday 26 September, 7.30pm, Collective Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road (opposite NZ Post), Johnsonville. (Parking, bus and train nearby).

Entry: $15/$10 for members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).

BLACK EYED SUSIE is a band born and bred on the Kapiti Coast, featuring the violin and guitar duo of Susan Colien-Reid and Ramon Oza. Susan has supported many artists including The Blind Boys of Alabama and Ramon is the slick funky blues guitarist with the husky voice who has played since he was 14 including drifting with the “Drifters”, so he’s pretty darn good... Susan and Ramon have worked together for many years and have played festivals, gigs and venues all over the North Island.
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DUNCAN DAVIDSON is a New Zealand native with a clear passion for trad music. He has mixed Scottish, English and Irish heritage and has become an accomplished multi-instrumentalist with an emphasis on Irish trad and Scottish to a lesser degree. He is most sought after for his playing of the 2-row button accordion but also loves to play the tin whistle, trad flute and bouzouki!. Duncan has also been teaching trad music over the last couple of decades and enjoys imparting the skills and nuances he's picked up over the years.

PICK & MIXOLYDIAN are a Wellington-based acoustic duo featuring Jo Shrigley on ukulele and vocals with Bruce Omundsen on small pipes, tin whistle, and vocals. Jo’s singing with Wellington’s WOSOSI (World Song Singers) choir cemented her love of things international. As well as picking away at her ukulele, she is studying Music Theory at Victoria University. Highland piping has been a constant presence for Bruce over the last 40 years. Scottish and other Celtic music is a natural choice for the duo, but Bruce enjoys expanding on the mixolydian scale available to his pipes.

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COMING UP THIS WEEK AT ACOUSTIC ROUTES:

ACOUSTIC ROUTES MONTHLY CONCERT with VIKKI CLAYTON, KEVIN & ROSIE, and DON MACKAY - Thursday 22 August, 7:30 pm.

NB Venue: COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY HUB, 33 Johnsonville Road, Johnsonville, Wellington, (Parking, buses and train nearby).
Entry: $15/$10 for members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).

VIKKI CLAYTON, a Londoner by birth, got caught up in music early. By the age of 13, she was asking for a guitar and her recognised musical talent led her to the Trinity College London, and eventually an honours degree in Performing Arts. Although she started out singing English folk songs, she continued listening to rock and progressive rock and the rest, as they say, is history, from the folk rockers ‘Ragged Heroes’ to Fotheringay and Fairport Convention.
Vikki has also recorded eight solo albums with guests including John Giblin (Simple Minds), Martin Barre (Jethro Tull), and Liam Genochey (Steeleye Span), and sung with other folk luminaries, including Richard Thompson, Ralph McTell, and John Martyn.

KEVIN & ROSIE sing traditional unaccompanied folk songs. When they met in the singing circle at Wellington Folk Festival, they already had a voice apiece, then they found their voices agreed with each other, and they have been singing harmony together ever since. Their repertoire is flavoured by Kev’s Sussex origins. Farming, songs of the sea, social commentary, history, thievery, and pretty little small birds, sung with feeling: real unadorned old-school trad.

DON MACKAY is a Newtown based singer-songwriter best known as one third of "Don and The Divorcees". His songs wander about the borders between folk, country and rock. He has been described as "angry old man shakes his fist at the clouds, and 3 chords".

ACOUSTIC ROUTES JULY CONCERT - featuring DEAN MURRAY, PHONIC FEVER, HAEWAI COLLECTIVE & RAT PROOF.
Roseneath School Hall, Thursday 25 July, 7:30 pm

DEAN MURRAY is a singer songwriter, luthier, builder, environmentalist, gardener, and fisherman. His large collection of songs, written over a period of 20 years, traverse conversations and observations about places, people, politics, and the planet. They are delivered with sincerity, along with a bunch of stories. Expect a very special combination of homemade songs on handmade guitars in various genres from folk through country to reggae, with occasional harmonica on the side.

PHONIC FEVER are an exciting new band keen to share their eclectic mix of original songs with ragtime, blues, swing and bluegrass influences. All four sing, sharing lead vocals and four-part harmonies. Anne O’Donnell (harmonica and ukulele) and Charles Greenlees (guitar, mandolin and fiddle), otherwise known as Chazanne, co-write most of the songs. Geoff Pearce (acoustic guitar) is a promising new songwriter and Jenny Kilpatrick of the Eagals and Madillionares (acoustic bass) completes the line up. Their songs are often tongue in cheek with an element of infectious fun, but with occasional serious undertones and social commentary in unexpected places.

HAEWAI (HOUGHTON BAY) COLLECTIVE began a couple of years back when Janine Mitchell recorded an album of her original songs “Etched in My Soul”, with the support of Jack Binding’s great lead guitar and vocals, plus Kevin Ikin’s mandolin magic. Since then, they have performed at various venues including the Moon Bar and Thunderbird café in Wellington and at The Mussel Inn in Golden Bay and have recently been joined by Pete Lamb with his sensitive percussion. Janine continues to write songs in a 60’s / 70’s folk style, and the group also has lots of fun reviving many of that era’s classic songs, as well as collaborating on writing new songs.

RATPROOF includes Cara Brasted, Rose Dohig, Phoebe Smith, Alex Howie and Rachel Dohig (but without Cara for this gig). They bring a unique mix of instruments and harmonies which have appeared round many kitchen tables, bonfires and more recently the stage, and feature solos on fiddle, banjo, flute, harmonica, and mandolin. Ratproof play acoustic folk/Americana music with both traditional and contemporary selections. Where the name came from is unclear, even to the band themselves.

ENTRY: $15/$10 for AR members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities). Parking on site or catch the number 14 bus to the school gate.

ACOUSTIC ROUTES WINTER SINGAROUND SPECIAL – Tawa Community Centre, 7.30pm, Monday 17 June

June is a big month for the stars – June 21 is the Midwinter Solstice (and the shortest day) and towards the end of June, the cluster of stars we know here as Matariki (the Pleiades) will rise in the sky, giving rise to the beginning of the Māori New Year. We’d like to invite you to celebrate whatever part of that may be important to you in a singaround with a cosy ambience at the Tawa Community Centre.
NOTE: we have changed both the venue and the date so as not to clash with other events that may be scheduled at this time. Our usual singaround at Johnsonville on the third Monday is cancelled for this month. Instead, bring your songs, poems or tunes with a wintry, starry and/or Matariki theme and let’s warm up the winter’s night together at Tawa. If you’d like to participate by performing a number or two, please contact Ruth on 0274 515 486 to register.
We’re looking forward to seeing you there. We may even have some seasonal refreshments to share!
ENTRY: $7/$5 for AR members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities). Parking on site or catch the number 60 bus or the Porirua train.

NZ Music Month at Acoustic Routes – featuring ALAN DOWNES, MADILLIONETTE and the DOWNUNDERMUTTS.

THURSDAY, 23 MAY, 7.30pm, at ROSENEATH SCHOOL HALL, Maida Vale Road, Roseneath, Wellington (Parking on site or catch the number 14 bus).

There is probably no songwriter better suited to performing during New Zealand Music Month than ALAN DOWNES. He was raised in a tiny back country Kiwi farming community and his songs form a narrative of our home, our country, and our place in the world.
Alan is a storyteller who only performs his own songs. They are (mostly) true tales of people and places told with careful observation, a good dollop of humour, and a little nostalgia. His style can be described as a cross over between folk music and bush poetry.

MADILLIONETTE (A.K.A. Jude Madill & Joseph Coleman) are half of Folk/Americana group The Madillionaires. Jude and Joseph will entertain you with all original music about and inspired by life in New Zealand. They are very excited to be bringing a new song about Aotearoa to share with you for New Zealand music month.

The DOWNUNDERMUTTS are Peter and Cathy Dyer and like much of their music, they are American born and bred. They have made their home in New Zealand for more than 20 years and are happy to play some of Peter’s originals as well as some Kiwi classics for New Zealand Music Month.

ENTRY: $15/$10 for members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).
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Also coming up next week;

ACOUSTIC ROUTES MONTHLY SINGAROUND, Monday 20 May, Johnsonville Community Hub, 7.30pm.
Here's your opportunity to show off your latest creation or favourite number to a friendly audience, and enjoy theirs as well.
Acoustic Routes singaround at Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road, Johnsonville. Bring songs, tunes or poems to share, or just come to join in. Go into the main room and the Rimu room is on the left. Tea and coffee provided. Entry $4. Third Monday of every month.

NEWTOWN OPEN MIC – The Office Bar, Sunday 26 May, 5:15 – 8pm
Newtown Acoustic Sound's "Open Mic", upstairs at The Office Bar, 124 Riddiford Street, Newtown.
Back in full swing this month.
(Contact: [email protected], or [email protected])

Coming up at ACOUSTIC ROUTES this week
KAREN CLARKE & AL WITHAM – Thursday 18 April, Roseneath School Hall, Wellington – 7.30pm

KAREN CLARK: With an active live performance schedule, two albums under her belt and another release due next month, collaborating with Wellington-based producer and kiwi blues legend Darren Watson, Karen has well and truly earned her piece of the heartland acoustic music stage. Starting out in folk, Karen finds herself now firmly rooted where RnB and Alt-Country collide. You’ll detect a dalliance with jazz too. She has an eclectic repertoire of self-penned material dealing with themes of belonging, love lost and trying to figure out life’s riddles.
Based in Taranaki, Karen runs an occasional acoustic venue called The Sound Shed with husband Mike Self and is the chair of the Taranaki Singer Songwriter Development Trust.

AL WITHAM started out with nothing and still has most of it left. As a youngster in the 80s he inflicted himself on folk club audiences who were kind enough not to lock him out. A youthful obsession with Bob Dylan led him to explore the weird byways of early American folk, blues, jazz, and country music. Somewhere via Mississippi John Hurt, Johnny Cash, John Lee Ho**er, Charlie Christian, and Tony Joe White, he began writing songs, plugged in an electric guitar, and stumbled onto his own anachronistic way of expressing this temporary existence.

Entry: $15/$10 for members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities). Roseneath School Hall is on Maida Vale Road, Roseneath, Wellington, Parking on site or catch the number 14 bus.

ALSO THIS WEEK - ACOUSTIC ROUTES MONTHLY SINGAROUND - Monday 15 April, 7:30pm - Rimu Room, Johnsonville Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road,. Bring songs, tunes or poems to share, or just come to join in. $4.00. Tea and coffee provided.

ACOUSTIC ROUTES MONTHLY SINGAROUND - Rimu Room, Johnsonville Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road, MONDAY 15 APRIL, 7:30 pm.
Bring songs, tunes or poems to share, or just come to join in. Go into the main room and the Rimu room is on the left.
Tea and coffee provided. Entry $4.

JON SANDERS and ANNETTE ESQUENET at ACOUSTIC ROUTES
- Thursday 28 March, Roseneath School Hall, Maida Vale Road, Roseneath, Wellington, 7:30 pm. (Parking on site or catch the number 14 bus).

Fresh from his NZ tour, bassouki world music artist JON SANDERS brings his eclectic sounds to Wellington. Featuring music that explores the world of sound in the Celtic Folk, Afrofunk and Kirtan genres, Jon will play tracks from his latest project – Tenalach – embracing the synergy between nature and our inner circadian rhythms and tracks from his latest album Nada Brahma (meaning the world is sound in ancient Hindu).

According to The Irish Times, “Jon Sanders has developed a unique world music sound and style that evokes diverse cultures in a ‘quantum-leaping’ way”.

Spotify, Jon Sanders; www.jon-sanders.com; Facebook, Jon Sanders Music.

Our opening act, ANNETTE ESQUENET, is a Kāpiti-based singer-songwriter who began songwriting in 2012 and has a style all her own. Her songs are full of soft-spoken wisdom – she sets heart-felt lyrics to interesting melodies, accompanied in her own unique way.

For our March concert Annette will be joined by JO MOIR – Jo’s smooth harmonies and beautifully crafted fiddle accompaniment are a real treat.

ENTRY: $25/$20 for members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).

The next ACOUSTIC ROUTES MONTHLY SINGAROUND 7.30 pm, MONDAY 18 MARCH, Rimu Room, Johnsonville Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road.
Bring songs, tunes or poems to share, or just come to join in. Entry $4.

A‍ quick reminder about Acoustic Routes' concert this week, featuring UK duo WINTER WILSON at Roseneath School Hall,, Thursday 22 February, 7.30pm.

Winter Wilson – Kip Winter and Dave Wilson – have a global reputation as superb writers, singers and musicians, and great all-round entertainers. Their 10 albums have all received rave reviews - and we're lucky enough to have them here in Wellington this week!
There's parking on site or you can catch the number 14 bus to the school gate.
ENTRY: $25/$20 for members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).

ALSO THIS WEEK: Newtown Open Mic -Sunday 25 February, 5:15 – 8pm. upstairs at The Office Bar, 124 Riddiford Street, Newtown.
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ACOUSTIC ROUTES MONTHLY SINGAROUND Rimu Room, Johnsonville Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road, MONDAY Monday 17 FEBRUARY 7:30 pm.
Bring songs, tunes or poems to share,
or just come to join in.

ACOUSTIC ROUTES FEBRUARY CONCERT - Roseneath School Hall, Thursday 22 February, 7:30 pm
We've got a great overseas guest for our first concert this year - UK duo WINTER WILSON. If you saw them when they toured in 2017, you'll know you won't want to miss this concert on 22 Feb!
Winter Wilson - Kip Winter and Dave Wilson - have a global reputation as superb writers, singers and musicians, and great all-round entertainers. Their 10 albums have all received rave reviews. Pre-Covid, they completed tours of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and most of Western Europe, as well as the UK. Back in Lincolnshire throughout the pandemic, the pair streamed “Live from the Lounge” for 60 consecutive weeks and also wrote and recorded “The Passing of the Storm”, their tenth album. Now performing stunning new songs alongside old favourites, they are thrilled to be back on the road. You will laugh; you may cry. You will certainly want to see them again! http://www.winterwilson.com/
Entry: $25/$20 for AR members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).

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ACOUSTIC ROUTES SHOWCASE: Local treasures, at The Collective Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road, Thursday 23 November, 7.30 pm
Change of venue for this month's concert - we're trying out the Collective Community Hub at Johnsonville for a concert. Come along and see some of our local club members perform. Five acts for one price!
Entry: $15/$10 for AR members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).
*Robyn-Lynn Webber
Robyn-Lynn is a singer-songwriter from Kapiti.
*Marg Pullar
Long-time member; winner of the 'most improved' trophy last year.
*Helen Dorothy
Recorded singer-songwriter, now back in the country, and on your Committee!
* Jenny and Tony
Performing songs written by the legendary Dick Coker - word play and wit.
*West Road, featuring Andrea Coop, Ron Craig and Christine Roseveare
Mostly Americana – songs from Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, Susanna Clark, Guy Clark with a bit of Richard Thompson and Joan Baez thrown in. Expect smooth harmonies and songs worth listening to.
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ALSO - NEWTOWN OPEN MIC UPSTAIRS AT THE OFFICE, SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER, 5:15-8PM.
The last for the year. Newtown Acoustic Sound's "Open Mic", upstairs at The Office Bar in Riddiford Street, Newtown.
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FINAL ACOUSTIC ROUTES SINGAROUND FOR THE YEAR - Monday 20 November, 6pm. - Rimu Room, The
Collective Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road.

The last singaround of the year will begin
earlier and you are invited to bring
takeaways (for yourself, not a potluck meal).
There are at least 10 takeaway shops within
5 minutes’ walk. The hub is licensed so feel
free to bring your own drink. There are wine
glasses and cutlery on site and there will be
tables and chairs set up for eating in our private room.
The plan is to have plenty of social time before the usual singaround, so don’t forget
your songs, tunes or poems to share, or just come to join in.
Tea and coffee are provided. Entry $4. The Hub is easy
walking from the Johnsonville train station and bus stops.