Kauaeranga Gigs

25/10/2024

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Join The Petersens on their 2025 New Zealand Tour for an unforgettable American roots music experience. Enjoy soulful harmonies, heartfelt songs, and warm family charm live in New Zealand!

05/08/2024

ANDREW LONDON AT KAUAERANGA HALL - 17th August
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Andrew London’s quirky satirical songs have been the backbone of swing trio Hot Club Sandwich, Tui-nominated country-rockers the Cattlestops, and his self-named Andrew London Trio for more than a quarter of a century.

I Hugged My Mate, Let’s Talk About Me and My Daughter’s Got a Boyfriend have had audiences in stitches for decades, but the songwriting is multi-faceted. Songs like ‘Emily Bay’, about the 1846 convict uprising on Norfolk Island, ‘Forty Winters’, a discussion with a bricklayer from Newcastle-on-Tyne, and ‘You Just Count it Off’, his reminiscence of collaborations with Taranaki muso Keith Cramer, all evoke degrees of pathos and poignancy that belie his reputation as a writer of comedic songs.

London’s delivery is wrapped in an eclectic mix of styles with Andrew’s swing-era guitar style accompanying, while partner Kirsten underpins solidly on bass and backing vocals. The duo regularly play jazz, blues, country and folk festivals and clubs, with no obsession or preference for any of those particular musical umbrellas. ‘They’re just annoyingly limiting’.

Andrew’s songs and recordings have gained 4-star reviews in Downbeat magazine (the World’s longest-running and most widely read jazz magazine), provided soundtracks to movies (Second-Hand Wedding, No Ordinary Sheila, No Petrol, No Diesel), been nominated for Tui awards and contributed to National Radio’s Greatest Song Ever Written and a Correspondence School English Syllabus.

The duo’s current show sees them tighter than ever, the songs more concise, with the accent on acerbic satire, tongue-twisting wordsmithery, and lovingly crafted vocal harmonies. Someone once said “I’ve never seen anyone sing so many words, so fast, without swallowing his own tongue.”

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WHAT: The Andrew London Duo
WHEN: Saturday 17th August @ 7:30pm
WHERE: Kauaeranga Hall, 437 Kauaeranga Valley Rd, Thames
TICKETS: Door sales $25
Pre-paid $22 txt: 021912993 or [email protected]
or Garden Music, 712 Pollen St, Thames

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20/06/2024

Club Manouche at Kauaeranga Music 26 July @ 7:30pm
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After a six month self-imposed recess, Kauaeranga Music is back for the second half of 2024, and celebrate this with Club Manouche on Friday 26th July at 7:30pm.

Featuring Professor James Sneyd on violin, Craig Denham on accordion, foot percussion and vocals, Phil (the shredder) Beatson on guitar and Aaron Coddel on bass Club Manouche play an intoxicating live set of gypsy swing classics, mixed with an eclectic selection of odd sorts.

With the tangible camaraderie of seasoned players and long friendships, their performances are filled with passion, gusto, a sense of humour and mischievousness. They certainly not beyond taking a well-known tune down the wormhole of contagious improvisational outbursts to see what’s there.

The recommendation from the artists is to turn up with your best bohemian spirit and your dancing shoes. These guys know how to have fun with music and to give everyone a smile that only comes from a night out with great live music.

WHAT: CLUB MANOUCHE
WHEN: Friday 26th July 2024 @ 7:30pm
WHERE: Kauaeranga Hall, 437 Kauaeranga Valley Rd, Thames
TICKETS: Door sales $25
Pre-paid $22 txt: 021912993 or [email protected]
or Garden Music, 712 Pollen St, Thames

30/12/2023

Kauaeranga Music welcomes back THE EASTERN
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The Eastern, last seen at Kauaeranga Hall in 2018, describe themselves as a string band that roars like a punk band, that swings like a gospel band, that hopes like folk singers, and sings love songs like union songs, and writes union songs like love songs, and wants to slow dance and stand on tables, all at the same time.
Four albums and well over 1000 shows deep The Eastern have played and toured with Fleetwood Mac, Steve Earle and Old Crow Medicine Show amongst others, ticking off miles, countries and 200 plus shows a year every year.

‘No Depression’ magazine noted they were “One of the best modern roots acts, from any country”. Both Radio NZ and the NZ Herald described them as “National Treasures” and The Heralds Graham Reid called singer Adam McGrath “NZ’s toughest minded songwriter”. NZ country legend Barry Saunders simply called them “The Truth.”

Having delivered four albums (‘The Eastern’, ‘Arrows’, ‘Hope & Wire’ and ‘The Territory’), The Eastern garnered a reputation as NZ’s hardest working and most honest to goodness band, one that embraced an old-fashioned ethic of people and shows over posts and playlists. They gather converts and friends wherever they or their records land.

Thrillingly the rolling, rambling, spirit raising atmospheres they project in their live shows have endeared them to the hearts of many. It’s obvious they care about the audience as much as the songs.

WHAT: THE EASTERN
WHEN: Friday 12 January 2024 @ 7:30pm (outdoor gig if fine)
WHERE: Kauaeranga Hall, 437 Kauaeranga Valley Rd, Thames
TICKETS: Door sales $25
Pre-paid $22 txt: 021912993 or [email protected]
or Garden Music, 712 Pollen St, Thames