Tag: music
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Whirimako Black
Maori soul singer, performer and actress, Whirimako Black (Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit) is on tour and has just played the West Coast. One of the surprising things about many of the small settlements in Aotearoa New Zealand is the vitality and creativity of their art scenes. Barrytown, a very small township…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a new audio playlist is curated to go with the blog. The pieces chosen relate to the stories on the blog or to current events. To listen click on the player above. If you have a paid subscription to Spotify you will hear the compete tracks, while free subscriptions will include advertisements. If…
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Choir dates
The new choir had a great session last weekend and we have decided on some dates for rehearsals as well as some other admin things. Here is a poster for the dates and place for our meetings to Christmas.
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Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement in New Zealand. In 1847 Kate Malcolm was born in Liverpool, England and migrated in her twenties to Christchurch Otautahi where she married Walter Sheppard, a merchant. In 1885 Kate Sheppard joined the fight for liquor prohibition by becoming a member of the new Women’s…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a list of music that relates to the blog or to current events is curated on Spotify. Readers can listen to the songs by following this link or by clicking on the play button on the player above. Paid subscribers will hear all the music, free-to-listen subscribers will hear the music with advertisements…
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The new choir
A new singing group has started in Greymouth this weekend. The group met in The Left Bank Gallery on Saturday to sing together, learn some new music, and organise how to run a choir. We will meet every week in blocks of six sessions with a short performance at the end of each block. The…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a new playlist of music related to the blog contents and to world events is created. All the playlists in the series can be seen here and this week’s one can be heard via the player below or directly from the link. If you are a subscriber to Spotify you can hear all…
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Men of the Trees
Trees feature heavily in this week’s blog. Perhaps it is because the first part of the week was spent planting new trees where the studio-on-the-hill is nearly complete, perhaps it is because of the less-than-judicious pruning and cutting out of invasive trees on the land, or perhaps it is just the zeitgeist. Whatever it is,…
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Join a choir
On Saturday 11th November at 2pm there will be a meeting about a new adult choir that I will be starting shortly. We will also be doing some singing so if you do not know if you would like to join a choir, come along to the Left Bank Art Gallery, Mawhera Greymouth at 2pm…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a curated set of music on Spotify accompanies the blog. The pieces relate to the blog contents and you can listen via the player below or by clicking the 3 … on the bottom right of the player and then clicking “Play on Spotify”. If you have a paid subscription to Spotify you…