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The Weekend Sun M U S I C
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By Winston Watusi
Summer, buttered gin, jazz and gigs galore And we’re off. Welcome back. We made it through another year. And we’re positively dashing into 2015, though I must confess it seems hard to get more than minimally motivated at this time of year, what with half the country continuing to holiday, the weather being coma-inducingly hot, and all radio and television news bulletins remaining truncated to confirm that the entire world does indeed stop for the New Zealand summer. But already the emails and communications are again flooding in, crammed with upcoming events that need mentioning, new albums on the cusp of release, and the sort of irrelevant entertainment-related stories.
watusi@thesun.co.nz Because it’s time to move on to this weekend, and a little jazz seems to be breaking out. On Saturday, January 10 local singer Dee DeLuca is playing a jazz and soul show in the new performance venue at Mauao PAC, the Mauao Performing Arts Centre. She’s lined up a crack band of Auckland musicians to back her and is promising “couches, candles, open bar and soothing, captivating and uplifting music”.
Blues Festival hits the Papamoa Tavern on January 24 (check TaurangaMusic.com), with the B-Side Band from that event playing a warm-up at Brew Bar on January 16 (see bsidebandnz.com); and country music comes to the Art Gallery in the form of Into The East on January 29 (try artgallery.org.nz). More on all of those in the next fortnight. Till then...
Top-flight musos
The three top-flight musos coming to town are guitarist Dixon Nacey, a veteran of the Auckland scene who Doomsday plays currently teaches guitar and takes “What’s the last song you’d play if it ensembles at Auckland University. really was doomsday?” – that currently He’s released three albums under his fill the pages of print and internet own name and backed the prestigious media (to confirm that the entire world likes of Nathan Haines, King Kapisi, does indeed stop for the New Zealand Tama Waipara, Annie Crummer, summer, etc) . Whirimako Black, Caitlin Smith, and But before getting onto that potenTim Hopkins. tially useful information, let me share Rounding out the band are the a little something. Tauranga’s Dee DeLuca is singing jazz and soul at equally acclaimed Karika Jr Turua Since my last column, last year in fact, (bass) and Kim Paterson (horns and Mauao Performing Arts Centre tomorrow. I have discovered a new culinary experidrums). Both of whom are kinda legence. Okay. Not exactly mind-blowing. mixing yer regular G&T, but it genuinely endary in their fields. It may not even be new to you (in which tastes as the person who introduced me Things start at 8pm; tickets are $15 from case this build-up is going to be somewhat to it said: “Like someone has liquidised a Eventfinder or $17.50 on the door. of an anti-climax but you’ll be able to feel Cadbury’s caramel bar in a bottle of gin”. Actually there are all sorts of interesting happily superior, so it might be worth it The wonderful thing is that because the gin little events coming up this month which anyway...). retains its clean ginny taste, it isn’t sickly. I’ll delve into at greater length soon. I discovered hot-buttered gin. But I know many of us need to plan Yes, it does sound a bit odd, I know, but Buttered gin ahead. So here’s a couple of things you it conforms to one of those age-old rules Making buttered gin, which is good for might like to check in case you need to of food and drink, which is that almost everything from the aforementioned G&T arrange babysitters/sober drivers/excuses in anything tastes better if you add the words to just being slurped neat over ice, is actuadvance. “hot-buttered” before it. Toast, sweetally a bit of a mission, involving butter, Legal Tender are bringing their alternacorn, new potatoes, boiled eggs, muffins, sugar, a vanilla pod, freezing and a couple tive country/folk sounds to the Te Puna popcorn, fish fingers: just add butter and its of other tricks, but it’s well worth the effort. Memorial Hall on January 21 (contact better... If anyone wants the recipe drop an email to redruth@vodafone.co.nz); the Summertime
Sceptical
Despite that I must admit that even I was initially sceptical about hot-buttered gin, and, yes, I do have a friend who butters his fish fingers. Buttering gin isn’t quite as easy as just
Art at the beach For those tired of sand-filled days along the shoreline today and this weekend there’s indoor entertainment with an art exhibition at Waihi Beach Community Centre. Waihi Art Club is hosting its summer exhibition at the centre from January 9-11 from 10am-4pm, with the art for sale. Entry is via gold coin donation. Enquiries to Anne on 07 863 5987.
Club Mt Maunganui Mount Rsa Saturday 10th – The Fri 9th - Shy & retiring Hollywoods Beach Party 7.30pm. 2015 8pm. Sat 10th - Terry Jensen 7.30pm. The Matua Sun 11th - Leo’s Productions Sun 11th - Blaze 3-6pm 4.30pm-7.30pm. Wed 14th - A taste Of The Crown & Badger Country 7.30pm. Fri 9th - Shabang 9pm. Sat 10th - Celsius 9.30pm. Like The Boulevard @ Papamoa Welcome Bay Bar Sun 11th - Keith From Fri 9th - ‘Karaoke’ with Wing - It 1.30-5pm. Paulena 8pm.
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