Monthly Newsletter of

ACOUSTIC ROUTES
March 2008

Special concert: Ruth Wyand

If you were lucky enough to catch her last time around, you’ll know this
is a concert not to be missed.
Ruth is an award-winning guitarist and songwriter. Equally adept at
fingerstyle and flatpicking, her songwriting is heavily influenced by blues,
jazz, ragtime, country, folk and swing. She started out playing in blues and
rock biker bars as a guitarist and bandleader at the age of 15. Since then
she has graduated to being a solo acoustic performer in coffeehouses,
pubs, house concerts, clubs and festivals throughout the US, Paris, the UK
and New Zealand.
Ruth was the 2006 winner of the Gamble Rogers guitar completion in
St Augustine FL and has been victorious in Songwriting at a number of
other music festivals in the US.
Between 1997 and 2006 she has made four CDs and a DVD, ‘Dante Hall’.
We look forward to seeing her again in Wellington.

TUESDAY 4 Mar 8 PM $15/10

TOI PONEKE (Wellington Arts Centre), ABEL SMITH ST

Blackboard concert
This month’s other star attraction is ... YOU!

Always fancied trying your hand at performing? Well, this month is your chance. The 4th
Sunday of March is Easter Sunday this year, so there will be no Acoustic Routes concert that
night. However as luck would have it, there are 5 Sundays in March, and that means we can have
one of our ever-popular blackboard concerts. Get along to the club in good time to put your name
on the board before the spaces run out.
And if performance is not your cup of tea, the blackboard concerts are good fun for audiences, too.
We get to hear everything from new and emerging performers to veteran performers with new
material and old favourites. It is usually a most enjoyable evening - so see you there!

SUNDAY 30 Mar 8 PM $5
TOI PONEKE (Wellington Arts Centre), ABEL SMITH ST
www.acousticroutes.org.nz
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Acoustic Routes
PO Box 27-191 Marion Square
Wellington, New Zealand.
www.acousticroutes.org.nz
president@acousticroutes.org.nz
Acoustic Routes (Wellington Folk
Centre) is a club for people who enjoy
performing and listening to music with
the emphasis on folk and acoustic
styles.
Monthly Concerts are held at Toi
Poneke (Wellington Arts Centre, Abel
Smith Street), on the fourth Sunday of
each month at 8pm. These feature an
invited guest performer, with a variety
of supporting acts to open the show.
Door charges are $7 for members, $10
for non-members, and school-aged
kids free. Free tea and coffee.
Singarounds are held at Toi Poneke
on the second Sunday of the month.
These are more informal sessions
where anyone can perform or lead a
song. Door charge $5.
Jam Nights happen at Toi Poneke on
the third Sunday of the month. Door
charge $5. The emphasis is on making
music together as a group - joining in
and having the opportunity to lead or
add your own flavour to the mix.
Murray Kilpatrick will facilitate but
everyone will have the opportunity to
lead a song or tune
Club Committee 2006-7
: Gerard Hudson 565 3432
president@acousticroutes.org.nz
: Sue Ikin 478 4160
secretary@acousticroutes.org.nz
: Sue Hirst
Mike Hickman 232 3123
Ruth Birnie 565 3432
ruth.birnie@xtra.co.nz
Shirley McGregor 478 0390
shirley.mcgregor@paradise.net.nz
Balladeer
Janette Munneke 477 2563
jm_folkmusic@hotmail.com
The Balladeer
This newsletter is produced once a
month for Acoustic Routes members
and other subscribers.
Contributions are welcome and are
to be emailed to Janette by the 15th of
the month preceding the month of
issue. Publication is the last weekend of
the month. Relevant publicity leaflets
may be inserted with mailouts, at the
discretion of the committee.
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INSTANT PRINT
Summer cooling off but
festivals not over yet
I hope you have all enjoyed
whatever festivals you might have
attended over the Summer, and it
is not over yet - as all of you Inter-
national Festival enthusiasts well
know! I’ve finally had a chance to
glance through the programme
and take note of all the things I’d
like to see but have probably
missed out on. If you like to live
dangerously and take your chanc-
es of getting in at the last minute
(like me), here are few ‘folky’
items: ‘Book of longing’ based on
the poetry and images of Leonard
Cohen, The Ukelele Orchestra of
Great Britain (be quick - season
nearly over), Martyn Hayes and
Dennis Cahill (likewise), and
‘Green Fire Islands’ - a collabora-
tion featuring Celtic and Maori
music, conceived by Donnal Lun-
ny and Bronwen Christianos.
Meanwhile we also have a busy
programme for March - no con-
cert on the 4th Sunday this
month, as that is Easter Sunday -
but we have Ruth Wyand at the
club, and Vin Garbutt at the Na-
tional Library Auditorium.
Also this month we have a fifth
Sunday, so this is your chance to
dust off the instruments and
warm up the vocal chords and
come along and perform at the
Blackboard Concert.
Speaking of performance op-
portunities, we have nearly tied
up the programme for the year,
but there is an outside chance
that we might have a 4th Sunday
concert slot might become availa-
ble depending on responses from
invited guests. If you have been
preparing for a gig and you think
the Committee might not be
aware of your capability and de-
sire to perform, please let a com-
mittee member know. If the
opportunity does arise, we’d like
to give it to a club member or
someone closely involved with
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the club, and we realise we may
not know of all the possibilities
out there.
Having Easter this month
means that the Canterbury Folk
Festival is on the horizon - further
information inside.
In other news, Phil Garland is
celebrating his recent win of the
TUI 2007 Award for his album
‘Southern odyssey’. The an-
nouncement of the BBC2 awards
in the UK has reminded me how
quickly things move on - not
many names I know in the list,
but Ron will be pleased to see
John Tams there:
Folk Singer of the Year - Julie
Fowlis
Best Duo - John Tams and Barry
Coope
Best Group - Lau
Best Album - Prodigal Son
Best Original Song - Never Any
Good (Martin Simpson)
Best Traditional Track
Cold Haily Rainy Night (The
Imagined Village)
Horizon Award - Rachel Unthank &
The Winterset
Musician of the Year - Andy Cutting
Best Live Act - Bellowhead
Lifetime Achievement Award - John
Martyn
Good Tradition Award - Shirley
Collins
Folk Club of the Year - Dartford Folk
Club
Must be time I went back for a
visit!
On the subject of moving on,
the Singers’ Club are planning a
relocation - keep your eyes peeled
for news of their new venue,
which will be teed up before the
March gig, on the last Tuesday of
March (25th). More details inside.
My album of the month: Pacifi
Celta by Pacific Curls and Sarah
Beattie - I enjoyed their energetic
performances in Auckland every
bit as much as I expected to.
Cheers, Ed
 Singers’ Club
Our sister ship the Singers’ Club is sailing The Singers’ Club
off to a new harbour this month - and as
we go to press we are not quite sure Venue tba,
where that will be! Bar Edward in New- Wellington
town is a likely contender. Watch out for
Gerard’s email update for confirmation,
7.30
or contact Tony Hillyard on (021) 253 Tuesday 25 March
8996 email: tonyh@clear.net.nz $8/$7 Acoustic Routes
Tony and his gallant crew of musicians Members with Singers
are meanwhile preparing a night of en-
Club Card.
tertainment for you with the usual gusto.

The Ashgrove
Wellington-based singer songwriter Carol Bean (pictured left)
made a big impression at the Auckland Folk Festival this year. As
well as performing on the main stage, Carol presented a workshop
entitled ‘The Ashgrove’ that was a festival highlight for some
attendees. Nothing to do with traditional Welsh songs, apparent-
ly, but all about Carol’s early musical experiences at the renowned
folk club of that name in California.
(Photo courtesy of Gerard Hudson)

Vin Garbutt in concert

Saturday 8 March
7.30pm
National Library Auditorium, Aitken St
$25

Vin Garbutt is probably one of the best-loved singers

on the folk music circuit today. He has been writing
and singing his superb songs in folk clubs and festivals
around the world for many years. Some of his songs
will make you cry. Others will have you helpless with
laughter. His between-song patter is legendary, and all
delivered in his gentle Middlesbrough accent. He is an
accomplished guitarist and fine whistle player.

It’s been three years since Vin was

last in Wellington.
Don’t ‘bypass’ this event, folks!

Tickets now available from Real Groovy Music, Cor-

ner of Cuba and Abel Smith St, Wellington.
Contact John Faisandier (04) 476 8186 or john@faisandier.co.nz for further information, or
see www.vingarbutt.com
For clips to see Vin perform go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZOV_yOyRJ4, on youtube or
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=101646348

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 Phil Garland wins TUI Award
Our congratulations to folklorist and bal- mission has been to gather and preserve for pos-
ladeer Phil Garland - his 18th record ‘Southern terity the stories and songs of New Zealand.
Odyssey’ has taken out the Best Folk Music Al- “A third Tui is just reward for a musician who
bum for 2007, announced on January 27 at the has given so much to the New Zealand folk scene
Auckland Folk Festival in Kumeu. over many years. RIANZ is delighted to acknowl-
Garland’s achievement will also be acknowl- edge that contribution once more.”
edged at the New Zealand Music Awards in Oc-
tober 2008.
Often described as the father of New Zealand
Folk Music, Garland has previously been a four
time-finalist for the award.
His very first album ‘Springtime in the Moun-
tains’ took out the inaugural Folk Album of the
Year Tui at the New Zealand Music Awards in
1984 as did ‘Send the Boats Away’ a year later -
an album to which he contributed.
Two further Garland albums - ‘Hunger In The
Air’ in 1987 and ‘Wind In The Tussock’ in 1989 -
also reached finals selection in the New Zealand
Music Awards.
Numbering amongst his many achievements About RIANZ: The Recording Industry Asso-
is a Radio New Zealand commissioned musical ciation of New Zealand Inc (RIANZ) is a non-
documentary for national broadcast. The pro- profit organisation representing major and inde-
gramme, Landfall New Zealand, was selected pendent record producers, distributors and re-
from 60 international entries to win the prestig- cording artists throughout NZ. RIANZ works to
ious Hoso Bunka Award in Japan. protect the rights and promote the interests of
Garland has also appeared on the American creative people involved in the NZ recording
TV show "Our Amazing
World" singing traditional
and original New Zealand
songs to an estimated audi-
ence of 60 million viewers.
The other finalists for
the Folk Album of the Year
2007 were The Hobnail
Boots (Jo Moir and Rob
Joass) from Wellington
with ‘The Fortune Horses’
and Auckland’s Owen
Hugh for ‘You and I’.
New Zealand Music
Awards spokesperson
Campbell Smith says
Garland’s win shows the
seasoned artists can still
pump out top tunes.
“Phil’s win demonstrates
to me there is great value in
experience and that perse-
verance is one of a 2007 TUI Award finalists, Jo Moir, Owen Hugh, Phil Garland and Rob
musician’s greatest traits. Joass at the Auckland Folk Festival 2008. Photo by Gerard Hudson.
For more than 30 years his
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 Wayne Mason and the Fallen Angels
Lifeboat Tavern
Saturday March 1st
8.30pm
$15 presales, $20 at door, book at venue or email
venue lifeboat@xtra.co.nz
The Winemaker's Daughter
Sunday March 9th
4.00pm
$15 at door
Book table by ringing venue
Wayne Mason and The Fallen Angels will be per-
forming some new songs from their forthcoming al-
bum “Sense Got Out” as well as some old favourites
from Mason’s musical past. Well known as the writer
of “Nature”, a song voted by APRA members as the
number one song for the past 75 years in 2001, Ma-
son believes his latest album has some of his best
work yet, songs that seek to understand the darker
emotional side of our human nature.
Mason's songs explore the unloved, the unrequit-
ed romance, the tensions and the journey along the
way....it's not all about happy endings. And then
again, sometimes it is.
He’s also a dam fine boogie woogie piano player
and along with his band, will raise the temperature
when they rock through some fast and furious piano
playing. Audiences will be swept away with songs
they won’t easily forget, tunes that won’t go away.
On stage is where Mason feels most at home, per-
forming with passion and an intensity that’s hard to
ignore.
Special Guest with Wayne Mason and the Fallen
Angels will be the dynamic alt country singer Laura
Collins.

Levin Folk Club

about places that Rona and Jeremy visited during
Guests: The Atrix Band their 2006 trip to Ireland.
7.30pm, Friday 14 March Contact: Anne Campbell06-3683777
Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall annemc@ihug.co.nz
Bartholomew Road, Levin
$5, supper provided
Open blackboard first half - one song
each
The Atrix Band is Rona and Jeremy Cooper from
Levin Folk Club, joined by various other invited mu-
sicians as available. On this occasion they will have
Tony Burgess backing them and a special guest ap-
pearance from Mark Warren. With an early celebra-
tion of St Patrick's Day for our March meeting, we
have the Atrix Band performing a broad Irish set
(amongst their other band repertoire of English,
Scottish, NZ and self-penned songs). The Irish set
will cover a variety of Irish music including songs

Pukerua Bay Folk Club

8pm, Thursday 6 March
Murray and Julie Kilpatrick's home
9 Donlin Rd
Pukerua Bay
Ph 239 9951
Email Julmur@paradise.net.nz
This month’s guest: Singer songwrit-
er Helen Gummer
We will begin with a sing-around where everybody
is invited to contribute to the evening's entertain-
ment. This will be followed by tea/coffee, Julie's
Photo: Gerard Hudson
famous scones and then our guest will perform. Everybody very welcome.

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 Kapiti Live Music Club
Andrew White
Tuesday 19th March 7:30pm
Murphy's Law Waikanae
$7 entry or $5 members

During the past year, musician An-

drew White has been taking festival au-
diences across North America by storm
with his technically amazing work on the
fret-board and his soulful songs. He has
toured both Canada and the UK with the
critically acclaimed production Interna-
tional Guitar Night - featuring four of the
worlds most foremost acoustic guitarists.
His album Andrew White - Live was
nominated for an East Coast Music
Award in Canada and he and he has just
recorded his eleventh album Traces of
Silver released on Candyrat Records in
Milwaukee and Ode Records in New Zea-
land. An impressive year for an artist
who started his career busking on the streets of Auckland.
Andrew White has toured internationally as a soloist and supporting superstars such as Irish
folk rock group Clannad, The Corrs, Michelle Shocked, Tommy Emanuel, The Indigo Girls, Taj
Mahal and many more. He also toured with Scots folk outfit Capercaillie and took a 50,000-strong
German festival audience by storm in a pairing with New Zealand's own Brendan Power.
Joining Andrew on his New Zealand CD release tour is violinist Gillian Boucher. From the small
Island of Cape Breton in Eastern Canada, Gillian has toured the world as a solo artist and with
various ensembles, sharing the stage with the likes of Emmylou Harris and Tom Paxton. Her
unique musical approach and cross-over between traditional Celtic and contemporary music
makes her a sought-after working musician in Canada and abroad. She frequently accompanies
Andrew on stage and her music can be found on Andrew's last two recordings. Please visit
www.myspace.com/gillianboucher for a detailed biography as well as audio and video samples.
See http://klmc.org.nz or email gig@klmc.org.nz

CEOL ALBA Otaki Live Music Club

2ND & 4TH Fridays, Chilton St James, Lower
Hutt, 7:30pm - 9:30ish, $3 Sunday 2 March, 7pm
Phone Lynne Scott, 565 0164; Senior Citizens Hall, Rangatira Street, Otaki
lynne@scott.gen.nz $2 and supper

Ceol Alba is a club for Scottish music All-genre Blackboard concert

enthusiasts to get together to share and play
Scottish music. Any instrument is welcome, Contact: Cavan Haines
except perhaps bagpipes, as they use a 06 3648991
different scale and tuning. Although the main chaines@pocd.co.nz
gates are on Waterloo Road, the back gate
in Chilton Grove is the best.

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 Canterbury Folk Festival, Easter 2008
Everyone is welcome to be a part of this unique, friendly festival experience just 40
minutes north of Christchurch in the picturesque and historic Waipara Valley,
amongst North Canterbury's famous vineyards.
An unashamedly great weekend consisting of concerts, workshops, barn dance, jam
sessions, festival Choir and children’s programme.
Guests: Sonia, Benny Gallagher, Jennine Bailey and band, Kath Tait, Jo & Rob,
Johnny Possum, Rhonda & the Ravers, Margaret & Geoff Morgan, Adrien Kirk, Tell
Tale Sisters, and Barrie Clubb
Website: www.canterburyfolkfestival.org.nz
Jazz singer Jennine Bailey

Mainly Acoustic Concert Mainly Acoustic Concert in

Tuesday 11 March Harcourt Park
7.30pm Local Performers Akatarawa Road Upper Hutt
9pm Guest - Jasmine Whenham Sunday March 9 from 2pm
Mainly Acoustic Music Club has touring Cana- An array of talented guests, from trad to
dian singer/songwriter Jasmine Whenham modern, solo to group.
http://www.jasminewhenham.com What’s to be said, Relax, picnic and make a day of it in this
she’s twenty something, writes rip- beautiful park.
ping good songs, sports less wrin- Most likely a shindig some-
kles than most of our committee, where afterwards so bring spoons
(careful here), she has a rich pow- - CU there
erful voice and she’s set to do one Enquiries Kevin & Sue Meehan
very good gig at the Mayfair Café 970 4008
116 Main St.

Southern Hemisphere International

School of Scottish Fiddle
"A fantastic week of fun and fiddling - don't miss it!" - Lynne Scott
Applications are now open for the 5th annual Southern Hemisphere International School of Scottish
Fiddle, 20th - 27th April 2008 at Kaitoke, Upper Hutt.
Concert in Upper Hutt on Saturday 26th April.
You can download your application form and get all the latest information at www.shissf.com
Our fiddle instructors for 2008 are Catherine Fraser, Australia; Gregor Borland from Scotland via Spain;
and Laura Risk, Canada, who we are delighted to have back for the second year. Accompaniment classes will
be taken by pianist Duncan Smith, and are suitable for all accompanying instruments (keyboard, cello,
guitar, harp etc)
Please don't hesitate to contact us with any enquiries, and feel free to forward this on to anyone you think
may be interested.
Kind regards
The SHISSF Team: www.shissf.com
PS - You don't have to be a virtuoso fiddler, there are classes at different levels. Ask!!

Access Radio (783 AM) Americana: Sundays 2 – 4pm

ON THE Celtic Connections: Saturdays 9am
Ireland Calling: Wednesdays 10pm RadioNZ National (567 AM /

AIR Capital Irish: Sundays 12 mid-day

Town & Country Radio: Mondays 9 pm

Radio Active (89 FM)

Global Pulse: Sundays 8 – 11am
101.3 FM)
Music 101: Saturdays 2pm
Beale Street Caravan (Blues): Mon-
days 11pm

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March events Folk Clubs & Contacts
Tuesday 4 March Acoustic Routes
Ruth Wyand, Toi Poneke Concert 4th Sunday of month, Wellington Arts Centre, Abel Smith
Thursday 6 March Street, 8pm (except March when it is Easter Sunday). Informal sing-
Pukerua Bay Folk Club around 2nd Sunday, Jam session 3rd Sunday, and Blackboard con-
cert 5th Sunday, same time & place. See page 2 for details and contacts.
Blues @ The Bristol
The Singers’ Club
Friday 7 March Last Tuesday of month, Venue tba. Guest performers and Singers’
Bluegrass Society Blackboard Club residents. Music from 7.30pm. Contact: Tony Hillyard (021) 253
Saturday 8 March 8996 email: tonyh@clear.net.nz
Vin Garbutt Mainly Acoustic Music Club
National Library Auditorium 2nd Tuesday of month, 7.30, Mayfair Cafe, 166 Main Street, Upper
Hutt. Contact: Kevin or Sue Meehan, 970 4068
Sunday 9 March
Singaround, Toi Poneke Pukerua Bay Folk Club
1st Thursday of the month, 8pm, 9 Donlin Rd, Pukerua Bay. Contact:
Tuesday 11 March Murray or Julie Kilpatrick, 239 9951; email: julmur@paradise.net.nz
Mainly Acoustic Music Club
Wellington Bluegrass Society
Thursday 13 March 3rd Friday of month, 8.30 pm, Petone Function Room, 54 Richmond
Blues @ The Bristol Street, Petone. Blackboard concert 1st Friday of month. Contact:
Andrew Bicknell, 477 0069
Friday 14 March
Wairarapa Folk Club Kapiti Live Music Club
Levin Folk Club 3rd Tuesday of month, blackboard 7.30, guest 8.30. Murphy’s Law,
Main Road, Waikanae. Website www.klmc.org.nz
Ceol Alba
Levin Folk Club
Sunday 16 March 2nd Friday of month, Horowhenua Scottish Society and Pipe Band
Club Jam session hall, corner Bartholomew Rd and Middlesex Street. Blackboard con-
Tuesday 18 March cert plus guest artist: $5 including supper. Workshop 4th Friday of
month (no charge). Contact: Anne Campbell (06) 368-3777
Kapiti Live Music Club
Thursday 20 March Wairarapa Folk Club
2nd Friday of the month; Contact Remco de Ket or Jenny Freeman-
Blues @ The Bristol tle, (06) 370 1021 - wairarapafolkclub@paradise.net.nz
Friday 21 March Ceol Alba – Scottish Music Club
Bluegrass Society Concert 2nd and 4th Friday s of the month.
Sunday 23 March Phone Lynne Scott, 565 0164: lynne@scott.gen.nz
Easter - no Acoustic Routes concert International Folk Dancing
Thursday 27 March Wednesdays 7.45-9.15pm, Deirdre Tarrant Dance Studio, 125 Cuba
Mall. Contact: Cashy Yates 569 1618.
Blues @ The Bristol
Morris Dancing
Friday 28 March Pride of Holland Street (men and women): Tuesdays at Aro Valley
Levin Folk Club Workshop Community Centre; Contact: Peter Denee, 499 2880.
Ceol Alba Britannic Bedlam Morris Gentlemen: Wednesdays 8pm, Tawa Pipe
Band Hall, by Redwood Station. Contact: Ian Appleton 476-4391.
Sunday 30 March White Rose of Wellington (women): Wednesdays 8pm, Brooklyn
Acoustic Routes Blackboard concert Scout Hall, Harrison St, Brooklyn. Contact: Debs Potter, 476-9294
Morris website: http://morrisdancing.org.nz

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