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| | Carol's MySpace website www.myspace.com/carolbeanmusic |
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more info on gig guide, photos and video plus see her "Friends " roots and blues community |
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| | Roomfulla Blues - Wellington New Zealand www.capitalblues.co.nz/ |
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The Wellington Blues Club "Capital Blues Incorporated"
Go here for all the latest gig news and great stuff , photos, archives, on the 11 year old blues music club scene in Wellington! |
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| | Wellington Bluegrass Society www.bluegrass.wellington.net.nz/ |
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Andrew Bicknell's WBS just keeps getting better- |
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| | Wayne Mason and the Fallen Angels www.waynemason.co.nz/ |
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Had Wayne Mason only written New Zealand’s official most popular song, Nature, almost 40 years ago, he would still be a legend. During his years with the Fourmyula, Rocking Horse and the Warratahs, Mason has honed his songwriting craft to put him on the top rung alongside the Finns and Don McGlashan. (Steve Trotman)
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| | Dave Murphy - plays the Blues www.myspace.com/davemurphyblues |
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Dave Murphy is a finger-style, blues picking guitar legend and one of New Zealand’s best interpreters of the blues. According to music critic Nick Bollinger “Dave is an icon in the New Zealand music scene”.
In conjunction with Carol Bean's company Press Go, Dave has recently recorded a CD entitled “Yes that’s me”. Film maker Costa Botes captured Dave recording in the studio and later shot an interview at the Botanical Gardens where Dave works as a gardener. Dave shares his insights on music and the ups and downs in his life & the end result is a CD/DVD that showcases a vivid and unforgettable performance from a man who has blues music deep down in his bones. “YES THAT'S ME - DAVE MURPHY PLAYS THE BLUES” has been officially selected for this year's Wellington Film Festival in July.
The title song “Yes that’s me by the cigarette machine” is a Dave Murphy original and was first released in 2004 on a Red Rocks sampler called "Big Water - the best of Wellington blues"
There's a warmth of personality there with Dave that jumps out, and also, most of all - his performances are musically and visually entrancing. Buckets of Sweat, Gobs of Saliva, and lots of Grimacing (Costa Botes).
In the 1980s Dave travelled through the Unites States meeting musicians and learning blues tunes from the originals like Eugene Powell better known as Sonny Boy Nelson. This experience gave Dave an insight into music that has kept him in touch with the heart and soul of the blues ever since.
During the 1980’s and early ‘90s in Dave performed with his bands the Juke Jivers and the Hot Leftovers. He’s currently well known as a key member of the Red Dog Saloon Band, one of the hottest live performance bands around, Dave feels most at home on stage.
Press Go Productions www.carolbean.com
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Stage lighting for small bands
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| | Photos from the new CD Wrap Party tymar.com/galleries/CarolBeanFullSize/no_link_gallery.php |
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Tymar Lighting photos of Carol Bean and the band at the "Crossing the dirty river" party at the Ruby Lounge - 19 Dec 2009 |
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| | Paddy Burgin www.burginguitars.co.nz/ |
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On Carol Bean's CD Read the Road Signs, Paddy Burgin and his Weissenborn slide guitar feature on the song Eastbourne Jetty. Paddy is in a band called Live Bait, a lively three piece comprising of himself, Ruairidh Morrison and Bernard Wells. These three musicians add the Celtic tension to Carol's song Resurrection.
Paddy handcrafts acoustic guitars, Weissenborn style guitars, Irish bouzoukis and citterns at his workshop in Wellington, New Zealand Aotearoa. His instruments are owned and played world wide by musicians such as David Lindley, Seven Sons, Mark Seymour, Green Ginger, Steve Bevis and Wellington's own Warren Love. |
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| | James Gilberd: photographer and musician www.photospace.co.nz |
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The cover photo on Carol Bean's Read The Road Signs and some of the CD booklet photos were shot by James Gilberd. James owns and operates a Fine Arts photography gallery in Courtney Place, Wellington called PHOTOSPACE. Check out the website.
James is also a fine jazz drummer and played the drums for Carol at her CD release party [8/4/06] for Read The Road Signs.
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| | Independent ALaska Radio www.wholewheatradio.org |
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this streamed radio show has a load of great music- go on and requst my songs.... tis easy. Thanks |
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| | Denise Durkin: graphic designer www.illustrationwish.co.nz |
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Denise Durkin was the graphic designer for Read The Road Signs. Not only is she an illustrator for excellent children's books and postage stamps for New Zealand, Pitcairn Island, Vanuatu, Bhutan, Tonga and Samoa, but she is a watercolourist and painter of great skill and style. |
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| | Catch a Line ~ Laura Collins www.lauracollins.co.nz |
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Laura's 2nd album Catch a Line is great !
For the last four years Laura has produced the Wellington-based South of the Divide events, which celebrate local musicians whose roots lie in the southern states of America. Laura’s musical influences are very much from that neck of the woods, with artists such as Lucinda Williams, John Hiatt, Stacey Earle, Emmy-Lou Harris and Alison Krauss among her favourites.
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| | Paul Symons - SPACEMAN www.spaceman.net.nz/ |
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Born into slavery in the latter part of the 60's in the Taranaki Delta, Paul learned to play guitar from famous Taranaki Bluesman 'Whitey' Bates, 'Mudge' Martian & other players working in the cotton fields of his home. Eventually escaping to freedom in an old Holden station-wagon (Gold), with only a guitar, a batch of cheese scones & a razor (which he later lost), he eeked out a living playing at car washes & bowls clubs throughout the country.
"This is an excellent album - Symons has a fine voice, writes good songs and has achieved a distinctive sound on this self played, self produced album.." Mike Garner, ' Blues.co.nz' website & archive
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| | Bluelinks www.blueslinks.nl |
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the Mother of all Blueslinks Collections |
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| | Mark Laurent and Brenda Liddiard www.marklaurent.co.nz www.brendaliddiard.co.nz |
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Mark and Brenda, well known New Zealand singer songwriters, both appear as guest artists on Carol's CD 'Read The Road Signs'. Check out their fine music on these websites.
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| | CL-BOB...Drummer Steve Cournane's website www.clbob.co.nz/ |
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"Worth the price of admission alone" to his band CL-BOB,Steve Cournane began playing in Dunedin in 1984 with the Alpaca Brothers who released an EP in NZ and Europe. He spent time with jazz group The Lesser Gibbons, skiffle band The Weetbix Boys and toured the USA, Canada and Australia with the Verlaines in 1989/90. Steve formed the recording label Yellow Eye while finishing a Masters degree at Otago University in 1992. He then moved to Wellington in 1993 to study jazz with Roger Sellers. He has worked in, and taught, many different genres including New Orleans, Irish, and Blues and Free Jazz. He has played and recorded for the fantastic Windy City Strugglers, The Mantaray Trio, as well as with Carol Bean and Laura Collins.
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