Out & About
Photos from Kiwi Pro-Am's popular Thursday nights at the Deck Bar, SkyCity, Hamilton.
3rd December 2009 - Dennis Marsh & Kylie Austin <HERE>
11th February - Mel Davies <HERE>
18th February - Trevor V Stevens & Clark Reid <HERE>
25th February - Joy Adams <HERE>
4th March - Max Smith & Blacksmith <HERE>
11th March - Corilin Steel & Ian McCook "Soundwave" <HERE>
18th March - Matt, Renny & Jenny Hantler <HERE>
25th March - Kiwi Pro-Am Board <HERE>
16th April - Kylie Austin <HERE>
23rd April - Matt, Renny & Jenny Hantler <HERE>
29th April - Kevin Greaves, Robyn Hughes & Ken Hughes <HERE>
6th May - Mel Davies <HERE>
13th May - Raymond Solomon <HERE>
27th May - Jan & The Pirongia Mountain Men <HERE>
Now at the Vue Bar
3rd June - Linda Innes <HERE>
10th June - Sally Burgess & Trevor V Stevens <HERE>
17th June - Karen Davey <HERE>
24th June - Brendon Liley <HERE>
8th July - Karen Hansen <HERE>
15th July - Max Smith <HERE>
MEDIA RELEASE 22 July 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New Sound of Country, Western no more. Country music has a new name, a new sound, and now a new show on Community Radio Hamilton. Hosted by talented country music duo Ashley Cooper and Michael Tipping, ‘Country Throwdown’ airs Tuesday nights from 9pm, starting 3 August, 2010. The show features interviews with local and touring acts, news from the country music scene, giveaways, and the latest music releases. Ashley and Michael share more than twenty years experience as performers, since first starting out in New Zealand’s strong local country music club. While they are now international artists, they still plan to acknowledge their roots. “We’ll play a bit of the older stuff too, because that’s what a lot of people can relate to,” promises Ashley. The Cambridge-based entertainers are up for the best duo/group award at this year’s National Country Music Awards, to be announced at the Founders Theatre on Saturday, 14 August 2010. While recording their first album the pair lived in Nashville, the American home of country music, and want to encourage Kiwis to embrace the genre that’s so popular in the USA. “Country music is moving in a different direction now,” explains Ashley. Community Radio Hamilton’s general manager Phil Grey agrees. “Country music should not be pigeonholed. It’s far more diverse, challenging, and engaging than the ‘pop-country’ that was commercially popular through the 1980s and 90s. It’s long time we had a great country show back in the Waikato!” The pair are excited to get started on air, and while they already have a keen audience in their loyal fan base they also hope to turn a few new listeners on to country’s new sound. “We’re going to change one cowboy at a time,” says Ashley. Tune in for ‘Country Throwdown’, 9pm on Tuesdays on Community Radio Hamilton – 106.7FM, 1206AM, and online at www.communityradio.co.nz. On-demand podcasts of exclusive live to air performances and interviews will also be available for free download from the website. For more information telephone 07 834 2170. ENDS For more information please contact: Lara Signal, Marketing Manager, Community Radio Hamilton Phone 07 834 2170 / Mobile 021 390 465 / Fax 07 834 2174 / Email: lara.signal@communityradio.co.nz
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KIWI, ROGER TIBBS JOINS 'WHISPERING' BILL ANDERSON IN AMERICA'S OLD TIME COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME
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Roger Tibbs
LeMars, Iowa....."It is with a great deal of pride that we honor two very important contributors to America's traditional and classic country music." The speaker is Bob Everhart, President of the National Traditional Country Music Association, located in the USA's most 'rural' state....Iowa.
"I like to tell Jim Ed Brown that we live in the middle of a corn-field in Iowa, and he laughs every time I say that," said Bob. "But for those of us who live in Iowa, it's important that we continue a rural lifestyle here in rural America, and it's also important that we honor those that have made significant contributions to that lifestyle, especially in the form of a musical genre that actually started in a cornfield.
'Country' music as offered by Nashville today lacks 'genre integrity.' It's pretty much a mish mash of whatever strolls into the recording studio. There's not much left of the recognizable traits that made 'real' country music so desirable. One of those 'traits' was yodeling. It was the 'trademark' of the 'father' of country music, Jimmie Rodgers, and it is also the most distinctive characteristic of the country music Roger Tibbs of Clouston Park, New Zealand, gives in his interpretations of what country music still sounds like with a yodel in it."
America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame is located in the Pioneer Music Museum, located in the small rural town of Anita, Iowa. "We started all of this back in 1975," adds Bob Everhart's wife, Sheila. "There seems to be such a drift away from the really heart felt writing and performing of what we now call rural-country music. We just think it's very important to 'save' it. We have a really good friend in New Zealand, Ginny Peters, who continues writing country music from the heart, and she is one of the few genuine writers that still keeps that 'flavor' in her works. She is a member of this Hall of Fame, so she knows how important this tradition is."
The event that Roger Tibbs is going to the United States to participate in, takes place at the Plymouth County Fairgrounds in LeMars, Iowa, the ice cream capital of the world. "Blue Bunny Ice Cream has the largest ice cream factory on planet earth," added Bob Everhart. "We like being here, the dates for the festival is August 30 through September 5th. It takes that many days, and ten sound stages running from 9am to midnight everyday to accommodate the 600 performers of classic country and bluegrass music that participate. Roger Tibbs will fit right in. We're also very glad to announce that "Whispering" Bill Anderson, from the Grand Ole Opry, will also be on hand for Hall of Fame induction ceremonies with Roger.
"Bill Anderson had a huge hit with "Po' Folks" and went on to write hit after hit for most of Nashville's top recording artists. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1961, and has become an icon on that program, admired by millions. Both Roger Tibbs and Bill Anderson will be inducted into America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame in LeMars.
"One of the things we'd like to announce in conjunction with the induction of Roger Tibbs, is that we will allow free entrance to the festival, for all seven days, if the person shows a legitimate New Zealand passport. All you have to do is show up, show your passport, and we'll let you in for all seven days for free. To honor Roger Tibbs of course, and give him support."
More information about the festival, and the overall sponsor the National Traditional Country Music Association, can be found at their website: http://www.orgsites.com/ia/oldtimemusic
Wendy Thornton and James RAy at Bar Africa in Albany, Auckland on Sunday, 25th July.
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Jeff Walker (of Jeff Walker & Associates of The AristoMedia Group) with
Wendy and Phillip Thornton on their recent visit to Nashville.
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