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SELWYN TIMES Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>22</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 27<br />
News<br />
Concert to honour iconic rock event<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
PERFORMING IN tonight’s<br />
concert to commemorate<br />
legendary Canadian-American<br />
roots rock group The Band will<br />
be a trip down memory lane for<br />
Southbridge singer-songwriter<br />
Paul Ubana Jones.<br />
Jones, along with Arthur’s<br />
Pass musician Adam McGrath<br />
and Lyttelton musician Delaney<br />
Davidson, have been handpicked<br />
by original musical<br />
director and producer of The<br />
Band, John Simon, to perform in<br />
the 40th anniversary concert.<br />
It will honour The Band’s<br />
final concert at San Francisco’s<br />
Winterland Ballroom on<br />
Thanksgiving Day in 1976.<br />
The tour will travel around<br />
New Zealand and perform its<br />
first show at the Isaac Theatre<br />
Royal starring The Band’s<br />
original keyboardist Garth<br />
Hudson and John Simon.<br />
Jones first saw The Band at The<br />
Royal Albert Hall in London<br />
in 1966 backing up Bob Dylan<br />
at his infamous “Judas” show,<br />
where he switched from playing<br />
folk music to rocking out on an<br />
electric guitar.<br />
He then saw The Band,<br />
made up of Rick Danko, Garth<br />
Hudson, Richard Manuel,<br />
Adam McGrath Delaney Davidson Paul Ubana Jones<br />
Robbie Robertson and Levon<br />
Helm in what he described as “in<br />
their full strength” at Wembley<br />
Stadium in 1975.<br />
He said the music The Band<br />
played was extremely diverse,<br />
heartfelt music which influenced<br />
his own career of creating<br />
soulful, contemporary music.<br />
“It was a different era. Let’s be<br />
honest you know if you didn’t<br />
smoke grass or hashish well too<br />
bad because these joints were<br />
being passed around . . . that was<br />
the era it was in,” he said.<br />
Born in London in 1952, Jones<br />
moved to Southbridge about <strong>22</strong><br />
years ago and played his first<br />
Christchurch concert in 1988.<br />
In his time in the country,<br />
Jones has won three New<br />
Zealand music awards and<br />
has continued to perform<br />
internationally.<br />
He said he is touched to<br />
be chosen by John Simon to<br />
perform in The Last Waltz and<br />
will perform an array of songs<br />
including Forever Young by<br />
Bob Dylan, and It Makes No<br />
Difference by Rick Danko.<br />
McGrath said he was most<br />
excited about playing with some<br />
of his local heroes and watching<br />
Garth Hudson play.<br />
“It is kind of one of those great<br />
STAR-STUDDED: Bob Dylan and The Band during<br />
The Last Waltz concert in San Francisco in 1976. A<br />
40th anniversary tribute concert will be held at the<br />
Isaac Theatre Royal tonight.<br />
things that every now and again<br />
pops up and keeps you going. I<br />
am really glad I decided to make<br />
music for a living, McGrath said.<br />
McGrath made his career in<br />
folk music as the lead singer<br />
of The Eastern but also spends<br />
his time travelling around the<br />
country to perform.<br />
Davidson said it was amazing<br />
to be performing in such a<br />
concert with legends such as<br />
Simon and Hudson.<br />
“The range of music is huge . . .<br />
it was almost the end of an era,”<br />
he said.<br />
Davidson has made a career of<br />
touring his music in Europe and<br />
the United States and has<br />
been the winner of the APRA<br />
New Zealand Country Music<br />
Song<br />
of the Year three years in a row.<br />
His latest achievement<br />
was being awarded The Arts<br />
Foundation’s The Laureate<br />
Award last year, receiving<br />
$50,000 for excellence across a<br />
range of art forms.<br />
•The Last Waltz – 40th<br />
Anniversary Concert Tour<br />
performance will be held<br />
tonight at the Isaac Theatre<br />
Royal. To book tickets go<br />
to http://isaactheatreroyal.<br />
co.nz<br />
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