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32 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>September</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
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WHAT S<br />
ON<br />
To add a listing, contact<br />
Jo Fuller 03 379 7100 or<br />
027 458 8590<br />
jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi<br />
Rodger Fox presents<br />
<strong>The</strong> Brotherman Project<br />
Celebrating<br />
THE SEEKERS<br />
60 years from 1963 -2022<br />
KEITH Potger is about to tour New<br />
Zealand with his solo tribute to the group<br />
he helped to form back in 1962. e tribute<br />
covers the songs, the stories and the<br />
inuences that shaped e Seekers in their<br />
rise to international fame.<br />
Celebrating the Seekers is an audiovisual<br />
treat, with rare footage and still<br />
photos of the group.<br />
Keith's 12 string guitar was an integral<br />
part of e Seekers' sound and, being the<br />
arranger of the vocal harmonies, he had a<br />
unique place in the group. During his<br />
performance Keith pays a special tribute to<br />
his colleague and dear friend of 60 years,<br />
the late and great Judith Durham.<br />
Keith is known to countless fans and this<br />
is obvious in the welcome given to him by<br />
audiences that have enjoyed his<br />
performances of Celebrating the Seekers.<br />
is special program contains some<br />
timeless favourites from e Seekers, some<br />
beautiful original ballads from his three solo<br />
CDs and a few hits from the '60s to the '80s<br />
that inuenced the group and appeal to the<br />
generation who grew up playing SEEKERS<br />
albums at home or in the car. roughout<br />
his show, Keith shares stories and amusing<br />
anecdotes from almost 60 years on the<br />
international music scene.<br />
Keith unfailingly delivers up-beat, heartwarming<br />
events that leave audiences reliving<br />
their fondest memories while sharing the<br />
joy that is a hallmark of Keith Potger's solo<br />
Concerts.<br />
Celebrating the Seekers takes place in<br />
Christchurch at the Aurora Centre,<br />
Burnside School on ursday 2nd<br />
November.<br />
Tickets at<br />
www.legacytouring.icket.co.nz or contact<br />
Aly Cook 027 556 6113 or email<br />
alycook@legacytouring.com<br />
THE Rodger Fox Big Band is widely<br />
acknowledged as New Zealand’s leading<br />
exponent of big band music and, over its<br />
long history, has over 90 New Zealand<br />
compositions to its name and has<br />
recorded 76 of these compositions. e<br />
big band has also always extended the<br />
members of the band by working with<br />
some of the jazz world’s greatest artists<br />
including Michael Brecker, Mike Stern and<br />
Kurt Elling. In recent years this has<br />
included collaborations with international<br />
classical artists Michael Houstoun and<br />
Simon O’Neill– Classical meets Jazz – and<br />
the Big Band’s most recent CD release<br />
Reimagined! e Rodger Fox Big Band<br />
plays Sir Dave Dobbyn.<br />
e Big Band would now like to<br />
further extend the concept by curating a<br />
project that brings together the Aotearoa-<br />
New Zealand hip-hop sound with that of<br />
the Rodger Fox Big Band.<br />
‘e Brotherman Project’ is a project<br />
that infuses the modern big band sound<br />
with that of Aotearoa-New Zealand Hiphop.<br />
is would be achieved by blending<br />
the sound of the Rodger Fox Big Band<br />
with that of iconic New Zealand hip-hop<br />
artists King Kapisi and special guests.<br />
King Kapisi (Bill Urale) was the rst<br />
hip-hop artist in New Zealand to receive<br />
the prestigious Silver Scroll Award at the<br />
APRA Awards for Songwriter of the Year<br />
for his single Reverse Resistance in 1999.<br />
King Kapisi's music and lyrics raise issues<br />
relevant to Pacic Island people living in<br />
New Zealand. King Kapisi keeps his music<br />
‘real’ by rapping about his Pacic heritage<br />
and the hip-hop scene. He uses hip-hop to<br />
promote the message of ‘keeping it real’<br />
through your culture, learning your<br />
language, and knowing ‘where you are<br />
from’.<br />
Innovation in New Zealand arts is<br />
project is highly innovative with the<br />
collaboration between two well-known<br />
musicians from hip-hop, pop and jazz.<br />
Each of the arrangers will have taken a<br />
composition of King Kapisi and will be<br />
creating a work for Big Band and voice<br />
that evokes the spirit and emotion of the<br />
original music but taking it on a new<br />
journey. It will have a distinctly Kiwi<br />
avour and the music will combine the<br />
driving rhythms and big band sound with<br />
the evocative and descriptive music of e<br />
Rodger Fox Big Band and the hip hop<br />
sounds of King Kapisi.<br />
e Rodger Fox Big Band feat. King<br />
Kapisi with special guest Erna Ferry takes<br />
place at e Piano on Armagh St as part<br />
of the Christchurch Big Band Festival on<br />
Sunday 22nd October. Tickets on sale now<br />
at events.humanitix.com<br />
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Geoff Tavendale, rhythm guitar<br />
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Chrissy Hart, bv<br />
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Tickets $20pp at the club<br />
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