Sir Jon Trimmer headlines in Paekakariki CD launch show

Ballet legend Sir Jon Trimmer will present a sequence of poems with music in Livin’ Ina Aucklan’, a CD launch show and celebration in St Peters Hall, Paekakariki, on Friday 13 November starting at 7.30 pm.

The show will feature original songs and performances based on poems by Paekakariki poet Dr Michael O’Leary.  Other performers are by notable Kapiti Coast singers, musicians and composers including Brian Romeril, Al Witham, Meg Prasad, Francis Mills, Hilda Prasad, Sean O’Leary and Gilbert Haisman (aka Earl of Seacliff's Lonely Hearts Club Band).

“The songs are amazingly diverse and Kiwi to the core,” says O’Leary. “There’ll be humour and toe-tappers but mostly quite serious stuff made accessible in diverse ways.  You can’t pigeon-hole anything, except its more Beatles than Bach.”  

“The whole project has been a privilege for me.  It’s great for a writer to be in Paekakariki, a village that can turn on performance collaborations like nowhere else. We’re also grateful to Creative New Zealand and the Kapiti Coast District Council for community arts funding for the CD.”

Admission to the BYO event, which includes a light supper, is $10 at the door. The CD will be available at a launch-only discount price of $15.

Ballet legend Sir Jon Trimmer will present a sequence of poems with music in Livin’ Ina Aucklan’, a CD launch show and celebration in St Peters Hall, Paekakariki, on Friday 13 November starting at 7.30 pm.

The show will feature original songs and performances based on poems by Paekakariki poet Dr Michael O’Leary.  Other performers are by notable Kapiti Coast singers, musicians and composers including Brian Romeril, Al Witham, Meg Prasad, Francis Mills, Hilda Prasad, Sean O’Leary and Gilbert Haisman (aka Earl of Seacliff's Lonely Hearts Club Band).

“The songs are amazingly diverse and Kiwi to the core,” says O’Leary. “There’ll be humour and toe-tappers but mostly quite serious stuff made accessible in diverse ways.  You can’t pigeon-hole anything, except its more Beatles than Bach.”  

“The whole project has been a privilege for me.  It’s great for a writer to be in Paekakariki, a village that can turn on performance collaborations like nowhere else. We’re also grateful to Creative New Zealand and the Kapiti Coast District Council for community arts funding for the CD.”

Admission to the BYO event, which includes a light supper, is $10 at the door. The CD will be available at a launch-only discount price of $15.