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The Autumn Concert will be performed by the newest teachers of the Academy. They will take you on an amazing journey around the best master works of many styles of music.
From Mozart to Piazzolla, from Beethoven (Spring sonata) to Mussorgsky (pictures of an exhibition), from Bach to the modern and Neapolitan songs.
What will make this concert so special, however, is the fact that international concert pianist, Matteo Napoli (who is also the Music Director of the Academy of Music) and international opera singer and voice trainer, Lilia Carpinelli, will have just landed in Auckland and will be coming to perform just for this concert. This is a rare opportunity for the musicians of Whangarei to see so much talent all on one evening and it is likely that tickets will sell out.
Also mark your calendar for August when Kate Bell Events Ltd brings you “Shake Your Groove Thang” on Friday the 15th of August.
A Kate Bell Events Ltd event is only limited by Kate’s imagination - which means the sky may not be the limit! Following her successful Valentines Masquerade Charity Extravaganza Ball, Kate is putting on the after-burners with a full-on retro party that’s guaranteed to raise the overnight winter temperature to record highs. Shake Ya Groove Thang is a charity event, which will support Northland children with chronic illness and their families.
This is disco inferno to the extreme as we turn back the hands of time to Saturday Night Fever, Austin Powers and Michael Jackson. Dress in costume; put your dancing shoes on, get down and Shake Ya Groove Thang!
Tickets are $35 per head which includes an array of complimentary nibbles. $5 bar will be available. Groove on a flashing dance floor to the funky sounds of DJ Classic Daddy. Get a group together for what is guaranteed to be a fun night out!
This is followed on Saturday night the 16th of August, by the Willy Russell play “Shirley Valentine” starring Nancy Schroder.
The story of an ordinary housewife, who on a journey of rediscovery finds herself anew. Poignant, and very funny, Shirley Valentine addresses contemporary issues in a very entertaining way. “Shirley is really non-judgmental, and she doesn’t blame anyone for her situation. She questions life, the meaning of it, and whether we use it”.
The last time Nancy performed this show was to a nine night sell-out season in Auckland.
“The play is almost like a conversation with a best mate, over a glass of wine” says Nancy, “the best mate is the audience, it’s lovely because you’re not pretending the audience isn’t there, you are talking to them.”
“The play has all the hallmarks that have turned Willy Russell into one of Britain’s most-performed play wrights: a great love of working class humanity, a dedicated ear for the spoken word’s richness and consummate one-liners. It is Nancy Schroder, however, who makes this a performance not to be missed by bringing every possible nuance of Shirley delightfully, intimately and completely to life.” Francis Till, New Zealand Herald, 11.9.03
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