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A performance by songwriter and finger-style guitarist Niels Gedge will bring the songs of early settlers to the stage of the Whangateau Hall on Monday, July 30.
Niels has performed throughout New Zealand, as well as in the United Kingdom, Fiji and France.
His influences include country, folk and blues and his songs evoke the idiom, places, landscapes and history of Aotearoa NZ.
“In that sense, I am a folk singer and it is one of the reasons I want to sing in smaller places in the country,” he says.
While based in the seaside community of Plimmerton, north of Wellington, he is no stranger to Mahurangi.
His first visit, when he was still in high school, was to a farmhouse overlooking Algies Bay, when there were no suburbs.
In the 1990s, he visited Leigh Marine Laboratory sporadically as contracts manager with Auckland Uni Services, and he has often performed at Leigh Sawmill Cafe.
Niels will be the guest performer at the Whangateau Folk Club. Doors open at 6.45pm for a 7pm start.
