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The winner of NZ Music Award’s Folk Album of the Year will perform at the Little & Local Coffee Kitchen at Snells Beach on Friday, November 30.
Guy Wishart won the award last year for his fifth solo album West by North, recorded at Neil Finn’s Roundhead Studios. Recorded Music NZ CEO Damian Vaughan says Wishart has produced a wonderful collection of folk music.
“It’s not every day you hear an album like West By North – something that paints the listener a uniquely New Zealand picture by one of our most talented folk musicians,” he says.
Music reviewer Graham Reid writes: “Wishart and his band have crafted an extraordinary album of emotional depths which are rarely explored with such consistency in this country … these songs pull you in.”
West By North is not the first time Wishart has been recognised for his music. In 1990, he won the APRA Silver Scroll songwriters award for the title track of his third album, Don’t Take me for Granted.
That year, he was also identified as the “most promising male vocalist” at the NZ Music Awards.
Doors open at 7pm for the Snells Beach concert, which is hosted by poet Mark Raffills.
The show kicks off at 7.30pm when local performers of songs or poems will be invited to take advantage of the open mic session.
Wishart and supporting musicians will take to the stage about 8.15pm for a 45-minute set.
Tickets are $10 at the door. The concert will be the fourth in a series held at the Little and Local Coffee Kitchen, featuring music, poems and songs.
