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A compelling collaboration between a former poet laureate and one of the country’s finest jazz musicians forms the heart of Warkworth Music’s final 2015 concert at the town’s Old Masonic Hall, on Sunday October 18, at 4pm.Buddhist Rain is a synergy of poetry, music and vocals performed by poet Bill Manhire, pianist and composer Norman Meehan, singer Hannah Griffin and Colin Hemmingsen on clarinet and saxophone.
Organisers describe their marriage of music and words as partly jazz-like, but also “a little like modern chamber music, including improvisation, and a little like the music of some singer-songwriters, perhaps Randy Newman or Joni Mitchell”.
The Warkworth programme comprises a new suite of work with poems by celebrated New Zealand poets James K. Baxter, Eileen Duggan, David Mitchell and Hone Tuwhare, as well as group founder Bill Manhire.
Tickets are available at the door for $30, cash only, with free admission for students.
Info: warkworthmusic.org.nz
