Live Entertainment at Sounds 'n Nature


	The Lady Killers The Lady Killers is a dream team of New Zealand’s finest female singers and entertainers. From a whisper to a scream and everything in between, these divas make beautiful music dripping in harmony. The Lady Killers belongs to the grand vocal harmony tradition spanning gospel to the girl group, power pop to R&B, with a little bit of rock thrown in for good measure. The show is a wild ride through music history. It’s sophisticated glamour and a dazzling vocal tour de force all rolled into one gorgeous super duper deluxe package. But the Spice Girls they ain’t. For a start they’re not girls, they’re women. They’re well seasoned professionals doing what they do best – singing from the heart and soul. The Lady Killers are; Tina Cross, Jackie Clarke, Suzanne Lynch, Taisha Teriaki on vocals with the band featuring Grant Winterburn, Robin Galley, Karika Turua and Michael Ututaonga.


	Warratahs New Zealand 1985 – at the height of 'new wave' and Kiwi pub rock - was an unlikely time to form a country band. However, a bunch of Wellington's musicians did just that. Called The Warratahs, the band's two-year residency at inner-city tavern The Cricketer's Arms drew increasingly large crowds, attracted by the mix of covers and originals in the style of Hank Williams, Jimmy Rogers and Hank Snow played in an acoustic style. The band went into the studio in 1986 and recorded a Barry Saunders/Wayne Mason song Hands of My Heart. Released as a "single", the song received significant national airplay and led to the recording and release of The Warratahs' first long-player Only Game in Town in late 1987. The album spent 26 weeks in the charts and clocked up "gold" sales. Now, twenty-odd years on, The Warratahs are a New Zealand music institution. The distinctive vocals of Barry Saunders and individual violin style of Nik Brown reach all the way back to the band's beginning in 1985 and, along with Saunders' elemental songs, form the core of 'The Warratahs Sound'. Still touring and playing shows and festivals, they continue to pull the crowds and deliver strong and exciting performances.


	Groove Assembly The ’fresh summer sounds’ of Groove Assembly’s latest show is a mixture of ‘Roll Call’ favourites and material from the new album out early 2009. The Groove Assembly band members take a chilled out approach to life playing a mix of funky lounge, down-beat, dub and ambient world music. Groove Assembly is a collective of Kapiti musicians, who come together to play improvised and semi-structured ‘ambient grooves’. The solo instruments of voice, guitar, keyboards, trumpet, clarinet, flute and harmonica are floated on a dub, funk rhythm-section foundation of bass, drums and percussion. Groove Assembly is: Ross McDermott on keyboards; Nigel Patterson, on trumpets, clarinet, flute, shakuhachi, harmonica, percussion, vocals; Leon Kiel on bass; Richard Guerin on electric guitar; Rachel Kiel-Taylor on drums; Asa Pettersson on vocals and percussion.


	GingerJam At the heart of GingerJam is the happy musical collision between Wellington strings man Nigel Parry and Kapiti based singer/songwriter Karen Clarke. Joining the Gingerjam at Sounds n Nature will be Anje Craig on drums and Roger Rangitaawa on sax and percussion. There’s plenty in the Gjam mix – no one trick ponies here. With sets that move from ambient through to party central you’ll hear elements of jazz, blues, indie folk, kiwi pop, celtic, swing and even a bit of psychobilly too! Often heard surfing the sonic-moment Gjam is all about an open feel and space for fresh, edgy posibilities. The Gjam sound is a country mile from any “been there, heard that” arrangements. Free styled original sounds is where its at. In accoustic duo or upsized to a full noise line up, this Jam is made fresh daily!