2010 Entertainment Schedule
Dragon --- X-Ray Catz --- Groove Assembly --- Wellington Batucada --- The Hobnail Boots
Charity Auction - click to see our exciting auction items
Timetable of Events
  4.00
4.50
5.15
6.15
7.00
7.30		   Hob Nail Boots
Wellington Batucada
Groove Assembly
X Ray Catz
Charity Auction
Dragon		  
 


Dragon
with the exceptional Kiwi vocalist Mark Williams
  Formed in New Zealand in 1973, Dragon relocated to Australia in 1975. Between 1975 and 1979, Dragon scored a string of major hits on the Australian pop charts with songs including April Sun in Cuba, Are You Old Enough and Still In Love With You and with the albums Sunshine and O Zambezi, making them one of the country's most popular rock acts of the time.

The band reformed in 1982, and went on to record Body and the Beat (1984) (and the single, Rain) which became one of the biggest-selling albums in Australia and New Zealand.

Following their sell out 30th Anniversary show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in early April, Dragon are about to launch their new album Happy I Am. This album features songs already well known to Dragon fans such as Happy I Am and Find My Way Home together with God of Small Things, On the Road and Home, all of which will feature in the Dragon set for many years to come.

In 2009 Dragon is alive and well and selling out shows all over Australia. So, be there, for a truly great night and the start of another chapter in the Dragon saga!
 
X-Ray Catz
  The X RAY CATZ a slick foursome who collectively share over a century of rock and roll experience, have joined forces to pay tribute to classic rockabilly.

Taking you back to the 1950s to the birth of the genre and playing a repertoire of classics. Authentic, high octane rockabilly in the style of Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis is sure to get you on your feet and moving.

THE X RAY CATZ are:

Wayne Mason, barrel house piano and vocals
Gordon Barrell, double dog house bass and vocals
Richard Te One, whack 'em up drums and vocals
Antony Maddock, electric geetar and vocals
 
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 2010.

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; Joe Simmonds on bass; Richard Guerin on electric guitar; Rachel Kiel-Taylor on drums; Asa Pettersson on vocals and percussion."
 
Wellington Batucada
  Wellington Batucada is a community based percussion group bringing the flamboyant world of samba from Brazil to Wellington. Batucada is a Brazilian word used to describe the syncopated, African-influenced samba music played by a large percussion group (bateria) as part of a street parade or carnival.

Originally formed in November 2001 to perform in the Cuba Street Carnival, Wellington Batucada endeavours to replicate the authentic samba sound playing a variety of Brazilian rhythms including samba batucada, partido alto, samba reggae, samba funk, and baion. They have been blessed through visits by several superb Brazilian and non-Brazilian samba teachers who laid the foundations for their music.
 
  Photo credit Robert Catto (www.catto.co.nz)
The Hobnail Boots
  Featuring "Jo Moir's barnstorming fiddle", the award winning songwriting of Rob Joass, the guitar and mandola of acclaimed solo artist Bill Hickman, and the fabulous rhythm section of Hamish Graham and Caroline Easther, spectacular harmonies, and over 100 years of collective performance experience, The Hobnail Boots live show is one not to be missed.

"The Boots" are currently working on material for their much anticipated 5th CD, and on the Sounds 'n Nature stage will be playing a batch of new material alongside the regular Hobnail classics, and as usual you can expect a few non-Hobnail classics as well.