Dixie Street Jazz Band

Rod Andrew’s Australian Dixie Street Jazz Band is touring the North Island of New Zealand from Saturday 30th July to Sunday 28th August 2011. There are eighteen concerts including feature appearances during the Bay of Island Jazz And Blues Festival Friday 12th – Sunday 14th August.
The Band is a thoroughly decent, well-ripened bunch of larrikins who formed an ensemble from some of the best Traditional Jazz musicians in Australia. When Piano, Sousaphone, Banjo, Drums, Trombone, Trumpet and Reeds get together, the result is the nerves in your feet twitch whilst some rare musical gems from around 1900 simply grab your whole body and give it a good shake. The musicians bring to their performances ample quantities of good humour which overflows to their audiences, young and old.
Jazz exists primarily at the ‘moment of performance’. You might make a sound recording of it, and transcribe the notes onto a score. But the next live performance won’t sound like that record or that score. Beyond its historical significance, the music itself is sometimes punchy, full of flair and subtle when required, much of it is irresistibly happy. This tour aims at inviting you to experience the ‘moment of performance’ where the collective improvisation of the group provides that ‘sound of surprise’ that can only be experienced live.
The music for this tour was selected for its diverse mix, easy listening and danceablility. Tempo’s change from Ballads to Marches to Ragtime and Stomps. The repertoire highlights the 1900-1930 Golden Years of early Jazz, featuring classic compositions of Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong. In addition, rare tunes seldom performed dating back to 1900 expand on this wonderfully rich repertoire.
Add to this some fine Australian compositions of Ade Mondsborough, Bob Barnard, Roger Bell and Alex Frame and you have an event to remember.
This Jazz is gloriously inclusive, absolutely fun to perform and fills the Halls with colourful sounds of yesteryear.
For more details and bookings contact: Nicola Warrington 07 883 8596 at The Plaza Box Office, Putaruru Information Centre 07 883 7284, Tokoroa i-Site Visitor Centre 07 886 8872, Fraser’s Bookshop TAKE NOTE Matamata 07 888 7787 Or online with: Eventfinder: http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2011/aug/putaruru/dixie-street-jazz-band
Adults $20, Senior $15 Student under 18 $10 and for group bookings of adults 5+ tickets only $15 per person! BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment on the night.
If your music students haven’t been up close to a Sousaphone in full flight, with Trombone, Trumpet and Clarinet in delicious harmony, and with Banjo, Piano and Drums meeting out tight syncopation, then this tour may widen their musical experience and appreciation.
You are invited to come along, bring the kids and enjoy a . . . . .‘Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight!!!’ 

The June / July edition of The Prattler

Well here is the start of The Prattler online.

It has been a hard slog to bring you this edition of the Prattler as we have really struggled to find the funding to produce this edition.  For this reason I would like to acknowledge the kind sponsorship we have received from Buttermilk, (a concept put forward by our Trustee Sherie Allison) helped by the fact that Annie Waterworth, Pride In Putaruru’s former Manager, is now managing this site. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.  For those of you who do not know who Buttermilk is please turn to the middle pages of this edition to get an insight into what they are up to in our small town and please take the time to fill in the questionnaire on the back page and don’t forget to post it into the box at the front of Unichem Chemists on Princes Street or via mail to PO Box 377, TAURANGA.

I have made a feature of our schools this edition with them all taking up the front 8 pages.  I would like to acknowledge the support that we have received from our local schools, with all schools opting to be involved with the Prattler and submitting to each edition to keep you all up to date with what they are up to.

As you may have seen there has been some changes at Putaruru Information Centre.  Next time your going by, stop in and say hello to Memorie Brooky, the new Manager.  Memorie’s family come from Matamata and she has worked in both Matamata and Hamilton i-Sites.  She has a vast of knowledge of tourism and is learning a lot about Putaruru with support from myself and Jan Kinloch.

As we are still to secure funding for further editions, if there is anyone out there wanting to sponsor the next issue of this community publication, please contact me by any of the methods listed below.

Info from the Centre…..

Anne Berben JP. As Manager of the Putaruru Information Centre, for the past 3 years I would like to thank you the Putaruru residents for your great support . As my contract ends on the 30 June, My time Managing the centre has been a wonderful achievement.       Interacting with locals and International Tourists alike. I would like to thank my Staff Jan Kinloch, Shirley Wilson, Ron Carter, for their  support, and  making the Information Centre a great place to be. The Information Centre over the past three years has grown from strength to strength, with the statistics growing from 6500 to 11000 this year. I am excited with this growth of the     Centre. It is about 70% used by locals. Thanks also to Maurice Smith.  Anne Berben JP.

  

A Message from the Putaruru District Services Memorial Club

Following the AGM on Sunday 26^th  June we congratulate Joann Scheres the new club president, Lindsay Glover the new Vice President and David Schroeder and Mike White the new additions to the committee. Gilbert Hawkes, Wayne Ward and Heather Spinley remain for the new term.

Best wishes to Ron Macdonald the outgoing president who stood down after three years.

Jo and her team are keen to do what it takes to make the Club The Place to go for games, entertainment, dining out and socialising. They are determined to shake off the recession and get on with making the club a vibrant happy place for all.

Jo and Lindsay are local farmers and would love to see locals farmers make The Club their night off!  Members and prospective members around Putaruru watch this space as we’ll be a regular in The Prattler.

Waikato Duet “Axis” will be playing on Saturday 23^rd July at our “SEVENTIES NIGHT” do come along and dress up. It is a special licensed promotional evening so we love to see some prospective members come along and enjoy the open evening with us.   Pop in for dinner from 6pm and the music starts at 7.45pm.

The Last Thursday of each month is Quiz Night.  $10 per team of 4, registration 7.15pm.

Dan Macmillan

Club Manager

Club Phone 883 8591

BNZ Connect in Conjunction with the B5

Tonight is the next Business after 5 held in 

Conjunction with the BNZ Connect programme.

Tonight they have Ilona Bragg from the 

Putaruru Food Court to keep us up to date

with what is happening.

Hope to see you there.

Celebrities Cake It 4 Guides.

Go along to the Plaza on 

Saturday 9th July from 7pm

and support the 

Guides fundraising efforts for 

Jamboree 2012.

Quiz Night Tonight at the Club

Looking for something to do tonight?

The Putaruru District Services Memorial Club

are holding a Quiz Night Tonight.

Everyone is welcome!

Get a group of friends together and go along

for a fun night out.

The Prattler June - July Issue

Good News everyone, we have secured private funding to publish the next edition of the Prattler.
If your have some local news that you would like to get into this edition please email me as soon as possible at bex@putaruru.co.nz.
By the end of this month we should know if we have funding for another year of printing.  When this is confirmed I will post the proposed printing dates for the year.
I am also working at putting the published pages onto the blog so you can go back and look up anything that you may have missed.