What's on Lara Rose | Hyram Ballard | Neville Stewart
We have a range of events on our calendar...
Sunday Club Night: a feature concert every week (apart from some holiday weekends) 7.30 pm. Floorspot performers often invited from local musicians in the first half. Cafe and bar open. See notes on each night for featured performers or events.
Thursday Open Mic Night: a warm welcome to all, 7.30 pm. Gold coin entry. Cafe open.
Special Concerts - may be scheduled on other nights
Our venue for club events is the Opoho Bowling Club rooms, 80 Lovelock Avenue, North Dunedin
In the current covid climate, some may wish to wear a mask when up and moving around.
Lara Rose | Hyram Ballard | Neville Stewart
Triple Bill!
Hyram Ballard grew up with Merle Haggard, George Jones and Buck Owens ringing in his ears while trying to learn to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix and Joni Mitchell. As such his songwriting style sits squarely in the “Americana” genre with forays into jazz, blues and Latin styles. He currently performs solo, as a duo with Leigham Fitzpatrick, with his own band Dr. T and The Dangerous Women as well as playing fretless bass with indie rock band Oille Crooks & The Hermit Crabs and Venezuelan cuatro with Latin/Funk/House band Ed & The Shadowboys. On this occasion he will be playing all his own songs including a few of his hits and maybe a newly penned number or two.
Neville Stewarts’s song ideas, riffs and lyrics flow out of a lifetime love of music. The songs and stories feature well known New Zealand towns and landscapes from favourite destinations including: Okarito West Coast, Tarras Central Otago and New York.
Musical influences as diverse as Gospel, Jazz, the Beatles, Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young inform the musical motifs. Later influences including Talking Heads, Radiohead, Crowded House, PJ Harvey and Ryan Adams developed and reshaped the songs further.
