Will Martin

[Ross]

i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif Will Martin is doing a South Island tour in February. So I will get to see him in the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch on Feb 24th.

[Ross]

Will Martin Concert at Medbury School Christchurch

Thursday 27th October 7pm

This concert was one that Will promised to do after the Christchurch concert was cancelled after the February earthquake. Proceeds from this concert went to the earthquake fund.
Will chose Medbury School for the concert (Medbury is an Independent Boys Primary School) as he knew the Head Master when he was 10 years old.
Will then told us a very sad story about the day he went to our local TV station, CTV, in the morning to do a live interview about the February concerts. He then went to Medbury School to see the boys and have lunch when the earthquake hit. All most all of the people in the CTV building died in the earthquake so Will was very lucky that day. He said he still went to the concert in Ashburton that night but it was very nerve-wracking with all the lights above him. Of course the Christchurch concert was cancelled until now.

The Medbury choir opened the show with two songs before Will came on stage.

And I must let you know now that Will is very talented, a great singer and pianist. He is also a great showman, tells some funny jokes and stories.

Will opened his act with a very familiar song Cinema Paradiso and then a song that Il Divo did.

Will then sat at the grand piano and he played So Far Away, Piano Man by Billy Joel and Your Song by Elton John. I think Will is NZ's version of both singers.

After the interval the choir sang a couple of songs including Pie Jesu. Then Will played the piano while the choir sang Hallelujah.

Then one of the funny moments happened. Will said that one of the hardest things a human can do is sing. He showed us why by getting the choir and himself sing the song The Grand Old Duke Of York. Then he got the audience to sing as well, so far so good. Now the tricky part we had to leave out the word up and that was hard to do lol. Then we had to leave out the word down, also tricky. Finally we had to leave out both words , almost impossible lol.

Some other songs Will sang were Nature Boy by Eden Ahbez, Going Home, and Don't dream It's Over by Crowded House.
Will finished with Anthem from Chess, very stirring. He got a standing ovation from the 200 people in the audience (including our local Radio celebrity Jason Gunn).

Will signed CDs afterwards so I got my CD signed i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif.

So if Will is in your area when is back in the UK go see him, he is fantastic.

PS Will wouldn't do the French Anthem lol.

[scoobedoo]

Good on yer Ross a nice report and by the sound of it a great nights entertainment I am pleased it was a great show I would have loved to have been there myself.



Cheers,


Rodders,

PS will see you on the 20th Nov at Hayley's concert.

[postscript]

Superb concert report, Ross. Thank you. There you are his fellow Kiwi, a fine reporting example! I hope you are beginning to post amongst yourselves about who is intending to meet with who and where. The before face-to-face sharing of a meal we find in the UK well worth the while and having the advantage (not teasing I promise) of frequency we really build a wide rapport.

Peter S.

[Ross]

TV One Good Morning Show 20th March 2012

Here is Will Martin singing Gira Con Me

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhx-SDwBL0&feature=youtu.be

And here is Will singing Anthem from Chess followed by an interview which includes of a mention of Hayley and the Rugby World Cup.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtj5KQSK5-4&feature=youtu.be

[nicola]

I think Will is joining Toni Gibson for the Pop Orchestra event, isn't he?

[Martin]

I just learnt today that Will was in concert yesterday at St. James's theatre, London accompanied by Tim Evans. Would have gone had I known.

Martin

[John H]

With guest artist Chloe Agnew. I knew about it, but couldn't go

[Richard]

Some photos from Chloe Agnew on Facebook:

Richard

[Sing]

Thanks for sharing the photo's Richard . I was hoping to go for my mum's birthday but once I heard about it we decided it was a bit to last minute to get to London . Hopefully they will perform together in London again one day.