Post by Ross on Oct 5, 2011 10:33:34 GMT
This concert which Fiona Pears was part of was a fundraising event to raise funds for 3 Mongolian students at Rangiora High School to attend University next year.
A lot of the acts came from Rangiora High School including dancers, Maori Kapahaka singers, pianists, trump-est and two cool guitarist and vocalists who had Justin Bieber haircuts lol but got the audience up dancing.
Also included was a really great family pop group from a local primary school. The group was called The Head Turners. The youngest brother was on the drums (7 years old), Older brother ( 10yo) on the keyboard and the lead singer and the guitarist was 11yo. They won the Singapore Airlines Starfest Final for young acts in NZ.
See them here on You Tube at the final:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cQqpk6YZFY
They played 2 songs, both written by them, one about the Christchurch earthquake.
Another Christchurch singer Claudia Jardine, who won the regional section of Rockquest for secondary school acts, sung and played the guitar 2 of her own songs.
Two of the Mongolian male students also sung some Mongolian pop songs and they were really good.
Then at the end of the first half the female MC came on and said she used to teach at the Linwood High School where a girl with spiky pink hair in a Mohawk sat in the front of the school orchestra as the lead violinist which of course was Fiona lol. Fiona and her sister Jill came on stage. Jill played the piano while Fiona played two songs. The first song was hot off the press (Jill only got to see it not long before the concert) which Fiona wrote after seeing a full moon above her house in Lyttleton. It was called of course Full Moon. The next song was about the earthquakes in Christchurch called Calm After the Storm which was the first time I heard it but those of you in London would have heard it recently.
Then Jill played a song on the Piano. Then Fiona introduced two young men from a local Gypsy Swing Jazz band. They both played the guitar and played two of their songs from a debut album ( which I bought at the interval) called La Petite Manouche and their music is influenced by Django Reinhardt (just like Fiona).
Fiona then joined them and they played Nuage and lastly Memories Of Martin and Mary which the audience clapped along too.
During the interval we could have cold drinks and yummy biscuits etc and I had a quick word with Fiona before she went home.
The second half started with the other main act of tonight which was a local female singer Ali Harper, who appears in a lot of local musicals etc. She did a great version of I Dreamed A Dream and a funny song about the Barbie doll.
There was also a local Barbershop quartet, another local singer, more dancers and another pianist.
And to top the evening off as I was driving back to Christchurch I could see the two Lights Of Hope shining into the clouds above the cordoned off CBD and I realized while we have such great local talent there is always hope for a bright future in Christchurch. Plus tomorrow night I get to see the world famous Opera singer Placido Domingo and Katherine Jenkins i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif.
A lot of the acts came from Rangiora High School including dancers, Maori Kapahaka singers, pianists, trump-est and two cool guitarist and vocalists who had Justin Bieber haircuts lol but got the audience up dancing.
Also included was a really great family pop group from a local primary school. The group was called The Head Turners. The youngest brother was on the drums (7 years old), Older brother ( 10yo) on the keyboard and the lead singer and the guitarist was 11yo. They won the Singapore Airlines Starfest Final for young acts in NZ.
See them here on You Tube at the final:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cQqpk6YZFY
They played 2 songs, both written by them, one about the Christchurch earthquake.
Another Christchurch singer Claudia Jardine, who won the regional section of Rockquest for secondary school acts, sung and played the guitar 2 of her own songs.
Two of the Mongolian male students also sung some Mongolian pop songs and they were really good.
Then at the end of the first half the female MC came on and said she used to teach at the Linwood High School where a girl with spiky pink hair in a Mohawk sat in the front of the school orchestra as the lead violinist which of course was Fiona lol. Fiona and her sister Jill came on stage. Jill played the piano while Fiona played two songs. The first song was hot off the press (Jill only got to see it not long before the concert) which Fiona wrote after seeing a full moon above her house in Lyttleton. It was called of course Full Moon. The next song was about the earthquakes in Christchurch called Calm After the Storm which was the first time I heard it but those of you in London would have heard it recently.
Then Jill played a song on the Piano. Then Fiona introduced two young men from a local Gypsy Swing Jazz band. They both played the guitar and played two of their songs from a debut album ( which I bought at the interval) called La Petite Manouche and their music is influenced by Django Reinhardt (just like Fiona).
Fiona then joined them and they played Nuage and lastly Memories Of Martin and Mary which the audience clapped along too.
During the interval we could have cold drinks and yummy biscuits etc and I had a quick word with Fiona before she went home.
The second half started with the other main act of tonight which was a local female singer Ali Harper, who appears in a lot of local musicals etc. She did a great version of I Dreamed A Dream and a funny song about the Barbie doll.
There was also a local Barbershop quartet, another local singer, more dancers and another pianist.
And to top the evening off as I was driving back to Christchurch I could see the two Lights Of Hope shining into the clouds above the cordoned off CBD and I realized while we have such great local talent there is always hope for a bright future in Christchurch. Plus tomorrow night I get to see the world famous Opera singer Placido Domingo and Katherine Jenkins i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif.
