Gisborne’s blues club reports successful first year
We have had a great 1st year! People are there to see the blues and they haven't been disappointed. It’s pleasing to see a crowd who are there to appreciate a style of music which really is a piece of history.
Keeping it a true blues night has been fun, We have had muso’s try and convince us that reggae, rock and R&B are ok but we have stuck to our ethos of only playing blues. This is not an open mike night!
By the latter months, our jam's were really blues orientated
but with the likes of our first international act; from Wainui, Alaskan Dave Galanin, the ever entertaining Sam Lyle, along with big stompin' Rich Alexander, we got through a great summer and even better winter with some real blues.
Musicians have come from all over the Eastcoast to join in, and it's thanks to all these guys and ladies for the year of great entertainment the rest of us have enjoyed!!
In May we bought Lil' Ian Goodsman to town, to find that Friday night is a quiet for the blues in Gisborne, but the crowd that came enjoyed an intimate evening with the blues!
Sadly one of our founding bluesmen, Euan Fielder, died later that evening, but I truly can say he had been in his element that evening, the blues was everything for Euan. He gave his all at every jam he attended and every June PBBlues Jam, will be the Euan Fielder Memorial Jam Night, out of respect for our lost friend and it will be conducted in a style that Euan would have enjoyed!
Its been an awesome start to what we hope will be many more jams in the future with whomever has a hankering to play the blues!
Thanks to Adam and his crew @ the PBC and Luke from Mutant Frog Productions for their support and patience.
For our birthday celebrations we have invited some of the outstanding acts that we had enjoyed throughout the year. But as always I’m sure we will still get a few new acts coming out of the woodwork. So this is promising to be a very entertaining evening.
The Poverty Bay Blues is intending to charge a $5 cover charge in the future to allow us to maintain the equipment we use and purchase our own drum kit too. We will have (hopefully) a range of t-shirts for sale as well.
As always Jam Nite Rules Apply!
Darryn Clyne
PBBlues
