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The Northern Jazz Society has as one of its objectives the promotion of jazz music in Northland.
We hold our Club Days on the first Sunday of each month - apart from January - in Salut Bar & Brasserie, 69 Bank Street, Whangarei from 2 - 5pm. Ph. 09 430 8080. Entry is by gold coin donation and all are welcome.
On the first Sunday in February our Club Day is the picnic, usually held at the Mandeno property in Glen Bervie.
The Northern Jazz Festival 2010
This event took place over the weekend of 1st - 3rd October, at four venues in Dargaville.
**For photos of the event click on "Photo Gallery" on the left of the screen**
A highlight was Dine With the Divas, an hour-long show in which four female vocalists, Claire Deighton, Maura Flower, Sara Harris & Carol Power, wowed the capacity audience with renditions of standards in solo, duo, trio and quartet settings.
They were accompanied by Julian Russell on piano, Ray Palmer on double bass and Don Hales on drums, while Art Cummins (trumpet), Bob Ward (trombone) and Joe Carbery (tenor saxophone) provided instrumental interludes and backings.
The inaugural Street March and Parasol Parade on Saturday morning was blessed with kind weather and attracted an entry of some twenty parasol-toting marchers. The winners of the competition were Margaret Bell (adult) and Seren Jang (primary and intermediate schools). Some nineteen musicians played such tunes as "When the Saints Go Marching In", "Washington & Lee Swing", "Just a Closer Walk", and "Bill Bailey" as they wended their way down to the band rotunda and back up the street. The Northern Advocate newspaper covered the march with a full page of photographs and an article.
The window dressing competition was won by Stringers Electrical with a very imaginative creation by Maxine Stringer.
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