Auckland New Zealand
Rachel Dawick returns to the Titirangi Folk Club to preview the songs from her coming new album release “A Penny Plain” before heading to the UK to record the album with the UK Folk Band Faustus. The album will be released in NZ in May 2018 with an accompanying book.
'A Penny Plain’ retraces the steps of the Boundary Riders to the streets of Victorian London bringing the worlds of Toy Theatre, Folk, Storytelling and Musical Theatre together as the working class begin to tell their tale... a melting pot of sounds and smells of Industrial Britain. This album follows the true account of Henry Mayhew who in the mid 1800s took to the streets to interview the London Poor releasing these interviews as part of a series of articles in the Morning Chronicle Paper and later as a four volume book entitled London Labour and London Poor. Downloadable from the Internet Archive.
Rachel’s last album & book ‘The Boundary Riders' See June 2014 TfMC preview. since its release on 19th September 2014 has taken her on a musical journey from Tui Award finalist for best NZ Folk Album 2015 to being selected as one of forty Musical Theatre works to be presented at the 2016 BEAM festival in London - a showcase of emerging British Musical Theatre Writing. This led to her being invited to join BML (Book Music Lyric) as a lyricist at RADA in London to develop her skills in Musical Theatre Writing.
Her songwriting crosses boundaries covering a range of folk, blues, country, gospel, cabaret to French chanson. Tonight will highlight the range of her writing and her love of musical styles and all the stories that she has picked up along the road as she travels the world in true troubadour fashion.
Stories of love, of war, of our environment, of history, of life.
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Featuring luminaries from the Auckland Folk scene, for the benefit of both visiting out of towners, and locals who know good folk music when they hear it.
Last Update: 2018-01-08
The Club was conceived in 1965 when the Clancy Brothers didn't come and someone had the astounding idea of having a sing-a-round thus transforming an audience into a folk group. Formally established in 1966 we're still going strong.