- Robyn
Park - Trad English folk
musician and morris dancer,
Hastings
- Folk music
was a part of my life before I knew that's what it was. I was born into
the Williams family on Guy Fawkes day, so those traditions were always very
important to me...
- Mike
Moroney - Folk rock musician, Dunedin
- Twenty
five years ago I was getting along perfectly fine as a rock and roll bass
player. I was into blues as well and I went to a local concert called "Sing
the Blues" - which was a bit damn deceptive...
- Laura
Quin - Irish band musician, University student, Dunedin
- I've been
fortunate enough to have parents who have very wide tastes in music... I
have been interested in all kinds of music, including folk, since I can
remember. Dad always got out different records from the Hamilton library...
- Dave
Hart - Morris accordian player, Christchurch
- From an
early age, I recall my mother singing to us, either nursery rhymes or songs
from shows of the '40s. My father had a reasonable voice, & being from Sunderland,
used to sing a number of songs from the North, like "The Lambton Worm" ...
- Sue
Harkness - Trad harmony singer, guitarist, Auckland,
ex-Dunedin.
- I was born
and brought up in Dunedin. I have an English Mum who can sing/play piano
and NZ Dad who can't carry a tune in a bucket... I've always loved to sing
- it might be some compensation for not being able to dance, play sports
etc...
- Seiffe
La Trobe - Songwriter, concert organizer, Auckland
- I moved
to Devonport when I was 16 or so after my dad and I had a row... I wandered
around as a young chap and one day I saw a bunch of people going into a
church hall and followed them. Turned out to be the Devonport Folk Music
club...
- Hilary
Falconer - Trad folk enthusiast and festival organizer,Hamilton
- I came
from Essex when I wasn't quite a teenager. I suffered several years in the
cultural desert of Tauranga in the '60's, then went to University and on
my first day I met a Drapers Scholarship lad from Redcar in Yorkshire, who
read me Chaucer and led me to my unknown heritage of traditional English
folk music...
- Wayne
Gillespie - Auckland singer-songwriter, now in Sydney.
- I first
heard Leonard Cohen on the NZ National Radio Folk program in early 70's
at age 14 and was inspired enough to want to become a folkie/songwriter...
- Ian
Bartlett - Trad singer, Bones, Bodhran, Whistle,
Flute and Northumbrian
Smallpipes, Auckland
- My parents
enjoyed music but did not play any instruments. I can remember in junior
school in the 50's singing British Sea Songs...
- Mahinaarangi
Tocker - Jewish/Maori singer songwriter, Taumarunui/Wellington.
- Tena
koutou katoa. I first learnt about Pakeha or non Maori folk music in
school. My first folk song that I learnt at age 6 at school was The Water
is Wide...
- Read
Hudson - Bluegrass guitar player from the West Coast,
with side trips
- I came
to Dunedin in 1965, and started playing in a Rock 'n Roll band or two, as
a guitar player...
- Chris
Penman - Singer of unaccompanied British trad, Wellington, Dunedin,
Hamilton.
- We-e-ell,
my first recollection of anything folkie is being in the audience at the
Art Museum in Wanganui around 1970, listening to my dad singing "Lassie
Wi A Yellow Coatie"...
- Gerard
Hudson - Steel guitarist and folk club stalwart, Wellington
- When I
was 13 a music-loving friend told me I should be into heavy metal. To illustrate
he lent me Made in Japan by Deep Purple. I loved the energy and rawness,
but also the gentle delicacy of some moments. I wanted more of this...
- Tony
Hillyard - Singer/guitarist of English traditional songs, Wellington.
- I had a musical family background, but nothing formal. Dad was a singer with a
big band and Gran taught piano....
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