Legend of New Zealand jazz, Geoff Culverwell, regularly performs at sold out concerts around the country.
Legend of New Zealand jazz, Geoff Culverwell, regularly performs at sold out concerts around the country.
Te Horo based equine therapist and internationally renowned jazz musician Geoff Culverwell is set to play a one-off concert in Foxton this weekend.
Culverwell's jazz quartet will be performing a free concert at the Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom cultural hub on Sunday, June 6 from 2pm.
"We want to support the excellent Manawatū Jazz & Blues Festival and extend the reach of the festival from Palmerston North and Feilding into smaller towns like Foxton," said multi-instrumentalist Culverwell.
"People outside the bigger centres should also get a taste of the smooth Blue Note Jazz that originated in the 1950s."
Music has been a lifetime passion of Culverwell's.
Multi-instrumentalist jazz musician Geoff Culverwell banging his drums.
For more than 40 years he's performed in New Zealand and internationally, a master of the trumpet, well-known for his eclectic mix of original and other jazz material, as well as rearranged pop standards with swing, Latin and funk grooves.
For the last three decades Culverwell has played with many top acts such as Al Jarreau, Gene Pitney, Tony Christie and Renée Gaye.
His most recent international release is The Accent of Jazz – which was nominated for the international Smooth Jazz awards.
Marketing manager for Te Awahou Riverside Cultural Park, Arjan van der Boon, said the concert will be the first ever in the Māpuna Kabinet art gallery.
Geoff Culverwell, internationally renowned jazz musician, blowing his horn in style.
"The intimate room has beautifully subtle acoustics [which] means [the quartet] can play unplugged. Surrounded by brilliantly coloured paintings and sculptures, this concert with trumpet, vocals, bass and drums should be quite a surreal experience," said van der Boon.
Concert goers will also get an opportunity to view the current art exhibition in the gallery titled Colourful Nation - Kleur Bekennen, a retrospective of the work of New Zealand based Dutch artist Leon van den Eijkel who passed away in April this year.
Van den Eijkel's larger than life sculptures feature in a video, but four of his Down Under Super Sizzler BBQs sit right outside the door of the gallery (with 25 more on the walls of the Oranjehof museum).
Leon van den Eijkel's - 'Down Under Super Sizzler BBQs' sculpture.
And two of his subtly glittering Going Full Circle bonsai spheres have been made available by a private collector.
Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom is an award-winning multicultural and multilingual facility - home to the Piriharakeke museum, which tells the local story of Ngāti Raukawa Ki te Tonga, and the Oranjehof museum, which tells the story of the Dutch in New Zealand.
