August 14, 2006
Photo shoot, 1865
Rehearsals are underway for the Dunedin Fringe show, here's a picture from the photo shoot the other day. Storyline is gradually taking shape - it's basically a musical set in Otago in 1865... I like the fact that my collaborators are people I met in Nelson and Melbourne - no connection to anything I've done before in Wellington.
It'll have some Irish, Scottish and NZ folk songs - I want to challenge myself by working with actual melodies & arrangements, put some of the stuff I'm learning at music school to work. I'm also going to avoid playing guitar in favour of banjo, saxophone and computer.
We did some historical family research the other weekend and managed to find the address of my ancestor John Edwards aka 'Totara Jack' who arrived in Nelson in 1842. He lived on Bridge Street near where the music school is now.
Oh and if anyone's reading this in Nelson, I'm playing this Thursday night at the Shark Club with The Clang. Free entry, come and say hi - I'm the one with the ridiculous 19th century moustache...
Posted by fiffdimension at August 14, 2006 05:45 PM | TrackBackgorgeous picture!
Posted by: jenni at August 15, 2006 10:27 AMThanks! Hope it bodes well for the show... I've got two different shows coming up over three nights in Dunedin and one in Lyttelton at the end of September, the workload's getting daunting.
I built those steps in the background myself, the photo shoot was in the garden at the house here.
Posted by: Dave at August 15, 2006 07:42 PMLooks cool. Except right now I'm really interested in victorian Women's fashion and I'm sad the photo doesn't show that! ;)
Posted by: giffy at August 16, 2006 10:01 AM