Kauaeranga Music’s final gig for 2022 will be the Ragtime Washboard Kings – likely one of the only bands in New Zealand to feature not one, but two washboard players.
This, alongside acoustic and resonator guitars, upright bass, fiddle, lap steel, mandolin, and djembe promises to be an “audio feast” for those tuning in for the closing event.
Versatile bluesman par excellence Mike Garner, with eight albums to his credit, has toured internationally to Australia, Japan, Europe, the United States, and even Kathmandu for the Himalayan Blues Festival.
Mike plays ragtime, blues and other pre-war American music as though he has lived it.
Some impressive accolades Mike has achieved include being played on Dan Ackroyd’s syndicated House of Blues Hour radio show, as well as a support slot for Motown masters The Four Tops, The Miracles and The Temptations, in front of 50,000 people at the Mission Estate concert in 2010.
Robbie Lavën contributes a wide array of accompanying instrumentation; mandolin, fiddle, Stroh violin, lap steel guitar, harmonica and washboard.
On upright bass, Stuart Lawrence from Dargaville has worked with the Whangarei Big Band. On percussion and washboard, long-time associate Warren Houston from Motueka, has toured with Mike in Australia, New Caledonia and Nepal, as well as recording on most of Mike’s albums for more than two decades.
DETAILS: November 4 from 7:30pm at the Kauaeranga Hall. Door sales $25, pre-paid $22 txt: 021 912 993.
Kauaeranga Music’s final gig for 2022 will be the Ragtime Washboard Kings. Photo: SUPPLIED
