For immediate release
AOTNZ Culinary Feast – Hot Club Sandwich Tour 7-29 August
Audiences have laughed and loved Andrew London’s lyrics - and marvelled at the musicianship of bass player Terry ’The
Engine Room’ Crayford, saxophonist James Tait Jamieson and guitarist London on two previous AOTNZ tours.
This exceptionally popular trio is back again to sing about household appliances, male insecurities, youth culture,
coffee culture, rugby culture, and other concerns of current kiwi life – all in a style which owes its origins to the
1930s Hot Club swing music of gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli.
Hot Club Sandwich have played at arts and jazz festivals throughout Australasia, performed in Saudi Arabia in 2010, and
released seven CDs and a live DVD. Their 2004 album ‘Toasted’ rated a four star review in Downbeat USA, the world’s most widely read jazz publication.
“…warmly appealing with eccentric edges...having the time of their lives getting a handle on bluegrass, country blues,
jug band, pop-rock, vaudeville music and jazz a la Quintette du Hot Club de France, then adding devilishly clever
wordplay for an old-time music of their own. “
Hot Club Sandwich songs have featured in NCEA English papers and movie soundtracks.
Itinerary and Biographies – see below.
For more information, see: www.aotnz.co.nz or contact:
Andrew London, 021 496 766, London@paradise.net.nz
Diana Moir, 03 355 2691, 021 126 5738, dhmoir@xtra.co.nz
Steve Thomas, Arts On Tour NZ Trust, aotnz@xtra.co.nz
About Arts on Tour New Zealand
Arts on Tour New Zealand (AOTNZ) organises tours of outstanding New Zealand performers to rural and smaller centres in
New Zealand. The trust receives funding from Creative New Zealand and liaises with local arts councils, repertory
theatres and community groups to bring the best of musical and other talent to country districts.
Following Hot Club Sandwich, the 2011 Arts on Tour programme features Craig Denham’s exciting new four piece Beyondsemble (September) and the extraordinary Ariana Tikao, Christine White and Mahina-Ina Kaui with Voices of Our Ancestors (October).
Bios
Terry Crayford
Terry Crayford has been a professional performer since the late 1950s. As both pianist and bass player he has toured and
recorded with high profile New Zealand jazz stars including Beaver, Ann Pacey, Malcolm McNeill, and Ray Woolf; as well
as visiting international stars Jimmy Witherspoon, Wild Bill Davidson and the Seekers, among others. Crayford’s early
influences included pianists Art Tatum and Nat King Cole, but it was a Wellington concert by the Everly Brothers in 1958
that inspired him to buy a bass guitar, the instrument he plays with Hot Club Sandwich.
Andrew London
Andrew London joined a pub covers band in 1979, quickly cementing a place on the Lion Breweries circuit playing in
venues around the country - a baptism of fire for a 20 year old. Following his developing taste for jazz standards, he
performed solo during the late 1980s and in 1992 joined Terry Crayford in a recording session at Radio New Zealand. The
duo played together intermittently until 2000 when both sacrificed their day jobs to take Hot Club Sandwich to a nation-wide audience. London also plays in the country five-piece band, The Cattlestops, which in 2008 contributed music to the movie, ‘Second Hand Wedding’, as well as making a cameo appearance in the film.
James Tait Jamieson
James was born and raised on an organic dairy farm in the Manawatu, taking up the saxophone at high school and falling
in love with jazz. He moved to Wellington to complete a BMus (Hons) in Jazz Studies at Massey University and then to Las
Vegas, Nevada to do his Masters in Jazz Performance at UNLV. Two and a half years in Las Vegas was fun. Enough said! On
returning to New Zealand in 2007 he took up the penny whistle to play Celtic folk music as well as continuing his other
musical interests. James teaches contemporary music performance at UCOL in Palmerston North and performs nationwide with
Wellington’s top jazz musicians. He also performs with his alt/country/rock band Say No to Tango and still finds time to play with Wellington bands Pleasure Point, The Wellington Heads, and The Boptet, as well as Hot Club Sandwich.
Itinerary
Sunday 7 August Rangiora
Rossburn Receptions, Spark Lane
5pm drinks and nibbles, show starts 6.30pm
$20 Book: Fi’s Flowers and Arts, Robe, Corina’s House of Fashion, Blackwell’s (Kaiapoi)
Tuesday 9 August 7.30pm Fairlie
EAT Café, Main St
$20 Book: Heartlands or EAT Café
Wednesday 10 August 7.30pm Cromwell
The Shed, Northburn Station
Adults $25; SuperGold $20; Student/Child $15 Book: Cromwell iSite
Thursday 11 August 7.30pm Alexandra
Alexandra Community Hall
$20 Book: Alexandra Information Centre
Friday 12 August 8pm Gore
James Cumming Wing
$25 Book: Eastern Southland Gallery
Saturday 13 August 8pm Dunedin
St Martins Hall, Northumberland St, North East Valley
$20 Book: Twang Town Moray Place
Sunday 14 August 7.30pm Ashburton
Ashburton Trust Event Centre
$20 each, $30 for two, $40.50 for three, $50 for four
Door sales all $20 (incl fees)
Wednesday 17 August 7.30pm Blenheim
Wisheart Room, Marlborough Civic Theatre
$25 Book Marlborough Civic Theatre Box Office
Friday 19 August 7.30pm Hastings
Assembly Room, Hawke’s Bay Opera House
$25 Adult, $20 Students/Concession
Book: www.ticketdirect.co.nz
Thursday 25 August Rotorua
Belgian Bar own arrangements
Friday 26 Saturday 27 August Coromandel
Coromandel Bowling Club
Doors open 6pm for 7pm start
$20 Book: Coromandel I-Site
Sunday 28 August 7pm Opotiki
Arts Heritage Hall, King St
$25 Book: The Travel Shop Church St
Monday 29 August Devonport
The Bunker, Devonport Folk Club own arrangements
Tuesday 30 August Auckland
Auckland Jazz Club own arrangements
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