Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at the 4th Wall Theatre, New Plymouth

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Chanel Arts Centre, Motueka

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Balcairn Hall, Amberley

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Darfield Recreation Centre

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at the The Lodge Theatre, Geraldine

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at St Columbia Church, Fairlie

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Regent Theatre – Clarkson Studio, Dunedin

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Ranfurly Town Hall

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour in Roxburgh

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Tokanui Tavern

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at the Arrowtown Community Centre

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Domaine Thompson Winery, Pisa Moorings, Cromwell

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at the Lake Hawea Community Centre

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Old Lodge Theatre, Hokitika

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at The Reefton Club

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Mussel Inn, Onekaka

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Picton Little Theatre

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Feilding Civic Centre Concert Chamber, Fielding

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at St George & St John Church, Whakatāne

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at Matamata Little Theatre

Across the Great Divide with Arts on Tour at The Plaza Theatre

Transglobal Music Sessions are back! Join us for the first one for this year and celebrate NZ Music Month with us.

Special guests for this session: Dave Wilson & Ben Fernandex

25 May 2024, 2:30 pm & 7:30 pm

Bruce Ritchie Performing Arts Centre
Massey High School, 274 Don Buck Rd

“In the tapestry of life, we’re all connected.” – Anita Moorjani

Six world-class musical acts join the multi-award winning West City Concert Band in this not to be missed concert celebrating diverse cultural backgrounds and the things that weave us together. Discover some of the vibrant musical traditions that thrive in our own backyard and how intersections with other cultures can create something truly special.

Basant Madhur Ensemble are Basant Madhur (tabla), Akhil Madhur (tabla), and Sargam Madhur (Sitar). These musicians have all been trained in the traditional form of this music and have been playing and performing both individually and together for many years.

Jon Sanders is recognised as a virtuoso bouzouki player, tenor ukulele player, drop D and DADGAD guitarist and an internationally acclaimed composer, with compositions drawing on elements of jazz, gypsy, funk, arabic, latino and Celtic styles. His music has been described by the Irish Times as quantum-leaping, deeply meditative, and impishly playful.

Hanna Wiskari is a Swedish saxophonist with roots in Nordic folk music. Her global influences are evident in her playful and masterful improvisations, which convey a depth of talent matched by a lightness of spirit. Hanna manages Ethno NZ, an artistic residency of traditional/ folk/world music for young people in Aotearoa, and other projects with a kaupapa of fostering intercultural connectivity and understanding through the arts.

Together this group of highly acclaimed artists present a unique musical experience for audiences in New Zealand, opening a window to the intriguing, atmospheric music that emerges from a fusion between these unique traditions. Audiences are invited on a consciousness-expanding journey beyond geographical confines.

Tickets:
Early bird $30
Door sale $35

NZ/Ireland based guitar bouzouki uke player Jon Sanders returns to New Zealand with a free flowing nufolk music band featuring accordion, clarinet and singing, in a show called Tenalach.
Tenalach is an old Irish term which describes a state of deep connection with the land, water and air that allows us to hear the earth sing. The music is sometimes Celtic in feel, sometimes contemporary and written over the last 4 years. Creating these soundscapes with Jon will be his daughter Jenny OS who sings and heralds from west Kerry, Hannah Wiskari Griffiths on sax.
The Tenalach project represents an invitation to reconnect with nature on a deeper level, in a world increasingly controlled by technologies and their limited binary outcome. Already recognised for his “deeply meditative, impishly playful, quantum leaping” style, Jon says these new soundscapes and original songs feature aspects of contemporary life clearly mirrored in the balance of natural ecosystems.

“This is an invocation to spend time in the natural environment, away from the digital machine and to reconnect on a deeper non- intrusive level”, he says. 

TENALACH at the Sound Lounge, Te Pahu

NZ/Ireland based guitar bouzouki uke player Jon Sanders returns to New Zealand with a free flowing nufolk music band featuring accordion, clarinet and singing, in a show called Tenalach.
Tenalach is an old Irish term which describes a state of deep connection with the land, water and air that allows us to hear the earth sing. The music is sometimes Celtic in feel, sometimes contemporary and written over the last 4 years. Creating these soundscapes with Jon will be his daughter Jenny OS who sings and heralds from west Kerry, Hannah Wiskari Griffiths on clarinet/sax (who set up the NZ branch of the Ethno world music project) and Sophia Bidwell from Christchurch on piano accordion. Sophia is a prolific session player and music teacher in Canterbury and beyond.
The Tenalach project represents an invitation to reconnect with nature on a deeper level, in a world increasingly controlled by technologies and their limited binary outcome. Already recognised for his “deeply meditative, impishly playful, quantum leaping” style, Jon says these new soundscapes and original songs feature aspects of contemporary life clearly mirrored in the balance of natural ecosystems.

“This is an invocation to spend time in the natural environment, away from the digital machine and to reconnect on a deeper non- intrusive level”, he says. 

Come and celebrate the first single release of MOONGOAT. They'll bring their spiky alt-rock sensibilities in a wave of horn-wrapped goodness.

Get in for those hot pre-sales of $15...

Kevin Keys - Vocals, Trombone
Tim Gittins - Vocals, Guitar
David Ward - Bass
Apera Woodfine - Drums
Hanna Wiskari - Saxophone
Jake Krishnamurti - Trumpet

Featuring special guests, fusion goblins: Badmaw.
6pm, Sunday December 3rd at The Wine Cellar

The team from Arts Connections Oceania is welcoming you all to final Transglobal Music Sessions for 2023 - happening at the Jam Factory in Tauranga!
Sat 18 Nov - The Jam Factory, Tauranga.
The Transglobal Music Session is an interactive workshop where you learn music from around the world, share and collaborate. This is for all musicians - singers and instrumentalists - of all ages and levels with a curiosity to learn music from diverse traditions and cultures and share their own.

Come along to this Transglobal music session in the beautiful historic village in Tauranga, facilitated by Tristan Hancock & Hanna Wiskari. Participants are also invited to join the evening concert where Tristan & Hanna will share music from their Threaded light album

Book your spot here.