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Helen Dorothy with Neil Billington

Ticket Information

  • Gedneral Admission...(no additional fees apply)...: $25.00 each
  • Member or child...(no additional fees apply)...: $20.00 each
  • Additional fees may apply

Dates

  • Sat 10 Aug 2024, 8:00pm–9:30pm

Restrictions

All Ages

Quoting the renowned UK fRoots magazine, Helen Dorothy delivers “pithy, observational lyrics and memorable tunes” bound together in “beautifully crafted, intelligent songs”. With clear vocals and expressive guitar work, she paints with words and sound, taking us into a personal landscape that transforms the everyday into the mysterious and unique. Within the last decade, two of her studio albums were favourably reviewed by fRoots magazine, the acoustic arrangements in her album Light Time & Sound are “enriched by Neil Billington’s exquisite harmonica playing”. Each of Helen’s albums also feature a work by renownd published NZ poet Michael O’Leary, which are interpreted in song by Helen. This author/composer collaboration continues to this day—raw and emotive songs often featuring in her live performances.

Helen Dorothy is delighted to be performing her fourth concert at the Wellington Bluegrass Society, which have included album releases in 2009 and 2017, and a solo set in 2014. This time she teams up with Neil Billington, performing songs that celebrate life in the details of experience, both familiar and unexpected at the same time. Neil is an acknowledged master of both blues harp and chromatic harmonica. He has performed at jazz, blues, and folk festivals both in NZ and internationally. His extraordinary musicianship adds colour and tone to Helen’s songs.

“Performing with an accompanist who has the skill and versatility to play achingly sublime single notes to sensational jaw-dropping sequences allows me to explore my material at the next level”. “I hope my compositions can be vehicles for new and magical edge-of-the-seat Billington harmonica moments outside his normal musical territory… in return I am rewarded with an interpretation of the soundscapes and rhythm within my songs, without fear(!), by a major talent who I have seen recently described by jazz aficionados as amongst the top echelon of harmonica players on the planet… and he just happens to be local”.
– Helen Dorothy

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