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DUST TO DUSKY AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND FREE PROGRAMME BY MEI-LIN TE PUEA HANSEN DUST TO DUSKY AN AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL PRODUCTION SPIEGELTENT, THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD FESTIVAL GARDEN WEDNESDAY 2 MARCH 8.15PM THURSDAY 3MARCH - SATURDAY 5 MARCH 7.00PM 1 HOUR 30 MINS Nau mai haere mai ki Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Makaurau. Welcome to AAF 2016. We are delighted you are here. The Festival moves through moments in history and reflects on the impact they have on our world. It moves across cultures and into places where there are no borders. It shows us human beings coming together through music, performance and art. On the eve of Dusty Springfield’s passing (March 2 1999) we remember and rejoice in the work of ground-breaking artists. We are proud to present this exciting new show developed and created by AAF. Congratulations to all the wonderful artists who have brought it to life. Have a fabulous Festival. Ngā mihi mahana—the Festival Team 2 PROGRAMME Quiet Please, There's a Lady on stage Peter Allen Windmills of my mind Burt Bacharach/ Hal David I only wanna be with you Mike Hawker/ Ivor Raymonde Island of Dreams Tom Springfield Wishin and Hopin Burt Bacharach/ Hal David In The Middle of Nowhere Beatrice Verdi/ Buddy Kaye Anyone Who Had a Heart Burt Bacharach/ Hal David Little By Little Nanker Phelge/ Phil Spector 24 Hours from Tulsa (Samoa) Burt Bacharach/ Hal David You Don't Have to Say you love me Pino Donaggio/ Vito Pallavicini/ Vicki Wickham/ Simon Napier-Bell Look of Love Burt Bacharach/ Hal David Spooky Mike Shapiro/ Harry Middlebrooks Jr/ James Cobb/ Buddy Buie I Close my Eyes and Count To Ten Clive Westlake Son of a Preacher Man John Hurley/ Ronnie Wilkins I Just Don't Know what to do with myself Burt Bacharach/ Hal David In Private Neil Tennant Don't Forget About Me Gerry Coffin/ Carole King 3 PERFORMERS ANNA CODDINGTON COLLEEN DAVIS (AS DUSTY) BELLA KALOLO TAMI NEILSON STEPH BROWN MUSICAL DIRECTOR FEN IKNER DRUMS RUI INABA BASS JONATHAN PEARCE KEYS/ACCORDIAN NEIL WATSON GUITAR SHANE BOSHER DRAMATURG/SCRIPT DEVELOPER TAMA WAIPARA CREATIVE PRODUCER WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO TAIAROA ROYAL/ WILL COOPER BARLING 4 ANNA CODDINGTON Anna is known for her enchanting live performances, for a voice which “flows perfectly from soft to grunty”, and for her song writing prowess which has seen her in the Silver Scroll Top 20 list four times since 2010. Anna has two albums under her belt, Cat and Bird and The Lake and is currently working on a third, which will be a continuation of the sound she explored on her three recent singles “Bird In Hand”, “Make You Mine” and “The Runner”. COLLEEN DAVIS Toi Whakaari : New Zealand Drama School graduate, Colleen also studied sociology and international relations at University of Auckland. She has appeared in Auckland Theatre Company musicals Oliver!, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors and Chicago and in the widely-acclaimed NZ cabaret Daffodils. She started singing early female blues with Tom Rodwell of Storehouse and now she and Tom have a Blues and early R'n'B act, Coco Davis. Coco Davis’s debut album Old Haunts was released in 2015. BELLA KALOLO Soul-sister Bella Kalolo has been handpicked to work with and support artists as diverse as Chaka Khan, Mos Def, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Dave Dobbyn, Hollie Smith, the NZSO and Aaradhna. Bella's reputation as one of NZ’s most entertaining performers has earned her spots at Glastonbury, City of London Festival, Parachute Festival and the huge Waitangi Day celebrations at Flatbush, Manukau. Without The Paper is her debut album. TAMI NEILSON Tami has been described as "A red-hot honky-tonker, somewhere between Patsy Cline and Wanda Jackson with perhaps just a little bit of Peggy Lee sophistication.” (Nick Bollinger, NZ National Radio). Tami Neilson has won the Tui Award for each of her past four albums and in 2014, was awarded the APRA Silver Scroll, for excellence in songwriting, for her song “Walk (Back to Your Arms)”. Just 18 months after her album Dynamite!, Tami has released a follow-up , Don’t Be Afraid to much critical acclaim. 5 STEPH BROWN MUSICAL DIRECTOR FEN IKNER RUI INABA DRUMS BASS JONATHAN NEIL WATSON PEARCE GUITAR KEYS/ ACCORDIAN WILL COOPER TAIAROA BARLING ROYAL SHANE BOSHER TAMA DRAMATURG/ WAIPARA SCRIPT CREATIVE DEVELOPER PRODUCER 6 She’s been called “one of the five mighty pop divas of the Sixties" ranked up there with Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and Martha Reeves. Berry Gordy credits her for helping the Motown sound take root in the UK. She’s pop-soul vocalist Dusty Springfield who over the course of a long career performed everything from adult pop, Memphis R&B and Motown-style soul, traditional folk and country to contemporary dance music. Born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien in London in 1939, Dusty had become Britain’s most popular female vocalist by 1964. And, her popularity proved durable, as she enjoyed hits in four successive decades. What Dusty achieved was nothing less than a reinvention of British soul music. Smitten by the soulful sounds coming out of Detroit, her approach had little to do with guitar-driven rock and roll. She gravitated toward Motown’s orchestrated pop-soul, filtered through the cool, poised vocal approach that reflected her British background. Dusty was meticulous about her arrangements and often not credited as Musical Director despite her care for detail. In a patriarchal and highly sexist industry, she stood firm and fast. Dusty became known as a British interpreter of American songwriters such as Randy Newman, Jerry Ragavoy, Gerry Goffin and Carole King and Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Several of her most memorable hits were written by the latter duo and her biggest USA hit came with “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” in 1966 (originally an Italian song “Io Che Non Vivo (Senzate)”, it was rewritten with English lyrics by Simon Napier-Bell and Vicki Wickham). In 1968, Dusty tackled a wide range of material by some of her favourite songwriters, including Gerry Goffin and Carole King, on the album Dusty in Memphis. The album included “Son of a Preacher Man,” which returned Dusty to the Top 10, and “Breakfast in Bed.” The Seventies were generally quiet years for Dusty. She moved from London to Los Angeles and recorded only sporadically. However, during that decade she recorded the theme song for the television series The Six Million Dollar Man and recorded two new albums, Begins Again and Living without Your Love. In the early 1980s, she released the album White Heat, which was heavily influenced by New Wave music. In 1987, Britain’s Pet Shop Boys enlisted her to sing on “What Have I Done to Deserve This”, a dance-floor favoruite that reached Number Two in the USA. The song brought Springfield back into the public eye. Springfield’s last studio album was A Very Fine Love, it returned her to the folk and country genres where she’d begun 35 years earlier. In mid-1994, Springfield was diagnosed with breast cancer. Then, on March 2, 1999, she died, six weeks before her 60th birthday. Paraphrased from: https://rockhall.com/inductees/dustyspringfield/bio/#sthash.JAPpKoF1.dpuf 7 8 .