Time & Location
27 Apr 2024, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Dunedin, 65 Hanover Street, Central Dunedin, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
Guests
About the event
Gardening Music with Jake Baxendale
Join us for the launch of the 2024 Hanover Hall Autumn Concert season with a performance by award-winning Wellington saxophonist and composer, Jake Baxendale. Accompanying Baxendale is an all-star lineup comprised of well-known South Island musicians. Bringing a novel approach to improvisation, Baxendale presents his new compositions with a South Island band under the title of “Gardening Music”, an approach that is rooted in a deep relationship with the soil and the act of nurturing the earth. Hailing from Te Whanganui-A-Tara, Baxendale infuses his music with a distinctive blend of expression, nature-inspired creativity, and a strong sense of community, an approach which reflects his upbringing in beautiful Mohua. Gardening Music combines Baxendale’s passion for gardening and its parallels with music, uniting the apparently contradictory activities of being immediate, physical work and making music.
Tui-Award-winning composer Baxendale is joined by keyboardist Michael Crawford, double bassist Nathan…