Tonight
Christine, Lynn, Bernie and I went and had a meal together at our yacht
club (Whangarei Cruising Club) and listened to a visiting Blue Grass
Band called 'Hot Diggity' - New Zealands only all female Blue Grass
band. Of their genre of amateur musical bands they were a very good
example. This Utube video is not from tonights performance but it is "as
good as" (as the saying goes) as an example of their performance. It
displays the ambience and informality of local 'Hot Diggitys' gigs as
they make their way around New Zealand entertaining Kiwis and showing
off their enthusiasm, virtuosity and musical talent.
Of
course the evening was not all about Blue Grass music. Over a beer or
six, Bernie and I planned our strategy for tomorrows six hour endurance
race at the Onerahi Yacht Club where we will be competing in our Zephyr
sailing dinghies.
As the evening progressed and the
instruments and voices wove their contrapuntal and harmonic paths and as
the lyrics soared to the rafters and the beer flowed it was amazing how
our predictions of tomorrows personal sailing performances rose in
unison to the driving rhythm. Shipmates, such is the sailors life.
If
I purchased a brand spanking new fiberglass Zephyr as a celebration of
the sailing life I feel the
name 'Hot Diggity' has a rather nice ring to it.
4 comments:
Love the old-timey microphone! Music ain't bad either.
Yes, they were pretty good, musically very competent, highly entertaining and great easy listening.
Hi Alden,
Did not know that you like this kind of music. Indeed highly entertaining and great easy listening. Once in a while I go to a visiting American Bluegrass band with some old friends, one of them plays in a Cajun band: Des fais dodo. See this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWx77kWCelE
Ben, I like most music except Rap or Heavy Metal. Live music, especially un-amplified acoustic music is especially good to listen to - although I accept that amplification is required inside venues full of noisy audiences. The band 'Hot Diggity' was necessarily amplified for their performance inside the noisy yacht club that we attended.
Thanks for the link, I enjoyed listening to Des fais dodo.
Post a Comment