Live @ Lopdell - Western Line

Basement Level Lopdell House

For this special Live @ Lopdell concert, local jazz quartet Western Line will be playing a varied programme of modern jazz and tunes from contemporary composers.

LIVE @ LOPDELL: WESTERN LINE

Saturday 26 April, 8pm (doors open at 7pm) | Tickets $20 - students $15

Many of you will remember Toby and the Rest, a young jazz quartet that played several times at Lopdell in the past. Having gone through university the members are now spreading their wings out into the music world.

Now following in their footsteps you get the chance to see and hear another group of amazingly talented young musicians starting out on their journey. Western Line is named after the train line used by them to get to rehearsals and jams.

The band has won various awards at national and local competitions; saxophonist Ben Ridsdale has won the 'Outstanding Soloist' award three times in national competition. Other members of the band are Francis Gallichan-Stewart on piano, Claude Wedde on double bass, Ruhan Ediweera-Wjesuriya on drums. The quartet recently played at the Auckland Jazz and Blues Club and got a standing ovation.

For this special Lopdell concert they will be playing a varied programme of modern jazz and their own arrangements of standards from Stan Getz, Hank Mobley, Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins, maybe a touch of Coltrane, and tunes from more contemporary composers such as Joe Chambers and Joshua Redman, and New Zealand’s very own Norman Meehan.

For more information please contact the organiser, Robin Kewell, on 021 0222 5558