Kiwi Country Greats

Kiwi Country Greats was the name of several tours by Country artists across New Zealand.

Tours

  • Winter 1993 - 26 Shows

Personnel

  • Eddie Low ( featured in Te Papa first on-line exhibition)
  • Jodi Vaughan
  • The Musicians at Large (backed many tours)
  • Sound Engineer

Musicians at large

  • Keyboards & Vocals (lead and bvs)- Woody
  • Guitar - Mike Kirk
  • Drums - Mark Pikahu
  • Bass & vocals (lead and bvs)- Gary
  • Sound Engineer -

Show Format

1 set 45 mins by Musicians at Large
1 set 90 mins by Jodie Vaughn
1 set 90 mins by Eddie Low

The format changed for the last three shows, where Jodie and friends put on a support show with a group called Girls Talk (article and pic Waikato Times August 1993)

Audio Details

  • FOH (Front of House) 20 channel into 4 into 2 Peavy desk. Outboards; 32 x 1/3 octave equalizers, 2x quad parametrics, noise gates, electronic crossover, tapedeck, spx90 sound effects, reverb, wireless channel, cd player.
  • Stage Side. 2x Twin 400. 2x Twin 200.
  • Foldback. Wedges for 4 vocalists, Bin and Horn for Drummer, local amp and equaliser, headphones.
  • Stage. Wireless Microphone, 4x Shure SM58 vocals, twin AKG CMS overhead stereo pair on drums, various Shure on toms, snare, hi-hat and cymbals, AKG D12 on bass drum.
  • Backline. Various Shure on Bass and Guitar, DI (direct injection) boxes on Bass and Keyboards.

Iternary

  • 1 Blenheim
  • 2 Ashburton
  • Christchurch
  • Invercargill
  • Makarewa Country Club
  • Gore
  • Cromwell
  • Waikaouiti
  • Ranfurly
  • Wanaka
  • Waimati
  • Hanmer Springs
  • 25 Pukekohe
  • 26 Auckland

Discography

Tapes. live performance

See also

  • Maori Showbands

External References