New Zealand Music Concert Featuring Martin Curtis

Acoustic Routes (Wellington Folk Centre) presents a special New Zealand music concert featuring Martin Curtis, and "Gracious Deviants".

Martin Curtis is a singer, songwriter and bush-poet, from Cardrona, near Wanaka in the Otago lakes district. Martin, originally from England, came to New Zealand in 1975, via Australia. He has been writing and singing songs about his adopted country for well over 25 years, and has recorded 9 albums as well as a DVD, "Otago My Home". His first album, "Gin and Raspberry" featuring songs about Central Otago, is still rated as New Zealand's best selling folk album.

Martin has toured New Zealand extensively, as well as Australia and the UK, entertaining audiences with his repertoire of Kiwi songs and humorous bush poems, which he has also compiled into a programme for schools.

Martin will be supported by Darrel and Pete who are the Gracious Deviants, an acoustic duo based in Wellington. As well as a reasonably accurate description of the band's personalities, "Gracious Deviants" is in fact an anagram of "voices and guitars". Their sound is pure, unadorned acoustic pop music heavy with harmony and steeped in the traditions of the great New Zealand singer/songwriters of the last thirty years. Their repertoire consists entirely of original material and their performances remind audiences that music in its most stripped-down form - homegrown, acoustic, and entirely original - can be the most refreshing and novel.

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