Don Burnham and the Fern Frond Boogie NZ Tour

The 2011 tour takes Don and the Fern Frond Boogie Boys from Auckland to Invercargill and many places in between. Boogie Boys Richard Klein (fiddle) and Simon Burgess (bass) are two of Wellington’s best musicos.

San Franciscan Don Burnham (www.donburnham.com) has spent most of his life behind a guitar — singing and pickin’, from campfire circles to concert stages. Guitarist and vocalist, Don is best known as the bandleader of Lost Weekend western swing band (www.lostweekend.ws).

After years as a folksinger, troubadour, songwriter, and bandleader, Don’s overriding interest in swing music and traditional jazz produced his New Century Jazz Band (1984), and also the Western swing outfit Lost Weekend (1985). Ultimately these two bands “merged” (1991). The modern Western swing band known as Lost Weekend today is internationally recognised as one of the leading lights in contemporary western swing.

Don supported his music habit by working as a seasonal park ranger, where he developed his musical program known as 'Songs and Tales of California and the West'.

Don was inducted into the Western Swing Hall of Fame in 2005.

Don met and highjacked his Kiwi bride Sarah Duckworth in San Francisco in 2008.

Event listed by Sarah Duckworth

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