Jan Preston’s Boogie Circus Touring NZ next month

Jan Preston’s Boogie Circus Touring NZ next month

ROLL UP. Roll up. The circus is coming to town.

No animals will be harmed. There’ll be no grandstand seating nor tigers jumping through blazing hoops but there’ll be at least one cheeky monkey.

Acclaimed Sydney based pianist extraordinaire Jan Preston, with her new band Jan Preston’s Boogie Circus, announce today that they will embark on a concert tour of New Zealand next month, performing uplifting and entertaining boogie, blues, ragtime piano music and songs together with candid and often humorous anecdotes -- guaranteed to be more riotous than an elephant on the rampage!

Always entertaining and invigorating, Jan’s live shows continue to receive rapturous reviews as she thrills audiences throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

Featuring her well known boogie, blues and ragtime piano music with the addition of guitar, bass and percussion, JAN PRESTON’S BOOGIE CIRCUS will melt your blues away with songs, instrumentals, candid and sometimes humorous anecdotes.

Known as Australia’s foremost female Boogie & Blues Piano player and singer, Jan delivers high-energy performances which, together with her candid and communicative personality, has given her longstanding popularity in Australasia and overseas.

Winner of 5 Music Awards, she plays festivals and concerts throughout the world and writes music for films and television, such as the music to her sister Gaylene Preston’s Film Home By Christmas. On returning from New York in 1980, Jan formed NZ band Coup D’Etat who had the No1 hit single, Dr I Like Your Medicine.

Her latest CD My Life As A Piano is on ABC music and is available in ABC shops throughout Australia and Universal Music in NZ.

Jan has supported international acts such as the iconic Bo Diddley, and Grammy award winner Robert Cray, and her popular performance on ABC TV’s Spicks and Specks can be viewed on Youtube http://youtu.be/nxEE7QZLPQk

‘Jan Preston is surely Australia’s Queen of the Piano. She and the instrument come as a package and anyone who’s seen her perform live has witnessed a perfect partnership. Her playing is as flawless as it is loose and joyful’ Rhythms Magazine Australia

Jan’s earliest musical memories were of singalongs at the piano with one Aunt playing boogie/stride piano and another on violin. All the Prestons sang and played some instrument, even if it was only eggbeater or tea chest bass.

Born in Greymouth, Jan studied classical piano and singing from an early age, and always loved performing live.

The family moved to Napier and Jan went on to study at Auckland university, completing a classical piano music degree.

She then joined the infamous Red Mole Theatre troup in Wellington, toured NZ with Spilt Enz, and was musical director for the legendary and enormously popular Red Mole Cabaret shows in Wellington.

At this time she was asked by Sam Neil (then a film director) to write music for a documentary he was making, and Jan has been composing for films ever since.

In the late 1970s she moved briefly to New York where she heard many of the great r’nb piano players, came back to NZ and formed the rock/reggae band “Coup D’Etat”.

Jan is a fulltime composer, songwriter, and piano player who has specialized in mastering the piano boogie tradition, thus becoming known as Australasia’s “Queen of boogie piano.”

JAN PRESTON’S BOOGIE CIRCUS

MAR 12 Palmerston North 7.30pm
THE GLOBE 312 Main St
Bookings Ph 06 351 4409 www.globetheatre.co.nz

MAR 13 Wellington 5pm
OLD ST PAULS Ph 04 473 6722
34 Mulgrave Street ?Thorndon
Bookings @ eventfinder

MAR 14 Upper Hutt 7.30pm
EXPRESSIONS
836 Fergusson Drive Upper Hutt
Bookings Ph 04 527 2168 bookings@expressions.org.nz

MAR 15 Napier 3pm
CENTURY THEATRE
65 Marine Parade
Bookings Ph 06-835 7781

MAR 20 Tauranga 7.30pm
BAY COURT THEATRE
38 Durham Street
Bookings Ph 07 577 7188 baycourtboxoffice@tauranga.govt.nz

MAR 21 Auckland 7.30pm
LEWIS EADY
75 Great South Rd Epsom
Bookings Ph 09-524 4119

March 22 Hamilton 3pm
THE VERANDAH Ph 07838 0692
Rotoroa Drive, Hamilton Lake
Bookings @ eventfinder

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