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BENT HORSESHOE AND THE HOKOWHITU BOWLING CLUB PRESENTS THE BIDIBIDS IN CONCERT.SATURDAY 4TH OCTOBER AT 7.30 AT A COST OF $25.00.A year or so ago at the Wellington Folk festival Robyn and I saw a Banjo player Guesting with Adam McGrath.After they had finished playing we got talking to her and discovered that she was from Wellington and was part of a folk band called the Bidibids.
She later sent me some clips to listen to we liked what we saw and so here they are the Bidibids.
I will let them tell you about themselves.
With lush harmonies, intricate arrangements, and beguiling melodies, the Bidibids explore what it means to play folk music in New Zealand. The Bidibids are Sarah August on banjo and guitar, Simon Carryer on cello-banjo, and Brendan Schenk on mandolin and guitar. The trio came together at the 2020 Wellington Folk Festival, where they were each supposed to be playing in different groups. Late night jam-sessions lured them away from their original lineups, and a new group was born, steeped in Americana and bluegrass, but inspired by the idea of creating an authentic home-grown folk sound. Since then, the Wellington-based band have become regulars at some of the region's best venues for folk music, including the Mussel Inn, Moon, and the Wellington Bluegrass Society.
Driven by Sarah's honest, intimate songwriting and Brendan's blazing musicianship, the Bidibids balance soulful ballads that will tug your heart-strings with upbeat numbers which will get your toes tapping. Influenced by American bluegrass and folk bands like Watchhouse and Nickel Creek, they're also inspired by local acts like the Eastern and Marlon Williams who are forging an authentic New Zealand folk tradition. Personal and heartfelt, eccentric and irreverent, always looking for that blend of the familiar and the new, that feeling of recognition and belonging but also reinterpretation and revelation that makes folk music so exciting.
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279 Albert Street, Palmerston North, New Zealand
