As members of the 6-guitar ensemble Gitbox Rebellion that was unexpectedly and happily stranded on Stewart Island for several weeks during the national NZ Covid lockdown in August 2021, Sonia & Nigel have had a chance to get unusually well acquainted with the piece of paradise that is Rakiura. They are eager to return and share some music and gratitude for the hospitality received, as part of their 2023 album + book release concert tour around New Zealand. A big thank you to Bonnie Leask, our fabulous host Jimmy and the Stewart Island Community Trust for making this visit possible.
The Sonia & Nigel duo will be joined in song and on tour by 15 year old award-winning Kiwi/French singer-songwriter Anna Feillet.
Sonia and Nigel are a multi-cultural acoustic duo featuring French-American Parisienne Sonia Wilson on vocals and ukulele & Kiwi-American musician and composer Nigel Gavin on 7-string guitar. After meeting and playing together for the first time at the Whare Flat Folk festival in Dunedin during Sonia’s first visit to New Zealand on a solo round-the-world trip in December 2014, the pair have since become a well-loved duo in the New Zealand folk music scene. They weave French, Kiwi and American songs in with their own original compositions and inspiration from their travels around the world.
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A precocious and talented Dunedin-based Kiwi-French 15 year old singer, songwriter and ukulele player, Anna Feillet was the winner of the 2021 nationwide Uke Can Do It song writing competition organized by the New Zealand Ukulele Trust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Njsm1UHfY The same year, her song "Aroha I Aotearoa” won the 2021 NZ Music Commission's Hook, Line and Sing-along contest: https://hooklineandsingalong.com/2021-aroha-i-aotearoa/
Concert will begin at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm. Tickets available online and at the door $25 (+BF)