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Date Venue
FRIDAY 18 JUNE THE ROYAL HOTEL, Palmerston North
SATURDAY 19 JUNE THE GRETNA HOTEL, Taihape
SUNDAY 20 June LEMBAS, Raumati South
WEDNESDAY 23 June IVORY LOUNGE, Auckland
THURSDAY 24 JUNE SPA HOTEL, Taupo
FRIDAY 25 JUNE THE BELGIAN BAR, Rotorua
SATURDAY 26 JUNE ALTITUDE BAR & NIGHTCLUB, Hamilton
SUNDAY 27 JUNE ORCA RESTAURANT & BAR, Raglan





Dirt Floor Music and Poems
expands the vocals and heads north
— the honest and authentic roots experience continues


After two tours around the South Island, Dirt floor music and poems brings its own brand of
”˜front porch music’ to the North Island.

Steve Apirana, Jim Doak and Mark Raffills have teamed up for their new North Island tour,
Four on the Floor, with vocalist Ainsley Apirana.

The addition of Ainsley Apirana on vocals adds a new dimension to the dirt floor sound with
a distinctive lilt and a tipping of the hat to the vocal harmonies of the Carter Family and
music of the dirt floor era.

“It’s an even more honest and authentic roots experience now with Ainsley on board,” says
flat pickin’ guitarist Jim Doak.

“Ainsley has done plenty of vocal work on Steve’s recordings and solo gigs and is used to
contributing harmony and lead vocals as the songs demand. She compliments the singing of
Steve and myself with a little bit of magic; just a touch of angel!”

Dirt floor music and poems ambles intimately across the roots landscape, from folk to blues
to bluegrass, in a rare and captivating treat from four seasoned performers.

Steve Apirana (gospel blues/vocals), Jim Doak (bluegrass/vocals), Ainsley Apirana (vocals)
and Mark Raffills (poems) come together to present an easy-flowing, uncluttered and
unpretentious evening of vocal harmonies, finger-dancing guitars and a few good words.

The eight-gig, Four on the Floor tour kicks off in Palmerston North and Taihape, plays
Raumati South, heads for Auckland then drops down to Taupo before ambling its way
through Rotorua, Hamilton and Raglan from mid June.

Tickets are $15 at the door or you can buy online from www.dirtfloor.co.nz
Further information:

Mark Raffills
Dry Crust
phone 03 544 4975
mobile: 027 215 4969
email: mark@drycrust.com
web: www.dirtfloor.co.nz]]> http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#25 Sun, 30 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Apirana Music - Steve and Ainsley Apirana - News http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#24 http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#24 Sun, 30 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Apirana Music - Steve and Ainsley Apirana - News http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#23

Thurs 6th May
AUCKLAND
Fri 7th May
AUCKLAND
Royal Oak Baptist

Sat 8th May
Kati Kati St Paul’s Kati Kati.

Sun 9th May AM
TAURANGA Bethlehem Community Church.
Sun 9th May PM
TAURANGA 6:30pm Bethlehem Baptist.

Tues 11th May
ROTORUA Rotorua Baptist Church

Wed 12th May
TAUMARUNUI Taumarunui Baptist

Thurs 13th May
NAPIER The Oasis

Fri 14th May
HAVELOCK
NORTH Arohanui Christian Fellowship

Sat 15th May
WAIPUKURAU Pukeora, Waipukurau
Sun 16th May AM
PALMY
Sun 16th May PM
PALMY Palmerston North Central Baptist.

Tues 18th May
FEILDING Feilding New Life Church.

Wed 19th May
WANGANUI Faith City Church
Thurs 20th May
MASTERTON St Matthews Anglican Church
35 Church St.
Po box 588,

Friday 21st May
LEVIN
Levin Baptist
17-19 Rugby St,

Sat 22nd May
WELLINGTON
Sun 23rd May AM
WELLINGTON
Sun 23th May PM
WELLINGTON 6:30pm
Elim Porirua.]]> http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#23 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Apirana Music - Steve and Ainsley Apirana - News http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#22 And while we are home Steve is madly working on his new album. Andy will be up next week to put down some more tracks and Steve is busy lining up soloists, hammond organs and all sorts in between working day in and day out on his guitar licks.
Changes are afoot with the next generation: Stevie is going full time at Uni and cutting back on his work commitments to concentrate on his studies, Bec finishes her Honours degree in Psychology and will be working full time, Molly is hanging out in New Zealand for the next little while and touring with her Dad, and Reuben is moving home and will be working in security - he is completing his course this week, Shirelle is still in Gympie with her kids, Kuru is in Adelaide working busily on the fishing boats and Reina and Wai have moved house and are now another suburb away from the airport - but still close enough to have as many catch ups as we can fit in.
I am spending all my spare time working on my book getting as much done as I can before May when Cooran Street Festival meetings will resume - for this years Tall Trees on Sunday the 10th October.
We have been invited to Europe next year and are hoping to make it a world trip again. Its been seven years since our last trip so we might as well make the most of the opportunity and do the round trip - hopefully catch up with all our good friends from other parts of the world. So life is good and we are blessed to be a part of it.]]> http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#22 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Apirana Music - Steve and Ainsley Apirana - News http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#21 Tear Fund are hosting a Derek Lind, Steve Apirana and Molly tour of the north island in May - check out the calendar for dates and venues. Then in June, Steve and Ainsley, Jim Doak and Mark Raffles are doing a Dirt Floor tour - this time across the north island. Hope we see you there.]]> http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#21 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Apirana Music - Steve and Ainsley Apirana - News http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#20
Te Haerenga April 2010: report from Ray
We were so privileged to have Steve & Ainsley Apirana as our guest speakers in the weekend. Known as NZs best entertainer, gospel singers & song writers. (Actually I made that up, but we reckon they are the best). To be up close with them instead of being one out of a multitude of people was awesome. ”˜This to us is our Oasis, we love coming to Te Haerenga’ Hearing that being here is actually a blessing to them was humbling to us.
They both shared their hearts with us in songs of many genres. Steve had us laughing with his great humor as he shared his music and story of people’s perception of beauty. He wrapped it up with his testimony song ”˜something beautiful, something good, all my confusion, He understood, all I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife but He made something beautiful out of my life’
That afternoon was spent in a workshop format with Steve & Ainsley. Picking their brains about songwriting and asking questions to improve in our own journey with music. Even on the technical sides of things regarding guitar playing. We certainly have some homework to do!
Saturday night we had a little bit of a concert in which we opened it up to the community. There was a full list of people doing ”˜items’ from solos, duets and even a local band. Locals came to see the talent come through and to our surprise we had a TV celebrity come and visit! Te Hamua Nikora a TV host for a talent quest program called ”˜Homai te Pakipaki ”˜ on Maori TV, so naturally we get him to sing a few songs too!
The highlight of the evening though was to have Molly Apirana (Steve & Ainsley’s daughter) share a couple of songs, boy did she rock the house! She drove up with some friends from Paekakariki to share the evening and next morning with everyone. Keep an eye out for Molly, it will soon be a well known name!
Sunday morning after the Marae clean up, we gather again with the Apirana family to wrap up our weekend. ”˜The weekend was so nice, peaceful, relaxing’ What a beautiful family! Who knows, next year we’ll have the rest of the Apirana family with us.]]> http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#20 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Apirana Music - Steve and Ainsley Apirana - News http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#19 http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#19 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Apirana Music - Steve and Ainsley Apirana - News http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#18 http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#18 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Apirana Music - Steve and Ainsley Apirana - News http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#17 http://apiranamusic.com/news.html#17 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Apirana Music - Steve and Ainsley Apirana - News