Auckland Bluegrass Club Concert Night starring Luthiers’ Corner

We are honoured to have Luthiers’ Corner (Peter Madill and Jack MacKenzie) travel up the motu to play a concert for us at The Nix.

It was the early ’70’s and two young men more than ten thousand kilometres apart were being influenced by the folk music that became so popular at that time. Both Peter Madill and Jack MacKenzie became very involved in the music and the construction (and repair!) of the instruments that were used. As it turns out, their respective universes were not parallel, but converging.

Cut to 2019 at the Wellington Folk Festival, both Peter Madill and Jack MacKenzie had committed to displaying their luthiery work, and both were taking part in the festival as performers, Peter with the Madillionaires and Jack with the Downunderdogs. It was there that both men became aware of the others music, and the potential that existed between them.

They decided to try a short stage performance at the 2023 Mid-Winter Holler, and were well received.  A few gigs later things are developing nicely, with the occasional appearance of pedal steel guitar and claw-hammer banjo adding to the core element of two guitar arrangements. The repertoire is ever growing with unique arrangements for songs from artists like Guy Clark, John Prine, Woody Guthrie and Norman Blake (to name a few). No telling where things might go from here.

There won’t be any floor spots this month

– Tickets: $20 at the door
– BYO: Instruments and libations