ALBANY STREET JAZZ LOFT

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

51% of our target reached in only 10 days!! We are so humbled and grateful for the incredibly generous response to our project! It has been wonderful to read your lovely messages too and makes our mahi seem worthwhile.

We still have a long way to go - we need to reach our target otherwise your donation is returned to you... Any help sharing among your friends and networks would be very much appreciated. Oh and ssshhhh, save the date (Friday 23 July)...

Hello music lovers and supporters! We are almost half way through our campaign and thought we would introduce ourselves:

Karin Reid - Artistic Director

Karin is a vocalist, lyricist/composer and events organiser; her participation in the performing arts spans over 20 years and she has also been involved in jazz in Dunedin, Wellington and the UK. Her compelling voice and repertoire gravitates towards the darker side of the jazz tradition, with her rich tones often evoking cabaret and earning her the label of ‘jazz noir’. Recent work with her duo with guitarist Alex Wolken (Reid+Wolken) has seen her exploring adventurous and challenging material including vocalesed tunes by Charles Mingus and other modern instrumental jazz masters, and developing original material in collaboration with Wolken. As an independent events producer and organiser she now focuses as the artistic director, chair and driving force behind the Dunedin Jazz, Cabaret and Performing Arts Trust and it’s online promotional arm JAZZ Dunedin: Events and Experiences. The Albany Street Jazz Loft initiative is one of a few upcoming activities the Trust plans to bring to life.

Alex Wolken - Project Assistant

Alex is a Dunedin-based guitarist, composer, songwriter and fortnightly host of Jazz Junction on Radio One 91FM Dunedin. His current work as a guitarist and songwriter/composer includes the ‘indie jazz-noir’ duo Reid+Wolken with Karin, and the ‘alt-jazz-rock’ band Celluloid Bikers, and he is also active in a group of improvisers at the forefront of free improvisation in Dunedin. As a composer he has also written notated works for contemporary art music performers, including 175East and Dylan Lardelli. He coordinated the Jazz in the Pocket jazz nights from 2019-2020, and is now project assistant for the Albany Street Jazz Loft initiative as well as trustee of the Dunedin Jazz, Cabaret and Performing Arts Charitable Trust (JAZZ Dunedin: Events and Experiences)

WHOOP! We can't believe we hit our target in just 3 weeks! HUGE - MASSIVE -ENORMOUS thanks to everyone for being as excited as we are about the project and for donating to the cause!!

We still have one week of our campaign to run so we have added a STRETCH GOAL in case there are more supporters who would like to help out with the project - it would be great to keep going in 2022...