Rafters Music Club

Rafters is a friendly music club in central Auckland.

Held on the 3rd Friday of each month

Time: 8-11pm

Admission: $10 cash at door

Venue: Unitarian Church, 1a Ponsonby Road. Next to the Art Station. Between K'rd and Hopetoun St.



Rafters Music Club promotes music from traditional to contemporary. We welcome new performers. 

Our format is open mic (without a mic!) in the first half, supper, then guest/s. Anyone who would like to perform in the first half is welcome to see Graham at the door, but please put your name down before the 8.00pm start. 
Tea, coffee & biscuits provided for supper.



Contact Rafters

Email: raftersmusicclub@gmail.com

or contact us via Messenger 




Music Club Links

- Auckland Bluegrass

- Devonport Folk Music Club

- East Coast Folk Club

- Titirangi Folk Music Club

- The Barebones Acoustic Folk Club

- Auckland Folk Festival. A great camping weekend full of concerts, workshops, dances and fun.    

 Held at The Unitarian Church
1a Ponsonby Road
at 8pm every 3rd Friday of the Month.

$10 cash at the door 

Our Guest for Friday November 15th 2024 is

Warren and Fi

 Sadly this month it’s the last meeting of Rafter’s for the year and who better to round off our guest list than club regulars Warren and Fi.

Warren Payne has been a regular performer on the Auckland music scene for several decades now. and has been making his living from his music for the last 15 years or so. A regular entertainer in the Aged Care sector, he is also well known for running Celtic pub sessions and Folk Festival singalongs, as well as numerous Folk Club appearances, long-time membership of The Maritime Crew, and several Celtic bands playing pubs, weddings etc.

Multi-instrumental, and with such a broad experience to draw from, he is enjoyed wherever he appears.

 He is now joined by his lovely partner, Fi Sadiq, whom he met in a Rest Home where she is responsible for encouraging residents from many diverse cultures into a cohesive musical and activities programme.

Fi provides sweet harmonies and presents an eclectic selection of lovely songs in her own appealing style, as well as bringing percussion, banjo, guitar, autoharp, harmonica and ukelele into the instrumental mix as and when required.

 Together, they form a charming, fun-loving duo, that entertain with grace and good humour. So come along and enjoy our last session of the year and then we’ll see you all again in January.

P.S. don’t forget the January Auckland Folk Festival at Kumeu, Auckland Anniversary Weekend, Friday the 24th to Monday the 27th. Come along to the Barn on the Saturday at 10.15 am and support Rafters contribution to Trad in the Barn. 

Programme

The first half of the evening brings musicians old and new to warm us up before supper and our main guest/s. We welcome new performers. See Graham at the door if you want to perform, but you will need to be there before the 8pm start.

Photos and Videos

Photos and some videos of performances will be taken during the evening and displayed on our Facebook page. We also have a Rafters Music Club YouTube channel where we display some videos (type Rafters Music Club into YouTube search to find these videos). Please see Linda if you do not want your images publicly available.

See you there

Graham, Linda, Jennifer and Alistair