From the President’s pen…
What an evening! What a 14th Jazz Club Birthday party it was!
How many ended up dancing the rest of the night away?
The evening commenced with Renae Suttie; Michelle Brown & Susanne Campbell paying a 40’s musical tribute to the Anzacs,
with homage to the Andrew sisters; this had the almost 150-member audience smiling and clapping along from the start…
Many jazz standards were filtered through the set plus many opportunities to feature the gal’s individual vocal abilities.
The Kitty Kats then proceeded to absolutely stun us with, commencing with Susanne & her powerful voice, musical theatre background
plus darn good French, a rendition of Piaf’s “Non je ne regrette rien’’, which ended with a standing ovation doesn’t get much better than that!
(Not to mention Piaf’s first great hit from 1947, “La Vie en Rose” – Ed)
Dressed in berets & slim skirts the Kitty’s continued this theme, both in French & English, a new set created especially for us.
(Web Master & official photographer, John Park had suggested to them last November that exploring Piaf’s work might suit their voices – great work JP!)
The band had added quite a few other new songs to their playlist, and as usual, created an exciting dynamic amongst us all.
I have never seen so many on the dance floor and these fabulous entertainers & the accomplished band proceeded into “dance music”
just a little over our usual 10pm ending, to allow the obvious enjoyment to continue!
There were so many photos being taken with the Kats in their creative & colourful gowns & head attire at the end, plus the entire room filing past with
big smiles and lots of “thanks” for the Committee in securing the Kitty Kats, that I believe we’ll have no trouble playing onto a 15th birthday celebration…
Chrissy Hirst – President
