Kiwi Country Greats

Kiwi Country Greats was the name of several tours by Country artists across New Zealand.

Tours

* Winter 1993 - 26 Shows

Personnel

* Eddie Low ( featured in Te Papa first on-line exhibition)
* Jodi Vaughan
* The Musicians at Large (backed many tours)
* Sound Engineer

Musicians at large

* Keyboards & Vocals (lead and bvs)- Woody
* Guitar - Mike Kirk
* Drums - Mark Pikahu
* Bass & vocals (lead and bvs)- Gary
* Sound Engineer -

Show Format

1 set 45 mins by Musicians at Large 1 set 90 mins by Jodie Vaughn 1 set 90 mins by Eddie Low

The format changed for the last three shows, where Jodie and friends put on a support show with a group called Girls Talk (article and pic Waikato Times August 1993)

Audio Details

* FOH (Front of House) 20 channel into 4 into 2 Peavy desk. Outboards; 32 x 1/3 octave equalizers, 2x quad parametrics, noise gates, electronic crossover, tapedeck, spx90 sound effects, reverb, wireless channel, cd player.

* Stage Side. 2x Twin 400. 2x Twin 200.

* Foldback. Wedges for 4 vocalists, Bin and Horn for Drummer, local amp and equaliser, headphones.

* Stage. Wireless Microphone, 4x Shure SM58 vocals, twin AKG CMS overhead stereo pair on drums, various Shure on toms, snare, hi-hat and cymbals, AKG D12 on bass drum.

* Backline. Various Shure on Bass and Guitar, DI (direct injection) boxes on Bass and Keyboards.

Iternary

* 1 Blenheim
* 2 Ashburton
* Christchurch
* Invercargill
* Makarewa Country Club
* Gore
* Cromwell
* Waikaouiti
* Ranfurly
* Wanaka
* Waimati
* Hanmer Springs
* 25 Pukekohe
* 26 Auckland

Discography

Tapes. live performance

See also

* Maori Showbands

External References

* [http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapa/English/WhatsOn/ShortTermExhibitions/MaoriShowbands/MeetThePeople/ Eddie Lowe]
* [http://www.sergent.com.au/quintikis.html Quintikis]
* [http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~mstowers/id47.htm Maori Showbands]