Saturday 24 August, 12-1pm
FREE Event
Performing Cabaret
Recently the recipient of an honour for her services to music in New Zealand, Linn Lorkin will present a programme of her own songs at the piano interspersed with some short readings from her recently released memoir The Redhead Gets the Gig. Included will be favourites like Family at the Beach and Helping Dad Milk the Cows from her many kiwiana songs and others like Me and the Magician, set in New York, the city that set her firmly on her songwriting path.
Brought up on a farm near Tokoroa, Linn Lorkin got her show-business start in Europe in the late 1960s. Her first professional gig was singing in a low dive in Copenhagen and she went on to play the prestigious Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London. She was the first woman to play electric keyboard in NZ in the 70s night-clubs of Auckland and Wellington and played piano bar in New York in the late 70s/ early 80s, becoming overnight, in that city, a prolific songwriter. Back home again she has been one of the most versatile and well-loved performers on the local scene, co-founding several bands, notably French Toast and the Jews Brothers Band, and touring in NZ, Australia, Europe and the USA. She has recorded 18 albums on her own label, Rouge Records, and written more than 100 songs. An alumna of the legendary Inside Out Theatre, she has written and performed several auto-biographical music theatre shows, was the featured singer in Wellington's 2015 WoW, singing in French, Russian and Yiddish, and performed in Circa's The Older The Better 2020. Her memoir The Redhead Gets the Gig was published by Steele Roberts Aotearoa November 2022 and is available as an audiobook, read and sung by the author. She was the recipient of a NZ Variety Club's Scroll of Honour in 2014 and became a Member of the NZ Order of Merit in June 2023.
Music at Midday returns to Pah Homestead with an hour of free live music from 12 to 1pm each Saturday.
Auckland is rich with a diverse range of creative musical talent and we celebrate this every week. Sit down in the drawing room to enjoy the live music, or peruse the galleries while you listen to the music drifting through the building.