Term 3, August 2014
The termly newsletter for Goodtime Music Academy
A Dream Come True
In this issue:
Dear Parents, Grandparents and Students,
For a long time my dream has been to
make high quality music tuition accessible to all children, not matter what background they come from or what decile
their school is. I’ve also had the ambition
to gather a team of musicians from all
around the world and bring them here, to
New Zealand, to see how fantastic our
kids are and to help them experience the
joys music can bring. At the end of June
both my dreams came true.
Last year I put some adverts online for a
two week musical missionary camp in
New Zealand and, to my amazement, we
had over 70 applications. After an intensive interview process we accepted 11
people from the States, Canada, Austra-
lia and from across the country.
The group descended on Wellington over
the penultimate weekend of June and
gave me, hands down, the most fun, exhausting and rewarding two weeks of my
life! We taught 500 children for free and
performed 17 concerts in schools,
churches, disabled centres, the Poly Festival and a Youth Prison.
It was incredibly rewarding to see whole
schools, along with their staff, dancing to
the band and hearing some great positive messages from the team. Over the
two weeks there was a heaps of laughter, some fantastic music and even a little bit of romance! A truly inspirational
experience for all involved.
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A Dream Come True
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Calling all bands!
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Goodtime: Onstage
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Music on the Move
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Rad Rhythm
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Pupil of the Month
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Moving on Up
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Upcoming Events
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Contact Details
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Dates for the Diary
I would like to take this opportunity to
thank all the people who not just helped
make the mission happen, but also made
it run so smoothly. Although there were
heaps of people involved, I was particularly grateful for the support and hard
work of Caleb Riordan, Andrew Galloway, Chris Lam Sam, Lynne JaggerHassett and, most of all, my beautiful
wife Kate Wilson. Roll on next year!
As many of you will know, I’m never one
to rest of my laurels, and we’re already
started planning next year’s camps. The
goal now is not one, but two, so keep
your eyes peeled for information on both
a Winter and a Summer Music Missions Blessings,
Camp in 2015.
Jonny Wilson
Calling all bands!
Are you in a band?!
categories - one for cover songs and one
Do you reckon you can take on the for original songs. You’re welcome to
best bands in city?!
enter both so get your friends together
 Then enter Goodtime’s Superstar Tal- and get jamming!
ent Quest!
The heats start at 9:30am and the eveOn Saturday 27th September we will be ning showcase kicks off at 7pm, both at
bringing back our annual Superstar Tal- the fantastic Hutt City Church, 22 Marsent Quest and we want you to take part. den St., Melling. Band entry is $10 per
person and Showcase tickets are $5
This top prize this year is a $500 voucher each. Head to the events page on our
from MusicWorks to help get your group website for more information and to
sorted with the very latest kit and there enter!
are lots of other prizes to be won as well.
Good luck!!!
The competition will be split into two
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The Goodtime Times
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Goodtime: Onstage
with extreme technical difficulties during
their pieces!
Top - Millennium (Lochie Vincent, Matt Tomlinson, Matthew Jay, Christian Ailao with their tutor Albert
Lee); Below Left - Jack Stonnelll; Below Right - Josh Peterson, Liam Mollow and Matthew Taylor.
We have been so impressed with the
talents of our pupils throughout these
three events. We’ve seen a huge variety
of styles and abilities, yet everyone has
performed to a really high standard. Well
done to all and we can’t wait to see
more in this term’s Café Concert and the
Superstar Talent Quest.
If you would like to be part of the Talent
Quest, just head to the events page of
our website and fill in the online form.
Remember - it’s only for groups, so get
your friends together and see what you
can come up with! If you would like to
perform in Term 3’s Café Concert
(Sunday 21st September, at The Petone
Beach Café) just email Bruno Shirley by
1pm on Saturday 13th September. See
you all there!
It’s been a busy couple of months for
Goodtime onstage with three highenergy and high-calibre concerts to
showcase out students’ talents.
We kicked off with a chilled-out Café
Concert in the lounge-café of Zeal, our
Wellington Site. Although the sadly coffee wasn’t flowing, the music was and
we were treated to fifteen fantastic performances, all introduced by the beautiful Scots-Kiwi double act of Ali and Chloe.
The space was packed and with the sun
streaming in the windows, a most enjoyable afternoon was had by all!
Hot on the heels of the Café Concert was
our Term 2 Where The Loud Things Are
concert at Secret Level in Lower Hutt.
Another packed out evening, the audience were wowed with nineteen acts
that blew the speakers to the rafters.
The Loud Things concerts are particularly
designed to showcase our large number
of drummers and our band programme.
Highlights from the kit included “Thnks
Fr Th Mmrs" performed by Koan Yule
and a World Rhythm Medley performed
by Nikita Piper. Millennium, one of our
Senior Bands were also particularly awesome with their version of “Get My Mes-
sage”. Wrapping up the concert was the
international Music Missions Band, who Thanks also to those who sent in their
brought the house down with their fan- photos - if you ever take any photos of a
tastic set.
Goodtime event feel free to share them
with us on our Facebook page!
Our third outing came after the winter
holidays, on The Hits FM stage at the
Petone Carnival. Although less than an
hour in total, we presented thirteen topquality acts. Braving the cold, the wind
and a piano that just wouldn’t behave,
all the performers were absolute professionals and took the troubles in their
stride. Particular thanks for Jake Revell
and Yolana-Marie Vizcarra for coping
Right - Yolana-Marie Batista Vizcarra; Below Jack McGoldrick; Below right - Jake Revell all
performing at the Petone Carnival.
August 2014
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Music on the Move
Rad Rhythm
Goodtime is delighted to announce Music Bus based lessons will soon be available at our Petone and Silverstream Sites
and also at the Wainuiomata Community
Centre. From late August lessons on guitar, ukulele, drums and keyboard will be
taught on a bus near you, as will our
innovative five week Introduction to
Music (ITM) course. This ITM programme enables both students and parents to make more knowledgeable instrument choices for long term lessons.
For the last two and a half years we’ve
been working on a project that will
revolutionise the way music is taught in
primary schools - Rad Rhythm.
This week the programme went live and
we’ve already had a fantastic response.
their Music Bus classes. Goodtime is
grateful to both the schools and the parents for the opportunity to conduct
these trials and for the flexibility shown
towards this initiative. It is hoped that
the benefits of this trial show that rotating lesson times can be adopted across
It is also really exciting that the home most schools as it prevents children
schooled children from WHEN will be the missing out on their academic subjects.
first children to be taught on the bus at
the Petone site next week – welcome to The special Music Bus mentions this
the Introduction to Music programme.
term goes to Khandallah and Silverstream schools for their administration
A couple of schools are currently trialing support and the great attitude from evea rotating timetable so that their chil- ryone with whom we have contact. A
dren do not miss the same school les- special Music Bus Toot on the hooter for
sons or break time each week due to you!
Rad Rhythm is an interactive video series that teaches children all about music, performance and theory. Professionally filmed at Avalon Studios, and edited
by our very own Caleb Riordan, it looks
and sounds outstanding.
If you think this should be at your child’s
primary school, then let your principal
know about the programme. You (and
they!) can check out the website and
promo videos here at radrhythm.com.
Pupil of the Month
Moving On Up
Choosing a pupil of the month is always tricky, especially so as
the Academy grows! However, one pupil has made a particular impression over the last few months and it is our pleasure
to name Bella Stonnell as this newsletter’s Pupil of the
Month.
Although we now teach in three sites, on three buses and at
seventeen schools, the ancestral home of Goodtime Music
Academy will always be Silverstream Retreat. It’s where everything started - with Jonny teaching drums out of a small,
damp room in the old hospital ward (very humble beginnings!).
Bella started lessons with Goodtime just over two years ago
and has grown and grown in both confidence and skill. A multi
-talented young musician Bella sings, plays both drums and
guitar and fronts one of our Silverstream Bands. A regular
performer at our concerts,
Bella blew us all away with
her smooth, stylistic rendition of Fly Me To The
Moon in the Term 2 Café
Concert, which she later
repeated on The Hits stage
at the Petone Carnival,
backed by our house band
of tutors.
Bella Stonnell backed by her brother
Jack at the Term 2 Loud Things concert
Excitable and bubbly off
stage, Bella displays a
wonderfully understated
confidence onstage, drawing everyone in with her
beautiful voice. Without
doubt, one to watch!
Over time our teaching at the Retreat has grown and last year
we were lucky enough to be given access to one of the main
buildings - affectionately called ‘The Homestead’. We were
still spread out across the site though, with no real focus. This
year however, we’ve been working hard at making the Homestead a true home for Goodtime and are very proud to announce that soon all our lessons will be being taught from
there, with what we hope will be a vibrant (and warm) foyer
and office area and
six spacious teaching
rooms.
So, next time your
waiting for your lesson, don’t hang out in
your car in the cold,
come join us and relax in front of the fire!
The Goodtime Times
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Upcoming Events
Workshop Concert with ‘Mooga Fooga’
Mooga Fooga is an outstanding funkfusion band formed by Rory McCartney
and Nick Maybe who met at the New
Zealand School of Music over 10 years
ago. They’re currently based in London
and perform regularly at jazz clubs and
festivals. They have toured everywhere
from Australia to New York, and are
back in NZ for a short period, so we
jumped at the chance to have them do a
concert for our students and friends.
fantastic performances, but there will
also be an opportunity for some students
to have a go playing with the band,
where they’ll receive some constructive
The workshop will not only contain some feedback.
Jonny Wilson: Live in Concert
Goodtime Director Jonny Wilson will be
doing a phenomenal jazz concert at the
Expressions Centre in Upper Hutt on
Friday 12th September, where he will be
The workshop con- performing with local jazz legends Nick
cert is on Thursday Granville, Caleb Robinson and Ben Wil4th September at cock. The concert starts at 7pm and is
our Wellington
absolutely FREE. Limelight Café will be
Site (Zeal on
open and will be serving an amazing seGhuznee St.). It
lection of meals, desserts and snacks.
starts at 7pm and
is just $10 entry
It’s not often people get the chance to
(or $20 for the
see Jonny perform, so make the most of
family!).
this fantastic opportunity! It’ll be great
Mooga Fooga members
Nick Maybe, Rory
McCartney and Joel
Shadbolt
night out for the whole family. Make
sure you get there early, it’s sure to be a
packed house.
Dates for the Diary
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Contact Details
Jonny Wilson - Goodtime Music Academy Director:
[email protected]
Lynne Jagger-Hassett - General Manager
[email protected]
Fooga - Goodtime’s Wellington Site.
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Friday 12th September - Jonny Wilson: Live in Concert Expressions Centre
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Saturday 13th September - Final date for Café Concert submissions
Michael Stebbings - Head of Musical Tuition
[email protected]
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Bruno Shirley - Wellington Site Manager and Concerts and
Ensembles Co-ordinator
[email protected]
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Head Office
04 570 2730
Unit 8, 1 Jackson Street
Petone,
Lower Hutt 5011
(open 2:30pm-7pm Mon-Fri; 10:30am-1:30pm Saturday)
Thursday 4th September - Workshop Concert with Mooga
Sunday 21st September - Café Concert - Petone Beach
Café, 1pm.
Saturday 27th September - Superstar Talent Quest - Hutt
City Church