Big Night at New Plymouth
AST year Station 2XP was able to raise £150 for charity with the first Big Broadcast, a programme presented from the stage of the New Plymouth Opera House (when the photograph above -was taken). This year, with the Big Broadcast of 1957 on Monday, August 19, they are hoping to top that amount for the Intellectually Handicapped Children’s Parents’ Association. Making their first appearances for the show are Norman Cumming, the wellknown jazz pianist, who has now settled in Taranaki; the New Plymouth Girls’ Choir, 30 young singers organised by the New Plymouth Public Relations office; and William Komlos, conductor of the New Plymouth Orchestra, whose solo violin will be played in the modern
mood. Other newcomers are baritone Sefton Breeman, xylophone soloist Shirley Vogt, Maureen Wilson, singer of musical comedy, Dianne Cudby and Suzanne Brown, tap dancers, the Kings of Calypso, and Alec Smith, a young jazz singer from Scotland. Artists who are returning to the show are Murray Hewson and’ Cliff Walker on two pianos, Ron Hayward and his guitar, Sonny Pratt with his Maori Concert Party, Val Avis, and the Airliners, a radio orchestra formed for last year’s show but now operating as an independent unit. The guest artist will be Jean McPherson, of Wellington; with some of the songs that have made her known all over New Zealand.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 26
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227Big Night at New Plymouth New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 26
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