Event description
Anchored by the duo ImaginaryFreNZ, this series of performances will be entertaining around the South Island this summer from October 2021 through till May 2022. Each show will feature up to six acts in a 2 to 3 hour performance, of music styles with local and international guest artists.
Live Music at Kinross is held in their covered outdoor Wine Garden.
Wine & Food will be available during our show. Wine tasting and accommodation can also be arranged directly with the Kinross team for those wanting to make it into a full winery experience.
For our Summer Vineyard Series ‘Live at Kinross’ on November 27th 2021, the following artists will be performing:
ImaginaryFreNZ: This duo started performing together late last year, and last summer completed 30 gigs. They are Susan Brady and Simon Gomez.
Susan (Sooz) is a NZ actress who has performed in theatre, musicals, TV and film since 1989, appearing in many different television shows including Shortland Street, Marlin Bay and Hercules the Legendary Journeys, and most recently, the second season of One Lane Bridge, filmed in Queenstown. She once toured a One Woman Cabaret called "My Mother Made Me Do it" for the Comedy Festival. She is also a voice actress with one of her notable roles being the voice of the Mystic Mother in the finale of Power Rangers. Susan spent several years living in New York City where she did two short films and met her husband, before returning to NZ to live in Tarras. Sooz also recently completed filming in a TV Movie to be released in the USA. ImaginaryFreNZ is Sooz’s first time singing professionally other than in theatre.
Simon’s talent has been shaped by many influences including his professional career in NZ and overseas, including working with international artists including the Monkees, Ringo Star, The Three Degrees and Eddie Calvert. Add to that he played at the pre-wedding party for the second nuptials of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Johannesburg South Africa prior to their wedding in neighbouring Botswana. Simon has kept his love of music alive by playing gigs with friends in venues from The Far North to Stewart Island over the past few years.
Kate Targett-Adams
With footprints on stages across the world, Scottish-born and Oxford University educated Kate Targett-Adams is an internationally acclaimed Singer/Songwriter and Celtic harpist. A solo entertainer, rather than the orchestral harpist, Kate has performed on numerous occasions for members of the British Royal Family and for UK celebrities including Harry Potter's JK Rowling, 007's Sir Sean Connery, comedy’s Sir Billy Connolly, football's Sir Alex Ferguson and rugby’s Sir Ian McGeechan. Kate's Mandarin and multi-lingual singing skills led her to live and perform across Asia for 13 years before moving to beautiful Queenstown in 2020
Will Northcoat
Will has been involved in the music industry both as a performer and a producer over the last few years. He produced a CD “That’s Way’tis” for former ‘Peddlars’ singer/leader Roy Phillips and has produced CD’s for musicians, bands and singers. Will’s involvement in the music industry includes Creative work, product production and sales in media, particularly Radio throughout the South Island. Recently Will has been working as a Solo singer and guitarist, playing Keyboards, guitar and vocals in the local band ‘Werewolves of Lumsden" as well as playing Munkstrap in a production of “Cats”.
He is owner producer of Beyond Sound Ltd Recording Studios, and is a winner of the MLT songwriters prize at the Gold Guitars awards in Gore. Will has also been active in music education and theatre in the Central Otago/Lakes area. With his experience, Will has taken on the role of sound engineer for the 2021 Summer Vineyard Series project as well as being one of the performers.
Emmanuelle
Emmanuelle is from Dunedin and grew up to the soundtrack of her mother’s classical piano and her father’s folk guitar. She graduated from the Nelson School of Music in 1994 and Christchurch’s National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art in 1996, after which she released her first solo cd - a 5 track EP called “In a Piece”.
In the late 90s and early 2000s Emmanuelle could be found dragging her enormous keyboard around on the London Underground from gig to gig, often lamenting that she never learnt to play the guitar! When she returned from the UK, Emmanuelle joined Dunedin reggae/rock band Evolver and they released an EP called Edin and a video for its single “Stars” before disbanding in 2005. In 2007 Emmanuelle travelled to the secluded Titi Islands south of Stewart Island and wrote her 3rd EP “Vegetarian Savage” on a home recording studio run off a diesel generator. It is available on Spotify.
Music took a backseat for a few years as Emmanuelle raised her children in the suburbs and became a teacher of hot yoga, but she rediscovered her piano during lockdown and is back from hiatus with a small set of mostly covers and a few originals. Emmanuelle describes her sound as “folk-dub” and has often been likened to Tori Amos and Kate Bush, although she prefers the style of Joni Mitchell and Lana Del Ray.