Fairfield House

Alpaca Social Club
2021-02-12 20:00 (Pacific/Auckland)
The Alpaca Social Club is the bringing together of 2 kindred musical souls. Both musical adventurers and travelers, on different instruments and across a multitude of styles, Jon Sanders and Craig Denham are something of a live phenomenon. With strong roots in acoustic music, celtic trad and various world styles and playing “The music they love from wherever that comes from” they’re always ready to take live music into unexpected places with skill, humour, passion and a sense of adventure.
Come and be beguiled.
The Alpaca Social Club regularly tour both in New Zealand and in Europe being based in both countries.
“A pyrotechnic display of dazzling virtuosity” – The Northern Advocate
‘A Quantum Leaping Musical Curiosity” – The Irish Times

Klezmer Rebs
2021-02-03 19:30 - 21:30
Klezmer Rebs are an 8 piece Wellington band formed in 2002 that plays (mostly) klezmer music, an engaging style of world/folk music born out of the Yiddish/Jewish culture of eastern Europe in the 1800s and 1900s. Klezmer then went to America and in the early 1900s began to fuse with jazz and swing. There has been a worldwide revival of klezmer music since the 1980s.
Klezmer Rebs instrumentation includes guitar, mandolin, clarinet, violin, accordion, keyboards, trombone, helicon (like a tuba), string bass and vocals. Together the Klezmer Rebs capture the true klezmer spirit with songs of joy, sorrow and rebellion.
Klezmer Rebs have been shaking ‘tuchases’ (Yiddish for ‘bums’) in Wellington and places north and south since 2002. Over the years crowds danced to klezmer music in Palmerston North, Greytown, Whanganui, New Plymouth, Nelson, Golden Bay, Christchurch, Dunedin and across the Wellington city and region.
Recently the Rebs performed at the 2019 Luminate Festival in Takaka and at the 2018 Auckland Folk Festival.
In February 2010 the Rebs where honoured to perform for dignitaries at the opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at Te Papa.
Hearing Klezmer Rebs live expect a big band and vocal arrangements of genuine old klezmer tunes – from the lively genuine Yiddish wedding music (freylachs and bulgars) to the delicate slice of life stories from the east European shtetl (ghettos).
The Rebs world music appeals to everyone. While many of songs are sung in Yiddish (that mostly-Germanic and very onomatopoeic language), they also perform partisan songs from Italy, Russian folk tunes, French chansons, Latin cowboy love songs, Argentine Yiddish Tangos and 1940s swing vocal songs. Their own quirky, politically charged multi-lingual originals are some of the most popular crowd tunes.
The Rebs will perform in the Fairfield Coutyard – expect a night full of story. songs and dance.
Playing Russian Sher

PIPES in The Park aka the Meadow!!
2021-01-24 17:30 - 19:30
Pipes in the Park is back this summer at Fairfield House Meadow! Join the City of Nelson Highland Pipe Band for some Celtic music and dance in the sunshine.
This year we have an exciting guest joining us, Jordan Johnston, one of the country’s top A Grade solo pipers, who will be performing several solo pieces.
We also welcome back our wonderful guest performers; the lovely Jacquie Walsh and James Wilkinson, the Kahurangi Irish Dance School, and the Single Malt Barbershop Quartet, plus soloists from the Band.
There will be beautiful haggis and other Scottish goodies available to purchase, and a Bar with be operating with a range of beverages on sale.
$10 entry (Kids free), pay at the gate as you enter, and remember to bring a cushion or low chair to sit on, and some cash for some treats and raffles.

Richter City Rebels
2021-01-22 19:30 - 22:00
Aotearoa’s first and finest New Orleans-style brass band. Made up of top calibre Wellington musicians, the Rebels bring the warm, infectious sound and magnetic culture of New Orleans back to the Fairfield Courtyard for the 6th year in a row.
YEAH! MAKE WAY, MAKE TIME FOR THE Brass juggernaut that is the Richter City Rebels
Tickets on eventfinda
$20 adults & $10 under 18years plus booking fee.
Door sales $25 if not sold out.

William Shakespeare’s: The Comedy of Errors
2021-01-12 18:30
This summer we bring you Shakespeare’s most farcical play. Slapstick and mistaken identity, shipwrecks and puns, bungling servants and Dukes. All delivered in Shakespeare’s delicious verse.
A crazy tale of twins separated in a shipwreck, a father facing peril to find them again and a wonderful happy ending with unexpected reunions.
Entry: Pay what you decide for the actors.
Fairfield Refreshment Stall will be operating raising funds for Fairfield. Local wines & beers, Chia Sisters drink,s Appleby Ice cream, teas & coffees, Carrot cake & Chocolate brownies
Eftpos available. No BYO alcohol Zero waste for Fairfield.
Food Cart on Site each evening from 5.00pm. saves you making a picnic.
However you can bring a picnic, no BYO alcohol, grab a drink from the refreshment stall and settle down to be delighted with music, comedy and Shakespeare’s poetry.
Nelson Summer Shakespeare Company has built a reputation for beautifully spoken and easily understandable Shakespeare.
A joy for the whole family.
Every night from Wednesday 13th to Wednesday 20th January EXCEPT Monday 18th Jan no performance

Polytropos
2021-01-10 15:00 - 17:00
New Zealanders Oscar West and Rennie Pearson are celebrating ten years of playing and touring together as the traditional music duo Polytropos. They have just released their first full-length album.
Multi-instrumentalists West and Pearson are masterful, passionate players of Celtic music arranged in an adventurous, conversational style. Their infectious stage presence and musicality has been a hit with audiences since their debut concert at Wellington Folk Festival in 2011 and in the intervening years they have worked extensively as professional musicians both in New Zealand and internationally.
The name Polytropos – “the thing of many twists and turns” or “the much-wandering thing” – drives the spirit of West and Pearson’s unique instrumental arrangements and represents the journey each set creates for the listener. It also acknowledges the music’s own odyssey from the hills of Ireland and Scotland to the rugged, natural landscapes of New Zealand. Their playing weaves together the tones of the wooden flute, fiddle, guitar, smallpipes, whistles and voice to produce thoughtful arrangements of melodies that are all at once curious, pure and full of storytelling.
Paddy Squared
Paddy Fahey’s Jig

Sun City Soul
2021-01-03 19:30
Groove & mingle in the Fairfield Courtyard on a warm summer’s evening with Sun City Soul, Nelson’s favourite soul band, featuring the vocals of the unmistakable Mr Dan Moon and Trudi Wilson, a rocking rhythm section, and two horns. It’s guaranteed to be a high-energy night of classic soul anthems that just feel so good!!
Keep dancing on in 2021
We have so much to be celebrating!!
Tickets $20 from Eventbrite (plus booking fee) or on the door if not sold out.

Summer Equinox Meadow Dance
2020-12-18 19:00 - 21:00
This evening is for people who just want to dance… by popular request, we’re back again. It seems we can’t go wrong! The recipe of a beautiful dance floor, great music and people seems to be a good one!
The height of Summer is a perfect moment to loose yourself on a bouncing dance floor in a breath-taking setting. Take your shoes off and let your hair down where Summer will be in full swing.
Hester will take us on one of her much loved journey’s through many musical genres, paces, moods and styles. Expect to be moved! Gather your friends and get yourself along. Hot/cold drinks available.
$20 concession / $25 full
Tickets on the door. Pay by cash or Eftpos. Internet bank payment.
TIMETABLE
7:00pm – Mellow tunes kick off on the Meadow. Time to arrive and begin to unwind.
7:30pm – DJ set kicks off as the sun sets and the moon rises.
9:00pm – After a journey through many sounds, the Set will land with grounding and gentle sounds to guide you into the night.
Bring: Several Layers as temperatures will change through the evening, maybe a blanket for chill time, and any refreshments you may desire.

Los Galanes ..
2020-12-06 16:00 - 19:00
Los Galanes Latin ensemble made up of a vibrant international group of professional musicians with a passion to play and entertain Latin and French rhythms to one and all. Los Galanes boasts an eclectic mix of members hailing from all over the world.
