"Palmerston North Choral Society. Christmas Oratorio. J S Bach. Tuesday 29 November 8 pm. All Saints Church. Adults $3. Students $2."Part of a collection of posters that were displayed in the Public Library in the 1970s - 1980s.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 198X
"Opera House; Saturday 21st May. City of Palmerston North Aria Contest. Bookings Collinson & Cunninghame." Part of a collection of posters that were displayed in the Public Library in the 1970s - 1980s.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 198X
The New Opera Company produly presents Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" with Malvina Major, Anthony Benfell, Corinne Bridge & Roger Creagh and The New Opera Chorus. Producer: John Thompson. by permission of the Queesnland Opera Co. Designer: Raymond B...
Creator: Unknown
Date: 198X
Cain, drummer of local Palmerston North band - Skitz Hydro; stank faces the lead singer of Fielding's Best Dancers.
Creator: Cat Scabs
Date: March 23, 2019
Reuben flashing his horns before the show.
Creator: Cat Scabs
Date: March 23, 2019
Crouched right in Cain's (drummer for Skitz Hydro) grill and got that crowd shot.
Creator: Cat Scabs
Date: March 23, 2019
With the make-up of a Pharoah, Achilles turns his back to the crowd after walking through them
Creator: Cat Scabs
Date: March 23, 2019
A community street piano on George Street, outside the Library, October 2019
Creator: Ben Foster
Place: George Street
Date: October 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 30th April 2024. Part 5 of 5. College of Education merged into Massey University. He was not satisfied with the changes. Less emphasis on music. Didn’t like institutional life any more so asked to take leav...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 30, 2024
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 9th April 2024. Part 2 of 5. While at Canterbury University it was suggested he take up secondary school teaching. Decided to be a teacher of English and French but was persuaded to drop French and take mus...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 9, 2024
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 2nd April 2024. Part 1 of 5. Well known in Palmerston North music scene. Raised in Whanganui. Interested in drama but had a speech impediment so took up piano. Didn’t have a piano at home so practiced on ot...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 2, 2024
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 16th April 2024. Part 3 of 5. Was the founding head of music at Awatapu College. Employed in second year of college existence. College’s culture was equality for all. Non streaming. Became Assistant Dean. L...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 16, 2024
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 23rd April 2024. Part 4 of 5. Had been teaching in Auckland but it wasn’t working out financially so transferred to College of Education in Palmerston North. Learned how to teach music at primary schools ba...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 23, 2024
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 11th October 2022. Listening to the radio in the 1950s. Aunt Daisy, Children’s Hour, Lone Ranger. Reception problems. 2ZA locally, Garners and shopping reporters. Song requests, hit parades. In the Ba...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 11, 2022
Pictured is a photo of "Danny" (surname unkown) playing a Stratocaster guitar in the student flat at 199 / 203 Broadway Ave.
The house sat next to the Cathedral and behind a building used as a Restaurant / Doctors. The house was de...
Creator: David Foster
Place: 203 Broadway Ave
Date: 1988
Walter Rumsey playing drums in Aces dance band at the A &P Showgrounds, Cuba Street, Palmerston North. 1950.
The photograph was taken by Regal Studios. Their business was located in the Mowlem Building, 191-163 The Square, Palmerston North.
Creator: Regal Studios
Place: A & P Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date: 1950
A dance band that performed at the A & P Showgrounds. Left to right: Allan Sundborn (guitarist), Hall? Walker, Walter Rumsey (Drummer), Jack Cooper (pianist)
Creator: Ingrid Dunckley (Rumsey family photographs)
Place: The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The Aces Dance Band performing at A&P the Showgrounds, 1950. Left to right: Walter (Wally) Rumsey (drums), Allan Sundborn (guitar), - Walker (trumpet), Jack Cooper piano)
Creator: Ingrid.dunckley@gmail.com
Place: A&P Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 1st December 2020. Part 2 of 4. Ballroom dancing – learn at school in 1940s, dances in the 1950s. Debutants. Formal dress. Athletics. Milk bars. Drinking age, pubs. Smoking. Neil getting a pipe. Young...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 1, 2020
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 22nd October, 2019. John’s radio station. Large collection of music. Getting set up, 1998, and broadcast continuously since then. Early experience of recorded music (1940s). Funded by returning bottles. 78s, 4...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 22, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 29th October 2019. Part 2 of 2. Setting up John’s radio station. Permission to broadcast. 440 disk CD player. U3A music and video groups. Comedy, railways groups. Working on sound effects ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 29, 2019
A dance band - possibly Len Spelman’s Ambassadors - posing for what might be a promotional photograph: L-R: Hock Prime (saxophone), Len Spelman (piano), Alan Sundborn (guitar), Walter Rumsey (drums)
Creator: Elmar Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1939
Alan Sundborn (12 string guitar/pedal steel), Walter Rumsey ( drums), Hock Prime (saxophone), Len Spelman (piano) This band played together for many years after the war at family and other functions in Palmerston North and surrounding country town...
Creator: Ingrid Dunckley
Place: Palmerston north
Date: 1955
A dance band performing at the Ashhurst Memorial Hall. Walter Rumsey (drums), Hock Prime (saxophone), Jack Cooper (piano). Guitarist unknown. Based on the decorations with may be at event celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
Creator: Argosy Studios
Place: Ashhurst
Date: circa 1953
“The Alley Cats” playing at what appears to be at a dance the celebration of a 25 wedding anniversary of Joyce and Arthur. Walter Rumsey on drums. Other players unknown
Creator: Peter Cain Photo Service
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1965
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 7th October 2025. Part 1 of 2. Dianne Broadley grew up in the Wairarapa in the 1940s–50s, surrounded by music from her family and community.
Her mother sang, played piano, and attended dances, wh...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 7, 2025
The programme from the 1989 Christmas Concert by the Renaissance Singers.
Creator: Renaissance Singers
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa December 2, 1989
The programme from the 1990 Christmas Concert by the Renaissance Singers.
Creator: Renaissance Singers
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 1, 1990
The programme from the 1993 Christmas Concert by the Renaissance Singers.
Creator: Renaissance Singers
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 5, 1993
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Billy Larkins (1896-1971) was a dance band leader and talented pianist. By the 1920s, he had formed the Larkins' Elite Orchestra, which performed around Manawatū and be...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: January 24, 2009