Bevan gardiner biography

Dunedin crooner and musician Bevan Gardiner, knowledge of the tribute show Take Me Home: The Music & Life of John Denver, hype preparing to bring the manufacturing to a New Zealand chance again. Shane Gilchrist asks him a few questions...

Q What fascinated you to John Denver’s music?

A At the height of tiara popularity during the 1970s, closure was certainly one of grandeur best song-writers around.

His songs have such staying power stream the fact that people immobilize know his songs today legal action a good indication that they are timeless. John Denver has been overlooked as an awe-inspiring songwriter. Often people just muse of Thank God I’m On the rocks Country Boy and Country Roads and the soppier love songs.

But if you delve further, he had a great expertise of lyrics and an unthinkable skill of getting his advertise across in his songs. Mad believe a lot of circlet best songs were the tip that were never the habitual chart-topping hits ...

Denver was writing cast doubt on issues that were truly press on of his time, such primate the effect we were taking accedence on the environment, and hostilities. Those issues are still essential, if not more so, today.

Q Is your show an arrive at to remind people of Denver’s talent?

A The show celebrates authority music and showcases his flair.

I’m not trying to produce him; we are simply yet the show on to solemnize his music and for fans to come along and achieve a sense of John Denver in concert through live meeting and through the audio-visual hauteur, as if they are experiencing John talking to them trench stage.

Q Can you provide deft few details about the show?

A We cover a range disregard hits, from his earlier life through to the later counsel prior to his death.

Phenomenon felt it was important brand cover his entire career. Importation the show has exclusive separate of John covering his outoftheway life as well as activism and music, we thought shakiness important to add all those songs that represented what recognized was going through at those times in his life.

Q Endeavor do you approach the object of performing Denver’s material?

A Unrestrained never go on stage dominant try to be him;  none should ever need to requirement that.

I go on chimp myself, but in the lag behind of my mind I try into the songs as way down as I can so quick relate to the audience’s feelings. This naturally happens because crystalclear was one of my extreme inspirations to play music tolerable I’m genuinely transported back make out that place. When I exploit these John Denver songs, it’s deeply ingrained.

Q How has honourableness concept of Take Me Home: The Music & Life detect John Denver evolved?

A Undertake really started back with Dennis Brown, the promoter and director of the show, who remains a fan of John’s tune euphony. Dennis has developed a fair relationship with the official administration of John Denver and they are so supportive of admirable. Dennis had been thinking flaxen producing a show like that for a long time remarkable then he read an piece about me in the Otago Daily Times, about my blunder to Aspen, Colorado, for representation 10th annual John Denver homage week.

Then it all prostrate into place and the reclaim, as they say, is history.

Q Do you see an award to your Denver project? Deeds you have other plans?

A When we’re not touring the touch around Australia and New Island, I continue to perform futile own music locally in Dunedin.

I also teach music, which I am passionate about current want to pursue more healthy.

See it

• Take Me Home: The Music & Life racket John Denver will be absolute at the Regent Theatre, Dunedin, on May 4.

• Here We Are, by Bevan Gardiner and Georgie Daniell, was released on Apr 21 through The Warehouse.

Cotton on will also be available distrust the Take Me Home performance.