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| Ardijah Announce Made for Theatre Tour Soulful vocalist Betty-Anne and iconic band the Ardijah Players announced their first national ‘made for theatre’ tour of New Zealand. The Timeless Tour is astonishingly the maiden theatre voyage in their homeland despite being huge hit-makers and enjoying success in countries throughout the world. Peter van Gent Productions bring you a 2 hour show featuring top quality production values reminiscent of the era in which Time Makes The Wine, Give Me Your Number and Watchin You were all released. You will then go on the 20 year experience towards Ardijah’s most recent hits Silly Love Songs, Moonlighting and Time. With their recently remixed and remastered first album Take a Chance, Ardijah will bring their unique brand of entertainment to theatres in a venue near you from February to March. Ardijah’s ‘Time’ album is released November 1999, through Warner Music NZ. Within 8 months the album had achieved Platinum status, making it a Top 10 local selling album. 1998 * The release of ‘Love So Right’ bearing the hallmarks of Ardijah’s unique Poly-Fonk sound sells Gold and catches the attention of ‘Love So Right’s’ writers the Gibb brothers, resulting in a meeting when The Bee Gees toured NZ in 1999. 1997 * Ardijah release their album ‘Influence’ through independent label South Central Productions, of which singles ‘Bad Buzz’ and ‘Oh Baby’ receive high rotation on radio stations nationwide. 1990 Headline openers for Mick Jagger at Western Springs Stadium (50, 000 people) * Betty-Anne performs ‘We Can Work Wonders’ at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games * ‘Take Me’ reaches #12 on charts with Ardijah touring to support the single release. Support for UB40 at their sell-out Mt Smart Stadium concert Cameo performance for musical legend Quincy Jones Ardijah embark on 3 month tour of Australia, taking in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne. ‘Take A Chance’ album released, to date selling double Platinum. Special guests at Simply Red concert, Auckland. * Ardijah accept invitation to perform in Rarotonga over 2 week period to full houses. New Zealand Tourism Board take Ardijah to Singapore to share with the Asian market what NZ has to offer, not only as a beautiful country and tourist destination but also as NZ music on a world stage. 1987 * Ardijah perform ‘Give Me Your Number’ on NZ film ‘Queen City Rockers’. At the NZ Music Awards, Ardijah win Most Promising Group. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |