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The Levin Folk Music Club meets on Friday 13 December for our last concert of the year – with special guests The Madillionairs.

The Madillionaires are Peter Madill, Jude Madill and Joseph Coleman, three generations of the same family, plus Jenny Kilpatrick, original Madillionaires’ band member and kazoo soloist extraordinaire. Combining dynamic and diverse musical styles with strong vocal harmonies they perform original songs as well as a wide range of music from elsewhere.
As well as having four vocalists, The Madillionaires play the guitars, fiddle, accordion, banjo, octave mandolin, bass and attitude.
The Madillionaires will entertain you with songs of heroism and hardship, murder and survival, loves lost and won. You will be regaled with re-imagined ballads of yesteryear and hear tell of more recent times as well.
Disclosure statement: there may be traces of country; alt-country; folk in this music.

Peter Madill, renowned luthier and musician, has been playing and singing since the late 60s, starting in the Dunedin folk scene, then moving to Auckland in the 1970s. He has performed with a number of successful bands over the years including Gentle Annie and Late Harvest. He has been a member of The Madillionaires since the band began in around 2014, although being resident in the South Island for a time meant he couldn’t make it to every gig. Now living in Levin, Peter has once again joined the lineup on a more permanent basis.
Jude, the next generation Madill, plays and sings with great feel and an equal enthusiasm and love for music. Living in Wellington since 1990, she has played both solo and in groups around the local acoustic, folk and Americana scenes for several years now. Jude also writes her own material, most of which falls somewhere in the folk/alt-country box. A couple of her original songs will be presented in their set at the WBS.
Joseph Coleman, the most recent band member, is the third generation of ‘Madill’ and as such could not avoid joining the band. Still in his early teens, he hasn’t been playing and singing for long enough to be written about in length but already has a few gigs under his belt. As well as being an integral part of The Madillionaires with his intuitive backing on accordion and harmony singing, Joseph has played a few festival blackboard spots, The Interislander, and a gig in a bookshop with Jude (his Mum) as Madillionette.
Jenny Kilpatrick, an original Madillionaire and kazoo soloist, has stuck with the many and various band lineups over the years. She has been part of the folk music scene in New Zealand since going to festivals as a teenager. As a Madillionaire, Jenny adds her fabulous voice to the mix and keeps the band grounded on bass. She is also a member of duos The PJs and Portable Panic, singing and playing around the Wellington folk scene.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the evening begins at 7:30 pm with a blackboard of performers, where there is an opportunity for musicians to put their name up for an item. The guests perform after supper and the drawing of the raffle.

Admission, which includes a light supper, is $7 for members, $12 for non-members and $3 for students. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).

The venue is the Horowhenua Scottish Society Hall, 155 Bartholomew Road, corner Bartholomew Road and Middlesex Street, Levin.

Come and enjoy a night of fun and music!

The Madillionairs – Jenny Kilpatrick, Joseph Coleman, Peter Madill, and Jude Madill.
Image source: Peter Madill