7th March 2012 - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Duncan bought tickets for us both to see the Penguin Cafe Orchestra perform at the Opera House. He didn't know that I'd owned one of their 'cassettes' (that's how long ago it was!) about 20 years ago. I loved them at the time and was thinking how old they must now be. It turns out the 10 musicians were all mid thirties and are headed up by the son of the original founder. Such incredibly talented musicians. The strings and two percussionists kept their instruments throughout and the keyboard, guitarists, ukelele players all interchanged. I was so inspired that I went out a couple of days later and treated myself to a really good quality tenor ukelele, donating my orange $30 one to Iona!