Dates and times
Sun, Sep 14 - 3:00pm
Venue
The PumpHouse Theatre
Prices
| Adult | $35.00 |
| Senior (65+) | $30.00 |
| Friends of The PumpHouse | $28.00 |
Additional fees
| Booking Fee | $6.00 per booking |
| Card Processing Fee | 2.5% |
How to get tickets
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Event type
About
Escaping by the skin of her teeth from her domineering Glaswegian drummer/boyfriend, Linn Lorkin arrives in the Big Apple with no plan and a three-week transit visa. It is the golden age of the New York Piano Bar and a golden opportunity for a singer/pianist from New Zealand.
Interwoven with her own original show-tunes and replete with “only in New York” stories, Hey Piano Bar Lady tells the fascinating and humorous tale of Lorkin’s progression from downtown $20-a-night gigs to up-town’s swanky ivories. Along the way, there are stops for marriage, divorce, a baby, and, out of the blue, the miracle of writing songs.
SHOW INFORMATION
Runtime
Approx. 2 hours with an interval
About Linn Lorkin
Brought up on a farm near Tokoroa, Linn Lorkin got her show-business start in Europe in the late 1960s. Her first professional gig was singing in a low dive in Copenhagen and she went on to play the prestigious Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in London.
She was the first woman to play electric keyboard in NZ in the 70s nightclubs of Auckland and Wellington and played piano bar in New York in the late 70s/ early 80s, becoming, overnight, in that city, a prolific songwriter. Back home again, she has been one of the most versatile and well-loved performers on the local scene, co-founding several bands, notably French Toast and the Jews Brothers Band, and touring in NZ, Australia, Europe and the USA.
She has recorded 18 albums on her own label, Rouge Records, and written more than 100 songs. An alumna of the legendary Inside Out Theatre, she has written and performed several autobiographical music theatre shows, was the featured singer in Wellington’s 2015 WoW, singing in French, Russian, and Yiddish, and performed in Circa’s The Older The Better 2020. Her memoir, The Redhead Gets the Gig, was published by Steele Roberts Aotearoa in November 2022 and is available as an audiobook, read and sung by the author. She was the recipient of a NZ Variety Club’s Scroll of Honour in 2014 and became a Member of the NZ Order of Merit in June 2023.