Rafters Music Club

Rafters is a friendly music club in central Auckland.

Held on the 3rd Friday of each month

Time: 8-11pm

Admission: $10 cash at door

Venue: Unitarian Church, 1a Ponsonby Road. Next to the Art Station. Between K'rd and Hopetoun St.



Rafters Music Club promotes music from traditional to contemporary. We welcome new performers. 

Our format is open mic (without a mic!) in the first half, supper, then guest/s. Anyone who would like to perform in the first half is welcome to see Graham at the door, but please put your name down before the 8.00pm start. 
Tea, coffee & biscuits provided for supper.



Contact Rafters

Email: raftersmusicclub@gmail.com

or contact us via Messenger 




Music Club Links

- Auckland Bluegrass

- Devonport Folk Music Club

- East Coast Folk Club

- Titirangi Folk Music Club

- The Barebones Acoustic Folk Club

- Auckland Folk Festival. A great camping weekend full of concerts, workshops, dances and fun.    

 Held at The Unitarian Church
1a Ponsonby Road
at 8pm every 3rd Friday of the Month.

$10 cash at the door 

Our Guest for Friday May 16th 2025 is

Brenda Liddiard

After our hiatus at Easter, we are delighted to welcome you all back to Rafters to be entertained by the delightful Brenda Liddiard. 

“Heart-warming, heart-centred and heartfelt music sung with truth, humour, simplicity, beauty and authenticity. Brenda says as much, if not more, by what she doesn't say, as she weaves life-stories that invite you to fill in the gaps with your own experiences.” Maria Monet

Brenda has been writing songs and playing guitar and mandolin since the 1970s. She was born and grew up near London (UK), but moved to Australia in 1974, where she was passionately involved in the environment and anti-nuclear movements, finding her voice as a writer and performer of protest and campaign songs. Some of these songs have been covered by other artists, or have appeared in documentary movie soundtracks, and in the true folk tradition, they continue to be adapted by new singers, for different campaigns around Australia. 

Since moving to New Zealand in 1986, and meeting her husband, Mark Laurent, they have performed regularly together, touring throughout the country, and in Australia and the UK, recording many albums and appearing on radio and TV.

Her solo album, Box of Memories, was a finalist for the New Zealand Music Awards Best Folk Album in 2013.

So come along and enjoy a night of heartfelt music with Brenda and all the folk at Rafters. 

Programme

The first half of the evening brings musicians old and new to warm us up before supper and our main guest/s. We welcome new performers. See Graham at the door if you want to perform, but you will need to be there before the 8pm start.

Photos and Videos

Photos and some videos of performances will be taken during the evening and displayed on our Facebook page. We also have a Rafters Music Club YouTube channel where we display some videos (type Rafters Music Club into YouTube search to find these videos). Please see Linda if you do not want your images publicly available.

See you there

Graham, Linda, Jennifer and Alistair