StarJam will Rock Auckland on 26 th August – Act now!
Jammer Jono Heaps receives standing Ovation in Minneapolis, USA
CoolJam - Workshops Full for Term Three
John Hawkesby and StarJam’s Annual Meeting

StarJam Rocks 06 - Star Struck Line Up

Temuera Morrison, Petra Bagast, Simon Dallow, Wendy Petrie, Kate Hawkesby, Yulia AND exclusive footage filmed recently in USA of Julie Andrews, Michael Bolton , Sean Astin, Kenny Loggins and there’s more more more. We have jams lined up to surpass all previous jamming experiences. We knew it would happen. It’s still 53 days until StarJam Rocks Auckland on Saturday 26 th August and the tickets look set to sell out way early.

Let me introduce you to Rongo Katene. Rongo is 16 years old and a student at Rotorua Lakes High School. He has won the respect and admiration of all the staff and students as he has great difficulty moving about but he never loses his cheerfulness. Rongo lives with his sister and he loves to sing and play the guitar and piano. Rongo will be interviewing Temuera Morrison at StarJam Rocks 06.

Rongo Katene and Temuera Morrison

And here is a double double team. Twins Etta and Sally Bollinger will be interviewing Simon Dallow and Wendy Petrie

And Yulia will be singing a special song with the Jammers and ………we’re not going to give everything away yet.

If you are not prepared to miss out, send you request right now for a ticket to melissa@fletchernz.com or phone (09) 585 1195 or 021 424 888

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Jammer, Jono Heaps receives standing ovation in Minneapolis, USA

If you have been reading the StarJam news of recent months, you’ll be up-to-date with some of the latest USA Jams. Out of the April Jamming trip to California emerged an unexpected, unbelievable invitation to jam in Minneapolis. Scarcely over the jetlag from one trip and some of us were heading away again. Jammers Jono Heaps and Daniel Gourlay broke new territory in our fartherest from New Zealand jam to date. As a part of a fundraising gala for the Starkey Foundation based in Minneapolis, Jono and Daniel charmed and jammed a couple of thousand people in one weekend. Jono sang at both the VIP party at the mansion of Starkey Founder Bill Austin and at the Gala on the following night, Saturday. 16 th June. He sang and played the song he wrote especially for the occasion to a live audience of 1800 which included Sir Jackie Stewart, members of the infamous Osborne family and celebrities from every corner of USA. He received rapturous applause and a standing ovation.

Everywhere Jono sang, Daniel danced. They became know as the singer and the swinger!! You can see copious pictures on the Starkey Foundations website www.sotheworldmayhear.org but here are a couple right now. Other performers on the night included Dionne Warwick, Cathy Sledge and Carl Carlton of ‘Everlasting love” fame. Dare I say none of them received standing ovations?

Jono Heaps, Daniel Gourlay, Marion Gourlay and Julie Bartlett waiting by the looooong limo send to transport them to the VIP party (The photo would be very wide if the whole limo was in the shot). Jono Heaps meets Jay Leno backstage. Dionne Warwick sang before Jono was on. Julie proudly applauses Jono as he receives a standing ovation.

The trip was full of all kinds of surprises including getting stuck in a lift (or should I say elevator) for nearly an hour in the Marriott Hotel in Minneapolis. A more pleasant surprise was the special attention received from the Air New Zealand flight attendants on the final leg of our journey back to New Zealand. By now the word was out about Jono’s great performance and he was invited to sing to all the passengers on the plane through the in flight PA systems before we landed in Auckland. More rapturous applause!!

Our most grateful thanks go to Air New Zealand who sponsored our flights to Minneapolis and back.

Air New Zealand crew lavish special treatment on Jono Heaps and Daniel Gourlay

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CoolJam - Workshops Full for Term Three

The first set of Cool Jam workshops is now complete. It’s not just the Jammers who are raving – it’s the parents too - they are thrilled to see their children growing in confidence and doing undreamt of groovy things. The word is out and enrolments for Term Three Cool Jam workshops have doubled – there’ll be Groovy Guitar, Dynamic Drumming, Act Alive, Rockin Hip Hop, Spectacular Singing and StarJam Rocks Set Design . Enrolments have closed now but watch out for greater variety of workshops in Term Four and all the up and coming Cool Jam stars.

Scenes from Term Two CoolJams, Rockin Hop Hop, Groovy Guitars, Awesome Acting and the Hop Hoppers again

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John Hawkesby and StarJam’s Annual Meeting

StarJam’s Annual Meeting is being held on Thursday 13 th July at the Ellerslie Convention Centre, Auckland starting at 7pm. Some of our newest Jammers will perform (for many it will be the first time), You will also enjoy John Hawkesby’s entertaining company and hear about StarJam’s exciting and ambitious plans for the future. As with all the StarJam meetings, there is no charge to attend. If you have not received an invitation and would like to come, please email roy@starjam.org by Wednesday 12 th July.

At StarJam’s June meeting, on Saturday 24 th , there was standing room only to watch the Jammers having a great time as always.

See you on 13 th July – please remember to RSVP.