David Feehan
February 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
David Feehan
16 February 2025
Doors open 4.15pm.
Heavily involved in the Music industry since the age of seven and over nearly seven decades since David has contributed hugely to the New Zealand and international music scene.
From Church and School Choirs, New Zealand Opera Company, Rock Bands and 25 Years as the lead vocalist in Rodger Fox Big Band, through to International recording, Song writer, Vocal producer and session Vocalist, David is one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed male vocalists. He has been a vocal Tutor at Whitireia Polytechnic and Massey University as well as teaching privately, and has also held vocal workshops all over the country including soon to be the 50th Singers Concert which he has been running since 1998. He worked as a guest tutor with the prestigious Tuscany Music Project when they held their NZ clinic in Nelson in 2011 and has attended the Project course in Italy twice, and studied and performed in New York, Havana and San Diego. The top young jazz vocalist prize at the Tauranga Jazz Festival, is the David Feehan Trophy; such is his mana as a Jazz singer/tutor in NZ.
His style varies from jazz rock, to R&B, to soul to wonderful versions of jazz standards, besides playing Jesus in the acclaimed “Jesus Christ Superstar”. He has sung with some amazing world artists ( Buena Vista Social Club, Jon Papenbrook, Greg Bisonette and Bill Reichenbach spring to mind) and has performed at places like Ronnie Scotts in London and the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland (twice) as well as touring throughout the world in places like Poland, Canada, USA, UK, Mexico, China and Cuba. Davids Fourth album, “Quatro” and his fifth, “5” both made the NZ album charts, “5” reaching number ten which David released to commemorate his 70th birthday, and he is in the middle of recording two albums at the moment, one of which will be a jazz album, the other mostly originals.
For this concert David has halved his normal large band and has gone for a stripped back sound with the emphasis on some great jazz favourites with a few tributes thrown in and featuring a couple of his students as well.