Jacquie Walters 🗓
Friday 29th October
Jacquie Walters recorded her first song ‘Bob Dylan’s Dream’ when she was six years old. Singing Bob Dylan and Joan Baez songs with her parents from an early age was her introduction to singer-songwriters.
In the early 1990s Jacquie teamed up with local musicians Ariana Tikao and Leigh Taiwhati to form the group ‘Pounamu’. They recorded ‘Koha’ before Leigh left and then Jacquie and Ariana went on to record ‘Uha” and “Mihi’. They made regular appearances on television and were selected to represent the South Island on a musical series recorded at TVNZ in Auckland.
In 1996 the duo were chosen by The Body Shop as their representatives to deliver its petition against nuclear testing to the French Presidential Palace. During this trip they performed on the BBC World Service and in London, Paris, Strasbourg and Sydney.
From 1996 to 2000 Jacquie performed at a number of music festivals and events throughout the UK, including touring and performing as part of ‘Freewheelin’ with Pete Dean and Kate Bramley. Kate is now a member of Jez Lowe’s band ‘The Bad Pennies’ and ‘The Mile Roses’.
In 2000 Jacquie returned to New Zealand. She recorded her first solo CD ‘Dreamwalking’ in Christchurch in 2000. The title track from the CD received an honourable mention in the Billboard World Song Contest. A second track from the album achieved an honourable mention in the Unisong International Song Competition. Jacquie recorded her second solo cd ‘Step into the Light’ in 2006.
She began regularly performing with guitar and bass maestro and fellow singer-songwriter James Wilkinson in 2016 after he moved to Nelson from Christchurch. The pair have a longstanding musical connection going back to the early 1990s. Jacquie third album “Light for a Broken World” featured James playing several instruments and singing backing vocals and was produced by him. The album was released in 2017. Jacquie has just completed her latest album “The Forest” at Bob Bickerton’s studio in Nelson with James Wilkinson again acting as producer.
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