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The Flavour

Combining Brazilian influences with rock, roots, rhythm & blues, reggae and funk, 

The  Flavour is here to get you up onto the floor to dance and party........

Available  for corporate events, conferences, weddings, gala nights, festivals, concerts, ball, parties

 

Saturday night at Ballarat Trading Company                                              Master Blaster

Flavour live at wedding in La Rumbla Arrowtown                                        Mustang Sally

Live at Queenstown Winter Festival Opening Party                                     Is This Love

Live at Ballarat Trading Company in Queenstown                               Could You Be Loved

THE FLAVOUR Song List

 

IS THIS LOVE  Bob Marley

CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE Queen

DOWNUNDER Men At Work

FAITH George Michael

HIGHER AND HIGHER Jackie Wilson

MASTER BLASTER Stevie Wonder

SANTERIA Sublime

SIGNED SEALED DELIVERED Stevie Wonder

SAVE TONIGHT Eagle Eye Cherry

BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson

VALERIE Amy Winehouse

THIS IS HOW WE DO IT Montell Jordan

SWEET DREAMS Eurythmics

LOVE GETS SWEETER Finley Quaye

DOIN TIME Sublime

DON'T FORGET YOUR ROOTS Six60

I FEEL GOOD James Brown

JUST THE TWO OF US Bill Withers

REVOLUTION Tracy Chapman

SUNDAY MORNING Maroon 5

ZEBRA  John Butler Trio

NO MORE TROUBLE/EXODUS/GET UP STAND UP Bob Marley

NO DIGGITY  Blackstreet

SEX MACHINE/PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC/WE WANT THE FUNK  

James Brown/Wild Cherry/ Parliament Funkadelic

AINT NO SUNSHINE Bill Withers

SEXUAL HEALING/WHAT I GOT  Marvin Gaye/Sublime

SUPERSTITION  Stevie Wonder

USE ME  Bill Withers

LOVEFOOL  Jamiroquai

ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK  Sting

STEAL MY KISSES  Ben Harper

I NEED A DOLLAR/DANI CALIFORNIA  Aloe Blac/Chilli Peppers

JAMMIN  Bob Marley

HIT THE ROAD JACK   Ray Charles

LONG TRAIN RUNNING Doobie Brothers

VALERIE Amy Winehouse

SAVE TONIGHT  Eagle Eye Cherry

PROUD MARY/HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN  CCR

BAD MOON RISING  CCR

FOLSOM PRISON BLUES/THAT”S ALRIGHT MAMMA

Johnny Cash/Elvis

FORGET YOU  CeeLo Green

THREE LITTLE BIRDS  Bob Marley

FEELIN’ ALRIGHT  Joe Cocker

LA BAMBA/TWIST AND SHOUT 

DONT FORGET YOUR ROOTS  Six60

BLISTER IN THE SUN  Violent Femmes

CRAZY  Cee Lo Green

COULD YOU BE LOVED  Bob Marley

BLURRED LINES  Robin Thicke

GET LUCKY Daft Punk

MUSTANG SALLY The Commitments

MERCY  Duffy

I SHOT THE SHERIFF  Eric Clapton/Bob Marley

ROYALS Lorde (Brother Strut version)

HEY JOE Jimi Hendrix

FLY AWAY  Lenny Kravitz

WHOLE LOTTA LOVE Led Zeppelin  

DOWN UNDER  Australian Crawl

UPTOWN FUNK  Bruno Mars

GANGSTAS PARADISE Coolio

7 NATION ARMY  White Stripes

COME TOGETHER The Beatles

REHAB Amy Winehouse

ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL Jet

DROP THE GAME Flume Chet Faker

HAPPY Pharrell Williams

PLACE YOUR HANDS  Reef

HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye

BLOODSTREAM Ed Sheeran

GIMME ONE REASON Tracy Chapman

WAGON WHEEL Old Medicine Crow

Come Together featuring Rusty Anderson from the Paul McCartney band when he stopped by to jam with us.

New Years Eve in Queenstown  Earnslaw Park.                        Steal Your Kisses

                     The Flavour Band

Kayne Taylor                 guitars / vocals
Diego Vanzella              bass
Mauricio Ackermann   drums / vocals
Nigel Hirst                      saxophones

 

Kayne Taylor won the Australian Popstars 2004 contest as a vocalist and his single reached #8 on the Australian charts. Kayne now performs regularly as a soloist on acoustic guitar as well as in a duo Totem. Kayne is currently recording an album of original songs under the banner Black Lion.

Diego Vanzella hails from Brazil where he previously worked as an international model. Now, fully immersed as a bass player extraordinaire he played in the house band for Songstars for 5 years as well as annual shows by Whirlwind Productions such as Twenty Seven, Rock n Roll Suicide, London Calling, California Dreaming.

Nigel Hirst plays saxophone as well as flute, piano, guitar, ukulele. Previously with the Queenstown Jazz Orchestra, the Queenstown Ukulele Orchestra, the Master Blasters and the Raglan Mudsharks, Nigel has also been the producer of events for 25 years, such as Starryeyed, Songstars and other Whirlwind productions.                         https://www.nima.co.nz/nigel-hirst

Mauricio Ackermann is the newest member of Flavour. He also moved from Brazil to New Zealand bringing his foreign percussive musical influences and inspirations with him and high harmony singing . He also plays with the Southern based original rock band the Killer Seas .

The Band plays a mix of material from funk to reggae , rock and pop to rhythm and blues including current crowd favourites guaranteeing a non stop, full, fun dance floor.

Playing a wedding at Peregrine Winery in Gibbston Valley

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