Katikati Folk Club

David Shanhun is a Professional Musician currently based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Born in Australia, he moved with his family to New Zealand when he was nearly 2 years old, and has been singing ever since!

Heavily involved in music through high school, playing piano, trumpet, and trombone, he also sang in various school choirs and barbershop quartets. He was a member of the 2001 O.K. Chorale that won a Gold award at the National Secondary Schools competition held in the Christchurch Town Hall that particular year, and it sparked an enthusiasm to perform in similar venues.

He first picked up a guitar aged 14, and began learning to accompany himself singing, especially enjoying the challenge of playing and singing Dave Matthews songs. From there his interest in the guitar grew and grew, and he went to study a B.Mus in Classical Guitar at Massey University in Wellington. He never completed the degree, but it led him on to discover new tastes in music, notably folk/country oriented - with the likes of Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, and Tommy Emmanuel.

David taught all styles of guitar in high schools for 4 years, before moving to Auckland in 2010 where he made the choice to become a professional musician in late November. Since then David has been a finalist in the 2010 Singer Songwriter Syndicate's "Singer/Songwriter" competition, sung on National Television (TV1's The Good Morning Show), performed with Grammy Award winning artist Bryan White, and been a finalist for the Horizon Award, at the 2011 National Country Music Awards.

He is currently working on writing and recording for a new album, to be released early 2012.

Katikati Folk CLub meet at the Katikati Bowling Club from 7.30pm.  Members are $15 and non members $20