Tickets for the New Zealand concert “From Baylys to Broadway – 20th Anniversary Afternoon of Music with Kevin Friedrich and Friends” have sold out over one month in advance. Presented by the Dargaville Museum on Sunday November 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM, an outstanding lineup of artists will take to the stage to share their talents.

When the Dargaville Museum added the new wing to accommodate Kevin’s accordion collection in 2006, the manager at that time Pene McKenzie requested that once in a while, the instruments would be used if possible. In keeping with this tradition, Kevin will use multiple instruments from the collection including the oldest one, a 6 key flutina, a 2 row 1 bass flutina, a Frosini keyboard, a Finnish chromatic instrument, a rare Alfred Arnold bandoneon, a recently donated Scandalli Butterfly accordion, the world’s first Kauri accordion and more!

Kevin will also perform as soloist on “Song of the Far North” for accordion and orchestra by Gary Daverne, with Gary conducting the North Shore Accordion Orchestra.

Joining Kevin for his milestone 20th anniversary fundraising concert will be an impressive lineup of guests including the 25 member North Shore Accordion Orchestra (conducted by both Lian Jones and Gary Daverne), local songster Jone Yelcich and Dargaville’s ever favorite pianist Nolene Osbaldiston, vocalist Cindy Randall, pianist and vocalist Thomas Koloi, the Baylys Beats African Drummers, the ever popular Lionel Reekie, father and daughter team accordionist and vocalist Maurice and Alanah Jones, Chinese folk dancing artist Sophia Daverne, local born country star Kim Copedo, World Accordion Champion Grayson Masefield and violinist Andrew Beer (Concert Master of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra), making her Dargaville debut will be the acclaimed harpist Ingrid Bauer (Principal Harpist of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra) and to round out the show Dargaville is pleased to welcome back the world’s most southern accordion group, the Christchurch Accordion Orchestra.

The regular fundraising concerts have helped support the Dargaville Museum tell the stories of the Kaipara region as well as support the only public accordion exhibition in the southern Hemisphere, Kevin’s ‘Accordion Gems, A Master Collection of Accordions Through Time.’