No sooner had the cheering stopped at the soldout Tally Ho! 2 concert at the Dunedin Town Hall on Saturday night, organisers started thinking about whether there was scope for a third concert in the near future.
The Dunedin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) teamed up with Dunedin Sound band members for the concert which aimed to showcase the "astonishing range of outstanding songwriters and singers that Dunedin has produced".
DSO general manager Philippa Harris said the audience was a mix of orchestral music lovers and original Dunedin Sound band lovers, who enjoyed the concert equally.
"We really reached a wide spectrum of the Dunedin population.
"Right at the end, the audience all just stood up. It was a standing ovation."
"Because of its popularity, we are certainly considering a Tally Ho! 3 concert."
The Tally Ho! 2 concert, conducted by University of Otago head of music Peter Adams, spanned four decades of creative output from the Dunedin Sound era, and included songs Death and the Maiden, Cactus Cat, I Love My Leather Jacket, Spooky, Call the Days, and Tally Ho!.
Ms Harris said the pieces were arranged for the orchestra by University of Otago Music Department senior lecturer and The Verlaines member Graeme Downes.
"The original Dunedin Sound singers like Martin Phillipps, David Kilgour, Graeme Downes and Shayne Carter, and the newer singers such as Nadia Reid and Anthonie Tonnon, who don’t ordinarily work in the orchestral sphere, got a real thrill from working with the orchestra.
"All of them said what a thrill it was to hear their song accompaniments translated into orchestral music. And the orchestra got a thrill out of working with them.
"In that respect, it really was a celebration of music and musicians from Dunedin."
