Photo by David James.
The Black Seeds (from left) keyboard player Nigel
Patterson, singer-percussionist Daniel Weetman, guitarist Mike
Fabulous, singer-guitarist Barnaby Weir, bass player Tim Jaray,
drummer Jarney Murphy and saxophonist Jabin Ward, top the bill
for the next Shotover Sunshine Festival on February 9.
Queenstown's open-air staged music festival returns to the
Coronet Peak end of Littles Rd, from noon to midnight. Buses,
parking and on-site food and beverage stalls will operate.
Other acts included in the first line-up are Wakatipu
favourites Tiki Taane, Sola Rosa, Sunshine Sound System,
Rhythmonyx, K+lab and Analog MC with host MC KPZ. More acts
are to be announced.
Earlybird tickets cost $110 and are now on sale via the
festival website and Dash Tickets online.
Photo supplied.
In the zone
Pounamu artist Lewis Gardiner uses jade, resin, flax fibre
(muka) and albatross bone in a museum style layout to comment
on doomed homes in Christchurch in
Red Zone (2012), one
of 19 sculptures and wall pieces on display in Toi o Tahuna
Gallery's space above Kapa Design Gallery from Saturday until
October 24. Gardiner is head tutor of the Pounamu Carving
School at Te Puia, New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute
in Rotorua.
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