James Beech

Lifestyle gurus, holistic healers, organic food vendors and wellness experts will gather for Life Synergy Expo 2010 for the first time at Millbrook, near Arrowtown, on Sunday, March 14.

A mixture of excitement, nervousness and confidence flowed from the 26 international students of the 2010 Queenstown Violin Summer School, before their Grand Finale Concert on Friday night.

The historic Kingston Flyer steam train will co-star today in the major Bollywood feature film being shot in the Wakatipu, the film company and receiver confirmed yesterday.

Wakatipu tourism operators who offer scenic tours of The Lord of the Rings locations say they are poised to capitalise if - or when - The Hobbit is filmed in part in the area.

A car fire which threatened residential flats above the vehicle was caught in its early stages by Queenstown firefighters yesterday.

After a dozen days of intensive study, all 26 students of the 2010 Queenstown Violin Summer School took the music skills they had learned to the people on Friday.

Queenstown's first Montessori school is already three-quarters full before Queenstown Lakes Mayor Clive Geddes opens it on Monday.

St Peter's Anglican Church in Queenstown will host its third classical music concert within two months.

Brisbane party-starters Chocolate Strings play Queenstown on Friday, February 5.

Beautiful music influenced by Europe and alternative country Americana can be expected when Le Tour de Trois plays free next Wednesday, says one of the performers.

The completion date for the Kelvin Peninsula Track upgrade has been pushed back until Easter to allow contractors to work with care around sewerage lines.

A Queenstown art gallery owner is responding to demand and aiming to capitalise on peak tourism trade by opening a second gallery on Beach St for the summer season.

Baroque chamber music will ring out from St Peter's Anglican Church when an internationally renowned harpsichord player and cellist perform for the first time in Queenstown.

The row of ageing and unstable poplar trees on Lower Shotover Rd, destined for the chop, have won another stay of execution, courtesy of the hawthorn hedges which also grow along the Wakatipu Basin road.

Dirty post-punk rock is guaranteed when The Twitch play at Dux de Lux next month.

A former chief executive of the Scottish Tourist Board has backed the campaign to "Save Arrowtown" from major development, including the proposed Arrowtown South residential subdivision.