The multi-platinum selling songbird, who joined Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga and other stars for the free Band Together for Canterbury concert last Saturday, will play tunes from her fourth studio album Love in Motion and favourites from her back catalogue.
West Coast singer songwriter Mel Parsons joins the colourful performer on the tour.
Tickets for the R18 gig are limited to 150 and cost $32 at the Station, in Queenstown, and through Event Finder. Entry costs $40 on the door, which opens at 7.30pm.
Picks of the week
TODAY
• 8pm: Last chance to see live Wakatipu performers on stage in the David Bowie-inspired rock opera Rock and Roll Suicide, in the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall. Doors open 7.30pm. Tickets $35, available from the Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown, and Post Office Cafe, Queenstown.
• 10pm: Sunshine sound system, with DJs Downtown Brown and Turbohag, deliver funk, soul, hip-hop and junglism in Subculture. Free entry before midnight, $5 afterwards.
• 10pm: Queenstown group the Cartel play in Pub on Wharf.
TOMORROW
• 10pm: K-LAB, of Blackplanet, returns to Subculture on his EP release tour, with Blackplanet compatriot MC Analog and guest. The Whole World's Ill is released on the Empathy label. Earlybird entry $5.
• 11pm: Spooky goings-on in Surreal Bar and Restaurant when it hosts a compulsory Halloween-costume party. Prizes for the best dressed and a trio of Queenstown based DJs perform as Twisted Disco.
TUESDAY
• 1pm: The Melbourne Cup is presented in the Ballarat Trading Co. Tickets $30 per person with $5 donated to the Christchurch Earthquake Fund. The race begins at 5pm and the event runs until 6pm. Prizes for best dressed, and sweepstakes throughout the day, with $1000 of travel vouchers as the top prize.
