Some of New Zealand's best musical acts performed to a well-behaved, sold-out crowd at the Rippon Music Festival on Saturday.
Attended by nearly 4300 people, the two-yearly open-air festival took place on the Rippon Vineyard hills above Lake Wanaka.
The festival got under way about 11am, with The Yoots, local teenagers Colour Classic, Street Chant and Lord Echo and his Melodies entertaining in the early part of the day.
The crowd was on its feet dancing by mid-afternoon as reggae/dub band Katchafire took to the stage in its debut Rippon appearance.
It was followed by Orchestra of Spheres, Sunshine Sound System, TrinityRoots and AHoriBuzz, before Rippon veterans Kora returned to the Rippon stage for the fourth time in the event's history, mixing in some old favourites among newer material. Rock band The Datsuns were another crowd favourite, playing in the second-to-last slot, before electronic musician Luke Rowell - who goes under the pseudonym Disasteradio - wrapped things up about 12.30am.
While the officer in charge of the event's policing team was unavailable for comment yesterday, Constable Martin Barham, of Wanaka, understood there had been no arrests inside the venue. However, there had been some "minor disorder" in Wanaka after the festival had finished, he said.
"The sort of thing you'd expect from extremely drunk people, but everyone pretty much was well-behaved."
The Central Otago rural drink driving team and the Tactical Alcohol Group was also in Wanaka for the weekend.
Const Barham said four drink-drivers were arrested on Friday evening and another four on Saturday evening.
