Hot tip: Acoustic Church Tour

The 2012 Classic Hits Acoustic Church Tour presents (from left) Anika Moa, Boh Runga and Hollie...
The 2012 Classic Hits Acoustic Church Tour presents (from left) Anika Moa, Boh Runga and Hollie Smith on 13 dates around New Zealand including Dunedin and Invercargill in October. Photo by Mareea Paterson.
Collectively they hold 16 Tui Music Awards, have sold multiplatinum records and created some of New Zealand's most popular songs, but pals Anika Moa, Boh Runga and Hollie Smith have never played in concert together - until now.

The talented trio behind such hits as Youthful, Dreams in My Head, Falling in Love (Moa), Violent, Part of Me, All it Takes, Evelyn (Runga-Stellar*) and Bathe in the River, I Will Do (Smith-Mt Raskil Preservation Society) assemble for the fifth Classic Hits Acoustic Church Tour.

The solo sirens have become a supergroup and released Be Mine, the first single from their collaborative album due for release in early 2013.

"I've had the best time writing with Hollie and Anika," Boh said in a statement.

"They are so talented and getting to be part of their creative process is what being a musician is all about.

"Vibing off of each other, laughing, learning our strengths and dynamics in our relationship, brilliant fun. To tour and explore the country with them will be the icing on the cake."

The singer-songwriters play acoustically then with their band for their shows in Napier, Palmerston North, Wellington, New Plymouth, Hamilton, Auckland, Tauranga and Christchurch, plus Knox Church, Dunedin, on October 19 and First Presbyterian Church, Invercargill, on October 20, the nearest venues to Queenstown. Tickets go on sale on Monday.


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Today
7pm:
Singer-pianist-trumpet player Alastair Monteath returns to the Friday Jazz Club at Les Alpes. Free.
9pm: Brisbane four-piece Die v City deliver "Aus hip-hop, melodic club anthems and a twist of rock" at Dux de Lux. Free.

Saturday
9pm
: The Scheme, a Queenstown-based Brazilian sextet, cover popular songs at Dux de Lux. Free.
10pm: Queenstown DJ Tim Sargeant supplies house tunes at Barmuda. Free.

Sunday
7.30pm
: Remarkable Theatre presents its first rehearsed playreading at Dux de Lux. Tiffany Menzies and David Oakley play a pair of down-market newspaper reporters orchestrating a classic tabloid sting against a television personality played by David Cantwell in Dumb Show (2004). Admission $10, includes one drink.

Tuesday
8.30pm
: Kiwi director Geoff Murphy focused on the New Zealand Wars and revenge in Utu (1984). A Maori scout turns on his colonial masters when he finds a massacre in a Maori village. Queenstown Film Society Dorothy Brown's Cinema, Arrowtown.

Wednesday
9pm
: Taxi Trio, Jamie Reylton, Greg Alpine and Matt Wilson, play modern at Barmuda. Free.


 

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