[iamge]Today
7pm: Piano man Les Richardson, of Alexandra, accompanies Queenstown singer Hine Marchand in the increasingly popular Friday Jazz Club in Les Alpes. Free.
10pm: Queenstown DJ Tim Sargeant selects "fox funk and disco trot" in Barmuda. Free.
10pm: Mojo, a Queenstown quartet, plays originals and covers in Dux de Lux. Free.
Tomorrow
9pm: Auckland five-piece soul, funk and jazz collective Sola Rosa plays the final gig of its nationwide tour promoting its fifth studio album Low and Behold, High and Beyond in the World Bar. Queenstown DJ Downtown Brown spins in support. Tickets cost $25 from the Shotover St venue and Quest.
9pm: The Scheme, a Queenstown-based Brazilian sextet, covers popular songs in Dux de Lux. Free.
9pm: Blues, soul, funk and roots sounds from the Queenstown quartet known as the Federation return to the Red Rock Bar. Free.
Sunday
10pm: Aspiring DJs get their chance to impress the crowd in the open decks session in Surreal. Free.
Tuesday
7.30pm: Wellington theatre company Bare Hunt Collective presents Munted, a touring "verbatim documentary theatre show" about the earthquake in Christchurch on February 22, 2011. Former Wakatipu High School pupil Jackie Shaw, with Victoria Abbott and Frith Horan, of Bare Hunt, embody 15 people caught up in the disaster on stage within the hour-long show. The play is performed in the drama room of the high school, accessed from Gorge Rd, on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Tickets $25, concessions $15, cash sales only on the door.
8.30pm: Le Plaisir (1952), Max Ophuls' lavish adaptation of three Guy de Maupassant stories, explores the distinctions between pleasure and happiness. The "neglected masterpiece" is presented by the Queenstown Film Society to its members with the support of the Embassy of France in Dorothy Brown's Cinema, Arrowtown. New members can join on the night.
