Thursday, 15 April 2021, 4:18 pm
Annie
Gong.
International artist Annie
Gong – a one woman orchestra – is due to arrive in
Hastings tomorrow, to play at the Lighting of the Osmanthus
Gardens lantern festival on Friday and Saturday.
Based
in New Zealand but playing internationally until COVID-19
grounded her last year, China-born Gong has spent the last
12 months thrilling Kiwi audiences with her blend of Chinese
fusion, classical pieces, and rock music, on piano
accordion.
Festival organiser, Hastings District
councillor Kevin Watkins, said Gong, who started playing the
instrument at age five and trained at the Tianjin
Conservatory of Music, had performed with major symphony