All-Kiwi line-up for Marton Country Music Festival
8 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
Like most summer festivals affected by Covid-19 border restrictions, next week s Marton Country Music Festival will have an all-Kiwi line-up. It takes a whole year to organise, so Covid slowed things down a bit, organiser John de Burgh said. As soon as we could operate again it was just a mad rush, but things are very much on track. We ve had more online bookings than we normally have, so that s a good sign.
He said the 2020 edition had purposely been a New Zealand showcase , and because of international travel restrictions, the same idea would apply to the 2021 event, which starts on Thursday.