• Dec 14, 2020
Despite a global pandemic, there continued to be a steady stream of global sounds throughout 2020. And if we couldn’t travel literally, perhaps more of us will be inclined to do so musically and discover some of the great work that musicians from all around the world have to offer.
This year you could travel the Silk Road from one end with the Chinese band Manhu and Mongolian ensemble Khusugtun to the other with Turkish oud player Mehmet Polat or explore the whole route with 3,14 (whose 2020 release takes its title from the scientific name for the silk worm.)
It’s hard to resist almost any Afrobeat, and there were quite a number of choices this year, but especially so if you go to the source (Nigeria’s Bantu) or one of its more unlikely outposts (Lithuania’s Ojibo Afrobeat).
The Hawke s Bay farmers who learned to ride a surfboard in two hours
11 Dec, 2020 12:11 AM
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Surfing for Farmers at Waimarama beach
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Gianina Schwanecke
From never having been on a board, to riding their first waves - the first Surfing for Farmers session at Waimarama was a smash hit. Hawke s Bay coordinator Tim Wynne-Lewis said he was totally stoked and couldn t be happier with how the first session went on Thursday evening. It couldn t have been better conditions. There was a really good vibe out there in the water.
Surfing for Farmers was launched in 2018 by Gisborne-based Stephen Thomson, after watching a documentary about surfing being used to help returned US soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).