Northland news in brief: New organisers for Christmas parade; and thousands to get Winter Energy Payment
30 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Kerikeri Lions Club is retiring from organising the town s Christmas parade after many years. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Kerikeri Lions Club is retiring from organising the town s Christmas parade after many years. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Northern Advocate
Community group Our Kerikeri is planning to take over the town s annual Christmas parade as Kerikeri Lions Club the event s long-time organiser struggles with falling and ageing membership. A Christmas volunteer workshop will be held at the Procter Library on Cobham Rd from 5pm on May 5 to discuss ideas and from a project group. All welcome; bring a pen and paper and some Christmas spirit.
Fraser Ross & Amiria Grenell Announce Winter Tour Annabel Kean / Thursday 29th April, 2021 9:24AM
Fraser Ross and Tui Award winner
Amiria Grenell (The Swan Sisters, Fly My Pretties, Coyote) have rustled up a midwinter tour to warm your cockles. Beginning mid June and running into July, Grenell and Ross are taking their folk charm to all the cosiest South Island spots, from tiny Bank Peninsula bays to the famed Oamaru Grainstore Gallery. Ross last released an album in 2018 and Grenell a solo album in 2015, so they ve a decade of musings to share between them in a handful of intimate venues. Tickets for selected shows are available from us, and it s to be noted that meals can be ordered at the Nelson Boathouse between 5pm and 8pm.
Press Release – 818 Entertainment
(Thursday, 22nd April) Aotearoa’s iconic
NZ Music Month | Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa kicks off on May 1st, celebrating great local music for all New Zealanders – in every place, for every age, and in every genre. The month of May will see a host of celebrations, new releases, artist tours and special events happening across Aotearoa.
NZ Music Month’s Rodney Fisher commented:
“With a focus on bringing great music from Aotearoa to all New Zealanders, we look forward to highlighting stories from across the country, along with the reminder to support our musicians by getting out and catching live gigs, streaming local, following local acts online, and buying local music and merch.”
Gig Information
Terrible Sons are a husband and wife duo, former Dukes front man, Matthew Barus & Lauren Barus, known in other music circles as L A Mitchell and in Fly My Pretties. They’ve been nestled in Christchurch slowly becoming a streaming juggernaught with over 180K followers on Spotify alone. They will be bringing their intimate songs to life with a full band, at The Piano, in Christchurch. To celebrate the release of their 3rd EP, ‘Mass’
“..a stark, quiet collection of deeply romantic songs that hark back to the sweeping indie glory of Kings of Convenience and Feist. It’s the kind of music that feels destined to soundtrack the idiosyncratic indie cinema of the mid-2000s. It’s luscious, organic and so, so intimate”
Poi E, the New Zealand music community rallied behind the Pātea Māori Club. Their legacy award came 19 years after the death of co-composer Māui Dalvanius Prime. Ngoi Pēwhairangi, who also wrote the song, died in 1985. The Pātea Māori Club has continued to perform, and did so at the Taites. The rōpū, including some members who recorded
Poi E in 1984, shifted the mood of the event when they were welcomed on stage through a standing ovation. The respect for this group and waiata was clear.
Poi E has reached number one in the New Zealand music charts during three separate decades, and musicians such as Troy Kingi paid tribute to the fact it achieved normalcy for te reo Māori during an era where the language was often not welcome.