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Dave might have to fight for space on John’s deck

KIWI musican and legend Dave Dobbyn will launch a whole new suite of songs next year and a Gisborne man will be able to say he heard a couple of them first. John Currie has won Rhythm and Vines’ competition Dave On The Deck. People who bought...

A baroque cello, an organ and a harpsichord walk into a bar...

A BAROQUE cello, organ and harpsichord will feature in Julien Hainsworth and Chris Hainsworth’s concert in Gisborne on Monday. Known as the Rata-tui Duo the father and son duo will perform works by Handel, Bach and Vivaldi as well pieces by 16th...

Spellbinding show

Following a sell-out national tour in Australia, The World of Musicals is thrilled to be debuting in New Zealand for the first time this Christmas season. This highly anticipated show features a world-class ensemble of multi-talented international...

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Calling on schools for fast film fest

Lights...camera…Action!But hurry up about it because you only have 48 hours. New Zealand's largest guerrilla filmmaking competition is back. Each year hundreds of budding filmmakers grab their cameras and shake ideas from their brains with just 48...

Highway to Smash Palace

When Hamilton guitarist Dan Cosgrove dons his schoolboy cap and duck-stomps across the Smash Palace stage the gig will be NZ/DC’s first show since lockdown — and the band is frothing.“It’s been hard, man,” says Cosgrove.“We’ve done...

The Mediterranean revisited . . .

A return to the Mediterranean brought home how much we take for granted on the East Coast of New Zealand and how much life has changed for the people of Jerusalem and Greece — and not always for the best. Norman Maclean reports . . .I have always...

End of an era for Maz

After a New Zealand competitive surfing career of 26 years, Gisborne surfing's poster boy Maz Quinn is hanging up his competitive rashie. From his first surf at Roberts Road (Waikanae Beach), to charging "terrifying" tubes at Tahiti's Teahupoo break...

Gisborne Gig Guide listings

This week?New Zealand Guitar QuartetClassical/contemporary music from bluegrass to flamenco. Gaiety Theatre, Wairoa. tomorrow, 7.30pm. Tickets $25+ bf from the venue or www. eventfinda. co. nzVF48Hours Gisborne FinalWatch the 10 best five-minute films...

Weaving music togther

Torua, a work by New Zealand composer Gillian Whitehead, features in a programme of romantic and virtuosic music Emily Sun (violin) and Gamal Khamis (piano) who perform at Tiromoana on Monday. Commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as...

The writing life

Hannah Mettner grew up in Whataupoko, in an old villa with a big backyard full of fruit trees and a tree hut.“Now that I live in Wellington I dream of the bounty of plums, crabapples, feijoas and loquats that we used to throw at each other for...

A season of Green

An intensely personal play with music, was how touring performer Chris Green described the one-man show he brought to Gisborne in 2017. Music and the intensely personal is what Green will bring on his return next week — but this time across three...

Gold threads among the silver

Unsung singing group the Hospice Tairawhiti Songsters can't be found on Spotify, but they are familiar faces and voices in Gisborne's rest homes. This week, a handful of the group's members entertained Te Wiremu House residents over pancakes on...

WATER WAYS OF WAIKATO

It was one of those “pinch me” moments. Bathing in a warm pool of salt water, hot black sand warming my legs, and the waves of the Tasman Sea gently breaking just metres away, I was finally, after years of anticipation, sitting on a hot water...

From hobby to side hustle

Behind the coffee machine at Peel St Cafe is not just a quality barista but also a talented artist. By day Jordan Robertson makes coffee to fuel the city but in her downtime she creates the art that decorates the cafe walls.“I have been painting my...

We Will Rock You

Several years and many high-powered shows have passed since singer/dancer Akina Edmonds was last in these parts. Having attended Ngata College and Lytton High School, she went on to develop her passion for her art at NASDA (National Academy of...

Grow your own salad

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Gig Guide

Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nz, or telephone 869-0630This weekGisborne Orphans Club: Best of Best Concert: All welcome to enjoy the entertainment. Senior Citizens Hall, Saturday, 30 Grey Street, 7.30pm...