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NZ Music Month’s 20th anniversary kicks off

Now in its 20th year — and its first in lockdown — this year's theme for New Zealand Music Month is support local, stream local, follow local and buy local.“This is a time to feel proud of our musicians and music industry as we find our feet...

A Cutts above the rest

AS percussion player for the Gisborne Civic Brass Band, Rod Cutts had to tote a van load of equipment to performances. Other musicians carried their instruments in cases, he noticed, so he took up brass, he says (he likes a laugh), notably the...

More events cancelled, postponed

Graduation ceremony, Moscow Ballet, Giant Pumpkin Festival among events cancelled due to the pandemic

Music award changes reflect evolving industry

ErnieJ’s breakout album is copping great reviews, Lazy Fifty’s debut album, Fifty Shades of Lazy resurrects good old-school rock while young punk act Sit Down in Front topped this year’s Smokefreerockquest East Coast regionals. The annual live...

New season needs new actors

Evolution Theatre Company is on the hunt for celestial bodies to audition for When Sun & Moon Collide this Saturday. Written by arts laureate Briar Grace-Smith, When the Sun & Moon Collide centres on the mysterious disappearance of two Danish...

GODZONED

Athletes push their limits in expedition-style adventure event and advocate for a cause

The life of Emily Webb

Among the lives of the Gibbs and Webb families we follow over 12 years in the Evolution Theatre Company’s production of Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town is that of young Emily Webb. Played by Maia Ingoe, Emily’s courtship with George Gibbs...

We’re not in Kansas now, Charlotte

Although banned in Kansas in 2006 because “talking animals are blasphemous and unnatural”, Evolution Theatre Company is staging Charlotte's Web, a children's story that is just as popular with grown-ups who read it as kids, except, maybe, in...

Nan’s Christmas pudding . . . times 2

Nan has come up with a couple of steamed pudding recipes just in time for Christmas Day . . . you can make them a few weeks ahead and freeze them, or whip them up the night before. This recipe has been used in our family for as long as I can remember...

Life turned up

He’s unplugged the Marshall stacks, dusted off the acoustic guitar and hit the road for the Wild East. Hard rock act Shihad’s frontman Jon Toogood is slouching towards Gisborne next month to be borne onstage at Smash Palace where he will perform...

Looking on the bright side

1. Weed control — weeds will compete with the new lawn so should be controlled two weeks before sowing lawn seed (this allows the weeds to die completely). Yates Zero Weedkiller can be used as a general spray over the area to kill any weeds and...

What's on in Gisborne?

Saturday, June 22Gisborne Tutu parkrun. Wear a colourful tutu on your run/walk. Meet: Waikanae Beach Playground, Grey St, 7.45am. Kid, dog and pram-friendly. See http://www. parkrun. co. nz/gisborne/St Andrew’s Car Boot Sale. Plenty of bargains. In...

Painting powerhouse

Broken surfboard, paint it. Rock, paint it. Deer skull, paint it. If it has a surface, Walter “Bub” Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu) is happy to make it into art. His exhibition, Year of the Mask, is a nod to lockdowns and fabric-covered...

Nan’s famous Christmas cake

Nan’s Christmas cake was such a hit last year, we’re publishing the recipe again — but this time, we’re making sure you have a few weeks to get organised to bake this magnificent festive treat. INGREDIENTS:340gm butter4 eggs450gm flour (3...

Taste of the top,Playing level at national workshop extends locals

PLAYING for the country’s top youth wind ensemble was an exciting and eye-opening experience for three Gisborne students. Blaze Hubbard and Rebekah Hakiwai (Gisborne Girls’ High School) and Micah Russell (Gisborne Boys’ High School) travelled...

Return of Super Turtle

You've pogged too much at the Christmas groaning board, the backyard cricket has retired to the shade, and your mates are back in town but the season is in the doldrums. What to do? What to do?Toe tap, rock out, pogo, head bang to the Summer Sesh...

Top man Mr G, baye kil

EAST Coast sheds and water tanks became canvases for portraits by aerosol artist Graham Hoete when he headed up State Highway 35 after completing his mural on the Farmlands building in Gisborne. Among works he sprayed up in Ruatoria is a portrait of...

THREE WATERS WORRIES

Bill Turner, who was engineering and works manager with the Gisborne District Council for 17 years, has grave misgivings about the Three Waters reforms. He talked to John Jones