Rotorua's Tia ChurchKratzmann kept repeating one thing when she found out she won the Rotorua Daily Post Stan Walker competition.
"I was really excited. I kept saying, 'I can't believe it, I can't believe it'," she said.
The 8-year-old Lynmore Primary School student won a CD box set, poster and tickets to the singer's concert tonight and had a chance to meet him at a dress rehearsal yesterday afternoon.
"It was good news when I was told [I won] because I was sad my grandparents were going back to Australia," Tia said.
"I like [Stan's] voice . . . I met him once, in Australia. My Dad did sound at one of his shows in Brisbane. My friends are really excited for me and wish they were going, especially [school friend] Fraser, as he's a big fan of Stan Walker but I'm taking Mum."