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THIS WEEKFull Moon PartyBeleza Events presents Full Moon Party, featuring Brazilbeat, Paws, DJose and more. Smash Palace, tomorrow, 9pm. Tickets $15 from eventbrite. co. nzSummer FrequenciesBringing the vibes to Gisborne this weekend. Featuring...

Man on a mission

World-class entertainer and Australian musician Shaun Kirk is ready to woo Tairāwhiti with his blues/soul at Smash Palace. Following his sell-out Worth the Weight tour and mammoth eight-month Holding Onto Hope tour across his homeland, the alt...

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What Does Local Music Mean To You?The official launch of a community research project to map the local music sector. Smash Palace, tonight, 7pm. Free entry. TJ & Huri Summer TourWith the same humour, the epic singalongs and good feels all round, you...

‘Commentary on nativity, passion, resurrection and ascension’

Rehearsals for the Gisborne Choral Society's second go at performing Handel's Messiah begin on Tuesday, February 7. The choir was on the final countdown for its early December performance of this famous work, the most well-known of Handel's...

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

Artist Graeme Nicoll's latest exhibition, A Real Therapy, is a collection of photographic travelogues that take the viewer on a trip down memory lane. From wooden carvings, pencil sketches to paintings — both realistic and abstract — his art, on...

East to west and pancake Sundays

Current travel restrictions are but a mere blip compared with the millions of years it took to form Punakaiki’s pancake rocks as Jo Ferris recallsGiven the upheaval of past weeks — locked down, locked in and in some, cases locked up — never...

Landing on Tuhua/Mayor Island

Tūhua is the emerging summit, the visible portion, of a 700m high 15km wide volcanic mountain located on the edge of the continental shelf about 26km off the coast. The island is about 1280 hectares. The most recent volcanic activity was 6300 years...

Bach and Beethoven online

Performances of works by classical music giants Bach and Beethoven presented by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra are streaming online this week. In the third of the NZSO’s, six part, Sei Solo series, violist Nicholas Hancox performs two movements...

What's on

War Memorial Theatre, Saturday, 7.30pm. Tickets from i-SITE or ticketek. Dome Bar, Saturday, 9pm. BrazilBeat spin Latin beats. Tickets $15 from the Aviary. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa protege Ipu Laga’aia, tenor Chris McRae, musical theatre stars Sophie...

We will rock you

“You don’t sound like a rock star — you could be a . . . a New Zealander.”Surely most rock or rock musical stars would sniff haughtily, or have their publicity helicopter save them from such gracelessness. But not performer Dominic Warren...

‘Everything has to look pretty’

Walking into Catherine McGreivy’s home is like walking into the pages of a magazine. OK, she’d tidied, had the gardener around, there was jazz playing and lavender oil emanating from a diffuser. But it was more than that. Catherine has that...

Birds from my cabin window

For Millie from Grandfather by Donald Gordon

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Elton adds third show to NZ tour

Elton John has added a third show to the New Zealand leg of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour. Along with two rescheduled dates at Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium next January, the legendary performer has announced a final New Zealand show on Tuesday...

Our Cradle of Taonga

Recent letters to the editor about the reinstallation of the Endeavour models, and the nation’s collective response to the impact of Covid-19 prompted former Ministry of Works draughtsman Michael Liddell to send this piece of prose to the...

Joyous and eclectic, with heavy breathing

Before indulging in the heavy breathing of singing in public again, the Gisborne Choral Society had to await Alert Level 1 before it could perform Choral Capers, says musical director Gavin Maclean. Finally, on Saturday, the company will present...