MID-SPRING is the time to apply fertiliser to everything in the garden to keep plants healthy and productive by supplying the nutrients they need. Fungal disease controlAs humidity and temperatures increase, so do fungal problems such as anthracnose...
Almost as many stars as appear in the Matariki cluster will appear on stage for Gisborne's inaugural public Matariki celebration next month. Co-organised by East Coast Music Ltd founder Tyna Keelan and Te Runanga o Turanganui a Kiwa manager Athen...
I am a football fan. I have been involved in football all my life. My dad (Charlie Ure) was a footballer and played for Gisborne City in their National League heyday. My brother and I grew up in the Gisborne City clubrooms and were always surrounded...
If all piano music in the world were to be destroyed, except for one collection, “my vote should be cast for Chopin's preludes,” American music critic Henry Finck once wrote. Along with Sergei Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor...
FORGET everything you thought you knew about Irish folk music here come The Young Folk. The band uses a mix of traditional acoustic instrumentation, that includes mandolin, banjo, violin, trombone and synthesiser with contemporary production...
CHRISTMAS tree looking a bit tired? Never fear, there are materials in your own backyard you can use to make decorations
Takuahiroa is that space of creation — a state of creative potential. This concept brings together the individual expressions of new work presented by husband-and-wife artists Kaaterina and Tai Kerekere. Their latest collaborative exhibition...
TENNESSEE bluegrass with soul and a backbeat of funk hits Wairoa and Tokomaru Bay next week when indie-folk act The Danberrys head this way as part of their off-the-beaten-track tour of New Zealand. Joined by Vanessa McGowan of Tattletale Saints on...
NZSO's at-home performances go international with special guests. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's second at-home performance featured American violinist Shana Douglas from her home in Britain in a livestream last night. The video is still...
Phil and Sue Newdick continue their world wanderings with a visit to Pardubice in the Czech Republic . . .Our journey to Pardubice in the Czech Republic was to be the last of our purchased paper tickets. We have discovered “E tickets”...
Spiced with 19th century German composer Robert Schumann’s Pictures from the East pianist Yen-Ting Wang’s programme presents an opportunity for the Taiwanese pianist to share the keyboard with Tony Chen Lin. Lin performs at the Lawson Field...
Gisborne artists have once again donated time and effort to aid Māhia Wave Warriors. The Faces of the Coast art exhibition and auction opened on Friday night with a solid turnout. The paintings were on sale to raise money for Māhia Wave Warriors to...
Photography has been in Julia Rae's life since childhood. At 12 years old, just down the road from her family home, Rae looked down the lens through her father's box Brownie camera and took her first photo of a horse standing in a paddock. Several...
Exactly five months out from the Smash Summer Sesh is the inaugural Smash Winter Sesh. Promoter Rori White has scoured out of town venues to bring an eclectic range of alt-rock acts to Smash Palace’s new, improved stage. A side wall has been...
Fresh out of the Australasian melting pot and built upon utilising the potential of midi-synced live looping, is an exciting act who are on the first tour as a band. Multi-instrumental loop musicians and singers Erinsphere and Sid Berry are both...
Saturday, March 24Tai Chi at the Museum. Reap the benefits and develop your own routine. In front of Tairawhiti Museum, 8-9am, $5. No class if raining, will proceed in light drizzle. St Andrew’s Car Boot Sale. Variety of realistically-priced goods...
In 2017, Wairoa hip-hop duo Rugged and Wylde’s debut EP 4018sis, a mix of hip-hop, electro, trap and dub, made the Waiata Maori Music Awards finals. Made up of freelance sound engineer Zach Stark and Ratima Hauraki, the duo’s recently released...
Panapa Ehau enters the cafe slowly, texting as he walks. He exudes casual. But this 39-year-old university-educated director of Hikurangi Enterprises is a passionate driving force to make people’s lives on the East Coast better. He chats to Sophie...
Lazy Fifty's latest groovy single Pretty as a Flower is best described as an ode to a lover. Listeners will dive deep into the psyche of lyricist and vocalist Adrian Athy and explore his fascination and obsession with a woman of his...
The deep-groove smooth of bass guitar-driven Subset BC’s loungy rhythms isn’t 1960s psychedelia as we know it but the psychedelic aesthetic of the poster design for the five-piece’s upcoming Dome show suits the band’s general vibe, says...
Justine Tyerman reverts to childhood behaviour after a week at a wonderful Wanaka hideaway...As a child, I used to hide at the end of the school holidays when it was time to drive back to Dunedin. Decades later, I gave in to the same impulse as our...
Hawke's Bay's Killer Queens are proud to be bringing their show to Gisborne for the first time this September. Featuring a four-piece band and four lead vocalists, the group bring their own style and edge in recreating over 20 Queen songs, and have...
Students at Whatatutu School were treated to a visit by artist and educator Maungarongo (Ron) Te Kawa to learn about whakapapa, art and storytelling, all through the medium of quilting. Te Kawa was at the school last week to inspire rather than to...
IN the tradition of Dave Armstrong’s Kiwi comedy The Motor Camp, Unity Theatre plans to stage Stephen Sinclair’s The Bach. Gisborne performer James Packman, who played an obnoxious bogan in Unity Theatre’s popular production of The Motor Camp...
A design depicting an outstretched hand that blocks lolly wrappers, a plastic bag, take-away drink cups and other detritus from entering a drain has won the Gisborne District Council's DrainWise Art Competition. The aim of the competition was for...
Over many decades, birds that fell down a chimney at the Jeory family's former home, Limerick, in Lytton Road, sadly fluttered to death in its boarded-up fireplace. When the house was demolished last century a workman told Conor Jeory a two-foot pile...
Pink, orange, red, indigo, green, turquoise . . . no, not the colours of the rainbow . . . hair colour. I’m generally game to try most new products but I’m happy to leave the latest hair craze to the millennials. L’Oréal Paris has recently...
More than a show, gig or club night, BrazilBeat Sound System's annual Full Moon Party is an experience, say organisers. Set across two stages, DJose will warm up the decks with deep house vibes, followed by BrazilBeat and their eclectic mix of bass...
AN eye-catching dress made from harakeke accessorised with a matching flax pod choker is part of Nga Tipu gallery’s showcase window display. Situated on the Gladstone Road-Lowe Street corner the gallery is in a central location but to entice...
THE temptation is strong to say former gambling compliance manager Stefan Pishief took a punt in leaving his Internal Affairs job in Wellington to move to Gisborne. But the fact is, his wife Rena Kohere has whanau connections up the Coast and Stefan...
Outgoing EIT chief executive Chris Collins looks back at a career educating young people