This week in Gisborne

Gisborne artist Hannah King's drypoint etching Kaitiaki Viewpoint features in a virtual exhibition of works by printmakers from around the world. King's print communicates through the tui messages via the media in response to the needs of the land...

SUN, Sand and Murder Musical Theatre Gisborne’s next musical whodunnit. The popular event offers patrons dinner and the opportunity to solve a murder mystery. Auditions for five male and five female characters aged 35-70 will be held at the Musical...

Tolaga Bay school students took the opportunity to gain NCEA credits through a more hands-on approach — sailing the Tairawhiti Waka Hourua and interviewing locals about Tuia 250. Reporter Maika Akroyd sailed with them to learn more. The saying...

Electronic and house music will be mixed up with Afrobeat, hip hop and moombahton when BrazilBeat, and friends take over Smash Palace tomorrow night. Moombahton is described as a fusion genre of house music and reggaeton, the latter of which evolved...

At the end of 2019 I headed back to India to visit an orphanage in Amritsar and a school in Ferozepur, Punjab. I am passionate about learning more about the world around me, how children learn, how environments and poverty can affect learning, and...

“It’s all about the songs and we were very lucky to have had a lot of hits in the 60s that people still want to hear today,” says the band's original drummer, Barry Whitwam. Herman’s Hermits perform at War Memorial Theatre, Saturday, 7.30pm...

After talking with Harry Smith for a couple of hours, the wonder is why he hasn’t written a book before now. As a natural raconteur, one slightly off-the-wall story rolls after another. These are the stories that make up his life. Now retired...

Metal-head musicians from around the country are preparing to crash into Smash with the sound of heavyweight acts Metallica, Pantera, and Megadeth. Gisborne man Vincent Hogan’s band Harbinger will perform a Metallica tribute; Meniak are taking on...

Retiring JP Kerry Jones talks to The Gisborne Herald’s Wynsley Wrigley about his 24-year-service to the court. On Boxing Day 24 years ago, Kerry Jones began his life as a Justice of the Peace. Nearly quarter of a century later Judge Warren Cathcart...

“Rarely have I encountered a finer musician who has something truly exceptional to say in music,” said “piano royalty” Tamás Vásáry of pianist Tony Chen Lin. Last here in February with Australian violinist Christina Lieberwirth-Morris as...

Among the up to 3000 singers from around the world who performed Karl Jenkins’ modern mass to peace, The Armed Man, in Berlin recently were Gisborne Herald reporter Mark Peters (bass) and sub-editor Mary-Jane Richmond (alto).To mark the centenary...

The TBs (tramping boots) prove their worth as Justine Tyerman’s best hiking buddies on the Walk Japan’s Izu Geo Trail. Konnichiwaaaaa! I heard the TBs (tramping boots) chortle as they sauntered off to the drying room with the sweet young...

Deep down in some small recess of Julie McPhail's soul was a tiny wish the turnout for auditions for Unity Theatre's auditions for Calendar Girls would not be big. She was keen to take on a role in the comdedy. As it happened, the number of...

Kaumatua, Justice of the Peace, school chaplain, locum hospital chaplain, husband, father, grandfather, son and now the new pastor at St David’s Presbyterian Church, Richard Rangihuna speaks to Sophie Rishworth . . .Being one of 18 children taught...

by Jack MarshallIt’s Christmas Eve and the firm Macmillan and Sons is having a party. Staff are getting up to mischief, and unfortunately, someone has to die. In this office, like many work environments, “almost everybody has got a reason either...

FOR a quietly spoken bloke, Barry Kingi-Thomas is a fighter on two fronts, but in a good way. His working life is divided between his job as a fulltime firefighter and as martial arts instructor. He and his wife Bev started Gisborne’s first MM...

Lyrics sung in Portuguese to a percussive beat and electronica could well be a first in these parts but that is what you can hear from tomorrow when BrazilBeat Sound System release their new bass and reggaeton-driven single, Saying. The new single...

Regional fishmonger Real Fresh bring you a mouth-watering moki dip using their Ahia smoked fish — from the people of Ngati Porou. Ingredients:200g Ahia® Smoked Fish, such as moki1 large (200g) starchy potato, such as Agria300ml milk2 cloves...

Cops might do well to position their speed traps near movie theatres wherever the new film Ford v Ferrari is playing. They might fund their whole year’s budget busting speeders peeling out of the parking lots. This infectious and engrossing story...

Life has been extraordinary for Hopetoun Brown since the summer solstice, says Nick Atkinson, one half of the horn-driven duo. In January, he and sidekick Tim Stewart sailed Atkinson’s kauri-planked ketch to remote island venues around the Hauraki...

Saturday, April 21Tairawhiti 5th Annual Stand-up Paddle Surfing Championships. One of the biggest SUP two-day events (to Apr 22). Venue/time to be determined on the day. Check Facebook: Tairawhiti Stand-up Paddlesurf Club or ph 027 436 1343. Evans...

Songs from New Zealand indie-rock trailblazer Hamish Kilgour’s latest solo album, Finklestein, will feature in Kilgour, Stuart Page and Daniel Manetto’s Spring Thing Tour which brings the trio to Gisborne early next month. The trio will be...

Themes of strength and courage will prevail in song selections for Evolution Theatre Company's (ETC) post-lockdown evening of music, New York Nights. Meanwhile, Musical Theatre Gisborne has proposed December 11 as opening night for The Addams Family...

by Jake Coyle, AP Film WriterPity the kids movie that follows Pixar’s act. The Walt Disney Co’s animation studio has long been a standard bearer that can be tough to match. But even knowing the inevitable drop-off to come, The Boss Baby: Family...

Pedalling through diverse landscapes

R&B and hip-hop artists Richie Cattell and Darnell Wilson perform at the Dome on Saturday as part of their Light it Up Tour. The duo have worked with international and national artists such as Bow Wow, Sean Kingston, Mya, and G-Eazy. Having starting...

The arrival on these shores of explorer James Cook is the theme of an orchestral work that will have its world premiere at the War Memorial Theatre next month. Of Maori and European descent, Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead’s new work, Turanga-nui...