Guide briefs for March/April

Lazy Fifty. File picture by Rebecca Grunwell

Lazy Fifty, The Covers SetRemember the meat and two-veggie days when bands played guitars, drums and bass and covers so hard-out the music sent ripples across the pub carpet? You can now relive the kick-em-in-the-nuts sound of the 70s (sans drum solos and DB lake) when Gisborne rockers Lazy Fifty play hits from the likes of Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, and ZZ Top at Smash this week. Lazy Fifty, The Covers Set, Smash Palace, Saturday 9pm, $5 on the door.

Mere Boynton and friendsSinger Mere Boynton, classical guitarist Chaitanya Temepara and taonga puoro player Norm Heke perform at Eastwoodhill at the end of March. The End of the Summer Wine concert will mark the end of the summer and incoming autumn colours the arboretum is so good at as well as launching the Eastwoodhill Wine Series.

Mere Boynton and friends in concert, Eastwoodhill, March 31 Tickets are $30 from www.eventfinda.co.nz

New short story competitionThe Sargeson Prize, a new national short story competition, will award $5000 to the overall winner, and has both open and secondary schools divisions. Entries to the prize open on 1 April and close on June 30. For more information visit the Sargeson Prize online or email sargeson.prize@waikato.ac.nz.

AA Solar Summer MusicBilly TK Jnr & The Groove Shakers, Willie Hona (Herbs), Ronan Kavanagh, and support act Fiona Cosgrove perform rock, groove, reggae and blues as part of the AA Solar Summer Music Series next week.

Billy TK Jnr & The Groove Shakers, Willie Hona, and Ronan Kavanagh + support act Fiona Cosgrove, Smash Palace, March 15, 8pm, tickets $35+bf from www.eventfinda.co.nz.