The Mission Estate Winery Concert is back on track for 2017, with what organisers and management describe as a "major international act" which they are confident will fill the big open air arena on April 8.
"We are very pleased - this act is going to be great," Sports Entertainment Ltd (SEL) special events and entertainment manager Garry Craft said, adding the artist would be announced next Thursday.
"We are very happy with the line-up and we have a very strong support bill as well," Mr Craft said.
"I have been chasing this [main] artist for about 18 months now and it has been on-again, off-again, on-again - it has been a lot of work and pretty tough but we have now got it up and running."
SEL chairman James Erskine said he was equally excited the deal had been done, to get the annual Mission Concert back on track and with an act he said would create "one very special day" at the open air arena which staged its first concert in 1993 when Kiri Te Kanawa took the stage.