More than 100 music lovers checked out Kerikeri School of Music's new premises during a public open day.
After more than six years in cramped quarters on Cobham Rd, the school has a long-term lease of what used to be the Origin Art and Craft Gallery on Kerikeri Rd.
Along-time supporter of the school paid for alterations such as dividing the former gallery into teaching rooms and installing soundproofing.
Among the performers during the open day on Saturday were music students and teachers Puha Bandidos and the Sunday Ensemble. Jazz band Thelonious Punk played with special guests Bryn van Vliet, a former student now studying music full-time in Wellington, and Barry Wilcox, who founded the school in 2004 with the late Ed Steijaert and now works with the Hare Krishna community in Whangarei.
The school has about 100 students aged between 7 and 80, who learn piano, guitar, voice, sax, clarinet, trumpet, violin and drums.
