This years programme is packed with lots of community-flavoured free events. As well as ticketed events at the Festival Ballroom with international guests Cha Wa (New Orleans), musical icon Bic Runga, and Sola Rosa (with full seven-piece band).
SATURDAY 30th MARCH 2019
BIC RUNGA
Locally loved and internationally acclaimed
In a festival first, Bic Runga and her band will play a mix of songs from her many hit albums (three have topped the NZ charts) along with some beautiful surprises.
Thursday 28th March
CHA WA!
Direct from New Orleans!
High-energy seven-piece Mardi Gras carnival band, acclaimed as “a grand gumbo of singing, intoxicating rhythms, and deep funk grooves….impossible to resist”.
Friday 29th March
Sola Rosa
with full seven-piece band
