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).
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”.
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.
Friday 29th March
Sola Rosa
with full seven-piece band
