One day, people will tell their grandchildren about the magical summer night they witnessed bass guitar-driven act Subset BC debut under a starry dome in …
Artists from Gisborne, the East Coast and elsewhere are invited to apply for a place to exhibit at the 2020 NZ Art Show. The show …
Personalise your Rhythm and Vines schedule, store all the info you need in one place, and load up your personal favourites with the official R&V …
Te Wananga o Aotearoa music students showcase their talent in an end of year concert at 7.30pm tonight at Smash Palace. Free entry. …
In the simpler times of the 1920s, holding an engagement party on the Muriwai Express was a wipping wag. Unfortunately for one party-goer on the …
Never mind the three-day R&V delirium with its glitter, earth-thumping pulse and clothing shortage. Pianomania’s mid-December three concerts-in-one-day mini-fest will take its audiences on a …
Sawdust on the bar floor, blood and beer in the sawdust — those pub band nights might be over, but good, old-fashioned, meat and three …
Ladies Sing The Blues is the name of next month’s Poverty Bay Blues Club evening. Any blues muso is welcome to take the stage at …
Shameless self promotion, confesses former Gisborne musician Maurice Priestley in his email about recording The Spines in his PriMau Production studio. Priestley is now based …
From Saturday, December 7, to Sunday, December 15
Eighty students and tutors will jam to 35 songs at the Band School’s end of year concert on Sunday at the War Memorial Theatre, 2pm. …
Donald Trump never fitted in, his dad hated him and, as one of the 1 percent of the richest people in the US, he’s in …
Conceived in the wake of Cyclone Bola, the Gisborne International Music Competition has reigned, hailed and stormed its way through 30 years of world-class, live …
Dizfunk is among the DJs lined up for a sounds of summer mini-festival at Smash Palace on Saturday. On the Summer Sound Check’s main stage, …
As one of 24 actors to make the Young Shakespeare Company who will workshop and perform at London’s Globe Theatre next year, Mat Hatten is …
If “craft” brings to mind macramed coat-hangers and driftwood sculptures, put your preconceptions into your rhinestoned trinket box and close the lid. Gisborne-based art historian …
The Pope, a leprechaun and an alleged IRA leader walk into a bar... The late Graeme Mudge’s characteristically light touch and sense of humour near …
A lifetime of painting, drawing and printmaking means artist Norman Maclean’s studio has become a little crowded over the years, so to free some space …
Saturday, November 23, through to Sunday, December 1
You won’t be the first and you won’t be the last to say Quannah Nickerson looks all the part of The Vicar of Dibley’s Reverend …
There’s a story that goes with every tree and every piece of handcrafted furniture made from them, says retired farmer Rodney Faulkner. He and his …
Cops might do well to position their speed traps near movie theatres wherever the new film Ford v Ferrari is playing. They might fund their …
The true story of a group of women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for leukaemia research is the basis of Calendar Girls. …
By public vote via social media Gizzy School Lunches and Hospice Tairawhiti will be recipients of funds raised at this year’s extravaganza, Stars in Their …
Two sketching workshop opportunities, one in the bush and one at a vineyard, are lined up this month. Sketching day with Ginny Penn Former occupational …
Music to drink and party to, “not for sipping wine and eating crackers”, is how Wellington-based gypsy jazz act, Black Spider Trio have described themselves. …
November 16 to 24
On a dark desert highway/Cool wind in my hair . . . Sure, you can act too cool for sandals but deep down you know …
A small selection of works from last week’s multi-cultural showcase of Gisborne Boys’ High School students’ visual art and whakairo. …
Last in Gisborne in 2018 to conduct the world premiere of Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead’s orchestral soundscape, Turanga-nui, Hamish McKeich will take up a new …
Still laughing well into rehearsal